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Georgian National Academy of Sciences

Personal Data (CV)

Surname Kakabadze First Name Mikheil

Address (work, home) Tbilisi, Politkovskaia 5 (work); Data and place of birth 02.04.1939, Tbilisi Bakhtrioni str. , korp. 1, flat 172 (home)

Citizenship Georgian Telephone number(s) 2362476 (h); +995 555 302124 (mob)

E-mail [email protected]

3. Education Education Institution Learning Time

Secondary Tbilisi 55th secondary school 1946-1957

Higher I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University 1957-1962

Postgraduate study, doctoral candidacy I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University 1962-1965

4. Knowledge of Languages Foreign languages Level of language proficiency (fluent, intermediate, beginning with the help of a dictionary) Russian fluent English fluent German intermediate French beginning with the help of a dictionary

5. Scientific or Academic Degree and Rank Title of the thesis Date of conferment Ph.D. thesis Colchidites and their Stratigraphical Significance 1968

Doctoral thesis The Early Cretaceous Heteromorph Ammonites (Ancyloceratidae, 1982 Heteroceratidae) of the Southern USSR and their Stratigraphic Significance. Academician Doctor 1983

Professor 1999

Academician of Georgian 2000 Academy of Natural Sciences

Corresponding Member of the 2009 1 2

Georgian National Academy of Sciences

Member of the Academy

6. Work Experience Data Institution Position 1966/1972 Geological Institute of Georgian Academy of Junior Scientist Sciences 1973/1985 A. Janelidze Institute of Geology Senior Scientist 1986/88 „ ------“ Chief Scientist 1989/1995 „ ------“ Deputy Director in scientific affairs 1995/2003 „ ------“ Chief Scientist 2004/present „ ------“ Head of the Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chief Scientist

6.1 Teaching Activity Date Institution Position 1971-1978 A. Pushkin Pedagogical Institute (Tbilisi) Visiting lecturer 1990-2011 I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Visiting lecturer (Tbilisi) 2009-2012 Ilia State University (Tbilisi) Visiting lecturer

6.2. Work Abroad Form of work Data Place and Institution Delivering a lecture course at a 1996/97 and 1999 GGermany, Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg foreign higher educational institution

Long-term academic mission to 1979/1980 and 1989 Germany, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen research institutions 1990 France, Joseph Fournier University of Grenoble

1996, 2000/2005 The Netherlands, Leiden, National Museum of Natural History

2006, 2009, 2011, 2014 Germany, Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg

Other

7. Spare of Scientific Interests Fossils of Cephalopod Mollusca (systematics, phylogeny, palaeoecology, biogeography, stratigraphical significance); Stratigraphy and correlation of the Cretaceous deposits of Tethyan and Boreal regions; Cretaceous palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography.

8. Publications (Total number, indicating the Citation Index (number)) Publications – 134 . At the same time M. Kakabadze is the author of 27 unpublished works (geological reports); Total – 161. Citation Index - according to “Scholar Google” (Kakabadze M.V.) and “Академия Google” (Какабадзе М.В.) compared data - 467.

8.1 Monographs Years 1971 Colchidites and their stratigraphical significance. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of GSSR. New Series. Vol. 26. 125 p. (in Russian). 1975 Lower Cretaceous Heteroceratinae of Georgia and adjacent reghions. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of GSSR. New Series. Vol. 47. 69 p. (in Russian). 1981 Ancyloceratids of the South USSR and their stratigraphical significance. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. 2 3

of GSSR. New Series. Vol. 71, 197 p. (in Russian). 1989 Zones of Cretaceous System in the USSR. Lower series. “Nauka”. 242 p. (co-authors: T.N. Bogdanova, V.L. Egoyan et al. (in Russian). 1991 Geological structure of Assa-Aragvi section of the Greater Caucasus. Tbilisi, “Metsniereba”. 120 p. (co-authors: I.P. Gamkrelidze, Beridze M.A. et al.) (in Russian). 2004 Early Cretaceous ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 128, Leiden: 558p. (co-authors: Ph.Hoedemaeker, T. Bogdanova, M. Sharikadze) 2010 New data on Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Barremian) heteromorphic ammonites from northern Germany. Scripta Geologica, 140. 168p. (co-author: Ph. Hoedemaeker).

