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Dr-Michael-Anthony-Kaminski
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Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2127

Professor Michael A. Kaminski

Professor, Department of Geosciences

Prof. Mike Kaminski is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geosciences. He started his prolific academic career in 1979, graduating with a B.S. degree in Geology from Rutgers University, New Brunswick N.J., USA. He did his masters degree in Geology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland. In 1987, he was awarded his Ph.D. in the subject of Oceanography from the W.H.O.I./M.I.T. Joint Program in the USA. In 2007, he defended his “Habilitation” thesis at the Polish Academy of Science.

His research, projects, and teaching experience spans nearly 40 years and his recognition within the academic world brings significant recognition to KFUPM. Dr. Kaminski is fluent in English and Polish and is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts & Sciences.  He has authored over 250 scientific publications and is the Editor-in-Chief of Micropaleontology, the oldest scientific journal in the subject area. He is a member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Revue de Micropaleontologie, Geological Quarterly, Geologica Carpathica, and the Grzybowski Foundation Special Publications. He has supervised over 60 graduate students.

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D., Oceanography, W.H.O.L, MIT Joint Program, USA, 1987.
  • M.S., Geology, Jagiellonian University, Poland, 1981.
  • B.A., Geology, Rutgers University, USA, 1979.
  • B.A., Slavic Studies, Rutgers University, USA, 1979.

Research Interests

  • Historical Geology, Paleontology, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology.
  • Biodiversity, Evolutionary processes, and the history of marine microfossil communities
  • Classification, taxonomy, biodiversity of benthic foraminifera
  • Biochronology of marine microfossils and calibration to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale.
  • Biostratigraphy & paleoceanography of the North Atlantic and its marginal seas.
  • High-latitude biostratigraphy and its correlation to standard, low-latitude biochronology
  • Problems in Tethyan Paleobiogeography and stratigraphic correlation.
  • The evolution of Cretaceous-Cenozoic climate and the timescales of Global Change.
  • The use of benthic foraminiferal assemblages for paleoenvironmental analysis.
  • The development of the general circulation of the Atlantic Ocean from the Late Cretaceous to the Recent.

Selected Publications

  • Kaminski, M.A., Amao, A.O., Babalola, L., Bu Khamsin, A., Fiorini, F., Garrison, A.M., Gull, H.M., Johnson, R.L., Tawabini, B., Frontalini, F. & Garrison, T.F. 2021. Substrate temperature as a primary control on meiofaunal populations in the intertidal zone: A dead zone attributed to elevated summer temperatures in eastern Bahrain. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 42: 101611.  
  • Stein, R., Fahl, K., Schreck, M., Knorr, G., Niessen, F., Forwick, M., Gebhardt, C., Jensen, L., Kaminski, M., Kopf, A., Matthiessen, J., Jokat, W., Lohmann, G. 2016. Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications, 7, 11148.
  • Kaminski, M.A. & Alegret, L. (eds), 2017. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 22, 264 pp.
  • Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., Kaminski, M.A. & Browning, J.V. 2018. Neogene benthic foraminiferal biofacies, paleobathymetry, and paleoenvironments of a Gulf of Mexico transect. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 48 (4), 356-372.
  • Kaminski, M.A., Perdana, P., Abouelresh, M.O., and Babalola, L. 2019. Late Ordovician agglutinated foraminifera from the Ra’an Shale Member of Saudi Arabia as indicators of the O40 Maximum Flooding Surface. Stratigraphy, 16 (1), 27–39.
  • Kaminski, M.A. & Perdana, P.R.D. 2020. Lower Silurian benthic foraminifera from Saudi Arabia – including the oldest known multichambered lituolids. Stratigraphy, 17 (3), 141-185.
  • Kaminski, M.A., Amao, A.O., Babalola, L., Bu Khamsin, A., Fiorini, F., Garrison, A.M., Gull, H.M., Johnson, R.L., Tawabini, B., Frontalini, F., & Garrison, T.F. 2021. Substrate temperature as a primary control on meiofaunal populations in the intertidal zone: A dead zone attributed to elevated summer temperatures in eastern Bahrain. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 42: 101611.

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