The research vessel (RV) “IVAN PETROV” of the Northern Department of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring on August 1, 2013 leaves a pier of Krasnaya Kuznitsa, Archangelsk at 05:00 pm to set sail to the Kara Sea, the service said Thursday.
The RV IVAN PETROV endeavors on the 25-day expedition with a team of Oceanographic Institute that will conducting research in the Kara Sea (geochemical survey off Yamal shelf).
The scientists will conduct water sampling in the Onega and Kandalaksha bays of the White Sea for radioactivity, determining the temperature and salinity of sea water in the sampling points.