Publication list of Fabien Kenig, Professor, Organic Geochemistry Laboratory (OGL) at UIC
Peer reviewed publications
76 - Meyer-Dombard D., Kenig F., Malas J., Russo, D. (2025) Astrobiology of Titan’s subglacial, high-pressure ocean: A review and introduction of a relevant experimental system. In R.M.C. Lopes, C. Elachi, I. Mueller-Wodarg, & A. Solomonidou (Eds.), Titan After Cassini Huygens. Elsevier, COSPAR Book Series. Published January 20, 2025.
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/titan-after-cassini-huygens/lopes/978-0-323-99161-2
75 - Pasterski, M. J., Lorenz, M., Ievlev, A. V., Wickramasinghe, R. C., Hanley, L. and Kenig, F. (2025) Machine Learning Correlation of Electron Micrographs and ToF-SIMS for the Analysis of Organic Biomarkers in Mudstone.), J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 36, 58−71.
DOI: 10.1021/jasms.4c00300
74 - Zabarmawi M. and Kenig F. (2024) Asphalt dust influence on the distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in crankcase oil stains of a concrete, covered parking structure, HELIYON, Volume 10, Issue 16, 30 August 2024, e35881, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e3588171
73 - Malas J., Russo D.C., Bollengier O., Malaska M.J., Lopes R.M.C., Kenig F., and D’A. R. Meyer-Dombard (2024) Biological functions at high pressure: transcriptome response of Shewanella oneidensis to hydrostatic pressure relevant to Titan and other icy ocean worlds. Frontiers in Microbiology 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1293928
72 - Pasterski M.J., Lorenz M., Ievlev A.V., Wickramasinghe R.C., Hanley L., Kenig F. (2023) The determination of the spatial distribution of indigenous lipid biomarkers in an immature Jurassic sediment using time-of-flight–secondary ion mass spectrometry. Astrobiology, 23 (9), 936-950. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0145
71- Wickramasinghe R.C., Pasterski M.J., Kenig F., Ievlev A.V., Lorenz M., Gross J.M., and Hanley L. (2021) Femtosecond laser desorption postionization MS vs. SIMS imaging for uncovering biomarkers buried in geological samples. Analytical Chemistry 93 (48), 15949-15957. https://doi.org.10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03275
70 - Chou L., Murray A.E., Kenig F. (2021) Organic sulfones in the brine of Lake Vida (East Antarctica). Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 292, 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.10.001
69- Kenig F., Chou L.,.Wardrop D.J. (2019) Comment on “Evaluation of the Tenax trap in the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite on the Curiosity rover as a potential hydrocarbon source for chlorinated organics detected in Gale Crater” by Miller et al. 2015. J. Geophys. Res.: Planets, 127. doi:10.1029/2018JE005606
68- Chou L., Kenig F., Murray A.E., Fritsen C.H., Doran P.T (2018) Effects of legacy metabolites from previous ecosystems on the environmental metabolomics of the brine of Lake Vida, East Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry 122,161-170: doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.05.002
67- Boblitt C.M., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Meyer-Dombard D'A (2018) Determining taphonomic controls and rates of decay in cave environments using microcosms. Palaios 33 (4), 141-153. doi: 10.2110/palo.2017.047
66- Proemse B.C., Murray A.E., Schallenberg C., McKiernam B., Glazer B.T., Young S.A., Ostrom N., Bowie A.R., Wieser M.E., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Edward R. (2017) Iron cycling in the anoxic cryo-ecosystem of Antarctic Lake Vida. Biogeochemistry 134, 1–2, 17–27.
doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0346-5.
65- Hall C.M., Castro M.C., Kenig F., Doran PT. (2017) Constraining the recent history of the perennial ice covered Lake Bonney, East Antarctica, using He, Kr and Xe concentrations. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 209, 233-253. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.023
64- Kenig F., Chou L., McKay C.P., Jackson W.A., Doran P.T., , Murray A.E., Fritsen C.H. (2016) Perchlorate and volatiles of the brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica): Implication for the in situ analysis of Mars sediments, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, 1190–1203, doi:10.1002/2015JE004964.
63- Cawley K.M., Murray A. E., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Stubbins A., Chen H., , Hatcher P.G., McKnight D.M. (2016) Characterization of legacy dissolved organic material in the interstitial brine of Lake Vida, Antarctica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 183, 63-78. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.023
62- Brocks J.J., Jarett A.J.M., Sirantoine E., Kenig F., Moczydlowska M., Porter S., Hope J. (2015) Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth. Geobiology. doi:10.1111/gbi.12165
61- Warrier R.B., Castro C.M, Hall C.M., Kenig F., Doran P. T (2015) Reconstructing the Evolution of Lake Bonney, Antarctica using dissolved noble gases. Applied Geochemistry 58, 46-61. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.02.013
60- Dugan, H.A., Doran P.T., Wagner B., Kenig F., Fritsen C.H., Arcone S.A., Kuhn E., Ostrom N.E., Warnock J, Murray A.E. (2015). Stratigraphy of Lake Vida, Antarctica: Hydrologic implications of 27 m of ice. The Cryosphere 9 (2), 439-450.
doi:10.5194/tc-9-439-2015
59- Ebey-Honneycutt C., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F. (2014) Breaking free from the matrix: Image segmentation of fossil images. Paleontologica Electronica 17.3.1T:1-18.
58- Doran P.T., Kenig F., Lawson Knoepfle J.L., Mikucki J.A., Lyons W.B. (2014) Radiocarbon distribution and the effect of legacy in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Limnology & Oceanography 59, 3, 811-826.
57- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A. C. (2014) Using the voids to fill the gaps: Caves, Time, and Stratigraphy. In: Strata and Time: Probing the gaps in our understanding. Geological Society, London, Special publications 404; First published on Mars 25, 2014; doi 10.1144/SP404.5
56- Marion G.M., Murray A.E., Wagner B., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., Doran P.T. (2013) Carbon sequestration and release from Antarctic lakes: Lake Vida and West Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys). Aquatic Geochemistry 19, 135-145.
55- Murray A.E., Kenig F., Fritsen C.H., McKay C.P., Cawley K.M., McKnight D.M., Samarkin V., Ponce A., Yung P.T., Wagh P., Peng V., Priscu J.C., Doran P.T. (2012) Microbial life at -13 ºC in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States 109, 50, 20626–20631.
54- Fraser W. T., Scott A.C., Forbes A. E. S., Glasspool I.J., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Lomax B.H. (2012) Evolutionary stasis of sporopollenin biochemistry revealed by unaltered Pennsylvanian spores. New Phytologist 196, 2, 397-401.
53- Wagner B., Ortlepp S., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Melles M., Burkemper A. (2011) The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, reconstructed from sediment cores. Antarctic Science 23, 307-319. .
52- Kenig F. (2011) Distribution of organic matter in the transgressive and regressive Holocene sabkha sediments of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). In: Quaternary carbonate and evaporite sedimentary facies and their ancient analogues: A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman. Eds: C. G. St C. Kendall and A. Alsharhan. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol Spec. Publ. 43, Wiley-Blackwell, pp 277-298.
51- Cody G.D., Gupta N.S., Briggs DEG, Kilcoyne, A.L.D, Summons R.E., Kenig F., Plotnick R.E., Scott A.C. (2011) Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods. Geology 39, 3, 255–258.
50- Scott A.C., Kenig F., Plotnick R.E., Glasspool I.J., Chaloner W.G., Eble C.F. (2010) Evidence of multiple Late Bashkirian to Early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) fire events preserved in contemporaneous cave fills. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 291, 72–84.
49- Jaraula C.M.B., Brassell S.C., Morgan-Kiss R.M., Doran P.T., Kenig F. (2010) Origin and tentative identification of tri to pentaunsaturated ketones in sediments of Lake Fryxell, East Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry 41, 386-397.
48- Wagner B., Ortlepp S., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Melles M. (2010) Palaeoenvironmental implications derived from a piston core from East Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 22, 522-530.
47- Malone J.L., Castro C.M., Hall C.M., Doran P.T., Kenig F., McKay C.P. (2010) New insights into the origin and evolution of Lake Vida, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica - A noble gas study in ice and brines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289, 112–122.
46- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A.C., Glasspool I.j., Eble C.F., Lang W.J. (2009) Sub-Absakora paleokarst and fill: A window into Middle Pennsylvanian extrabasinal vegetation and paleoenvironments. Palaios 24, 627–637.
45- Lawson Knoepfle J., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Lyons W.B. and V.F. Galchenko (2009) Particulate organic and dissolved inorganic carbon stable isotopic compositions in Taylor Valley lakes, Antarctica: The effect of legacy. Hydrobiologia 632, 139-156.
44- Glasspool I.J., Collinson M.E., Scott A.C., Brain A.T., Plotnick R.E., and F. Kenig (2009) An ultrastructural investigation of early Middle Pensylvanian megaspores from the Illinois Basin, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156, 1-2, 62–78.
43- Jaraula C.M.B., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Priscu J.C., Welch K.A (2009) Composition and biodegradation of synthetic oils spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Environmental Science and Technology 43, 2708–2713.
42- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A., Glasspool I. (2008) Central Quarry: An exceptionally well-preserved Pennsylvanian paleocave and fill. In B. Curry ed., Deglacial history and Paleoenvironments of Northeastern Illinois.
41- Plotnick, R.E., Kenig F., Glasspool I., Scott A., 2008. Kaskaskia paleokarsts of Northern Illinois, U.S.A. In: Sasowsky, I.D., Feazel, C.T., Mylroie, J.E., Palmer, A.N., Palmer, M.V. (eds). Karst from Recent to Reservoirs. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 14, 163-167.
40- Doran, PT; Fritsen, CH; Murray, AE, Kenig F., McKay C.P., Kyne J. (2008) Entry approach into pristine ice-sealed lakes - Lake Vida, East Antarctica, a model ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods 6, 542-547.
39- Jaraula C.M.B., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Priscu J.C., Welsch K.A. (2008) SPME-GCMS study of the natural attenuation of aviation diesel spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Science of the Total Environment 407, 1, 250-262.
38- Bekker A., Beukes N.J., Holmden C., Kenig F., Eglington B., Patterson W.P. (2008) Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22-2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 1-4, 278-291.
37- Ventura G.T., Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Van Mooy B., Gaines R.B., (2008) Analysis of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons extracted from late Archean sediments using comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). Organic Geochemistry 39, 7, 846-867.
36- Ventura G.T., Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Schieber J., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Dinel E., Gaines R.B., Schaeffer P. (2007) Molecular evidence of Late Archean Archaea and the presence of a subsurface biosphere. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA 104, 14260-14265.
34- Elie N., Nogueira A.F.C, Nédélec A., Trindade R.I.F., and Kenig F. (2007) A red algal bloom in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth. Terra Nova 19, 5 , 303–308.
