James Kennett
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Education

  1962 B.S. University of New Zealand
  1963 B.S. (Hons.) Geology - Victoria University of Wellington
  1964-65 Victoria University of Wellington Research Fellowship
  1965 Ph.D. (Geology) - Wellington
  1976 D.Sc. - Wellington, New Zealand

 
 

Academic Positions

  1987- Professor, Department of Geological Sciences.
  1987-97 Director, Marine Science Institute University of California, Santa Barbara.
  1974-87 Professor, Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island.
  1970-74 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island.
  1968-70 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology Florida State University, Tallahassee.
  1966-68 Research Associate, Allan Hancock Foundation University of Southern California.
  1965-66 Scientific Officer, New Zealand Oceanographic Institution.

 
 

Academic Honors

  Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  Fellow - American Geophysical Union.
  The Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001.
  Honorary Fellow - Royal Society of New Zealand, 1991.
  Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  Fellow - Geological Society of America. Shepard Medal, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.
  McKay Hammer Award, New Zealand Geological Society, 1966-67.
  Academic Achievement Award - University of Rhode Island, 1981.
  The Distinguished Lecturer in Marine Sciences, University of South Carolina, 1982.
  Distinguished Lecturer, JOI/USSAC, 1992-93.
  The 2000 Cesare Emiliani Lecturer: American Geophysical Union.
  Distinguished Lecturer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 2001
  Foundation Editor - Paleoceanography, American Geophysical Union

 
 

Professional Organizations

  American Geophysical Union (Fellow)
  Geological Society of America (Fellow)
  Society of Sedimentologists
  American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists
  American Assoc. Advancement Science (Fellow)
  Paleontological Society
  American Quaternary Association
  North American Micropaleontological Society
  New Zealand Geological Society
  New Zealand Antarctic Society
  Polar Society

 
 

Selected Professional Activities

  Editorial Advisory Board: The Island Arc: 1992-ongoing.
  Editorial Board: Marine Micropaleontology: ongoing
  Editorial Board: Paleoceanography: ongoing
  Member, Pole-Equator-Pole (PEP) Paleoclimate Initiative, 1993.
  International Advisory Board: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1998-ongoing.
  Co-organizer, SCOR-IMAGES Workshop, Trins, Austria, February 2000.
  Co-Chief Scientist, Ocean Drilling Program 189, March-May 2000.
  The Tasmanian Seaway between Australia and Antarctica.
  Co-Chair, SCOR Working Group on Synthesis of Decadal to Millennial Climate Records of the Last 80 ky, May, 2001.

 

 

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