Mike Stephenson is a palynologist and stratigrapher at Stephenson Geoscience Consulting. He is an acknowledged expert in Middle-Eastern palynology and stratigraphy with around 100 commercial reports and 40 peer-reviewed papers purely on Middle-Eastern palynology and stratigraphy. His particular expertise is pre-Khuff palynology including regional correlation projects in the Al Khlata, Gharif, Misfar, Jauf, Unayzah and Khuff formations, biostratigraphic data reviews, sampling strategies and high resolution field biostratigraphy.

Mike also offers in-house training to palynologists. He has experience in the Palaeozoic palynology of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, UAE, Ukraine, Australia, Thailand, UK, Falklands, Yemen, Qatar and Mozambique.

Mike has professorships at Nottingham, Leicester, Nanjing and Milan universities, and has published 100 peer-reviewed papers, while also acting on the editorial boards of several journals including as Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology for 12 years, and more recently Vice-Chair of the Subcommission for Permian Stratigraphy. He is presently working on the palynology of the Permian of the Urals and Israel with papers in press on both topics.