Paleonet: Orbituary - Alain Blieck

[brcgranier at free.fr]

I am copying an obituary that I retrieved from Geologica Belgica's 
Facebook page on Feb. 23rd

Orbituary - Alain Blieck
Geologica Belgica has the regret to announce that our French colleague 
and
retired Prof Alain Blieck from the University of Lille deceased from the
Covid. He was 72 years old.
To see and remember his work, you can search on his ResearchGate account 
:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alain-Blieck
Alain Robert Maurice Blieck, a former CNRS senior scientist, has 
retired,
and works at home. I continue doing research in Evolutionary Biology,
Palaeobiology and Systematics (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Phylogeny),
Palaeoecology, Biostratigraphy, and Palaeobiogeography. My main focus is 
on
earliest vertebrates and, in particular, jawless ossified Palaeozoic 
groups
known as ostracoderms. I more precisely study Pteraspidomorphs that are
known from the Ordovician to the Devonian, with special attention to
Eodevonian (Early Devonian) faunas from the Old Red Sandstone Continent
(Spitsbergen, Arctic Russia and Canada, Europe, USA …).

There is also a short note on the webpage of the Société Géologique du
Nord at https://sgn.univ-lille.fr/