Irina K. Kotova

Teaching courses

BEP of the bachelor's degree "Geology":

  • Economic geology. Fundamentals of subsoil use (section "Organization of exploration work").
  • Statistical analysis and modeling of geological objects (module "Methods of mathematical statistics in geology").
  • Geology, forecasting, prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits (module "Fundamentals of metallogeny").
  • Geology of minerals.

Master's degree program "Geology":

  • Regional geology and metallogeny (module "Regional metallogeny").
  • Basin analysis and mineragenesis of sedimentary basins (module "Mineragy of sedimentary basins").

Master's degree program "Oil and Gas Business":

  • Geostatistics in petroleum geology (section "Theoretical Foundations").

BEP of the bachelor's degree "Oil and gas business":

  • Mathematical methods and modeling in petroleum geology.

Position

Associated professor, Department of Mineral Deposits Geology

E-mail: i.kotova@spbu.ru

Phone: (812)363-61-95

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1980 - specialist in the specialty "Geochemistry", Leningrad State University, Department of Geochemistry;
  • 1987 - Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, specialty "Geology, prospecting and exploration of solid minerals, minerageny"; the topic of the dissertation “Prospects for the ore content of hornblende mafic ultramafic rocks of South Yakutia”;
  • 2013 - Academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits.

Research IDs


Research interests

Metallogeny of geodynamic settings; ore content of igneous complexes; geology and metallogeny of Karelia.


Key publications

  1. Evolution of the Early Proterozoic (Ludician) rift basin in the southwestern margin of the Karelian Craton (Baltic Shield) / Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 65(1). doi: 10.21638/spbu07.2020.104.
  2. Geological controls and the impact of human society on the composition of peloids of present-day salt lakes (coastal zones of the Black, Azov, and Dead Seas)/ J Coast Conserv (2019).
  3. Features of the formation of the chemical composition of groundwater in the zone of active water exchange in the basin of the river. Bodrak (southwestern Crimea) / Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University. Earth Sciences. 2017. V. 62. Issue. 4. S. 343-356.
  4. Peloids of Crimean salt lakes and the Dead Sea: controls on composition and formation/ Environ Earth Sci (2016) 75: 1207.
  5. Geological structure and ore content of the Vyalimiaki massif (Northern Ladoga region) / Sat. tr. young scientists IGGD RAS. St. Petersburg, 2010, pp. 47–82.

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