Mira Zore-Armanda
Mira Zore-Armanda (6 January 1930 — 8 April 2012) was a Croatian oceanographer. She was a senior scientist at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, where her research focused on the Adriatic Sea.
Early life
Mira Zore was born Zagreb, the daughter of Miro Zore and Marija Nabergoj. She studied geophysics as an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb under Josip Goldberg, graduating in 1952 with a thesis titled "Oscillation of bays with an application to the Kaštela Bay". She defended her doctoral dissertation, on currents in the Adriatic Sea, at the University of Paris, in 1963. Henri Lacombe was her doctoral advisor.[1]
Career
Mira Zore started working at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split in 1952, and stayed there for her entire career.[2] Early in her career, she encountered some difficulty in gaining passage on research vessels (to do field work and data gathering) because she was female. Most of her research focused on circulation in the Adriatic Sea, and later on the Istrian coastal sea. She often collaborated with marine biologists in studying fish production, and with chemists on questions of salinity.[1] She published about 150 research papers before she retired in 1989.[3]
Zore-Armanda taught at the University of Zagreb. From 1976 to 1978, she was director of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. She was vice president of the Physical Oceanography Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. She co-authored an introductory text on oceanography and marine meteorology,[4] and was editor-in-chief of the academic journal Acta Adriatica.[3]
Personal life
Mira Zore married Igor Armanda, a chemist, in 1959.[5] In widowhood she moved to Opatija, to live with her sister and her family. She died in 2012, aged 82 years.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Mirko Orlić, "In memoriam: Dr. Mira Zore-Armanda" Geofizika 29(2)(2012): 193-205.
- ^ "Mira Zore-Armanda" Hrvatska enciklopedija.
- ^ a b Miroslav Gačić, "In Memoriam Dr. Mira Zore-Armanda" Annales 22(1)(2012): 95.
- ^ Miljenko Buljan and Mira Zore-Armanda, Introduction to Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1975).
- ^ Elizabeth Sleeman, The International Who's Who of Women 2002 (Psychology Press 2001): 650. ISBN 9781857431223
External links
- Mira Zore-Armanda, Water Masses of the Adriatic Sea (a report prepared for the Office of Naval Intelligence).
