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Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
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Tuebingen, Germany
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e-mail: michael.kowalewski@uni-tuebingen.de

• 1996: Humboldt Fellowship (One year research fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
  
• 1995: NATO Science Fellowship [One-year post-doctoral fellowship awarded by National Science & Engineering Council of Canada; Can. $29,000] for a project "Evolution of shell beds in the Early Paleozoic of southern Canada" (The fellowship was declined due to financial and family-related difficulties)
  
• 1994: Research Grant [Geosciences Graduate Office, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona; $2,200] for a project "Paleontological research on a "living fossil" Glottidia palmeri (Brachiopoda) from the northeastern Baja California (Mexico)"
  
• 1994: Research Grant [Summer Research Support Grant, University of Arizona; $300] for a project "Paleobiological implications of a living fossil Glottidia palmeri (Lingulidae, Brachiopoda) from the intertidal of northeastern Baja California (Mexico)"
  
• 1993: Harold T. Stearns Fellowship Award [Geological Society of America Research Grant 5186-93; $2010] for a project "Taphonomy and ecology of a living fossil: The lingulid brachiopod Glottidia palmeri on tidal flats of the Colorado Delta, northeastern Baja California."
  
• 1993: Outstanding Student Research Award awarded by Geological Society of America. Announced in GSA Today, 3(9)
  
• 1992: Research Grant [Biological Diversification Research Training Group, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; $350] for a project "Morphometric analysis of predatory drillholes"
  
• 1992: Student Travel Grant [Kansas Geological Survey; $250] for Paleontological Society Short Course "Trace Fossils"
  

• July 1997 - Vienna, Austria: 2nd European Paleontological Congress: "Implications of temporal resolution for the use of benthic shelly faunas in paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions."
  
• October 1996 - Denver, Colorado, USA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: "500 billion mollusk shells washed up onto Colorado Delta beaches: spatial and temporal mixing in coquinas and the nature of paleoecological data."
  
• June 1996 - Washington DC., USA: Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: "Predatory scars in shells of the Recent lingulide brachiopod Glottidia palmeri: behavioral, ecological and environmental implications."
  
• November 1995 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: "Shelly assemblages of the Colorado delta, Mexico: When time-averaging matters and when it doesn't."
  
• September 1995 - Sudbury, Ontario, Canada: Third International Brachiopod Congress: "Taphonomic megabias in the fossil record of lingulide brachiopods."
  
• August 1995 - Tampa, Florida, USA: First International SEPM Congress: "Trace fossils and population paleoecology: comparative analysis of size-frequency distributions derived from burrows."
  
• October 1994 - Seattle, Washington, USA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: "Taphonomy of a living fossil: the lingulid brachiopod Glottidia palmeri Dall, from the intertidal of the Colorado Delta, Mexico."
  
• October 1993 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: "Taphofacies and time: Bivalve preservation and relative age of shelly deposits on the tidal flats of the Colorado Delta, Baja California, Mexico."
  
• April 1993 - Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico: II Reunion Internacional sobre geologia de la penninsula de Baja California: "Preservation of mollusks and relative age of beach ridges on tidal flats of the Lower Colorado Delta, northeastern Baja California, Mexico."
  

• April 1997 - Tuebingen, GERMANY: Institute fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie: The actuopaleontological research in tidal flats of the Colorado River Delta, Baja California."
• January 1997 - Warsaw, POLAND: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences: "Resolution problems in the fossil record: the actuopaleontological perspective."
• November 1996 - Tucson, Arizona, USA: Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona: "Mixing shells in time and space: The evils and virtues of time-averaging"
• January 1996 - Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University: "Quantifying the quality of the fossil record: Taphonomic megabias in the lingulide brachiopods."
  