8.2 Principal Papers (no more than 50) Years 1970 Kakabadze M.V. New genus Kutatissites gen. nov. From Lower Cretaceous deposis of Georgia. Bull. Acad. Sci. of Georgia. Vol. 58, № 3: 773-736 (in Russian). 1978 Kakabadze M.V., Bogdanova T.N. & Mikhailova I.A. On stratigraphy of the Middle Aptian of South SSSR and some Heteromorph ammonites. Bull. MOIP, geol., V. 53: 75-90 (in Russian). 1978 Kakabadze M. V. On the systematic and stratigraphical significance of the genera Pseudocrioceras Spath, Audouliceras Thomel and Kutatissites Kakabadze. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist. de Nice, t. 4: XXXIV.1 - XXXIV.9. 1979 Kakabadze M. V. Facies and environment of Georgian Ancyloceratids (Lower Cretaceous, USSR). Aspekte der Kreide Europa, IUGS, Series A: 141-149. 1982 Kvantaliani I.V., Kakabadze M.V. & Sharikadze M.Z. About Clanseyesian of the environs of v. David-Bek (Armenian part of the Lesser Caucasus). Proceedings of Georgian Politechn. Inst. № 3: 50-52 (in Russian). 1983 Kakabadze M. V. On the Hauterivian-Barremian correlation between the South of the USSR and certain southern and northern regions of Europe. Zitteliana 10. Second Symposium “Deutsche Kreide”, Muenchen: 501-508. 1984 Klinger H., Kakabadze M. V. & Kennedy J. W. Upper Barremian (Cretaceous) Heteroceratid Ammonites from South Africa and the Caucasus and their palaeobiogeographic significance. J. Moll. Stud., v. 50: 43-60. 1985 On principles of the ethological investigations of Heteromorph ammonites. Bull. Academy of Sciences of Georgian SSR (Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta Academii Nauk Gruzinskoyi SSR). 118 (2): 377-380 (in Russian). 1987 Kakabadze M.V. On stratigraphical position of the Heinzia matura Zone (Barremian, Georgia). Bull. Acad. Sci. of Georgia. Vol. 126, № 3: 577-580 (in Russian). 1988 Kakabadze M. V. On the morphological classification of the Heteromorph ammonites. In: Wiedmann, J & Cullmann, J. (eds). Cephalopodes, Present and Past. E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Stuttgart: 447-452. 1989 Kakabadze M. V. The Barremian biostratigraphical subdivisions of Georgia (USSR) and comparison with some Western Mediterranean regions. Proceedings 3d Intern. Cretaceous Symposium. Tuebingen 1987, E. Schweizerbrat’sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Stuttgart: 551-560. 1989 Kakabadze M.V., Vasicek Zd. & Gashparikova V. Biostratigraphical correlation of the Hauterivian and Barremian of Georgia and Vest Carpathians. D. Shtura Geological. Inst. Bratislava: 7-23 (in Russian). 1989 Sharikadze M.Z., Kakabadze M.V. & Kvantaliani I.V. On some peculiarities of the suture line of the Hetreromorph ammonites. Dokladi AN USSR, 307, №1: 214-217 (in Russian). 1990 Hoedemaeker P.J., Bulot L., Kakabadze M. et al. Preliminary Ammonite zonation for the Lower Cretaceous of the Meditterranean region. Geologie Alpine 66: 123-127. 1990 Wiedmann J., Kakabadze M.V. & Sharikadze M. Z. Suture Ontogeny in Ptychoceras D’Orb. and its implications for the systematics of Cretaceous Heteromorphs. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Mh., Stuttgart: 367-384. 1991 Kakabadze M.V. & Keleptrishvili Sh. G. Stratigraphy and Belemnites of the Valanginian-Upper Hauterivian of the Upper Racha (Georgia). Izvestia AN USSR, Ser. Geol., № 8: 29-37 (in Russian). 1991 Adamia Sh., Chabukiani A., Kakabadze M., et al.. Geological background of the Caucasus and adjacent Area. In: Adamia, Sh. & Kakabadze, M. „Geological Events on Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Tbilisi: 18-51. 1991 Kakabadze M. V. & Thieuloy J.-P. Ammonites Heteromorphes du Barremien et de l’Aptian de Colombie (Amerique du Sud). Geologie Alpine, t. 67: 81-113. 1992 Kakabadze M. V. On significance of the palaeobiogeographical data in estimation of nature of the global transgressions and regressions. Bull. Acad. Sci. of Georgia. Vol. 146, № 2: 164-167 (in Russian). 1993 Kakabadze M. V. & Sharikadze M. Z. On the mode of life of Heteromorph ammonites (heterocone, ancylocone, ptychocone). Geobios, M. S., n 15: 207-215. 1993 Wiedmann J. & Kakabadze M. V. Suture investigations and classification of the Cretaceous Heteromorph ammonites. Geobios, M. S., n 15: 393-399. 1994 Kakabadze M. V. On biogeography of some Lower Cretaceous ammonites. Palaeopelagos special publication 1.

