Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University

The Marine Research Institute is a subdivision of Klaipeda University, conducting fundamental and applied research on marine and coastal environment and maritime technologies. The Marine Research Institute is the leading national center for marine sciences in Lithuania, listed among the top 150-200 universities in the world university rankings in the academic discipline "Oceanography". Researchers of the Marine Research Institute are specializing in marine and coastal biodiversity in Baltic Sea and polar regions, aquatic biogeochemistry, biological invasions and environmental genetics, benthic habitat mapping, marine food web research, environmental modeling and remote sensing.