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Awards that support and supported OGL research

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External funding

Granting Agency:  NASA JPL subcontract from NASA Astrobiology Institute CAN 8
Habitability of Hydrocarbon Worlds: Titan and Beyond
PI: Rosaly Lopes (NASA JPL). UIC Co-Pis: D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard and Fabien Kenig
Person-months per year committed to the project: 0.5
Period: 05/01/2018-04/30/2022...............Total Award: $ 7,852,014...........................................UIC share: $ 1,142,450

Granting agency: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Evaluation of oxychlorine removal methods using the brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica), a potential Martian
analog: Implications for organic matter analysis on Earth and Mars
Fabien Kenig (Administrative PI) – Proposal written by Luoth Chou (Graduate Student)
Person-months per year committed to the project: 0.0
Period: 09/1/2017 to 08/31/2018.......................................................................................................................$    42,963

Granting agency: NASA, Astrobiology: Exobiology and Evolutionary biology 
fs-LDPI MS mapping of organic compounds in deep time Earth sediments: A tool for determination of the
spatial distribution of lipid biosignatures at the micron scale.
PI: Fabien Kenig; co-PI Hanley L. (UIC Department of  Chemistry)
Person-months per year committed to the project: 0.25
Period: 05/12/2017-05/13/2020.......................................................................................................................... $ 350,534
 
Granting agency: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Evaluation of oxychlorine removal methods using the brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica), a potential Martian analog:
Implications for organic matter analysis on Earth and Mars
Fabien Kenig (Administrative PI) – Proposal written by Luoth Chou (OGL-UIC Graduate Student)
Person-months per year committed to the project: 0.0
Period: 09/1/2016 to 08/31/2017.........................................................................................................................$  29,837

Granting agency: University of Michigan subcontract from NSF OPP- Antarctic Earth Sciences
Developing a new paleoclimate proxy for polar and alpine glacial regions based on noble gases
PI: C. Castro (PI; U. Michigan); UIC subcontract: F. Kenig (PI), P. Doran (co-PI)
Person-months per year committed to the project: 0.25
Period: 11/01/2013-10/31/2016..........................................................................................................................  $ 27,933

Granting agency: NSF EAR- Chemical Oceanography
Organic geochemical and isotopic analysis of dissolved and particulate organic matter of diffuse flow 
hydrothermal water (Juan de Fuca ridge; East Pacific).  
PI: F. Kenig  
08/01/2010—07/31/2013.............................................................................................................................. .......$ 196,000    

Granting agency: NSF Office of Polar Program, Biology, and Medicine
Collaborative Research: Geochemistry and microbiology of the extreme aquatic environment in Lake Vida, 
East Antarctica.  
P. Doran (UIC, PI), F. Kenig (UIC, co-PI), A. Murray (DRI, PI), C. Fritsen (DRI, co-PI)
08/15/2009—5/14/2013..................................................................................................................................       $ 963,884       

Granting agency: NASA, Astrobiology: Exobiology and Evolutionary biology
Molecular fossils in Archean and Proterozoic sediments and metasediments: Multidimensional gas chroma-
tography, high pressure catalytic hydrogenation and synthesis of butyloid standards.  
PI: 
Fabien Kenig,
05/15/2007—5/14/2011..................................................................................................................................       $ 417,459

Granting agency: NASA, Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets
Subsurface ice and brine sampling: life detection and characterization in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
PI: Peter Doran (UIC), Co-PIs: Y. Bar-Cohen (JPL), C. Fritsen (DRI), F. Kenig (UIC), C. McKay (NASA AMES), 
A. Murray (DRI).
01/15/2003- 01/14/2008................................................................................  ...........................................          $ 1,418,453

Granting agency: NSF-OPP-Biology and Medicine, SGER
Natural attenuation of a helicopter fluids spill on Lake Fryxell ice cover (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica).
PI: Fabien Kenig; co-Pi Peter Doran
10/01/2003-09/30/2005.............................................................................................................................          $  60,427

