!!Michael Sarnthein-Lotichius - Curriculum Vitae
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Paleoceanographer/Sedimentologist/Marine Geologist\\
Birthdate: 15 July 1939 in Vienna\\
Austrian Citizenship\\
Status: Married to Renate Sarnthein, three children\\
Mailing address: Institut für Geowissenschaften, 
Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany
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__Education:__
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*1957-1963: studies in geology, geophysics, and mineralogy at the universities of Frankfurt on Main, Germany, and Innsbruck, Austria 
*1963: Ph.D. on Alpine tectonics in the fields of geology and geophysics at Innsbruck University (W. Heissel, B. Sander, supervisors)
*1970: "Habilitation" in marine geology at Kiel University, Germany (E.Seibold, advisor)
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__Professional Experience: __
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*1963-1965:   Assistant professor, University of Innsbruck
*1966-1970:   Research associate with Prof. E. Seibold, University of Kiel
*1970: Lecturer ("Dozent"), University of Kiel 
*1973: Associate professor, University of Kiel
*Spring 1985: Guest professor at Tongji University Shanghai
*July 1985: Offer of the chair of marine geology at University of Bremen
*Fall 1985-2004: Full professor at the University of Kiel 
*(1982-1985 and 1995-1998: Acting department director)
*1989-1995: Founder of the "Leibniz Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung" at Kiel University (= Laboratory for AMS-C14 dating) 
*2000 - 2003: Executive Director of the IMAGES program
*2000 - 2005: Chairman of DFG Research Unit “Ocean Gateways” in Kiel
*2002 - 2004: Alternate member of the senate of Kiel University  
*Since October 2004: Retired Professor at Kiel University and Guest professor at Innsbruck University
*2007 – Present: Coordinator of “1-1-1” Program of China for the School of Ocean and Earth 		Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai
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__Academic Scholarships, Awards, Honours:__
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*1975: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) scholarship for sabbatical leave as visiting scholar at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (LDGO), New York
*1976: CLIMAP scholarship for two-months visit at LDGO, New York 
*1986/1987: DFG scholarship for a sabbatical leave at the University of Rhode Island (GSO), LDGO, New York, and the University of Cambridge, England  
*Dec. 1988: LEIBNIZ Award of the DFG (1.5 Million DM)          
*May 1990: Fellow of the Academia Europaea (London)
*Sep. 1990: Corresponding Member of the Geologische Bundesanstalt Vienna, Austria
*July 1994: Fellow of the German Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle ("Leopoldina")
*May 1995: Corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna
*May 1998: Honorary Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai
*July 1999: Mèdaille Albert Ier, Prix Manley Bendall, Paris / Monte Carlo
*April 2000: Honory Fellow of the Austrian Geological Society
*April 2001: Honorary Fellow of the European Union of Geosciences, Strassburg
*August 2003: Paleoceanography paper "Past extent of sea ice in the northern North Atlantic in¬ferred from foraminiferal paleotemperature estimates" was selected as AGU Journal Highlight
*April 2005: Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
*April 2006: Shephard medal of SEPM
*April  2006: Milankovitch medal of the European Geosciences Union
*Sept. 2009: Gustav Steinmann medal of the Geologische Vereinigung 
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__Special research interests in Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography include: __
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The history of the ocean salinity conveyor belt, in particular, of North Atlantic and North Pacific circulation, paleoproductivity and nutrient budgets of the ocean, deepwater paleoceano¬graphy and variations in the CO2 budget of the global ocean, short and long-term variability of African and Asian monsoonal climate and continental aridity, Neogene-to-Pleistocene isotope stratigraphy and sealevel history and origin of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, high-resolution (C14) chrono¬stratigraphy and C14 reservoir ages of oceanic water masses, decadal-to-millennial-scale periodicities of climate change, origin of abrupt Pleistocene glacial terminations (95-ky cycles).	
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Author and co-author of almost 180 scientific papers and 50 other publications and reports.
ISI: 6911 (Oct. 20, 2009)
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__Editor and/or Associate Editor __\\
of Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Geologische Rundschau, Paleoceanography, Catena, Quaternary Science Reviews, Marine Micropaleontology, Oceanologica Acta, and 
of 12 scientific books, ODP, and various journal volumes.
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Supervisor of 5 habilitation theses, 36 Ph.D. theses, and more than 80 M.Sc.theses.
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__Member__\\
of numerous national and international scientific societies, research projects, committees, and panels (e.g., project evaluation committee IV of the Ocean Drilling Project, 1994/5; coordinator of the German PAGES-Marine research group and the national research project "Marine Paleoclimatology" 1983-2000; Executive director of IMAGES 2000-2003).                                         
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__Convenor __\\
of more than 15 national and international symposia and conferences (e.g., of the 75th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung: "Geology of the Oceans" in Kiel 1985; 4th Intern. Conference on Paleoceanography in Kiel, 1992; EUG special symposium Strasbourg, 1997; SCOR-IMAGES Trins workshop, 2000; session at EGS-AGU, Nice 2003; session at EGU Vienna 2005).
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__Speaker __\\
at more than 300 academic lectures, national and international meetings.
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__Scientific Expeditions: (+ = participation as (co-) chief scientist / P.I.)__
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*1971: Nearshore Saharan and offshore sediments, Northwest Africa  (+)
*1971: Meteor cruise 25 to East Atlantic continental margin off Africa
*1976: DSDP Leg 47A, East Atlantic continental margin
*1979: Northwest Australia   (+)
*March and July 1983: Meteor cruise 65 and Polarstern cruise ANT Ic to the eq. East Atlantic (+)
*1984: Polarstern cruise ARK II/3 to the Fram Strait
*1985: Polarstern cruise ANT IV/Ic to Equatorial Atlantic   (+)
*1986: ODP Leg 108, eastern and equatorial Atlantic   (+)
*1988: Meteor cruise 6-5 to Eastern Equatorial Atlantic    (+)
*1988: Meteor cruise 7-2 to N.E. Norwegian Sea  (P.I.)
*1989: Meteor cruise 11-1 to central North Atlantic     (+)
*1994: SONNE-Cruise 95: "MONITOR-MONSOON" to the South China Sea (+)
*1995: IMAGES- (maiden) cruise of N.S. MARION DUFRESNE to the Nordic Seas (P.I.)
*2001: IMAGES cruise VII to the Northwest Pacific  (P.I.)
*2002: Polarstern cruise ARK 18/1 Polarstern cruise to the Debnmark Strait (P.I.)