34- Anderson K.B., Crelling J.C., Kenig F., Huggett W.W. (2007) An unusual non-fluorescing algal kerogen from the Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Coal Petrology 69, 144-152.
33- Crich D., Xu H., Kenig F. (2006) Total synthesis and structural verification of some novel branched alkanes with quaternary carbons (BAQCs) isolated from diverse geological sources. Journal of Organic Chemistry 71, 5016-5019.
32- Wagner B., Melles M., Doran P.T., Pierau R., Allan P., and Kenig F. (2006) Glacial and postglacial sedimentation in the Fryxell basin, Taylor Valley, southern Victoria land, Antarctica. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 241, 2, 320-337.
31- Badescu M., Sherrit S., Olorunsola A.,Aldrich J., , Bao X., Bar-Cohen Y., Chang Z. , Doran P.T., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., McKay C.P., Murray A., Du S., T Peterson T. , Song T. (2006) Ultrasonic/sonic gopher for subsurface ice and brine sampling: analysis and fabrication challenges and testing results. Proc. SPIE 6171, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, 617107 (March 30, 2006); doi:10.1117/12.657487
30- Bai Y., Wang Y., Fang X., Kenig F., Miao Y., and Wang Y. (2006) Distribution of aliphatic ketones in Chinese soils: Potential environmental implications. Organic Geochemistry 37, 860-869.
29- Bai Y., Fang X., Wang Y., Kenig F., and Wang Y. (2006) Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Chinese soils: Potential environmental significance. Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 9, 1115-1122 (in English) [Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 4, 448-454 (in Chinese)].
28- Sinninghe Damsté J. S, Baas M., Geenvasen J.A.J. and F. Kenig (2005) Structural identification of sedimentary C21 and C22 highly branched isoprenoid alkanes. Organic Geochemistry 36, 4, 511-517.
27- Kenig F., Simons D.-J.H., Ventura G.T., Crich D., Cowen J.P., and T. Rehbein-Khalily (2005) Structure and distribution of branched-alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Cenomanian and Turonian black shales of Pasquia Hill (Saskatchewan, Canada). Organic Geochemistry 36, 1, 117-138.
26- Bar-Cohen Y., Sherrit S., Chang Z., Wessel L., Bao X., Doran P.T., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., McKay C.P., Murray A. and T. Peterson (2004) Subsurface Ice and Brine Sampling Using an Ultrasonic/Sonic Gopher for Life Detection and Characterization in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Proc. of SPIE 5388. Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, 53 (July 29), 53-61.
25- Brown T.C. and F. Kenig (2004) Water column structure during deposition of Devonian-Lower Mississippian black and green/gray shales of Laurentia: a biomarker approach. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 215, 59-85.
24- Lawson J., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Des Marais D.J. and J.C. Priscu (2004) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of benthic and pelagic organic matter in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10, 3, 269-301.
23- Kenig F., Hudson J.D., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and B.N. Popp (2004) Intermittent anoxia: Reconciliation of a Jurassic black shale with its biofacies. Geology 32, 5, 421-424.
22- Kenig F., Simons D.-J.H., Crich D., Cowen J.P., Ventura G.T. , Brown, T.C. , Rehbein-Khalily T. and K.B. Anderson (2003) Branched aliphatic alkanes with quaternary substituted carbon atoms in modern and ancient geological samples. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA 100, 22, 12554-12558.
21- Simons D. J. H., Kenig F. and C.J. Schröder-Adams (2003) Organic geochemistry of the Cenomanian-Turonian sediments from the Western Interior Seaway, Canada. Organic Geochemistry 34, 8, 1177-1198.
20- Cowen J. P., Giovannoni S. J., Kenig F., Jonhson H. P., Butterfield D., Rappe M. S., Hutnak M. and P. Lam (2003) Fluids from aging ocean crust that support microbial life. Science 299, 120-123.
19- A. Rosell-Melé, E. Bard, K.C. Emeis, J. Grimalt, P. Muller, R. Schneider, I. Bouloubassi, B. Epstein, K. Fahl, A. Fluegge, K. Freeman, M. Goñi, U. Guntner, D. Hartz, S. Hellebust, T. Herbert, M. Ikehara, R. Ishiwatari, K. Kawamura, F. Kenig, J. de Leeuw, S. Lehman, N. Ohkouchi, R. D. Pancost, F. Prahl, J. Quinn, J.-F. Rontani, F. Rostek, J. Rullkotter, J. Sachs, D. Sanders, K. Sawada, D. Schultz-Bull, E. Sikes, Y. Ternois, G. Versteegh, J. Volkman, and S. Wakeham (2001) Precision of the current methods to measure alkenone relative (UK’37) and absolute abundance in sediments: results of an inter-laboratory comparison study. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2, U1-U28.
18- Kenig F., Simons D.J. H. and K.B. Anderson (2001) Distribution and origin of ethyl-branched alkanes in a transgressive shale of the Western Interior Seaway (USA). Organic geochemistry 32, 7, 949-954.
17- Schroder-Adams C.J., Cumbaa S.L., Bloch J., Leckie D.A., Craig. J., Seif El-Dein S.A., Simons, D.-J. H. and F. Kenig (2001) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian) paleoenvironmental history of the Eastern Canadian margin of the Western Interior Seaway: bonebeds and anoxic events. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 170, 261-289.
16- Simons D-J.H. and F. Kenig (2001) Molecular fossil constraints on water column structure of the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 169, 1-2, 129-152.
