Department of Earth Sciences
Dr Michael A. Kaminski

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Department of Earth Sciences
University College London
Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

E-mail: m.kaminski@ucl.ac.uk


Education:
  • Dept. of Geology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick N.J.

  • Inst. of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program in Oceanography.


Degrees held:

  • B.A. Geology, Rutgers University B.A.

  • Geology, Jagiellonian University M.Sc.

  • Ph.D. Oceanography, W.H.O.I./M.I.T.Joint Program


Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards:

  • 1975-77, 1978-79 - New Jersey State Scholarship

  • 1977-78,1979-81 - Kosciuszko Foundation Student Exchange Scholarship

  • 1982-87 - Graduate Research Assistantship, W.H.O.I.

  • 1986 - G.S.A. - Student Research Grant 1987 - Margaret M. Patterson Memorial Scholarship for Science and Engineering

  • 1988-89 - Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University

  • 1988 - Who's Who in Canada

  • 1989-1990 - NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University

  • 1991 - Smithsonian Institution Visiting Research Fellowship1991 Patronymic species: Gyroidinoides kaminskii Beckmann

  • 1999 Patronymic genus & subfamily: Kaminskia Neagu; KAMINSKIINAE


Professional experience

  • 1977-79 Museum Assistant, Rutgers University Geology Museum

  • 1979 Laboratory Assistant (micropaleontology), Rutgers Univ. Geology Dept.

  • 1979-81 Translated and edited research articles for the Journal of the Geological Society of Poland

  • 1982-1987 Graduate Research Assistant to W.A. Berggren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution summer

  • 1984 Assistant Geologist (micropaleontology), UNOCAL Science and Technology Division.

  • 1986 Micropaleontological consultant, Union Exploration Partners LTD

  • 1987-88 Micropaleontological consultant, Geological Survey of Canada.

  • 1989-Present Visiting Lecturer, Inst. of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland.

  • 1990-Present Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo Norway.

  • 1990-1991 Assistant Scientist, GEOMAR, Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissenschaften, Kiel.

  • 1991-Present Visiting Scientist, GEOMAR, Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissenschaften, Kiel.

  • 1991-2002 Lecturer in Micropaleontology, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University College London.

  • 1993-Present Editorial Board, Micropaleontology. Micropaleontology Press, New York.

  • 1993-Present Special Publications Series Editor, Grzybowski Foundation.

  • 1993-1996 Visiting Lecturer, Imperial College of Science & Technology.

  • 1994-1996 Chairman, British Micropalaeontological Society Foraminifera Group.

  • 1995-Present Visiting Lecturer, Istituto di Geologia, Universitá degli Studi di Urbino, Italy.

  • 1995-Present Editorial Board, Journal of the Geological Society of Poland.

  • 1995-Present Editorial Board, Paleontographia Italica.

  • 1996-2000 Secretary, British Micropalaeontological Society Foraminiferal Group.

  • 1999-Present Editorial Board, Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre, (Brussels).

  • 2000-Present Advisory board, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

  • 2000-Present Corresponding Editor, Ellis & Messina Catalog of Foraminifera, Micropaleontology Press, New York.

  • 2001-Present Adjunct Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

  • 2002-present Reader in Micropaleontology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College

  • 2012-present Editorial Board, The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE)


Memberships:

  • Member of the British Micropalaeontological Society

  • Member of the American Geophysical Union

  • Supporting member of the Geological Society of Poland

  • Founding member of the Grzybowski Foundation

  • Patron of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research

  • Member of the Societa Paleontologica Italiana

  • Member, Societá Paleontologica Italiana

  • The Heron-Allen SocietyThe Palaeontological Association

  • International Society of Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology, & Meiobenthology


External Functions:

  • Member, Arctic Programme Planning Group (ODP)

  • Chairman, International Committee on Foraminiferal Classification

 

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