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Proceedings of the 3rd Pergola International Symposium, Roma: 203-208. 1994 Kakabadze M. V. On some peculierities of ammonites palaeobiogeography in relation to global transgressions and regressions in early Cretaceous. Abstracts, 3rd Workshop, Piobico, Italy, 1994: 21-22. 1995 Kakabadze M. V. & Kotetishvili E. V. New data on the Upper Barremian biostratigraphy of the Georgian region (Caucasus). Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. d’Italy: 103-108. 1995 Hoedemaeker Ph., Cecca F., Kakabadze M.V. et al. Report on the standart Lower Cretaceous ammonites zonation of the Mediterranean region. Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. d’Italy: 213-215. 1996 Mutterlose J., Autran G., Kakabadze M., et al. The Hauterivian stage. Bull. de l’Institut Royal Sci. Naturelles du Belgique Sci. de la Terre, v. 66-SUPP, Bruxelles: 19-24. 1996 Rawson P. F. Avram E., Baraboshkin E., Kakabadze M., et al. The Barremian stage. Bull. de l’Institut Royal Sci. Naturelles du Belgique Sci. de la Terre, v. 66-SUPP, Bruxelles: 26-30. 1996 Erba E., Aguado R., Kakabadze M., et al. The Aptaian stage. Bull. de l’Institut Royal Sci. Naturelles du Belgique Sci. de la Terre, v. 66-SUPP, Bruxelles: 31-43. 1996 Kakabadze M. V. Palaeobiogeography and the problem of estimation of the nature of global eustatic events. Mitt. Geol. Palaeont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, Heft 77: 395-401. 1997 Kakabadze M. V. & Hoedemaeker Ph. New and less known Barremian-Albian ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica, n. 114, Leiden: 58-117. 1998 Kakabadze M. V. & Thodria V. A. On the upper Tithonian-Barremian hemipelagic facies in North-Western Abkhazia (Georgia). Proceedengs of the Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of Georgia, Tbilisi: 67-71. 1999 Bengtson P. & Kakabadze M. V. Biogeography of Cretaceous ammonites - a review of procedures and problems. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Abh., 212 (1-3): 221-239. 2000 Kakabadze M.V. Intraspecific variation and some questions of systematic of Early Cretaceous Heteromorph ammonites. Transactions of the Scientific Sessions dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Acad. A. Janelidze. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of GSSR. New Series. Vol. 115: 96-109 (in Russian). 2003 Kakabadze M.V. On the biostratigraphy of Upper Barremian of Georgia. Bull. MOIP, ser. Geology, № 6: 36-45 (in Russian). 2004 Kakabadze M.V. Intraspecies and intrageneric variabilities and their implications for the systematics of Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites: a review. In: Donovan S.K. (ed.), Early Cretaceous ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 128, Leiden: 17-37. 2004 Kakabadze M.V. & Hoedemaeker Ph. J. Heteromorphic ammonites from the Barremian and Aptian strata of Colombia. In: Donovan S.K. (ed.), Early Cretaceous ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 128, Leiden: 39-182. 2004 Kakabadze M.V. Hoedemaeker Ph. J., Bogdanova T.N. & Sharikadze M.Z. On the Barremian-Early Albian biogeography (by Ammonites) of Colombia. In: Donovan S.K. (ed.), Early Cretaceous ammonites from Colom- bia. Scripta Geologica, 128, Leiden: 515-558. 2005 Kakabadze M.V. Family Ancylocertatidae: genera – Acrioceras, Audouliceras, Ancyloceras, Pseudocrioceras, Tropaeum, Australiceras, Kutatissites, Toxoceratoides, Tonohamites. Families Heteroceratidae and Ptychoceratidae. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of Georgia. New Series. Vol. 120: 346-378 (in Russian). 2005 Kakabadze M.V., Kvantaliani I.V., Kotetishvili E.V., Sharikadze M.Z., Tsirekidze L.R. Startigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Georgia. Proceedings of Geol. Inst. Acad. Sci. of Georgia. New Series. Vol. 120: 7-84 (in Russian). 2007 Klein J., Busnardo R., Company M., Delanoy G., Kakabadze M., Reboulet S., Ropolo P., Vašiček Z. & Vermeulen J., Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Pars 144. Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III. Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 381p. 2008 Kakabadze M.V. New data on biostratigraphy of Upper Hauterivian deposits of Georgia. Proceedings of A. Janelidze Institute of Geology of Georgia. New Series. Vol. 124: 161-167 (in Russian). 2009 Kennedy W.J., Klinger H.Ch. & Kakabadze M. V. Macroscaphites Meek, 1876, a heteromorph ammonite from the Lower Aptian of southern Mozambique and northern KwaZulu-Natal. African Natural History, Volume 5: 37-41. 2012 Kakabadze M.V. & Kakabadze I.M. Biostratigraphy and interrelationship of the Lower and Middle Aptian (Cretaceous) sedimentary sequences in Georgia and adjacent regions of the Caucasus. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genéve. Vol. spéc. 11: 103-111. 2013 Kakabadze M., Kakabadze I. & Sharikadze M. Stratigraphical Correlation of the Barremian-Aptian Sedimentary Sequences of the Okriba-Khreiti and Dzirula Tectonic Subzones (Georgia). Bull. Georgian Nat. Acad. of Sci., vol. 7, № 2:113-124 2014 Ka Reboulet , St., Szives O., Aguirre-Urreta B., Barragán R., Company M., Idakieva V., Ivanov, M., Kakabadze M.V., et al. Report on the 5th International Meeting of the IUGS Lower Cretaceous Ammonite Working Group, the Kilian Group (Ankara, Turkey, 31st August 2013). Cretaceous Research 50, 2014: 126-137. 2015 Kakabadze M.V. Towards the morphological classification of the heteromorph ammonites. Proceedings of A. Janelidze Geol. Inst. of the I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State Unversity. New Series. 4 5

