Brian Kendall

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.

• Development of innovative geochemical methods that can serve as process tracers for petroleum systems, ore mineralization, and biogeochemical cycles

• Learn more about how critical minerals 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

• Climate Change and Geosciences

• Threats to Aquatic Ecosystems and their Interaction

• 2008, Doctorate Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada

• 2003, Master of Science Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada

• 2000, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geology (Honors), University of Alberta, Canada

• 2025, 2019 Canada Research Chair in Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry (Tier 2)

• 2024, 2016, 2014 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award

• 2019, GAC W.W. Hutchison Medal

• 2016, 2014 Outstanding Performance Award

• 2016 Jane Lang Excellence in Earth and Environmental Sciences Teaching Award

• 2016 Ontario MRI Early Researcher Award

• 2014 University of Waterloo Faculty of Science Outstanding Performance Award

• 2008 - 2009 Agouron Institute Geobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2004 - 2007 Alberta Ingenuity Ph.D. Studentship

• 2003 - 2005 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral

• Interim Department Chair

• Executive Director of Faculty of Science

• Geological Association of Canada

• Geological Society of America

• American Geophysical Union

• Geochemical Society

• EARTH 232 - Introductory Petrography
  • Taught in 2021, 2025, 2026
• EARTH 331 - Volcanology and Igneous Petrology
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• EARTH 627 - Radioactive Isotope Systems
  • Taught in 2022, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• For the full list of Brian Kendall’s publications, please see Google Scholar.

• Kendall B., Creaser R.A., Hannah J.L., Goswami V., Tripathy G., 2025. Reel-to-reel Re-Os records: Earth system transactions preserved in sediments. Elements, v. 21, p. 264-270. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.21.4.264

• Kendall B., Ostrander C.M., 2025. Oxygenation of the Proterozoic Earth’s surface: An evolving story. In: Anbar A.D., Weis D. (Eds.), Treatise on Geochemistry, 3rd Edition, v. 5, p. 297-336. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00058-9

• Kunert A., Kendall B., 2023. Global ocean redox changes before and during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Nature Communications, v. 14, #815. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36516-x

• Yang S., Lu X., Chen X., Zheng W., Owens J.D., Young S.A., Kendall B., 2023. Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for globally extensive marine euxinia on continental margins and in epicontinental seas during the Devonian-Carboniferous Hangenberg Crisis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 352, p. 133-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.027

• Kendall B., 2021. Recent advances in geochemical paleo-oxybarometers. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 49, p. 399-433. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-071520-051637

• August 31, 2016 Ontario Government awards $2.3 million for early career researchers and infrastructure
• November 19, 2015 A whiff from blue-green algae likely responsible for Earth's oxygen: Study