Web Links:

• Geochemistry Department
  
• Center for Isotope Geochemistry
  
• Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratory

Research Interests:

Application of isotopic systematics to terrestrial problems related to our understanding of the origin, history, and current processes of the earth and solar system. Specifically, noble gas isotope geochemistry as applied to sources, geochemical evolution, transport processes, and flow rates of fluids in the crust, cosmogenic and radiometric dating techniques, tectano-magmatic processes, and paleoclimatology. Research areas of application include geothermal energy, fossil energy, and basic energy sciences. Specific titles are: (1) Integrated isotopic studies of geochemical processes; (2) Isotopic and chemical composition of fault zone fluids; (3) Geochemical and isotopic constraints on processes in oil hydrogeology; and (4) Isotope geochemistry in geothermal research.

Education:

Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Missouri, 1981.
B.A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Missouri, 1974.

Professional Experience:

1991-present: Staff Scientist, Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
1990-1992: Asst. Research Geophysicist V, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
1985-1990: Asst. Research Geophysicist I-IV, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
1981-1985: Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
1969-1971: United States Army; Honorable Discharge, June, 1971.

Professional Service:

Group Leader: Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Group Leader: Environmental Measurements Laboratory (add link to web site), Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Member: Safety Committee, Chemical Hazarads, Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Co-chairman, Scientific Program Committee, Eigth Ineternational Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology, and Isotope Geology. Field deployment of the RARGA (Link 5a) laboratory; Yellowstone National Park (June - November, 1983), New Mexico (January - December, 1987).

B. Mack Kennnedy
Scientist

Geochemistry Department

Phone: 510-486-6451
Fax: 510-486-5686
Email: bmkennedy@lbl.gov