Tonight, Akademik Vernadsky station recorded a powerful earthquake in the southern part of the Drake Passage. This is a stretch of ocean between South America and Antarctica. The epicenter was…
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Ukraine will host First Mexican Antarctic Expedition at Vernadsky: Memorandum on joint research in Antarctica was signed
National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine (NASC) and Mexican Agency for Antarctic Research (AMEA) have signed a historical Memorandum on scientific cooperation in Antarctica. The event took place in Mexico…
Modernization of Vernadsky in 2025 season: what has been accomplished?
For several years now, NASC has been conducting a large-scale modernization of Akademik Vernadsky station, as it was built in the second half of the last century and belonged to…
Today is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Memorandum on the transfer of the British Antarctic station to Ukraine
London, spring 1993, morning. The Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom, scientist Serhiy Komisarenko, sees in the mail an announcement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that it plans to…
Mapping rocks and studying glacier history: what geological research have been conducted this season
This season, our scientists performed another interesting type of research near Vernadsky and from the RV Noosfera. This involves geological research in two directions. The first one is geological mapping…
The 12th International Antarctic Conference has ended
The 12th International Antarctic Conference (IAC 12_2025) was held online on May 13–14, 2025. Its program was quite eventful: 82 reports and 103 participants from all over the world (Ukraine,…
Noosfera successfully completed the fourth Antarctic season: it is a record-breaking season in terms of the number of voyages and international cooperation
The most active – the fourth Antarctic season of the Ukrainian RV Noosfera has ended. After almost five months of work, the vessel returned to the port of Cape Town…
Ukrainian scientists received the first letters from… ARGO floats and conducted additional oceanographic research
We recently reported that in March of this year, Ukrainian scientists for the first time deployed from the Noosfera 6 ARGO floats. This is an innovative autonomous equipment for underwater…
For the first time, simultaneous radio sounding of the atmosphere took place from Vernadsky and Noosphere
Our meteorologists conducted a unique experiment — simultaneous launching of radiosondes from Vernadsky station and the RV Noosfera. This happened for the first time in the entire history of Ukrainian…
The annual rotation of polar explorers at Vernadsky has ended
Rotation of annual expeditions took place at Akademik Vernadsky Station. The 29th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition headed home after a year of work on the icy continent, and the 30th UAE…