Inna Dobruskina

Inna Andreevna Dobruskina , Russian Инна Андреевна Добрускина , transcription Inna Andreevna Dobruskina, (born December 25, 1933 in Moscow ; † January 4, 2014 in Jerusalem ) was a Russian-Israeli palaeontologist ( paleobotany ). She was a leading expert on Triassic fossil plants .

Life

Her paternal grandfather FM Afanasiev was the Soviet Chief of Staff in Siberia during the civil war. The parents were in the communist party. Dobruskina studied from 1952 at Lomonosov University with the degree in 1957. At the university, she undertook field studies on the Kola Peninsula, the Crimea and the Caucasus. After graduation, she was part of the geological team that mapped the Amur to find a job for a Soviet-Chinese dam project, but that came to nothing after the deterioration in Soviet-Chinese relations. However, the expedition provided material for their dissertation on stratigraphy and flora of the Jura and Lower Cretaceous on the Amur. She received her doctorate from Lomonosov University in 1964 (candidate title), then worked at the Geological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (GIN) until 1989 and completed her habilitation in 1977 (Russian doctorate). Her research area was the palaeobotany of the Triassic in Eurasia, which was also the subject of her habilitation and for which she traveled widely in the Soviet Union (including the Madygen formation ). She was in opposition circles in the Soviet Union and copied samizdat literature. In the 1980s she made her exit. In 1989 she went to Jerusalem to the Institute of Geosciences at the Hebrew University , where she was a professor until her retirement in 1999. In 1993 she was visiting professor at Ohio State University . In 2011 she suffered a stroke.

She worked with Léa Grauvogel-Stamm in France, Harald Lobitzer in Austria, John Anderson and Edith Anderson in South Africa and Spencer Lucas in the USA. In Israel she also dealt with the local Mesozoic flora.

In 1963 she married the engineer for mining safety Arnold Krupnikov. The marriage resulted in a son (Ari Krupnik) and a daughter Irina. They divorced in 1982.

Fonts

• Age of the Madygen Formation in the context of Permian / Triassic boundary in Middle Asia. Sovetskaya geologiya, 3 (12): 16–28 (Russian)
• Triassic Flora of Eurasia, series of publications of the Österr. Akad. Wiss., Erdwiss. Commissions, 1994, pp. 1–408 (Russian original 1982, Trudy GIN, Akad. Nauka SSSR, 365, pp. 1–196)
• The history of land plants in the northern hemisphere during the Triassic, with special reference to the floras of Eurasia. Geol. Palaeont. Mitt. Innsbruck, 15, 1988, pp. 1-12.
• Keuper (Triassic) flora from middle Asia (Madygen, southern Fergana), New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 5, 1995, pp. 1-49
• Triassic plants and Pangea, The Palaeobotanist, 44, 1995, 116-127
• Lunz flora in the Austrian Alps - a standard for Carnian flora, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Volume 143, 1998, pp. 307-345

Web links

• Obituary by Ari Krupnik, Spencer Lucas in Albertiana, Volume 41, 2014, p. 44f, with list of publications, pdf
• Publications