Education:
1971 BS, University of California, Riverside  (Geology)
1974 MS, University of California, Riverside (Geology)
1979 PhD, Princeton University (Geology-Geochemistry)

Professional Experience:
6/72 - 9/72 Associate Geophysicist:  Humble Oil and Refining Co., Denver, CO
9/73 - 12/73 Lecturer:  Ryder College, Lawrenceville, NJ
6/77 - 9/77 Geologist, WAE, U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Oil and Gas
9/77 - 9/79 Staff Scientist and Post-Graduate Research Geologist, Deep Sea
         Drilling   Project, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9/79 - 9/81 Geologist, Branch of Oil and Gas Resources, USGS
9/81 - 9/83 Asst. Professor of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
9/83 - 6/89 Assoc. Professor of Oceanography, Graduate School of Ocean- 
          ography, University of Rhode Island
6/89 - 12/90 Prof. of Oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography, University
          of   Rhode Island
1/91 -   6/97 Prof. and Head, Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
7/97 - present  Professor of Geosciences

Awards and Professional Society Membership
Received American Association of Petroleum Geologists President's Award 
        1980
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (since 1976)
         Research Councilor, 1994-96
Awarded F.P. Shepard Medal (1996) for "Excellence in Marine Geology"
Geological Society of America, since 1973 (Elected Fellow of GSA, Spring,
         1984
Geochemical Society (since 1984) 
American Geophysical Union (since 1973) 
Sigma Xi (elected 1975)

Significant Activities and Professional Service (last 5 years):
Editor, Paleoceanography (1999- ) (American Geophysical Union)
Co-Editor-In-Chief.  Marine Geology (1994-99) (Elsevier)
Marine Earth System History (MESH) advisory board and committee 
        (1990-present)
Committee on Post-1993 Drilling (JOI/USSAC)--COMPOST (1993)
Joint Oceanographic Institutions/ U.S. Science Advisory Comm.(1995-1999); 
        Chair 97-99

University, College, Department Service (recent)
Member, Earth System Science Center Advisory Board 1995 to present
Representative from Penn State to Wallops Marine Science Consortium
        Committee, 1995-          
Member, Penn State Marine Science Minor Program Committee 1995-present
Exit Interview Officer (EIO) for College of Earth and Mineral Sciences 1997- 
        present.
Member & Chair, Department of Geosciences Promotion and Tenure Comm., 
         1998-00
Member, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Promotion and Tenure Comm., 
         1998-00
Member, Geosciences Graduate Program Committee (1998-2000)
Member, University Committee for Maurice Udall Scholarship (1999)

Publications 1995-2000
D'Hondt, S.L. and M. A. Arthur. Interspecies variation in stable isotopic signals of Late Maestrichtian planktonic foraminifera: Paleoceanography , 10, 123-135, 1995.

D'Hondt, S.. and M. A. Arthur, Late Cretaceous Oceans and the Cool Tropics Paradox. Science,  v.271, 1838-1841, 1996.

Johnson, C.C., E.J. Barron, E.G. Kauffman, M.A. Arthur, P.J. Fawcett, M.K. Yasuda, Middle Cretaceous reef collapse linked to ocean heat transport. Geology, 24, 376-380, 1996.

Pagani, M., M.A. Arthur and A.L. Guber, The Sea Around Us: Laboratory Manual. Kendall-Hunt Publ. Co., 176 pg., 1996.

Slingerland, R., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Fawcett, P., Sageman, B. and Barron, E.J., 1996. Estuarine circulation in the Turonian Western Interior Seaway of North America. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 108, 941-952, 1996.

Bice, K.L., Arthur, M.A., and Marincovich, Jr., L, 1996. Late Paleocene Arctic Ocean shallow-marine temperatures from mollusc stable isotopes: Paleoceanography, 11, 241-249, 1996.

Kauffman, E.G., M.A. Arthur, B. Howe and P.A. Scholle, 1996. Submarine Methane Exhalation Origin of Carbonate Mounds in the Cretaceous Pierre Shale, U.S. Western Interior. Geology, 24. 789-793. 1996.

Sageman, B.B., Rich, J., Arthur, M.A., Birchfield, G.E. and Dean, W.E., Evidence for Milankovitch periodicities in Cenomanian-Turonian lithologic and geochemical cycles, Western Interior, U.S.  Jour. Sedimentary Res., 67, 286-302, 1997.

