19 March 1969 – 23 April 2018
IN MEMORIAM
It is with profound sorrow that we must announce that Heiko Sahling, our much-loved colleague, has passed away. He fought his disease for a long time, and with great courage and dignity.
Despite the fact that for many years, the main area of Heiko’s scientific activity was geochemistry, for us deep-sea biologists, Heiko always was a colleague-biologist, bright, and outstandingly talented. His deep biological knowledge, together with his understanding of geochemical processes, resulted in studies that have already become classics in the biology of chemosynthesis-based communities.
Many people in our lab had happy partnerships with Heiko – some were involved in joint projects, others worked together at sea, and they will all always remember his friendliness and readiness to help, and his absolute reliability.
Heiko was a very “marine” person in many ways. He was born in Helgoland, he studied marine life, he loved the sea and to be at sea. His great contributions to deep-sea biology will be remembered by his colleagues, and will be stimulating for generations of oceanographers to come.
By Elena Krylova and colleagues from the Laboratory of Ocean Benthic Fauna, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
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