Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

The marine science and
plankton community lost an advocate and a tireless member with the
sudden passing away of Professor Tufan Koray on  March 9, 2019. He
used to describe himself as an idealist and optimist. Prof.Dr. Tufan
Koray was an art, music and animal lover. His main areas of work were
systematic and taxonomy of marine Protista, phytoplankton ecology, toxic
microalgae, and ecological and biological pollution ecometry in fish
farms.

Born on July 21, 1954, Koray
completed his undergraduate studies and graduated in 1977. After his
B.Sc. Koray started his M.Sc. studies and graduated in 1982. At the age
of 31, he earned his Ph.D. Five years later in 1993, he became a
Professor. He became the editor of Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences in 1992 and continued to work as an editor-in-chief until 2013
successfully and devotedly. In addition to  the Biostatistics,
Botany, Zoology and Marine Biology started to work on projects related
to fisheries in 1993. Prof.Dr. Koray played a major role in the
establishment and operation of many projects related with microplankton
and toxic algae in Turkey. 

The Microplanktonic Atlas of
the Turkish Seas was his most desired project to complete, and he showed
great persistence in this work. Consequently, he and his team
successfully accomplished this atlas in 2007. In 2008, he continued to
work in a quiet scientific environment before retirement. He retired in
January 2016 and moved to Hamburg, Germany. He was interested in nature
photography, amateur painting and music in Hamburg. Tufan Koray did not
feel well on March 9, and taken to Marien Krankenhaus Hospital by his
wife and died on the same day in the evening.

Throughout his academic
career, he undertook the consultancy of 10 graduate students, 3 of whom
were PhD. He had 8 international scientific membershipsi, wrote 4 books,
and published 64 national and international research articles.

Prof.Dr. Koray has two
daughters.