On November 20, 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allocated funds for the purchase of scientific ice-class ocean vessel. This will be the beginning of the revival of the…
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12 candles will be lit at Akademik Vernadsky station in memory of the victims of Holodomor
The All-Ukrainian action “Light a Candle” will also be held 15,000 kilometers away from Kyiv at Antarctic Akademik Vernadsky station. On Saturday, November 23, 2019, 12 polar explorers – the…
CCAMLR Approves Ukraine's Initiative to Establish Antarctic Specially Protected Area near Akademik Vernadsky Station
Ukrainian delegation has returned from Hobart, Australia, where in the period of October 21 – November 1, 2019 a meeting of the XXXVIII Session of the Commission for the Conservation…
Maria Pavlovska, Researcher of the National Antarctic Scientific Center, received a SCAR grant for innovative research of the Southern Ocean
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has announced a list of grants awarded in 2019 for innovative research in Antarctica (grant amount is up to 15 thousand dollars). Among…
The first Ukrainian doctoral dissertation in the field of biological Antarctic research
Congratulations to Ivan Parnikoza, the Head of Biological Department of the National Antarctic Scientific Center, who has successfully defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences in…
A competitive recruitment of candidates for polar explorers had been advertised
NASC has been advertised a competitive recruitment of candidates for the 25th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition. To work during the year at Akademik Vernadsky station, a detachment is formed consisting of…
Three-story ice cave and feather of an unknown bird. A new find of Ukrainian polar explorers
Participants of the 24th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition found an ice cave with several lakes and a river on the outskirts of Akademik Vernadsky station. “Scientists from first Ukrainian Antarctic expeditions…
Evgen Dykyi was elected director of the National Antarctic Scientific Center
Today, August 8, 2019, election of a director was held at the National Antarctic Scientific Center. As a result of the vote, Evgen Dykyi was elected Director – 23 scientists…
The next issue of the Ukrainian Antarctic Journal has been released. UAJ website has been updated
A new issue of the science edition Ukrainian Antarctic Journal No 1 (17), 2018. In 15 articles of the new issue, the results of fundamental and applied research, relevant scientific…
Who will throw the whale vertebra farthest, catch the largest fish and swim in the icy water? Polar explorers celebrate Midwinter
On June 22, the Ukrainian Antarctic team celebrates the main informal international holiday of polar explorers – Midwinter, the middle of winter. The holiday, which was invented and “put into…