Maria Klenova

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Maria Klenova
Born 1898
Died 1976
Nationality Russian Flag of Russia, Soviet Flag of the Soviet Union
Fields Marine Geology
Institutions Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences
Known for Seabed mapping
Notes
A founder of Russian marine science and the first to fully map the seabed of the Barents Sea.

Maria Vasilyevna Klenova (Russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Клёнова) (18981976) was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science.[1]

Klenova began her marine geology career in 1925 as a researcher aboard the Soviet research vessel Persey, attached to the Floating Marine Research Institute in the Barents Sea and the archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land. In 1933 Klenova produced the first complete seabed map of the Barents Sea.

In 1949 Klenova became a senior research associate at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Her work included analyses of seabed geology in the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic, and in the Caspian, Barents and White Seas.

The Klenova Valley (84°36′N, 55°00′W), an oceanographic valley discovered in 1981–1983 by the USSR Northern Fleet Hydrographic Expedition is named after her.[1] Klenova crater on Venus is also named in her honor.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Sixteenth Meeting of the GEBCO Subcommittee on Undersea Feature Names. International Hydrographic Organization (April 2002). Retrieved on 2007-11-15.

[edit] Further Reading

  • Klenova M.V. and Jastrebova L.A. (1938) Chlorophyll in sediments as an indication of the gas phase of the water. Trans. Inst. Mar. Fisheries, U.S.S.R. 5, 65-70.
  • Klenova, M.V. (1939) "Toward the Study of the Nature of the North Caspian Shore Line (Observations from an Airplane)." Nature no. 1 pp. 72-73 (in Russian).
  • Klenova, M.V. Geology of the Sea (Moscow, 1948), p. 424. (In Russian)
  • Geology of the Volga delta (1951, co-author)
  • Geology of the Barents Sea (Moscow, 1960) (In Russian)
  • Geological structure of the continental slope Caspian Sea (1962, co-author)
  • Precipitation of the Arctic basin based on drift l / s G. Sedov (1962)
  • Geology of the Atlantic Ocean (Moscow, 1975) (In Russian)
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