Cat scientist about the seas, oceans and freshwater plumes

Ocean water is not the same everywhere. For example, in the place where rivers flow into it, water areas with a unique composition of water and wildlife are formed. Is it possible to determine the boundary between the river and the sea, how hydrologists study river plumes, how the mixing of water affects the inhabitants of the depths and the entire world ocean, we will discuss in new release Podcast “Scientist Cat” on the radio Sputnik.

Guest:

Alexander Osadchiev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov RAS

In release:

00:00 – what is between the river and the sea;

01:30 – understand the terms: “plume” – the most important layer of the ocean;

04:45 – why it is important to study the Arctic Ocean;

06:00 – why fresh water does not mix with sea water;

08:15 – how climate change affects the state of the Arctic seas;

11:00 – why everywhere, except for the Arctic, even the most full-flowing rivers do not greatly affect the composition of the seas and oceans;

14:00 – climate change: good or bad?

16:30 – The Arctic is the cleanest region of the Earth;

17:30 – how pollution is measured in the ocean (spoiler: whatever);

21:15 – how mathematicians and physicists study the ocean;

23:15 – expeditions of the floating university to the Arctic;

30:00 – biologists, meteorologists, ecologists, geologists, geographers, physicists and even mathematicians study the ocean;

31:45 – review of the book “Cod. Biographies of the fish that changed the world.”

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