AUTHOR=Gerasimova Maria 

TITLE=Maria Glazovskaya—A Pioneer Soil Scientist and Geochemist Ahead of her Time (1912–2016)

JOURNAL=Spanish Journal of Soil Science

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/spanish-journal-of-soil-science/articles/10.3389/sjss.2022.10377

DOI=10.3389/sjss.2022.10377

ISSN=2253-6574

ABSTRACT=In the USSR and in Russia, women predominated among soil scientists despite the hardships in working with “dirty” and heavy objects mostly located far from their homes. One of such courageous women was Maria Glazovskaya who worked in highlands and semi-deserts studying soils, recent and relic, geochemical features of hard rock weathering, and compiling maps, both traditional and innovative. She was among the first pedologists, who proposed to use soil properties for forecasting pollution risks, and landscape-geochemical methods for prospecting economic minerals. As for conceptual sphere, Glazovskaya tried to bring together soil science and geochemistry of landscape, and so was the name of the department in Moscow University she headed during more than 30 years.
She was a scientist always looking for her own ways in the interdisciplinary world of Earth science.