History
 On
10th April, 1929, at the Black Sea coast near the settlement
Katsiveli (the Crimea), the first in the world permanent
hydrophysical station pioneered by V. V. Shuleikin was organized for
systematic investigations of shelf processes.
The Marine Hydrophysical Institute was established in 1948 in Moscow
on the basis of the Black Sea hydrophysical station of the USSR
Academy of Sciences and the Marine Hydrophysical laboratory of the
USSR Academy of Sciences (previously the department of the Institute
of Theoretical Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences).
V.V. Shuleikin, the Soviet scientist-oceanographer, Academician
(the founder of the main tendencies in contemporary marine physical
science, price-winner of the State Price of the USSR) became the
first director of the Institute.
The first scientific achievements of the Marine Hydrophysical
Institute are associated with the name of V.V.Shuleikin. Heat
phenomena in the ocean, ocean- atmosphere- continents, heat
interaction, ocean effect on the climate and weather (the issues of
the most importance from the standpoint of practical problems) were
investigated under the leadership of V.V.Shuleikin. The direct
observations of storm waves of an oceanic type at the Black Sea
hydrophysical station permitted creation of the physical wind sea
theory.
Academician V.V.Shuleikin is the author of a great number of
experimental and theoretical works in the field of sea optics. The
results of these and others investigations were generalized in his
monograph "The Sea Physics", which was awarded the USSR State Prize.
In August of 1961, the Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI) was
transferred to the system of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences,
and in 1963 it moved to Sevastopol.
Since 1962 and until 1974, A. G. Kolesnikov, Academician of the
Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, prize-winner of the USSR and of
the Ukrainian State Prices, led the Marine Hydrophysical
Institute. Under his guidance the
staff of the Institute in a short time period became one of the leading
staffs in the country on the sphere of physical oceanology and
automation of hydrophysical experiments.
Since 1974 and till 1985 the Institute was headed by B. A. Nelepo,
the laureate of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, who guided
the conduction of the first large - scale long - term experiments on
satellite hydrophysics using the oceanographic satellites. During
these years under the scientific guidance of B. A. Nelepo the
institute in co-operation with the Designer office « Yuzhnoe» and
other scientific and production organizations prepared and carried
out the first in the USSR complex experiments on remote sensing of
the ocean from the oceanographic satellites within the framework of
the programs «Okean-E » and «Okean-O».
In the same period theoretical and experimental studies of meso-scale
and synoptic variability of hydrophysical fields, their fine
structure, features of circulation of the tropical Atlantic waters
were advanced . A number of international projects was carried out,
co-operation with foreign scientific and scientific organizations
was extended.
Since 1985 up to now he Director of the Marine Hydrophysical
Institute is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the
Ukraine V.N.
Eremeev, laureate of V.I.Vernadsky, Prize of the Academy of Sciences
of the Ukraine and laureate of the Ukraine State Prize. In 1998 he
created the Oceanological center of NAS of Ukraine and became its
chief as the Director general. Marine Hydrophysical Institute forms
its part by rights of a constitutor. The
scientists of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute headed by the
Valery N. Eremeev grounded and constructed the generalized scheme of
the Black basin water circulation; determined the main parameters of
the inter - year, seasonal, synoptical and mesoscale variability of
the main hydrophysical and hydrochemical fields; obtained the new
data on the spatial-temporal variability of the sea-atmosphere
interaction processes, fields of radioactive elements in the Black
Sea water of the natural and artificial origin.
In April, 2000 the corresponding member of NAS of Ukraine V. A.
Ivanov took the duties of Marine Hydrophysical Institute director.
Being guided by V. A. Ivanov, the institute has developed the
applied researches of marine shelf zones, studies of regularities of
functioning of coastal marine ecosystem in the conditions of strong
anthropogenic load methods of solving the problems of optimum
development of concrete natural region and realizing the economic
ally grounded use of shelf resources.
Now Marine Hydrophysical Institute is one of the largest
oceanographic centers in the world. It is completed with highly
qualified scientists including two academicians of NAS of Ukraine,
two corresponding members of NAS of Ukraine, twenty seven Dr.
Science and seventy six Ph. Dr.
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