In Memory of Evgeny Arkadievich Kulikov (27.01.1950 – 21.11.2020)

Abstract

On November 21, 2020, at the age of 70, one of the world’s largest specialists in the science of tsunami, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Tsunami Laboratory in the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Evgueny Arkadievich Kulikov, suddenly passed away. From 1980 to 1986 he was the Head of the Ocean Physics Laboratory in the Tsunami Department of the Sakhalin Complex Research Institute / Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). From 2004 to 2018, E.A. Kulikov headed the Tsunami Laboratory of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. E.A. Kulikov had students and colleagues all over the world – in Russia from Sakhalin to Moscow, in Europe, Canada, and the U.S.A. He left a bright mark in oceanology, in the science of tsunami, as well as in the memory of numerous friends and colleagues around the world as a remarkable scientist, teacher, and wonderful person. The presented article describes the main scientific stages of E.A. Kulikov.