Granting agency: NASA-Exobiology
Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in the geological record: chemical synthesis and 
significance of very persistent biogeomolecules.  
PI: Fabien Kenig
04/15/2003-04/14/2005..............................................................................................................................          $ 191,082

Granting agency: NSF Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Geology and Geophysics
Paleoclimate inferred from lake sediment cores in Taylor Valley, Antarctica.
P. Doran (UIC, PI), Co-PIs: F. Kenig (UIC), Steve Forman (UIC)
08/15/2002 to 07/31/2006..........................................................................................................................          $  99,789

 Granting agency: NSF-EAR-Instrument and Facilities
Acquisition of an isotope ratio mass spectrometer for continuous flow analyses of carbon, 
hydrogen, and chlorine isotopic compositions of organic compounds  
PI: Fabien Kenig; Co-PIs: N. Sturchio (UIC), P. Doran (UIC)
09/01/2003-08/31/2004............................................................................................................................            $  72,000

Granting agency: NSF OCE- Oceanographic Technology Program
Development of the capabilities to measure proxies of microbial activity within ocean crust.
PI: Fabien Kenig - Collaborative project with James Cowen (University of Hawaii)
and Paul Johnson (University of Washington)            
Period: 03/01/1997 to 02/28/2001...........................................................................................................            $ 231,913

Granting agency: NSF EAR- Geology and Paleontology
Water column structure in Jurassic and Cretaceous epeiric seas: molecular fossils and their
 isotopic composition.
PI: Fabien Kenig  
2/1/1997 to 01/31/2001..............................................................................................................................           $ 171,216

Granting agency: NSF LExEN (Life in Extreme Environments)
Collaborative Project: Development of the capabilities to measure proxies of microbial activity 
within ocean crust.  
PI: Fabien Kenig - Collaborative project with James Cowen (University of Hawaii),
Paul Johnson (University of Washington) and Stephen Giovannoni (Oregon State University)          
01/03/1998 to 12/31/2000...........................................................................................................................           $  74,426

Granting agency: University of Hawaii; subcontract from NSF award OCE- Marine Geology and Geophysics
Chemostat calibration of the southern ocean diatom
δ18O and δ​13C variations for paleoceanographic
reconstruction.
PI: Popp B. N. and Laws E. (University of Hawaii; $309,921).
Subcontract to Fabien Kenig (UIC)  
Period: 1/1/1996 to 12/31/1998..................................................................................................................            $  34,290

 
Internal funding


Granting agency: UIC College of Liberal Art Award for Faculty in Natural Sciences
Project: Deep time lipid biomarkers: Myth or reality?  Support for the clean MS imaging of biomarkers and
clean preparation of samples for lipid biomarker mapping.
Fabien Kenig (PI)
Period: 3/1/2016 to 2/31/2017........................................................................................................................         $   31,000

UIC Campus Research Board
Project: Fossil Preservation in the Cave Environment
PI: R. Plotnick, Co-PIs: F. Kenig, D. Meyer-Dombard
1/1/2014 to 12/31/2014..................................................................................................................................          $  19,020

LAS Award for Faculty in the Natural Sciences
Stereozoom Microscope and Digital Microscope Camera for Research in Earth and Environmental Sciences
R. Plotnick (PI); Co-PIs: D. Meyer-Dombard and F. Kenig
05/01/2012 to 12/31/2012..............................................................................................................................          $  36,000

UIC Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Building a GeoWall Facility in Earth & Environmental SciencesPI: 
PI: M. Flower; co-PIs: T. Törnqvist , P. Doran, R. Plotnick and F. Kenig.
06/01/2003 to 05/30/2004.................................................................................................................................        $    9,800

UIC Campus Research Board
Synthesis of branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms: a key to early life on Earth.  
PI: Fabien Kenig
7/1/2002 to 6/30/2003.........................................................................................................................................      $  14,950

UIC Campus Research Board
Water column structure in Jurassic and Cretaceous Seas   
PI: Fabien Kenig

7/1/1996 to 6/30/1997..........................................................................................................................................    $  14,921

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