Vol. 127, 2015: 23-28. 2015 Kakabadze M.V. Speculations on the ethology of some heteromorph ammonites. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, Vol. 135. № 1, Springer, 2015: 63-68. 2016 Zakharov, Y.D., Kakabadze, M.V. Sharikadze, M.Z., Smyshlyaeva O.P. , Sobolev, E.S., Safronov, P.P. Preliminary data on isotope evidence from the Aptian brachiopods and molluscs of the Caucasus. Proceedings of 8th Russian Meeting, 26.09.-03.10.2016, Republic Crimea (ed. E.Y. Baraboshkin). “ChernomorPRESS”, Simferopol, 2016: 118-120 (in Russian). 2017 Zakharov, Y.D. , Kakabadze, M.V., Sharikadze, M.Z., Smyshlyaeva, O.P., Sobolev, E.S., Safronov, P.P. “The stable O- and C-isotope record of fossils from the upper Barremian – lower Albian of the Caucasus: palaeoenvironmental implications”. Cretaceous Research - Journal ISSN: 0195-6671, Electronic version available online 12.08.2017 (In Press, Accepted Manuscript) (http:/www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/01956671). 2017 Bengtson P. & Kakabadze M. “Ammonites and the mid-Cretaceous saga”. Cretaceous Research - Journal ISSN: 0195-6671, Electronic version available online 3.10. 2017 (In Press, Accepted Manuscript) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.003).

8.3 Textbooks, Additional Manuals, and other Methodological Literature and Training means Years

8.4 Electronic Publications Years Title Address of Source

8.5 Participation in Scientific Symposiums, Conferences for the last ten years Years Title Name of Event 2007 Bengtson P., Koutsoukus E.A.M., Kakabadze M.V. &1 st International Palaeobiogeography Symposium Zucon M.H. Ammonite and foraminiferal (France, Paris, 10-13 July 2007). biogeography and the opening of the Atlantic Equatorial Gateway. International Palaeobiogeography Symposium (Paris, 10-13 July 2007), Résumés/Abstracts. 2007, p. 12. U niversité Pierre et Marie (Paris 6), Paris. 2007 Bengtson P., Koutsoukos E.A.M. Kakabadze M.V. &Th Palaeontological Association, 51st Annual Meeting Zucon, M.H. Ammonite and foraminiferal evidence (Sweden, Uppsala, 16–19 December 2007). for opening of the South Atlantic Ocean in the early/mid Aptian (Early Cretaceous). Palaeontological Association, 51st Annual Meeting [Uppsala, 16–19 December 2007], Programme with Abstracts. 2007, p. 20. 2009 Kakabadze M.V & Bengtson P. Ammonite support forB XXI Brazilian Palaeontological Congress: a three-fold division of the Cretaceous. Brazilian Palaeontology and Global events (Brazil, Belém, Pará, Palaeontological Congress. Abstract. In V. Gallp & 13-18 September 2009).

H.M.A. Silva (eds): XXI Congresso Brasileiro de

Paleontologia: A paleontologia e os eventos globais [Belém, Pará, 13-18 September 2009], Livro de resumos, p. 119. 2010 Kakabadze I., Sharikadze M. & Kakabadze M. Th The International Scientific Conference “Problems of Sequence stratigraphical correlation of the Geology of the Caucasus” dedicated to the 85-th Barremian-Aptian deposits of the Central uplift zone anniversary of Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology (Georgia, Tbilisi, November 25-27, 2010). of Georgian block. The International Scientific