15- Kenig F., Popp B.N. and Summons R.E. (2000) Preparative HPLC with Ultrastable-Y-zeolite for compound-specific carbon isotope analysis. Organic Geochemistry 31, 11, 1087-1094.
14- Kenig F. (2000) C16-C29 homologous series of monomethylalkanes in the pyrolysis products of a Holocene microbial mat. Organic Geochemistry 31, 2-3, 237-241.
13- Popp B.N., Trull T., Kenig F., Wakeham S.G., Rust T. M., Tilbrook B., Griffiths B., Wright S., Marchant H., Bidigare R.R. and E.A. Laws (1999) Controls on the carbon isotopic composition of southern ocean phytoplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13, 4, 827-843.
12- Popp B.N., Kenig F., Wakeham S.G., Laws E.A. and Bidigare R.R. (1998) Does growth rate affect ketone unsaturation and intracellular carbon isotopic variability in Emiliania huxleyi. Paleoceanography. 13, 1, 35-41.
11- Koopmans M. P., Koster J., van Kaam-Peters H.M.E., Kenig F., Schouten S., Hartgers W.A., de Leeuw J.W. and J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (1996) Diagenetic and catagenetic products of isorenieratene: Molecular indicators for photic zone anoxia. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. 60, 22, 4467-4496.
10- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., van Dalen A.C.K., Rijpstra W.I.C., Huc A.Y., and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Occurrence and origin of mono-, di- and trimethylalkanes in modern and holocene microbial mats from Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 59, 14, 2999-3015.
9- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Frewin N.., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): II. Stratigraphic variations in abundancies and 13C contents of free and sulphur bound carbon skeletons in a single marl bed. Organic Geochemistry 23, 6, 485-526.
8- Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Frewin N., Kenig F. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): I. Variations in extractable organic matter of 10 cyclically deposited marl beds. Organic Geochemistry 23, 6, 471-483.
7- Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Kenig F., Koopmans M.P., Koster J., Schouten S., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 59, 9, 1895-1900.
6- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1994) Molecular paleontological evidence for food-web relationships. Naturwissenschaften. 81, 128-130.
5- Belin S. and F. Kenig (1994) Depositional conditions determined from microtextures of sediments of the Oxford Clay Fm. (U.K.). Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 153-160.
4- Kenig F, Popp B.N., Hayes J.M. and R.E. Summons (1994) Isotopic biogeochemistry of the Oxford Clay formation (Jurassic) UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 139-152.
3- Baltzer F., Kenig F., Boichard R., Plaziat J.-C. and B.H. Purser (1994) Organic matter distribution, water circulation and dolomitization beneath the Abu Dhabi sabkha (United Arab Emirates). Spec. Publs Int. Ass. of Sediment. 21, 409-427.
2- Kenig F., Huc A.Y., Purser B. H. and J.L. Oudin (1990) Sedimentation, distribution and diagenesis of organic matter, in a recent carbonate environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E). Organic Geochemistry 16, 735-747.
1- Kenig F. and A.Y. Huc (1989) Incorporation of sulfur into recent organic matter in a carbonate environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). In: Geochemistry of Sulfur in Fossil Fuel; Eds. W.L. ORR, C.M. WHITE; A.C.S. Symp. Sci. 429, 170-185.
Published, non-refereed publications
1- Kenig F., Frewin N, Sinninghe Damsté J.S., de Leeuw J.W. , Peleanu I. and D. Miggins (1994) Free- and sulphur-bound carbon skeletons in the immature evaporites of a Messinian basin (Vena del Gesso, Italy). Annual Report of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, p. 44-45.
2- Sinninghe Damste J.S., Schouten S., Koester J., Grice K., Kenig F., Gelin F., Clifford D., Sephton S., Koopmans M.P., van Kaam-Peters H.M.E, Kok M. D., Hoeld I., Hoefs M.J.L., Werne J., Baas M., Rijpstra W.I.C., Dekker M., Pool W. and J.W. De Leeuw (1998) Molecular palaeontology of marine sediments. Annual Report of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, p. 8-14.
3- Doran P.T., Forman S.L. and F. Kenig (2003) Lake history in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica. Newsletter for the Canadian Antarctic Research Network, vol. 17, November 2003, pp. 5-8.
4- Kenig F. (2023) The long infancy of sterol biosynthesis. News and Views, Nature 618, 678-680. http://doi.org.10.1038/d41586-023-01816-1
Unpublished reports:
1- Purser B. H., Huc A. Y. and F. Kenig (1987) Nature and distribution of organic material within the recent carbonate sediments of the Abu Dhabi Lagoons and Sabkhas: a preleminary study. Rapport de l’Institut Français du Pétrole ref. 34940, 33p.
2- Kenig F. (1986) T1. Le Bathonien et le Callovien Inférieur de la bordure occidentale de la Bresse. p. 81. T2. Le Bathonien et le Callovien de l'Est et du Sud-Est du Bassin de Paris: Synthèse bibliographique. p.99, 34 refs, Mémoire de D.E.A. Université d'Orsay, Paris XI, France.
Thesis (published):
Kenig F. (1991) Sédimentation, distribution et diagénèse de la matière organique dans un environnement carbonaté hypersalin, le système lagune-sabkha d'Abu Dhabi (E.A.U.); English title: Sedimentation, distribution and diagenesis of organic matter in a carbonate, hypersaline environment; the Abu Dhabi (UAE) lagoon-sebkha system, p. 311, 260 refs, Thèse de l'Université d'Orléans, Orleans, France. Published by Editions Technip in 1992: broché, 21 x 29,7 cm, 330 p., 127 fig., 19 tables.
