National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa”
- short history -
       Romanian Marine Research Institute “Grigore Antipa” - RMRI - was established in 1970, with purpose to continue the centenary tradition in marine research, initiated by Emil Racoviţă, Ioan Borcea şi Grigore Antipa. RMRI came out by merging of many small research institutes:
  • Marine Zoological Station “Prof. I. Borcea” (Agigea);
  • Marine Fishing Research Station “Dr. Gr. Antipa” (Constanţa);
  • The Marine Biology Side (Constanţa) of the Biology Institute “T. Săvulescu” (Romanian Academy , Bucharest);
  • Oceanographic Station (Constanţa);
  • Marine Sedimentology Laboratory (Bucharest).
       In the first 10 years of existence, RMRI was subordinated to the National Council of Science and Technology. After 1980, the institute was temporary subordinated to the Education Ministry (1981), Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry (1982), and then to the Fishing and Fish Manufacture Central Office (1982 - 1989). Under the new opportunities maded by the romanian revolution (1989), the institute was affiliated to the Environment Ministery (that became  the Ministry of Waters, Forests and Environment Protection), starting from 1990.
       Still from its establisment, RMRI operated as a interdisciplinary research unit.
       In the year 1999, under the authority of the Environment and Water Management Ministry, was established the National Institute for Marine Research and Development, by reorganization of the Romanian Marine Research Institute. Having the purpose to recognise the centenary tradition and the national oceanology continuity, the institute was named by the name of Professor Grigore Antipa (1867 - 1944), the founder of the marine ecology romanian school.
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