Michael Montenari

Programme Director – Environmental Science at Keele University (UK) and Editor-in-Chief (Stratigraphy and Timescales) at Elsevier

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England, United Kingdom

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Experience

  • Elsevier (10 yrs 4 mos)
    • Editor-in-Chief
      Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

      Serial Editor for Earth Sciences (Stratigraphy and Timescales). VOLUME 8: STRATIGRAPHY OF GEO- AND BIODYNAMIC PROCESSES (2023) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-323-99242-8 E-book ISBN: 978-0-323-99243-5 Imprint: Academic Press (Elsevier) Publication Date: 23rd September 2023 Page Count: 456 VOLUME 8: Stratigraphy of Geo- and Biodynamic Processes - A volume in memory of Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956-2022) Table of Contents: M. Montenari: Preface 1. G. D. Price and M. Montenari: Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel (1956–2022): A legacy of foraminiferal research and scientific eminence 2. M. K. BouDagher-Fadel et al.: An updated stratigraphy of the Lesser Antilles islands, Aves Ridge and adjacent basins based on foraminifera 3. H. T. Breitfeld et al.: Neogene sedimentary successions in northern and central Sabah: Provenance and tectonic implications 4. A. Chakraborty et al.: Neogene biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of Andaman and Nicobar Basin: A reappraisal 5. D. Ortega-Ariza et al.: Identifying and characterizing Miocene tropical transitional carbonate systems (TTCS) in the Caribbean: The significance of coral and large benthic foraminifera classification 6. B. Khameiss et al.: The importance of foraminifera in providing paleoecologic and biostratigraphic information for a Miocene tropical carbonate system: Cicuco Field, NW Colombia 7. J. Afzal and A. A. Butt: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene integrated biostratigraphic framework, chronostratigraphy and Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Salt Range, Pakistan 8. N. K. Siddiqui and A. A. Butt: The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K-Pg) in Pakistan stratigraphy 9. H. Mehrabi et al.: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction, bio- and sequence stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Santonian) strata in the Persian Gulf, Iran 10. H. Li et al.: The fusulinids in a middle-late Permian carbonate platform (from Maokou to Wuchiapingian stage) in eastern Sichuan Basin, China

    • Editor-in-Chief
      Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

      Serial Editor for Earth Sciences (Stratigraphy and Timescales). VOLUME 7: INTEGRATED QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY (2022) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-32-398913-8 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-32-398914-5 Imprint: Academic Press (Elsevier) Published Date: 16th November 2022 Page Count: 324 VOLUME 7: Integrated Quaternary Stratigraphy Table of Contents: M. Montenari: Preface 1. Upasana S. Banerji, Kumar Batuk Joshi, Laxmi Pandey and Chandra Prakash Dubey: An outline of geochemical proxies used on marine sediments deposited during the Quaternary Period 2. Marjolaine E.J. Sabine-Lamoureux, Frédérique Eynaud, Sébastien Zaragosi, Jacques Giraudeau, Maxime Debret, Linda Rossignol-Malaize, Karine Charlier, Isabelle Billy, Bruno Malaize, Jimmy Daynac, Elodie Marches and Thierry Garlan: Stratigraphy in the Greenland/Iceland/Norwegian (GIN) seas: A multiproxy approach on Pleistocene sediments 3. Philipp Stojakowits and Christoph Mayr: Quaternary Palynostratigraphy of Germany with special emphasis on the Late Pleistocene 4. Adrian Marciszak, Wiktoria Gornig, Aleksandra Kropczyk and Gertrud E. Rössner: The latest European record of Chasmaporthetes lunensis lunensis (Del Campana, 1914) from Schernfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in terms of the changes in the European carnivore paleoguilds 5. Bogdan Ridush: The Quaternary vertebrate fauna of cave deposits of the Podillia-Bukovynian Karst-Speleological Area (Western Ukraine) 6. Tebogo V. Makhubela and Silindokuhle S. Mavuso: An overview of the geology of paleoanthropological and archaeological sites of South Africa 7. Moftah Hasan El-Shawaihdi, Noel Thomas Boaz, Ahmed Muftah and Fathi Salloum: New lithostratigraphic nomenclature of Neogene rock units in As-Sahabi area, Sirt Basin, northeast Libya

    • Editor-in-Chief
      Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

      Serial Editor for Earth Sciences (Stratigraphy and Timescales). VOLUME 6: CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY (2021) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-12-824624-5 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-32-385108-4 Imprint: Academic Press (Elsevier) Published Date: 13th November 2021 Page Count: 482 VOLUME 6: Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Table of Contents: M. Montenari: Preface 1. Medhat M.M. Mandur, Walid A. Makled and Ibrahim E. El Agroudy: Miocene-Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils sequence stratigraphy and biochronology in the subsurface of the Nile Delta of Egypt 2. Andrew R. Bowman and Osman Varol: A taxonomic revision of Heliolithaceae—Applications in resolving the problematic calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Paleocene 3. Mahmoud Faris, Sherif Farouk and Manal Shabaan: An overview of the Paleocene-Eocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and bioevents in Egypt 4. Maria N. Ovechkina, Lyudmila F. Kopaevich, Valentina S. Vishnevskaya and Mike B. Mostovski: Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the East European Platform: A proposed regional nannofossil zonation scheme and correlation with foraminifera and radiolarian zones 5. Azam Mahanipour and Jörg Mutterlose: Early–mid Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils from the central Tethys: biostratigraphy and ecology

  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche, International Member of the Peer Review College at ANR, the French National Research Agency
    Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    International member of the Peer Review College, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, National Agency for Research of the Republic of France): Panel CES31 - Physique subatomique, sciences de l'Univers, structure et histoire de la Terre. - Assessments, advise and guidance across the ANR's range of research investments. - Review of discovery science research proposals within the expertise areas of Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy, Palaeobiology and Palaeogeography.

  • Swiss National Science Foundation, Member of the Peer Review Panel at SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation
    Sep 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 11 mos

    Member of the Peer Review Panel of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Division 2 - Erdwissenschaften/Earth Sciences. - Assessments, advice and guidance across the SNSF's range of research investments. - Review of discovery science research proposals within the expertise areas of Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy, Palaeobiology, and Palaeogeography.

  • Lecturer in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy at Keele University
    Oct 2005 - Present · 20 yrs 10 mos

    General Palaeontology, Palaeoecology, Micropalaeontology, Bio-, Litho-, Chrono-, and Chemostratigraphy, Evolution of Life and Ecosystems, Co-evolution of the Geo- and Biosphere, Geology

  • Chief Advisor for Stratigraphy and Global Correlation at Total
    Feb 2007 - Jan 2025 · 18 yrs

    Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, Astrochronology, Cyclostratigraphy, Correlation, Development and implementation of novel stratigraphic techniques and correlation methods, Wellsite Stratigraphy and Correlation (Onshore - Offshore), High-resolution and ultra high-resolution onshore analogue studies for source- and reservoir rocks. Carbonate-facies analysis and interpretation.