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About:

• Ph.D. in Geology (Purdue University) 1998
• MS in Geology (Moscow State University) 1986
• BS in Paleontology 1985

Research Interests:

Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Cenozoic Mollusks

Research centers on critical intervals in the Cenozoic history, such as the Eocene-Oligocene transition from the Greenhouse to the Icehouse world, Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, and the first opening of the Bering Strait. These changes produced a series of profound changes in the high-latitude biota, including pulses of diversification and extinction

Current research is primarily focused on the biodiversity, paleogeography, and isotopic record of paleoclimates in the poorly studied areas of the northern Pacific
(Alaska and Kamchatka).

The Paleontology and Stratigraphy at FAU Department of Geosciences is dedicated to studies of paleoclimate, paleobiology, and ancient depositional environments, based on the sediment record and fossil archives. Our main goal is to understand changes in Earth’s past climate, evolution of life, and biodiversity in order to be able to predict and model future changes.  We employ methods from broad fields of stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, paleoecology and geochemistry. Our major focus is in the paleoenvironmental records of marine organisms with mineralized skeletons   Research ranges from documenting critical biotic events in the Cenozoic from high latitude to comparative studies of modern and Holocene coral reefs and associated biota in the western Atlantic.  For more information contact Dr. Anton Oleinik, aoleinik@fau.edu

Teaching:

GLY 2100 History of the arth and Life

GLY4500C Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

GLY4155C Geology of Florida

GLY3603C Paleontology 

Coastal and Marine Science

Environmental Issues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Global Environmental Change

Geology Field Camp

Previously taught: 

GLY4790 Geology Field Camp
GLY4750 Geology Field Methods

Recent Publications

Barinov, K. B., Oleinik, A. E., Marincovich, L. Jr., 2005. New occurrences of Fortipecten hallae (Dall, 1921)(Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the Pliocene of the North Pacific. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 223: 162-171.

Stilwell, J. D., Zinsmeister, W. J., and Oleinik, A. E., 2004 Early Paleocene mollusks of Antarctica: systematics, paleoecology and paleobiogeographic significance. Bulletins of American Paleontology 367, 89 p.

Scarabino, F., Martinez, S., del Rio, C., Oleinik, A.E., Camacho, H, and W. Zinsmeister. Two new species of Adelomelon Dall, 1906 (Gastropoda, Volutidae) from the Tertiary of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Paleontology 78(5): 914-919.

Oleinik, A. E., Marincovich, L. Jr., 2003. Biotic Response to the Eocene-Oligocene transition: gastropod assemblages in the high-latitude North Pacific. In: Prothero, D., Ivany, L., and Nesbitt, E. (eds.) From Greenhouse to Icehouse: the marine Eocene-Oligocene transition. Columbia University Press, p.36-56.

Gladenkov, A. Yu, Oleinik, A. E., Marincovich, L. Jr., and K. B. Barinov, 2002. A refined age for the earliest opening of Bering Strait., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 183: 321 – 328.

Marincovich, L. Jr., Barinov, K.B., and A. E. Oleinik., 2002. The Astarte (Bivalvia: Astartidae) that document the earliest opening of Bering Strait., Journal of Paleontology 76(2): 239-245.

Yu. I. Kantor, P. Bouchet, and A. E. Oleinik, 2001. A revision of the Recent species of Exilia, formerly Benthovoluta (Gastropoda, Turbinellidae), Ruthenica 11(2): 81-136.

Oleinik, A. E., 2001. Eocene gastropods of western Kamchatka – implications for high latitude North Pacific biostratigraphy and biogeography. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 166(2001): 121 – 140.