76 - Meyer-Dombard D., Kenig F., Malas J., Russo, D. (2025) Astrobiology of Titan’s subglacial, high-pressure ocean: A review and introduction of a relevant experimental system. In R.M.C. Lopes, C. Elachi, I. Mueller-Wodarg, & A. Solomonidou (Eds.), Titan After Cassini Huygens. Elsevier, COSPAR Book Series. Published January 20, 2025.
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/titan-after-cassini-huygens/lopes/978-0-323-99161-2
75 - Pasterski, M. J., Lorenz, M., Ievlev, A. V., Wickramasinghe, R. C., Hanley, L. and Kenig, F. (2025) Machine Learning Correlation of Electron Micrographs and ToF-SIMS for the Analysis of Organic Biomarkers in Mudstone.), J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 36, 58−71.
DOI: 10.1021/jasms.4c00300
74 - Zabarmawi M. and Kenig F. (2024) Asphalt dust influence on the distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in crankcase oil stains of a concrete, covered parking structure, HELIYON, Volume 10, Issue 16, 30 August 2024, e35881, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e3588171
73 - Malas J., Russo D.C., Bollengier O., Malaska M.J., Lopes R.M.C., Kenig F., and D’A. R. Meyer-Dombard (2024) Biological functions at high pressure: transcriptome response of Shewanella oneidensis to hydrostatic pressure relevant to Titan and other icy ocean worlds. Frontiers in Microbiology 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1293928
72 - Pasterski M.J., Lorenz M., Ievlev A.V., Wickramasinghe R.C., Hanley L., Kenig F. (2023) The determination of the spatial distribution of indigenous lipid biomarkers in an immature Jurassic sediment using time-of-flight–secondary ion mass spectrometry. Astrobiology, 23 (9), 936-950. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0145
71- Wickramasinghe R.C., Pasterski M.J., Kenig F., Ievlev A.V., Lorenz M., Gross J.M., and Hanley L. (2021) Femtosecond laser desorption postionization MS vs. SIMS imaging for uncovering biomarkers buried in geological samples. Analytical Chemistry 93 (48), 15949-15957. https://doi.org.10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03275
70 - Chou L., Murray A.E., Kenig F. (2021) Organic sulfones in the brine of Lake Vida (East Antarctica). Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 292, 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.10.001
69- Kenig F., Chou L.,.Wardrop D.J. (2019) Comment on “Evaluation of the Tenax trap in the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite on the Curiosity rover as a potential hydrocarbon source for chlorinated organics detected in Gale Crater” by Miller et al. 2015. J. Geophys. Res.: Planets, 127. doi:10.1029/2018JE005606
68- Chou L., Kenig F., Murray A.E., Fritsen C.H., Doran P.T (2018) Effects of legacy metabolites from previous ecosystems on the environmental metabolomics of the brine of Lake Vida, East Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry 122,161-170: doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.05.002
67- Boblitt C.M., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Meyer-Dombard D'A (2018) Determining taphonomic controls and rates of decay in cave environments using microcosms. Palaios 33 (4), 141-153. doi: 10.2110/palo.2017.047
66- Proemse B.C., Murray A.E., Schallenberg C., McKiernam B., Glazer B.T., Young S.A., Ostrom N., Bowie A.R., Wieser M.E., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Edward R. (2017) Iron cycling in the anoxic cryo-ecosystem of Antarctic Lake Vida. Biogeochemistry 134, 1–2, 17–27.
doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0346-5.
65- Hall C.M., Castro M.C., Kenig F., Doran PT. (2017) Constraining the recent history of the perennial ice covered Lake Bonney, East Antarctica, using He, Kr and Xe concentrations. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 209, 233-253. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.023
64- Kenig F., Chou L., McKay C.P., Jackson W.A., Doran P.T., , Murray A.E., Fritsen C.H. (2016) Perchlorate and volatiles of the brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica): Implication for the in situ analysis of Mars sediments, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, 1190–1203, doi:10.1002/2015JE004964.
63- Cawley K.M., Murray A. E., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Stubbins A., Chen H., , Hatcher P.G., McKnight D.M. (2016) Characterization of legacy dissolved organic material in the interstitial brine of Lake Vida, Antarctica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 183, 63-78. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.023
62- Brocks J.J., Jarett A.J.M., Sirantoine E., Kenig F., Moczydlowska M., Porter S., Hope J. (2015) Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth. Geobiology. doi:10.1111/gbi.12165
61- Warrier R.B., Castro C.M, Hall C.M., Kenig F., Doran P. T (2015) Reconstructing the Evolution of Lake Bonney, Antarctica using dissolved noble gases. Applied Geochemistry 58, 46-61. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.02.013
60- Dugan, H.A., Doran P.T., Wagner B., Kenig F., Fritsen C.H., Arcone S.A., Kuhn E., Ostrom N.E., Warnock J, Murray A.E. (2015). Stratigraphy of Lake Vida, Antarctica: Hydrologic implications of 27 m of ice. The Cryosphere 9 (2), 439-450.
doi:10.5194/tc-9-439-2015
59- Ebey-Honneycutt C., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F. (2014) Breaking free from the matrix: Image segmentation of fossil images. Paleontologica Electronica 17.3.1T:1-18.
58- Doran P.T., Kenig F., Lawson Knoepfle J.L., Mikucki J.A., Lyons W.B. (2014) Radiocarbon distribution and the effect of legacy in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Limnology & Oceanography 59, 3, 811-826.
57- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A. C. (2014) Using the voids to fill the gaps: Caves, Time, and Stratigraphy. In: Strata and Time: Probing the gaps in our understanding. Geological Society, London, Special publications 404; First published on Mars 25, 2014; doi 10.1144/SP404.5
56- Marion G.M., Murray A.E., Wagner B., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., Doran P.T. (2013) Carbon sequestration and release from Antarctic lakes: Lake Vida and West Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys). Aquatic Geochemistry 19, 135-145.
55- Murray A.E., Kenig F., Fritsen C.H., McKay C.P., Cawley K.M., McKnight D.M., Samarkin V., Ponce A., Yung P.T., Wagh P., Peng V., Priscu J.C., Doran P.T. (2012) Microbial life at -13 ºC in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States 109, 50, 20626–20631.
54- Fraser W. T., Scott A.C., Forbes A. E. S., Glasspool I.J., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Lomax B.H. (2012) Evolutionary stasis of sporopollenin biochemistry revealed by unaltered Pennsylvanian spores. New Phytologist 196, 2, 397-401.
53- Wagner B., Ortlepp S., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Melles M., Burkemper A. (2011) The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, reconstructed from sediment cores. Antarctic Science 23, 307-319. .
52- Kenig F. (2011) Distribution of organic matter in the transgressive and regressive Holocene sabkha sediments of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). In: Quaternary carbonate and evaporite sedimentary facies and their ancient analogues: A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman. Eds: C. G. St C. Kendall and A. Alsharhan. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol Spec. Publ. 43, Wiley-Blackwell, pp 277-298.
51- Cody G.D., Gupta N.S., Briggs DEG, Kilcoyne, A.L.D, Summons R.E., Kenig F., Plotnick R.E., Scott A.C. (2011) Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods. Geology 39, 3, 255–258.
50- Scott A.C., Kenig F., Plotnick R.E., Glasspool I.J., Chaloner W.G., Eble C.F. (2010) Evidence of multiple Late Bashkirian to Early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) fire events preserved in contemporaneous cave fills. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 291, 72–84.
49- Jaraula C.M.B., Brassell S.C., Morgan-Kiss R.M., Doran P.T., Kenig F. (2010) Origin and tentative identification of tri to pentaunsaturated ketones in sediments of Lake Fryxell, East Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry 41, 386-397.
48- Wagner B., Ortlepp S., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Melles M. (2010) Palaeoenvironmental implications derived from a piston core from East Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 22, 522-530.
47- Malone J.L., Castro C.M., Hall C.M., Doran P.T., Kenig F., McKay C.P. (2010) New insights into the origin and evolution of Lake Vida, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica - A noble gas study in ice and brines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289, 112–122.
46- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A.C., Glasspool I.j., Eble C.F., Lang W.J. (2009) Sub-Absakora paleokarst and fill: A window into Middle Pennsylvanian extrabasinal vegetation and paleoenvironments. Palaios 24, 627–637.
45- Lawson Knoepfle J., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Lyons W.B. and V.F. Galchenko (2009) Particulate organic and dissolved inorganic carbon stable isotopic compositions in Taylor Valley lakes, Antarctica: The effect of legacy. Hydrobiologia 632, 139-156.
44- Glasspool I.J., Collinson M.E., Scott A.C., Brain A.T., Plotnick R.E., and F. Kenig (2009) An ultrastructural investigation of early Middle Pensylvanian megaspores from the Illinois Basin, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156, 1-2, 62–78.
43- Jaraula C.M.B., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Priscu J.C., Welch K.A (2009) Composition and biodegradation of synthetic oils spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Environmental Science and Technology 43, 2708–2713.
42- Plotnick R.E., Kenig F., Scott A., Glasspool I. (2008) Central Quarry: An exceptionally well-preserved Pennsylvanian paleocave and fill. In B. Curry ed., Deglacial history and Paleoenvironments of Northeastern Illinois.
41- Plotnick, R.E., Kenig F., Glasspool I., Scott A., 2008. Kaskaskia paleokarsts of Northern Illinois, U.S.A. In: Sasowsky, I.D., Feazel, C.T., Mylroie, J.E., Palmer, A.N., Palmer, M.V. (eds). Karst from Recent to Reservoirs. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 14, 163-167.
40- Doran, PT; Fritsen, CH; Murray, AE, Kenig F., McKay C.P., Kyne J. (2008) Entry approach into pristine ice-sealed lakes - Lake Vida, East Antarctica, a model ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods 6, 542-547.
39- Jaraula C.M.B., Kenig F., Doran P.T., Priscu J.C., Welsch K.A. (2008) SPME-GCMS study of the natural attenuation of aviation diesel spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Science of the Total Environment 407, 1, 250-262.
38- Bekker A., Beukes N.J., Holmden C., Kenig F., Eglington B., Patterson W.P. (2008) Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22-2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 1-4, 278-291.
37- Ventura G.T., Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Van Mooy B., Gaines R.B., (2008) Analysis of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons extracted from late Archean sediments using comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). Organic Geochemistry 39, 7, 846-867.
36- Ventura G.T., Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Schieber J., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Dinel E., Gaines R.B., Schaeffer P. (2007) Molecular evidence of Late Archean Archaea and the presence of a subsurface biosphere. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA 104, 14260-14265.
34- Elie N., Nogueira A.F.C, Nédélec A., Trindade R.I.F., and Kenig F. (2007) A red algal bloom in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth. Terra Nova 19, 5 , 303–308.
34- Anderson K.B., Crelling J.C., Kenig F., Huggett W.W. (2007) An unusual non-fluorescing algal kerogen from the Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Coal Petrology 69, 144-152.
