The Antarctic Akademik Vernadsky station, located 15 000 km from Kyiv, is the most distant polling station in Ukraine. On March 31, 34 people will vote here – 11 participants…
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Participants of the 24th UAE finished their training before dispatch to Antarctica
The participants of the next 24th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition completed a week-long training on the basis of the low-frequency observatory of the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy…
We will study Antarctica from outer space – NASC has signed Memorandum of Understanding with EOS DATA ANALYTICS, INC
Ukraine plans to create a map of Antarctica based on space images in spatial-temporal dynamics. This is envisaged by the Memorandum signed on February 6, 2019 between the State Institution…
10 male and 2 female participants. The core membership of the 24th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition has been determined
The core membership of the 24th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition has been determined. It includes two women. A well-known scientist Igor Dykyi – associate professor of the Department of Zoology of…
The Ukrainian Antarctic station is 23 years old. How did everything happen?
On February 6, 1996, over the Antarctic station, which the Great Britain had transferred to Ukraine, the blue-yellow flag was raised for the first time, and the station already called…
Seasonal Ukrainian expedition arrived at Akademik Vernadsky station
An expedition of 26 scientists arrived at Akademik Vernadsky station. 23 researchers arrived through the Chilean port of Punta Arenas, the Drake Passage, and the King George Island, where the…
"Invite the polar explorer". Igor Dykyi showed to Lviv schoolchildren his own film about Antarctica
The participants of the Antarctic expeditions continue a series of meetings with schoolchildren who have become winners of the contest “Invite the polar explorer”. Recently, biologist Igor Dykyi has visited…
A seasonal group of scientists went to Akademik Vernadsky station
This year, Ukraine is sending to Vernadsky station the largest season expedition for the last 18 years – a team of 26 researchers and engineers. “Until now, we did not…
178 people applied for the competition to select the participants of the XXIV Antarctic Expedition
The submission of documents for participation in XXIV Ukrainian Antarctic expedition has ended. All the necessary documents were submitted by a total of 178 people including 32 women. 40 scientists,…
New measures for the conservation of marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean - outcomes of the CCAMLR Meeting
25 delegations (these are nearly 300 oceanologists and authorized government representatives) during the two weeks of the 37th meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources…