Obituary for Prof. Dr. Hab. Marcin Barlik. Two years death anniversary

Fig. 1. Prof. Marcin Barlik Professor Marcin BARLIK was a specialist in the field of physical geodesy, higher geodesy, and geodesic gravimetry. He was born on November 11, 1944 in Bydgoszcz, where he obtained a high school diploma at the Geodesic Secondary School in 1963. He graduated from the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1968 achieving M.Sc. degree in land surveying, he worked there as an assistant in 1968–1978. Based on the doctoral dissertation on “The Issue of Gravimetric Reductions for the Study of Real Vertical Deviations in Mountain Areas”, the Council of the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of the Warsaw University of Technology awarded him a Ph.D. degree in technical sciences in 1976. In 1978–1979 he lectured as an associate professor at the University of Baghdad (Iraq), College of Engineering, Surveying Department and worked as a scientific adviser to the Polservice – Geocart in Iraq. He was appointed assistant professor at the Institute of Higher Geodesy and Geodesic Astronomy of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1979 and as associate professor in 1983. Having passed the habilitation colloquium in 1983, he achieved the post-doctoral degree in the field of technical sciences in the discipline of geodesy and cartography. The dissertation title “The concept of using a smoothed quasi-geoid in the process of reducing geodesic and astronomical observations”. He then lectured at the L’Institut Cartographic National, Algeria (1984).