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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Michelle A. Kominz is affiliated with Western Michigan University in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with particular focus on geophysics, environmental chemistry, and ocean engineering. The scientist's work integrates studies in methane hydrates, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, as well as reservoir engineering and simulation methods.

Recent publications highlight their contribution to geological and geophysical research. Notable papers include:

  • Are cyclic sediments periodic? Gamma analysis and spectral analysis of Newark Supergroup lacustrine strata, 2024, Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey)
  • Evidence for orbital forcing of Middle Cambrian peritidal cycles: Wah Wah range, south-central Utah, 2024, Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey)
  • TECTONIC SUBSIDENCE OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN IN SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIA RE-EVALUATED IN LIGHT OF CHANGES TO THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE, 2023, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quantitative compaction trends of Miocene to Holocene carbonates off the west coast of Australia, 2021, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Reversible subsidence on the North West Shelf of Australia, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The scientist has contributed extensively to disciplines such as:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michelle A. Kominz include:

  • Craig S. Fulthorpe
  • Cecilia M. McHugh
  • Stephen J. Gallagher
  • Martin P. Crundwell
  • Michael Gurnis

Publication venues where the scientist has had multiple articles published include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Michelle A. Kominz's work bridges core aspects of Earth sciences with environmental and engineering applications, addressing complex geological and geophysical phenomena through quantitative and analytical approaches.

The scientist has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016 and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change

    Kenneth G. Miller;Michelle A. Kominz;James V. Browning;James D. Wright

  • Breakup of a supercontinent between 625 Ma and 555 Ma: new evidence and implications for continental histories

    Gerard C. Bond;Peter A. Nickeson;Michelle A. Kominz

  • Construction of tectonic subsidence curves for the early Paleozoic miogeocline, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for subsidence mechanisms, age of breakup, and crustal thinning

    Gerard C. Bond;Michelle A. Kominz

  • Late Cretaceous to Miocene sea‐level estimates from the New Jersey and Delaware coastal plain coreholes: an error analysis

    Michelle A. Kominz;J. V. Browning;K. G. Miller;P. J. Sugarman

  • Cenozoic global sea level, sequences, and the New Jersey Transect: Results From coastal plain and continental slope drilling

    Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain;James V. Browning;Michelle Kominz

  • High tide of the warm Pliocene: Implications of global sea level for Antarctic deglaciation

    Kenneth G. Miller;James D. Wright;James V. Browning;Andrew Kulpecz

  • Late Cretaceous chronology of large, rapid sea-level changes: Glacioeustasy during the greenhouse world

    Kenneth G. Miller;Peter J. Sugarman;James V. Browning;Michelle A. Kominz

  • Upper Cretaceous sequences and sea-level history, New Jersey Coastal Plain

    Kenneth G. Miller;Peter J. Sugarman;James V. Browning;Michelle A. Kominz

  • An early Cambrian rift to post-rift transition in the Cordillera of Western North America

    Gerard C. Bond;Nicholas Christie-Blick;Michelle A. Kominz;William J. Devlin

  • Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic sea-level estimates: backstripping analysis of borehole data, onshore New Jersey

    William A. Van Sickel;Michelle A. Kominz;Kenneth G. Miller;James V. Browning

  • Long-term and short-term global Cenozoic sea-level estimates

    Michelle A. Kominz;Kenneth G. Miller;James V. Browning

  • Calibration between eustatic estimates from backstripping and oxygen isotopic records for the Oligocene

    Stephen F. Pekar;Nicholas Christie-Blick;Michelle A. Kominz;Kenneth G. Miller

  • Brunhes time scales and the interpretation of climatic change

    M.A. Kominz;G.R. Heath;T.-L. Ku;N.G. Pisias

  • Oligocene eustasy from two-dimensional sequence stratigraphic backstripping

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  • Role of Thermal Subsidence, Flexure, and Eustasy in the Evolution of Early Paleozoic Passive-Margin Carbonate Platforms

    Gerard C. Bond;Michelle A. Kominz;Michael S. Steckler;John P. Grotzinger

  • Lithology Dependence of Porosity in Slope and Deep Marine Sediments

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  • The amplitude and origin of sea-level variability during the Pliocene epoch

    G. R. Grant;G. R. Grant;T. R. Naish;G. B. Dunbar;P. Stocchi

  • Disentangling Middle Paleozoic sea level and tectonic events in cratonic margins and cratonic basins of North America

    Gerard C. Bond;Michelle A. Kominz

  • Thermal subsidence and eustasy in the Lower Palaeozoic miogeocline of western North America

    Gerard C. Bond;Michelle A. Kominz;William J. Devlin

  • Pleistocene Climate: Deterministic or Stochastic?

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  • Cambro-Ordovician Eustasy: Evidence from Geophysical Modelling of Subsidence in Cordilleran and Appalachian Passive Margins

    Gerard C. Bond;Michelle A. Kominz;John P. Grotzinger

  • Quantification of the effects of eustasy, subsidence, and sediment supply on Miocene sequences, mid-Atlantic margin of the United States

    James V. Browning;Kenneth G. Miller;Peter P. McLaughlin;Michelle A. Kominz

  • Paleomagnetic studies of central North Pacific sediment cores: Stratigraphy, sedimentation rates, and the origin of magnetic instability: Summary

    Roger A. Prince;G. Ross Heath;Michelle Kominz

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard C. Bond
Gerard C. Bond Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
John Beavan
John Beavan GNS Science
Wilford D. Gardner
Wilford D. Gardner Texas A&M University
Jerry F. McManus
Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mary Jo Richardson
Mary Jo Richardson Texas A&M University
Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin

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