Eiichi Setoyama
Earth Sciences Department
Research Group of Reservoir Characterization
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, 31261
Saudi Arabia
current address: Energy & Geoscience Institute
University of Utah
423 Wakara Way, Suite 300
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
USA
esetoyama@egi.utah.edu

Eiichi Setoyama is currently working as a biostratigrapher at Energy and Geoscience Institute, University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, and was formally a postdoctoral researcher at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. His main area of expertise is in Cretaceous to Cenozoic deep-water benthic foraminifera.

Michael A. Kaminski
Earth Sciences Department
Research Group of Reservoir Characterization
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, 31261
Saudi Arabia
kaminski@kfupm.edu.sa 

Mike Kaminski is currently an Associate Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. from the WHOI/MIT Joint Program in Oceanography, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Dalhousie University, and at GEOMAR before taking up a lectureship at University College London, where he taught on the MSc Course in Micropalaeontology. He was a shipboard scientist on three Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) expeditions, and participated as a shore-based participant for several additional IODP expeditions. He is a co-founder of the Grzybowski Foundation and the International School on Foraminifera. His main area of expertise is with the classification, biostratigraphy, and ecology of Agglutinated Foraminifera.