Kump, L.R. and Arthur, M.A., Global chemical erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability balances the budgets. In: Ruddiman, W., ed., Tectonics Uplift and Climate Change, Plenum Press., N.Y., 399-426, 1997.

Wilkin, R. T., M. A. Arthur, and W.E. Dean, History of water-column anoxia in the Black Sea indicated by pyrite framboid size distribution, Earth Planet. Sci. Let., 148, 517-525, 1997.

Patzkowsky, M.E., L. M. Slupik, M. A. Arthur, R. D. Pancost, K. H. Freeman. Late Middle Ordovician environmental change and extinction: Harbinger of the Late Ordovician or continuation of Cambrian patterns? Geology, , 25, 911-914, 1997.

Pagani, M. and Arthur, M.A., Stable Isotopic and Geochemical Insights into Paleoceanography and Paleoecology of the Marine Cenomanian-Turonian Environments, Western Interior U.S.  In Dean, W.E. and M.A. Arthur, eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 6., 201-225, 1998.

Sageman, B.B., J. Rich, M.A. Arthur, W.E. Dean, C. Savrda and T.E. Bralower, Spectral analysis of lithologic and paleocologic cycles in the Bridge Creek Limeston (Cenomanian-Turonian), Western Interior U.S.,  In Dean, W.E. and M.A. Arthur, eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 6., 153-171, 1998.

Pancost, R.D., K.H. Freeman and M. A. Arthur, The organic geochemistry of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway through the Cenomanian-Turonian interval.  In Dean, W.E. and M.A. Arthur, eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 6., 173-188, 1998.

Dean, W. E., and Arthur, M. A., Geochemical expressions of cyclicity in Cretaceous pelagic limestone sequences:  Niobrara Formation, Western Interior Seaway.  I In Dean, W.E. and M.A. Arthur, eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 6., 227-255, 1998.

Dean, W. E., and Arthur, M. A.,  Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway Continental Scientific Drilling project:  an overview.  In Dean, W.E. and M.A. Arthur, eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 6., 1-10, 1998.

Arthur, M. A., and W. E. Dean, Organic-matter production and preservation and evolution of anoxia in the Holocene Black Sea.  Paleoceanography, 13, 395-411, 1998.

Arthur, M. A., W. E. Dean, and Laarkamp, K., 1998. Preservation of organic matter on the Holocene Peru Margin. Chem. Geology, 152, 273-286, 1998.

Kennedy, M.J., Rennegar, B., Prave, A.R., Hoffman, K.-H., and Arthur, M.A. Two or four Neoproterozoic glaciations?  Geology, 26, 1059-1063, 1998.

Frank, T.D. and Arthur, M.A.,. Tectonic forcings of Maastrichtian ocean-climate evolution. Paleoceanography, 14, 103-117, 1999.

Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Patzkowsky, M.E., Gibbs, M.T., Pinkus, D.S. and Sheehan, P.M.,  Glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician. Palaeoecol., Palaeoclim., Palaeo.,  1999.

Kump, L.R. and Arthur, M.A., Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions: carbonates and organic matter. Chem. Geol., 161, 181-198. 1999.

Pagani, M., Freeman, K.H. and Arthur, M.A., Late Miocene Atmospheric CO2 concentrations and the expansion of C4 grasses. Science, 285, 876-879, 1999.

Arthur, M.A., Volcanic contributions to the carbon and sulfur geochemical cycles and global change.  In Sigurdsson, H. et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Volcanism, Academic Press, 1045-1056, 1999.

Pagani, M., Arthur, M.A. and Freeman, K.H., Miocene evolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Paleoceanography, 14, 273-292, 1999.

Frank, T.D., Arthur, M.A., and Dean, W.E.,  Diagenesis of Lower Cretaceous pelagic carbonates, North Atlantic: paleoceanographic signals obscured. J. Foraminiferal Research, 29, 340-351, 1999.

Dean, W.E. and Arthur, M.A., Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Basin to cyclic climatic forcing during the Early Cretaceous. J. Foram. Res., 29, 465-486, 1999.

Pagani, M., Freeman, K. and Arthur, M.A., Isotope analyses of molecular and total organic carbon from Miocene sediments. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 64, 37-49, 2000.