• Kowalewski, M., Dyreson, E., Marcot, J., Vargas, J., Flessa, K.W., & Hallman, D.P., 1997, Phenetic discrimination of biometric simpletons; Paleobiological implications of morphospecies in the lingulide brachiopod Glottidia (Lingulidae, Brachiopoda): Paleobiology, v. 23 (4), p. 444-469. (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., & Marcot, J., 1997, Predatory scars in the shell of a Recent lingulide brachiopod: paleontological and ecological implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 42 (4), in press. (Warsaw, Poland)
• Kowalewski, M., Demko, T.M., Hasiotis, S.T., & Newell, D., 1997, Quantitative ichnology of Triassic crayfish burrows (Camborygma eumekenomos): Ichnofossils as linkages to population paleoecology: Ichnos, in press. (New York, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., 1997, The reciprocal taphonomic model: Lethaia, v. 30 (1), p. 86-88. (Oslo, Norway)
• Hallman, D.P., Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., Aggen, J.A., Carlton, J., & Hertweck, G. 1996, Ternary taphograms and the comparative taphonomy of Recent mollusks from the North Sea and the Gulf of California: Senckenbergiana Maritima, v. 27 (1/2), p. 67-75. (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• Kowalewski, M., 1996a, Taphonomy of a living fossil: the lingulide brachiopod Glottidia palmeri from Baja California, Mexico: Palaios, v. 11, p. 244-265. (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., 1996b, Time-averaging, overcompleteness, and the geological record: Journal of Geology, v. 104 (3), p. 317-326. (Chicago, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., & Demko, T.M., 1996, Trace fossils and population paleoecology: comparative analysis of size-frequency distributions derived from burrows: Lethaia, v. 29, p. 113-124. (Oslo, Norway)
• Kowalewski, M., & Flessa, K.W., 1996, The fossil record of lingulide brachiopods and the nature of taphonomic megabiases. Geology, v. 24, p.977-980. (Boulder, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., & Flessa, K.W., 1995, Comparative taphonomy and faunal composition of the shelly cheniers from the northeastern Baja California, Mexico: Ciencias Marinas, v. 21 (2), p. 155-177. (Ensenada, Mexico)
• Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., & Hallman, D.P., 1995, Ternary taphograms: Triangular diagrams applied to taphonomic analysis: Palaios, v. 10 (5), p. 478-483. (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
• Flessa, K.W., & Kowalewski, M., 1994, Shell survival and time-averaging in nearshore and shelf environments: estimates from the radiocarbon literature: Lethaia, v. 27 (3), p. 153-165. (Oslo, Norway)
• Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., & Aggen, J.A., 1994, Taphofacies analysis of Recent shelly cheniers (beach ridges), northeastern Baja California, Mexico: Facies, v. 31, p. 209-242. (Erlangen, Germany)
• Kowalewski, M., & Flessa, K.W., 1994, A predatory drillhole in Glottidia palmeri, Dall (Brachiopoda; Lingulidae) from Recent tidal flats of northeastern Baja California, Mexico: Journal of Paleontology, v. 68 (6), p. 1403-1405. (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., 1993, Morphometric analysis of predatory drillholes: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 102, p. 69-88. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Kowalewski, M., & Misniakiewicz, W., 1993, Reliability of quantitative data on fossil assemblages: a model, a simulation, and an example: Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abh., v. 187 (2), p. 243-260. (Stuttgart, Germany)
• Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., & Walker, S.E., 1992, Post-collection taphonomy: shell destruction and the Chevrolet: Palaios, v. 7 (5), p. 555-556. (Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., 1991, Tafonomia -- dyscyplina w Polsce ignorowana. Taphonomy -- a branch ignored in Poland (in Polish with English summary): Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, v. 61, p. 257-264. (Cracow, Poland)
• Kowalewski, M. 1990, A hermeneutic analysis of the shell-drilling gastropod predation on mollusks in the Korytnica Clays (Middle Miocene; Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland): Acta Geologica Polonica, v. 40 (3/4), p. 183-213. (Warsaw, Poland)

• Batten, J.A. & Kowalewski, M., 1995, Seasonal growth banding and predation scars in the shells of a Recent lingulide brachiopod. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27 (6), A-445. (New Orleans, USA)
• Goodfriend, G.A., Flessa, K.W., & Kowalewski, M., 1995, Age distribution of bivalve shells in cheniers and the Late Holocene environmental history of the Colorado Delta. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27 (6), A-373. (New Orleans, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., 1995a, Taphonomic megabias in the fossil record of lingulide brachiopods. In: Copper, P. & Jin, J. (eds.) The Third International Brachiopod Congress, Abstracts, p. 38. (Sudbury, Canada)
• Kowalewski, M., 1995b, Shelly assemblages of the Colorado delta, Mexico: When time-averaging matters and when it doesn't. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27 (6), A-373. (New Orleans, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., & Demko, T.M., 1995, Trace fossils and population paleoecology: comparative analysis of size-frequency distributions derived from burrows: The First SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Abstracts, p. 77. (Tampa, Florida, USA)
• Hallman, D., Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., Aggen, J.A., Carlton, J., & Hertweck, G., 1994, Ternary taphograms and the comparative taphonomy of Recent mollusks from the North Sea and the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26 (7), p. A-58. (Seattle, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., Batten, J., & Hallman, D., 1994, Taphonomy of a living fossil: the lingulid brachiopod Glottidia palmeri Dall, from the intertidal of the Colorado Delta, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26 (7), p. A-297. (Seattle, USA)
• Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., Cutler, A.H., & Meldahl, K.H., 1993, Radiocarbon-dating of Recent shells: taphonomy, time-averaging and paleoenvironmental implications. Geological Society of London, 1993 Lyell Meeting: Organisms as paleoenvironmental indicators within the marine realm. (London, Great Britain)
• Kowalewski, M., & Flessa, K.W., 1993, Taphofacies and time: Bivalve preservation and relative age of shelly deposits on the tidal flats of the Colorado Delta, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25(6), p. A-459. (Boston, USA)
• Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., & Aggen, J.A., 1993, Preservation of mollusks and relative age of beach ridges on tidal flats of the Lower Colorado Delta, northeastern Baja California, Mexico. II Reunion Internacional sobre geologia de la penninsula de Baja California, Ensanada. no page numbers (Ensenada, Mexico)
• Flessa, K.W., Cutler, A.H., Meldahl, K.H., & Kowalewski, M., 1992, The fate of shells on tidal flats in the Northern Gulf of California (Mexico): Radiocarbon dating, taphonomy, and stratigraphic resolution. In: Flemming, B.W. (ed.) Tidal Clastics 92, Abstract Volume. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 151: 30-31. (Frankfurt, Germany)

• West, N. Bluelist. (Fiction) First English ed. 1989. Polish translation titled "Blekitna Lista". Translated by M. Kowalewski; Warsaw, Poland, PLJ Press, 1991. 201pp.

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