33- Crich D., Xu H., Kenig F. (2006) Total synthesis and structural verification of some novel branched alkanes with quaternary carbons (BAQCs) isolated from diverse geological sources. Journal of Organic Chemistry 71, 5016-5019.
32- Wagner B., Melles M., Doran P.T., Pierau R., Allan P., and Kenig F. (2006) Glacial and postglacial sedimentation in the Fryxell basin, Taylor Valley, southern Victoria land, Antarctica. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 241, 2, 320-337.
31- Badescu M., Sherrit S., Olorunsola A.,Aldrich J., , Bao X., Bar-Cohen Y., Chang Z. , Doran P.T., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., McKay C.P., Murray A., Du S., T Peterson T. , Song T. (2006) Ultrasonic/sonic gopher for subsurface ice and brine sampling: analysis and fabrication challenges and testing results. Proc. SPIE 6171, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, 617107 (March 30, 2006); doi:10.1117/12.657487
30- Bai Y., Wang Y., Fang X., Kenig F., Miao Y., and Wang Y. (2006) Distribution of aliphatic ketones in Chinese soils: Potential environmental implications. Organic Geochemistry 37, 860-869.
29- Bai Y., Fang X., Wang Y., Kenig F., and Wang Y. (2006) Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Chinese soils: Potential environmental significance. Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 9, 1115-1122 (in English) [Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 4, 448-454 (in Chinese)].
28- Sinninghe Damsté J. S, Baas M., Geenvasen J.A.J. and F. Kenig (2005) Structural identification of sedimentary C21 and C22 highly branched isoprenoid alkanes. Organic Geochemistry 36, 4, 511-517.
27- Kenig F., Simons D.-J.H., Ventura G.T., Crich D., Cowen J.P., and T. Rehbein-Khalily (2005) Structure and distribution of branched-alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Cenomanian and Turonian black shales of Pasquia Hill (Saskatchewan, Canada). Organic Geochemistry 36, 1, 117-138.
26- Bar-Cohen Y., Sherrit S., Chang Z., Wessel L., Bao X., Doran P.T., Fritsen C.H., Kenig F., McKay C.P., Murray A. and T. Peterson (2004) Subsurface Ice and Brine Sampling Using an Ultrasonic/Sonic Gopher for Life Detection and Characterization in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Proc. of SPIE 5388. Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, 53 (July 29), 53-61.
25- Brown T.C. and F. Kenig (2004) Water column structure during deposition of Devonian-Lower Mississippian black and green/gray shales of Laurentia: a biomarker approach. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 215, 59-85.
24- Lawson J., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Des Marais D.J. and J.C. Priscu (2004) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of benthic and pelagic organic matter in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10, 3, 269-301.
23- Kenig F., Hudson J.D., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and B.N. Popp (2004) Intermittent anoxia: Reconciliation of a Jurassic black shale with its biofacies. Geology 32, 5, 421-424.
22- Kenig F., Simons D.-J.H., Crich D., Cowen J.P., Ventura G.T. , Brown, T.C. , Rehbein-Khalily T. and K.B. Anderson (2003) Branched aliphatic alkanes with quaternary substituted carbon atoms in modern and ancient geological samples. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA 100, 22, 12554-12558.
21- Simons D. J. H., Kenig F. and C.J. Schröder-Adams (2003) Organic geochemistry of the Cenomanian-Turonian sediments from the Western Interior Seaway, Canada. Organic Geochemistry 34, 8, 1177-1198.
20- Cowen J. P., Giovannoni S. J., Kenig F., Jonhson H. P., Butterfield D., Rappe M. S., Hutnak M. and P. Lam (2003) Fluids from aging ocean crust that support microbial life. Science 299, 120-123.
19- A. Rosell-Melé, E. Bard, K.C. Emeis, J. Grimalt, P. Muller, R. Schneider, I. Bouloubassi, B. Epstein, K. Fahl, A. Fluegge, K. Freeman, M. Goñi, U. Guntner, D. Hartz, S. Hellebust, T. Herbert, M. Ikehara, R. Ishiwatari, K. Kawamura, F. Kenig, J. de Leeuw, S. Lehman, N. Ohkouchi, R. D. Pancost, F. Prahl, J. Quinn, J.-F. Rontani, F. Rostek, J. Rullkotter, J. Sachs, D. Sanders, K. Sawada, D. Schultz-Bull, E. Sikes, Y. Ternois, G. Versteegh, J. Volkman, and S. Wakeham (2001) Precision of the current methods to measure alkenone relative (UK’37) and absolute abundance in sediments: results of an inter-laboratory comparison study. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2, U1-U28.
18- Kenig F., Simons D.J. H. and K.B. Anderson (2001) Distribution and origin of ethyl-branched alkanes in a transgressive shale of the Western Interior Seaway (USA). Organic geochemistry 32, 7, 949-954.
17- Schroder-Adams C.J., Cumbaa S.L., Bloch J., Leckie D.A., Craig. J., Seif El-Dein S.A., Simons, D.-J. H. and F. Kenig (2001) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian) paleoenvironmental history of the Eastern Canadian margin of the Western Interior Seaway: bonebeds and anoxic events. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 170, 261-289.
16- Simons D-J.H. and F. Kenig (2001) Molecular fossil constraints on water column structure of the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 169, 1-2, 129-152.
15- Kenig F., Popp B.N. and Summons R.E. (2000) Preparative HPLC with Ultrastable-Y-zeolite for compound-specific carbon isotope analysis. Organic Geochemistry 31, 11, 1087-1094.
