Obituary: Marcin Barlik (1944-2018)

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Marcin Barlik, age 73, passed away suddenly on 22 March 2018. He was a distinguished researcher, specialist in the eld of physical geodesy, geodetic gravimetry and geophysical geodesy problems. He was also a dedicated tutor of a few generations of Polish geodesists. Marcin Barlik received the degree of Master of Science in geodesy in 1968 at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). In 1969 he started his professional carrier in the Department of Geodesy of WUT, rst as a trainee and then as an assistant, assistant professor, associate professor and nally a full professor. From 1972, he was also lecturing at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. He lectured overseas, namely in 1978–1979 at the University of Baghdad, College of Engineering, and in 1984 at the l’Institut Cartographic Nationale in Algiers where he was lecturing. Marcin Barlik received a PhD in technical sciences in 1976 and DSc (habilitation) in 1983, both at WUT. In 1995 he was awarded an academic title of professor of technical sciences. Since 2001 he was employed on the position of the ordinary professor. He completed scienti c internships at the Moscow Institute of Engineers of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (1984); Royal University of Technology (Stockholm, 1985); Technical University of Dresden (1986); Czech Technical University in Prague (1988). He was an author/co-author of ve academic textbooks, over 120 articles in Polish and a dozen in foreign scienti c journals as well as over 100 presentations on scienti c symposia and conferences. Since 2012 he was the editor-in-chief of the scienti c journal Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics. Marcin Barlik was a member of the team developing the design of African Geodetic Continental Network (1981) as well as teams elaborating expert reports for the Head O ce of Geodesy and Cartography. He organized the rst Polish-Spanish gravimetric experiment with the use of the Spanish gravimetric control and Robledo NASA station in the vicinity of Madrid (1993). He took part in the establishment of a gravity control Phot. by Stanisław Nazalewicz