Martin Kennedy
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Professor at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,Macquarie University.
Research Interest
My research focuses on mechanisms of carbon sequestration and triggers of rapid climate change using an interdisciplinary and process-based approach. I combine detailed field observations with isotopic and mineralogical data from both ancient and modern sediments to determine the changes in the Earth’s biosphere through time, including the controls on the carbon cycle that regulate fossil fuel distribution and influence climate stability. Current research includes 1) methane clathrate destabilization as a driver of abrupt climate change and fugitive emissions and 2) control of organic carbon sequestration, planetary oxygenation and petroleum source rock deposition. I head the Australian Shale Carbon Sequestraion Group- an ARC funded industry consortium that studies the nanoscale properties of shales to outcrop scales to construct new understanding of unconventional reservoirs. My research further investigates the controls on the Precambrian environment and the appearance of complex life in the Ediacaran Period.
Publications
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Howden-Chapman P, Matheson A, Crane J, Viggers H, Cunningham M, Blakely T, Cunningham C, Woodward A, Saville-Smith K, O'Dea D, Kennedy M. Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community. Bmj. 2007 Mar 1;334(7591):460.
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Jiang G, Kennedy MJ, Christie-Blick N. Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates. Nature. 2003 Dec 18;426(6968):822.
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Kennedy MJ, Runnegar B, Prave AR, Hoffmann KH, Arthur MA. Two or four Neoproterozoic glaciations?. Geology. 1998 Dec 1;26(12):1059-63.
