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: 05/01/2018-04/30/2025...............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 δ13C 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 |