The National Institute for Marine Research and Development „grigore Antipa” Constanța - Historical Highlights

Abstract

"This bilingual monograph has been published by the Publishing House of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, Bucharest, 414 pp, in 2022. The Foreword belongs to Ph.D. biologist Valeria Abaza, Director General of the National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” Constanța."

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“…According to the notes of RA Constantin Tomescu, under the auspices of the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (Bologa, 2011b(Bologa, , 2015, the oceanographic vessel Calypso performed a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea (July-November 1977), according to a programme that allowed also entry into the Black |Sea, whose waters influence the Mediterranean basin (Tomescu, nedatat); the aim was to carry out measurements of marine pollution with certain toxic products: heavy metals -cadmium, copper, mercury, lead etc. -dangerous to life and in the marine environment, radioactivity produced by radionuclides discharged into the sea, etc.…”

“…Antipa, Romania's second national delegate to the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (CIESM), was nominated Rapporteur for the Black Sea in 1927, and consequently this scientific body has extended its field of oceano-graphic research -by the addition of the Black Sea basin -to the wide sphere of such preoccupa-tions; in 1928 he became rapporteur for the entire eastern Mediterranean, the Marmara Sea and the Aegean Sea (Bologa and Marinescu, 2002;Bologa, 2015).…”

“…In 1970 the former marine research institutions from the Romanian littoral merged into the Romanian Marine Research Institute (RMRI), transformed in 1990 into the National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" (NIMRD) in Constanţa, owner, initially besides other smaller research vessels (see above), of the R/V Steaua de mare 1 (Fig. 24) (Bologa, 1990), dealing with marine research and monitoring.…”

“…The President of the Commission greatly appreciated the organization of the Congress and dedicated it with special consideration to Vice-President Antipa (CIESM, 1934). Thus, the XXth Congress and the 17th meeting of the Central Bureau took place in Bucharest (October [15][16][17][18][19][20]1935). Member State delegates -Egypt, France, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Tunisia and Yugoslavia -met and scientists Theodor Bușnitza and Zaharia Popovici also attended the event.…”