Abstract
The article presents the main biographical information about O. M. Kozhova, algologist, ecologist, and Baikal researcher, who has contributed significantly to the study of the evolution and functional mechanisms of aquatic ecosystems in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. Her life was connected with the Baikal Limnological Station of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk State University and its Institute of Biology. O. M. Kozhova continued the work of her father, Professor M. M. Kozhov. She has perpetuated the Irkutsk and Soviet hydrobiological science schools and empowered them with young professionals. In the 1990s, a time of trials for our science and the country, O. M. Kozhova managed to preserve the Institute of Biology and its staff, and developed promising areas of basic hydrobiological research. O. M. Kozhova left behind a scientific legacy of 706 published and 211 unpublished papers.
Highlights
Algologist, ecologist, and Baikal researcher, who has contributed significantly to the study of the evolution and functional mechanisms of aquatic ecosystems in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. Her life was connected with the Baikal Limnological Station of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk State University and its Institute of Biology
Кожова постоянно контактировала с общественными экологическими организациями, участвовала в общественных экологических слушаниях по актуальным проблемам Байкальского региона (например, о запрете строительства нового химического предприятия на берегу Байкала, об экологическом нормировании, об усовершенствовании текста Федерального закона «Об охране озера Байкал», о Ковыктинском проекте по нефтедобыче и др.)
Summary
М. Кожова; альгология; водная экология; фитопланктон; моделирование; прогнозирование; Байкал; Хубсугул; ангарские водохранилища. В Иркутске, в семье профессора Иркутского государственного университета Михаила Михайловича Кожова и его супруги Раисы Васильевны Кожовой – преподавателя биологии и химии. В «Докладах Академии наук СССР» была опубликована ее первая научная статья «Питание Epischura baicalensis (Copepoda, Calanoida) на озере Байкал» [Кожова, 1953].
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