Obituary for Prof. Lauro Júlio Calliari (1951–2023)

Professor Lauro Júlio Calliari died on the 14th February 2023.

Lauro was born on the 14th August 1951. He graduated in the second undergraduate class of oceanographers at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil, and he was hired to teach by FURG a few days after his undergraduate graduation. He is considered one of the Fathers of Brazilian geological oceanography.

Lauro was awarded his Master's degree in Geosciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1980, and a PhD in Geological Oceanography from Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in 1990. His Ph.D was titled ‘Cross-Shore And Longshore Sediment Size Distribution On Southern Currituck Spit, North Carolina’. On completion, he then continued his career as an Oceanographer at The Institute of Oceanography at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, where he conducted five decades of research on coastal processes...