Maria Klenova (or Klyonova) | |
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| Мари́я Васи́льевна Клёнова | |
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| Born | 12 August 1898 |
| Died | 6 August 1976 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | Russian Soviet |
| Known for | Seabed mapping |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Marine geology |
| Institutions | Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Doctoral advisor | Vladimir Vernadsky |
| Notes | |
A founder of Russian marine science and the first to fully map the seabed of the Barents Sea. | |
Maria Vasilyevna Klenova (or Klyonova) (Russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Клёнова; 12 August 1898 – 6 August 1976)[1] was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science and contributor to the first Soviet Antarctic atlas.[2]
Klenova studied to become a professor and later on worked as a member of the Council for Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. During that time she spent nearly thirty years researching in the Polar Regions and become the first woman scientist to do research in Antarctica. She joined in the First Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–57) and worked with ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) at Macquarie Island.
- ^ "Биография Мария Клёнова". www.peoples.ru.
- ^ "Sixteenth Meeting of the GEBCO Subcommittee on Undersea Feature Names" (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. April 2002. Retrieved 2007-11-15.