Dr. James P. Kennett

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Education
  • D.Sc., Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1976
  • Ph.D., Geology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1965
  • B.S., Geology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1963
  • B.S., Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1962

Dr. James Kennett is a retired marine geologist and Professor Emeritus of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Kennett is considered a pioneer in developing the relatively new field of earth science, Paleoceanography. He has published many papers over the last 50 years that have contributed towards a comprehensive understanding of major paleoenvironmental and biotic changes that shaped the Cenozoic Era and its stratigraphic record, and of processes involved in this development.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Kennett has published the following:

Kennett, J. P., and M. S. Srinivasan. 1983. Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera: A Phylogenetic Atlas. Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania.

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