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Elena E. Sovga
Scientific Secretary
2, Kapitanskaya Str. Sevastopol Crimea 99011 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Elena E. Sovga, Scientific Secretary of Marine Hydrophysical Institute. Education: 1965, graduated the L'vov State University 1979, Ph.D/1 (first degree-Candidate of the Sciences), Moscow State University, Moscow; 2002, Ph.D/2 (second/highest degree, so-called, Doctor of the Sciences),  Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol. Employment 1968-now, Marine Hydrophysical Intstitute, senior laboratory assistant, graduate student, junior scientist, scientist, senior scientist,leading scientist and scientific secretary of Marine Hydrophysical Institute. Specialization E.E. Sovga's scientific interests are connected with the key problems of the condition and evolution of the Black Sea ecosystems, and concern geochemical processes taking place both in the water column of the Black Sea and in the sea–atmosphere and sea–bottom sediments interfaces, as well as the environmental problems of the Black Sea region associated with them. The field of E.E. Sovga research includes not only the deep-sea area with its unique hydrogen sulphide zone but also the shallow water one in the North-West Sea, and the ecologically vulnerable sea–land boundary zones undergone an intensive anthropogenic load, as well. Main Directions of Scientific Activity Features of geochemical processes taking place in the deep-sea hydrogen sulphide zone of the Black Sea Based on the experimental and theoretical researches, a geochemical transformation of inorganic forms of sulfur in the hydrogen sulphide zone of the Black Sea was investigated and for the first time the nature of a deep-sea turbid water layer in the Black Sea was found out. The features of a geochemical behaviour of some heavy metals under conditions of the hydrogen sulphide zone were investigated and chemical forms of their presence in water column, accounting the state of carbonate system components, as well as in the water–bottom sediment boundary zone were defined. E.E. Sovga in the co-authorship with other scientists studied the ecologically sensitive zones at the land–sea interface and divided the Black Sea coastal territories of Ukraine into regions according to their economic activities.