| Maria Klenova | |
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| Born |
1898 |
| Died |
1976 |
| Nationality | Russian  , Soviet  |
| Fields | Marine Geology |
| Institutions | Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences |
| Known for | Seabed mapping |
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A founder of Russian marine science and the first to fully map the seabed of the Barents Sea. |
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Maria Vasilyevna Klenova (Russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Клёнова) (1898–1976) 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 / 84.6°N 55°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.
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