Email: bkendall@uwaterloo.ca
Location: EIT 5023A
Biography
Professor Kendall uses geochemistry to:
develop innovative geochemical methods that can serve as process tracers for petroleum systems, ore mineralization, and biogeochemical cycles;
learn more about how mineral and petroleum deposits form and improve exploration strategies for these important resources;
reconstruct the history of atmosphere and ocean oxygenation through time and its relationship to biological evolution, seawater chemistry and natural resource deposits.
Research Interests
- Development of innovative geochemical methods that can serve as process tracers for petroleum systems, ore mineralization, and biogeochemical cycles;
- Learn more about how mineral and petroleum deposits form and improve exploration strategies for these important resources;
- Reconstruct the history of atmosphere and ocean oxygenation through time and its relationship to biological evolution, seawater chemistry and natural resource deposits.
- Threats to Aquatic Ecosystems and their Interaction
- Climate Change and Geosciences
Scholarly Research
Specific research themes include metal isotope geochemistry of petroleum and implications for oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations; inorganic geochemistry (trace element concentrations and metal isotope compositions) of conventional and unconventional petroleum source rocks and economic and environmental implications for energy development; metal isotope geochemistry and geochronology of ore deposits and implications for ore formation and exploration; the co-evolution of Earth's surface oxygenation, metal biogeochemical cycles, and biological evolution over time, as inferred from trace element concentrations and the Mo, U, and Os isotope compositions of sedimentary rocks; sedimentary geochronology using the Re-Os isotope system.