14- Kenig F. (2000) C16-C29 homologous series of monomethylalkanes in the pyrolysis products of a Holocene microbial mat. Organic Geochemistry 31, 2-3, 237-241.
13- Popp B.N., Trull T., Kenig F., Wakeham S.G., Rust T. M., Tilbrook B., Griffiths B., Wright S., Marchant H., Bidigare R.R. and E.A. Laws (1999) Controls on the carbon isotopic composition of southern ocean phytoplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13, 4, 827-843.
12- Popp B.N., Kenig F., Wakeham S.G., Laws E.A. and Bidigare R.R. (1998) Does growth rate affect ketone unsaturation and intracellular carbon isotopic variability in Emiliania huxleyi. Paleoceanography. 13, 1, 35-41.
11- Koopmans M. P., Koster J., van Kaam-Peters H.M.E., Kenig F., Schouten S., Hartgers W.A., de Leeuw J.W. and J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (1996) Diagenetic and catagenetic products of isorenieratene: Molecular indicators for photic zone anoxia. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. 60, 22, 4467-4496.
10- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., van Dalen A.C.K., Rijpstra W.I.C., Huc A.Y., and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Occurrence and origin of mono-, di- and trimethylalkanes in modern and holocene microbial mats from Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 59, 14, 2999-3015.
9- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Frewin N.., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): II. Stratigraphic variations in abundancies and 13C contents of free and sulphur bound carbon skeletons in a single marl bed. Organic Geochemistry 23, 6, 485-526.
8- Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Frewin N., Kenig F. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): I. Variations in extractable organic matter of 10 cyclically deposited marl beds. Organic Geochemistry 23, 6, 471-483.
7- Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Kenig F., Koopmans M.P., Koster J., Schouten S., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1995) Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 59, 9, 1895-1900.
6- Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Hayes J.M. and J.W. de Leeuw (1994) Molecular paleontological evidence for food-web relationships. Naturwissenschaften. 81, 128-130.
5- Belin S. and F. Kenig (1994) Depositional conditions determined from microtextures of sediments of the Oxford Clay Fm. (U.K.). Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 153-160.
4- Kenig F, Popp B.N., Hayes J.M. and R.E. Summons (1994) Isotopic biogeochemistry of the Oxford Clay formation (Jurassic) UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 139-152.
3- Baltzer F., Kenig F., Boichard R., Plaziat J.-C. and B.H. Purser (1994) Organic matter distribution, water circulation and dolomitization beneath the Abu Dhabi sabkha (United Arab Emirates). Spec. Publs Int. Ass. of Sediment. 21, 409-427.
2- Kenig F., Huc A.Y., Purser B. H. and J.L. Oudin (1990) Sedimentation, distribution and diagenesis of organic matter, in a recent carbonate environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E). Organic Geochemistry 16, 735-747.
1- Kenig F. and A.Y. Huc (1989) Incorporation of sulfur into recent organic matter in a carbonate environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). In: Geochemistry of Sulfur in Fossil Fuel; Eds. W.L. ORR, C.M. WHITE; A.C.S. Symp. Sci. 429, 170-185.
Published, non-refereed publications
1- Kenig F., Frewin N, Sinninghe Damsté J.S., de Leeuw J.W. , Peleanu I. and D. Miggins (1994) Free- and sulphur-bound carbon skeletons in the immature evaporites of a Messinian basin (Vena del Gesso, Italy). Annual Report of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, p. 44-45.
2- Sinninghe Damste J.S., Schouten S., Koester J., Grice K., Kenig F., Gelin F., Clifford D., Sephton S., Koopmans M.P., van Kaam-Peters H.M.E, Kok M. D., Hoeld I., Hoefs M.J.L., Werne J., Baas M., Rijpstra W.I.C., Dekker M., Pool W. and J.W. De Leeuw (1998) Molecular palaeontology of marine sediments. Annual Report of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, p. 8-14.
3- Doran P.T., Forman S.L. and F. Kenig (2003) Lake history in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica. Newsletter for the Canadian Antarctic Research Network, vol. 17, November 2003, pp. 5-8.
4- Kenig F. (2023) The long infancy of sterol biosynthesis. News and Views, Nature 618, 678-680. http://doi.org.10.1038/d41586-023-01816-1
Unpublished reports:
1- Purser B. H., Huc A. Y. and F. Kenig (1987) Nature and distribution of organic material within the recent carbonate sediments of the Abu Dhabi Lagoons and Sabkhas: a preleminary study. Rapport de l’Institut Français du Pétrole ref. 34940, 33p.
2- Kenig F. (1986) T1. Le Bathonien et le Callovien Inférieur de la bordure occidentale de la Bresse. p. 81. T2. Le Bathonien et le Callovien de l'Est et du Sud-Est du Bassin de Paris: Synthèse bibliographique. p.99, 34 refs, Mémoire de D.E.A. Université d'Orsay, Paris XI, France.
Thesis (published):
Kenig F. (1991) Sédimentation, distribution et diagénèse de la matière organique dans un environnement carbonaté hypersalin, le système lagune-sabkha d'Abu Dhabi (E.A.U.); English title: Sedimentation, distribution and diagenesis of organic matter in a carbonate, hypersaline environment; the Abu Dhabi (UAE) lagoon-sebkha system, p. 311, 260 refs, Thèse de l'Université d'Orléans, Orleans, France. Published by Editions Technip in 1992: broché, 21 x 29,7 cm, 330 p., 127 fig., 19 tables.