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Conference “Problems of Geology of the Caucasus” dedicated to the 85-th anniversary of Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology. Tbilisi, November 25- 27. Abstracts. 2010: 52-54. 2010 Kakabadze M., Kakabadze I. & Sharikadze M. On Th The International Scientific Conference “Problems of stratigraphical disconformity between the Lower and Geology of the Caucasus” dedicated to the 85-th Middle Aptian sequences in the Caucasus. The anniversary of Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology (Georgia, Tbilisi, November 25-27, 2010). International Scientific Conference “Problems of Geology of the Caucasus” dedicated to the 85-th anniversary of Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology. Tbilisi, November 25-27. Abstracts. 2010: 54-56. 2011 Gamkrelidze I., Kakabadze M. & Okrostsvaridze A. 10 10th European Geoparks Conference (Norway, Geotraverses and Geoparks in Georgia (Southern Langezund, 2011). Caucasus). 10th European Geoparks Conference. Norway, Langezund, Abstracts. 2011. P. 58. 2013 Kakabadze M. Biostratigraphic subdivision of the Interernational Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Upper Hauterivian of Georgia Lower Cretaceous “Kilin Group” Meeting (Turkey, Ankara. August 31, 2013). 2013 Kakabadze M., Kakabadze I. & Sharikadze M . 9t 9th International Symposium on the Cretaceous Sequential interrelationship of the uppermost Aptian- System (Turkey, Ankara. September 1-5, 2013). lowermost Albian deposits in the Transcaucasian Intermontane area of Georgia. 9t 9th International Symposium on the Cretaceous System. Ankara, September 1-5. Abstracts. P. 75. 2014 Kakabadze M.V. Speculations on ethology of some International Symposium: Cephalopods – Present and (turricone, colchicone) heteromorph ammonites. Past (Zurich University, September 04-14, 2014). 9th International Symposium: Cephalopods – Present and Past (Zurich University). Abstracts. 2014: 51-52. 2016 Zakharov Y.D., Kakabadze, M.V. Sharikadze, M.Z., 9 th 35th International Geological Congress, South Africa- Smyshlyaeva O.P. , Sobolev, E.S., Safronov, P.P. Late 2016. Barremian – early Albian climate of the northern middle latitudes: Stable O- and C-isotope evidence from brachiopods and molluscs of the Caucasus. 35th International Geological Congress, 27 August – 2 September, 2016. Cape Town, South Africa. Abstracts, 2016. # PB273. 2016 Kakabadze M. V., King, D.T. Jr., Kakabadze I. M., GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado – 2016. Sharikadze M. Z., Kvakhadze N. N. Chronostratigraphic interpretations of some stratigraphic breaks in Lower Cretaceous carbonate facies in the territory of Georgia (Caucasus). Geological Society of America. Abstracts. Vol. 48, No. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016 AM-284248. 2017 Kakabadze M., Kakabadze I. & Lanchava G. New 9th 10th International Symposium on the Cretaceous Data on the Upper Barremian-Aptian Bio- and System (Austria, Vienna, August 21-28, 2017). Sequrnce Stratigraphy in the Racha Region (West h

Georgia). !0th Int. Symposium on the Cretaceous (Vienna, August 21-26). Abstract 2017: P. 134. 2017 Bengtson P., Kakabadze M. The mid-Cretaceous saga. 10th International Symposium on the Cretaceous !0th Int. Symposium on the Cretaceous (Vienna, System (Austria, Vienna, August 21-28, 2017). August 21-26). Abstract 2017: P. 30.

2017 Zakharov Y.D., Seitser V.B., Kakabadze M.V., jjh 10th International Symposium on the Cretaceous 6 7

Smyshlyaeva O.P., Safronov P.P. Isotope composition System (Austria, Vienna, August 21-28, 2017). of Mesozoic mollusks from the Saratov-Samara region and main Early Cretaceous trends of the Russian Platform-Caucasus area. !0th Int. Symposium on the Cretaceous (Vienna, August 21-26). Abstract 2017: P. 310. 2017 Kakabadze M. On th Nature of Sequences in the Deutsch-Georgische Begegnungsorte in der Literatur Lower Cretaceous Deposits of Georgia. Humboldt- und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Humboldt-Kolleg Kolleg Tbilisi, 2017, 20-22 September. Abstract: 44- Tbilisi, 2017, 20-22 September. 45.

