Multidisciplinary investigations of the White Sea System in the expedition of the R/V Ekolog in the summer of 2013

During the period of August 1727, 2013, multi disciplinary investigations in the White Sea were car ried out onboard the R/V Ekolog belong to the Institute of Water Problems of the North of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Oceanology and Institute of Water Problems of the North in the framework of the project The White Sea System under supervision of Academician A.P. Lisitzin [4, 5]. The representatives of the Northwestern Department of the IO RAN and the GEOKHI RAN took part in these investigations in addition to the scientists of the above mentioned institutions. The main purpose of the expedition was the multi disciplinary investigation of the White Sea, including the composition and fluxes of sedimentary material and the pollution of its water column and bottom sed iments.