9. Organizational Work (Holding Congresses and Conferences, Editorial Work) Years Name 1988 IGCP-262 (UNESCO). Stratigraphic Correlation and Facies Interrelations of the Cretaceous in the Tethyan Realm. International Field meeting in Georgia on Tethyan Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy. Platform carbonates. (Deputy chairman of Organizing Committee) 1991 International (IUGS) Symposium on: “Geological Events on Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary”. (Deputy chairman of Organizing Committee and Editor of Abstract book) 2005 Member of Editorial Board of “Atlas of Early Cretaceous Fauna of Georgia”. 2008 Member of Editorial Board of Proceeding of A. Janelidze Institute of Geology (New Ser., vol. 124). 2010 International Scientific Conference (Tbilisi) “Problems of Geology of the Caucasus”, dedicated to the 85th anniversary of A. Janelidze Institute of Geology. (Member of Organizing Committee and Editorial Board) 2013 IGCP- 610 (UNESCO). First Plenary Conference and Field Trips (in Georgia) on the theme – “From Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental Change and Human Response during the Quaternary”. (Member of Organizing Committee and Editor of Field Trip Guide-book) 2015 Member of Editorial Board of Proceeding of A. Janelidze Institute of Geology of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (New Ser., vol. 127). 2016 IGCP- 610 (UNESCO, 2-9 October, 2016, Tbilisi). Second International Conference and Field Trips on the theme – “From Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental Change and Human Response during the Quaternary”. (Member of the Scientific Committee).

11. International and Local Scientific grants Years Name 1994-1996 International Science Foundation (ISF) 1999 Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) 2002 The Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO) 2003 Peter de Konig Fonds and Alida Buitendijk Fonds (The Netherlands) 2000-2003 Georgian National Academy of Sciences 2004-2005 Georgian National Academy of Sciences 2004-2005 NATO Grant – for The Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research 2005 Sepkoski Grant –Paleontological Society (USA) 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) 2014 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)

12. Scientific-Commercial Activity, author's certificate, Implementation Years Name

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13. Other Activities Name Years Supervision of Theses and Masters Supervisor of Masters work of Anna 2011 work Menabde (Ilia University) – “Geology of South-Eastern Limestony Stripe of the Abasha Block”.

Supervisor of Masters work of 2014 Mamuka Natsvlishvili (I. Javakhishvili University) – “Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic- Cretaceous deposits of Racha- Lechkhumi syncline”.

Supervisor of Masters work of Giorgi 2017 Lanchava (I. Javakhishvili University) – “Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic- Lower Cretaceous deposits of the Kutaisi region” Participation in International, State Project 262 IGCP – UNESCO 1988 and Regional Programs Project (Georgian Acad. Sci.) – 2000 „Stratigraphy of Mesozoic-Cenozoic deposits of Georgia“

Project (Humboldt Foundation) – 2009 “Opening of the South Atlantic Ocean in Early/Mid Aptian”

Project 610 IGCP - UNESCO 2013 Voting member of the International 1991/2004 Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Member of the Geological Society of 1962/ present Georgia Member of the Palaeontological 1972-1992 Society of Russia Voting member of the Cretaceous 1982-1992 Commission of the Stratigraphical Committee of Russia Vice/Chair of the Statigraphical 1989/present Committee of Georgia Chair of the Cretaceous Commission 1989/present of Georgia Member of IUGS Lower Cretaceous 2002/ present ammonite working group, the “Kilian Group” Member of Valanginian and 2004/present Barremian WG of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy. Reviewer of the International 2012/present Journals: „Cretaceous Research” and „Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology“ Member of the Commission of 2015/present Ecological Security, Georgian National Academy of Sciences Member of the Dissertation Council 2017 of the Geological Department of 8 9

Tbilisi State University Member of the Mineralogical Society 2017 of Georgia Member of the National Committee of 2017 Georgia related to the UNESCO’s program – “Man and Biosphere”

14. Awards and Prizes, Honorary Title Data Name of Awards, Prizes, Honorary Title 1973 Laureate of Georgian Komsomol Prize in Science and Technique 1980 Fellow of the International Humboldt Foundation 2012 Laureate of A. Janelidze Prize (in Geology) of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences

15. Family Status Married: wife - Marina Tatishvili, 2 children and 2 grandchildren