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Bénédicte Ménez is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their primary research focus lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to subfields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their work covers a range of topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Ménez include Goldschmidt2021 abstracts with seven contributions, Science Advances with three papers, Earth-Science Reviews and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta with two papers each, and The ISME Journal.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Céline Pisapia, B.P.R. Debret, M. Andréani, I. M. Daniel, and Damien Alloyeau.

Key recent publications illustrate the breadth of Ménez's research interests:

  • "Microbial ecology of the newly discovered serpentinite-hosted Old City hydrothermal field (southwest Indian ridge)," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Redox transfer at subduction zones: insights from Fe isotopes in the Mariana forearc," 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • "Abiotic Hydrogen and Methane: Fuels for Life," 2020, Elements
  • "High-pressure synthesis and storage of solid organic compounds in active subduction zones," 2022, Science Advances
  • "The rocky road to organics needs drying," 2023, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Continuous exhumation of mantle-derived rocks at the Southwest Indian Ridge for 11 million years

    Daniel Sauter;Mathilde Cannat;Stephane Rouméjon;Muriel Andreani

  • Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere.

    Bénédicte Ménez;Céline Pisapia;Céline Pisapia;Muriel Andreani;Frédéric Jamme

  • Experimental and numerical modeling of bacterially induced pH increase and calcite precipitation in saline aquifers

    Sébastien Dupraz;Marc Parmentier;Bénédicte Ménez;François Guyot

  • Life in the hydrated suboceanic mantle

    Bénédicte Ménez;Valerio Pasini;Daniele Brunelli

  • Calibration of carbonate composition using micro-Raman analysis: application to planetary surface exploration.

    Nicolas Rividi;Mark van Zuilen;Mark van Zuilen;Pascal Philippot;Bénédicte Ménez

  • Biological control of Cl/Br and low sulfate concentration in a 3.5-Gyr-old seawater from North Pole, Western Australia

    Julien Foriel;Pascal Philippot;Patrice Rey;Andrea Somogyi

  • Fluid chemistry of the low temperature hyperalkaline hydrothermal system of Prony Bay (New Caledonia)

    C. Monnin;V. Chavagnac;C. Boulart;C. Boulart;B. Menez

  • Specific carbonate-microbe interactions in the modern microbialites of Lake Alchichica (Mexico).

    Emmanuelle Gérard;Bénédicte Ménez;Estelle Couradeau;Estelle Couradeau;Estelle Couradeau;David Moreira

  • Rapid solubility and mineral storage of CO2 in basalt

    Sigurdur R. Gislason;W.S. Broecker;E. Gunnlaugsson;S. Snæbjörnsdóttir

  • Experimental approach of CO2 biomineralization in deep saline aquifers

    Sébastien Dupraz;Bénédicte Ménez;Philippe Gouze;Richard Leprovost

  • Micro X-ray absorption near edge structure at the sulfur and iron K-edges in natural silicate glasses

    M Bonnin-Mosbah;N Métrich;J Susini;M Salomé

  • Experimental modeling of calcium carbonate precipitation by cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp.

    Irina A. Bundeleva;Liudmila S. Shirokova;Oleg S. Pokrovsky;Pascale Bénézeth

  • High reactivity of deep biota under anthropogenic CO2 injection into basalt.

    Rosalia Trias;Rosalia Trias;Bénédicte Ménez;Bénédicte Ménez;Paul le Campion;Paul le Campion;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Presence of sulfite (SIV) in arc magmas: Implications for volcanic sulfur emissions

    Nicole Métrich;Michelle Bonnin-Mosbah;Jean Susini;Bénédicte Menez;Bénédicte Menez

  • CO2 geological storage: The environmental mineralogy perspective

    François Guyot;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Damien Daval;Sébastien Dupraz;Isabelle Martinez

  • Magmatism, serpentinization and life: Insights through drilling the Atlantis Massif (IODP Expedition 357)

    Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Beth N. Orcutt;Stéphane Rouméjon;Marvin D. Lilley

  • Effect of the heterotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas reactans on olivine dissolution kinetics and implications for CO2 storage in basalts

    L.S. Shirokova;L.S. Shirokova;P. Bénézeth;O.S. Pokrovsky;E. Gerard

  • Spatial distribution of microbial communities in the shallow submarine alkaline hydrothermal field of the Prony Bay, New Caledonia

    Marianne Quéméneur;Méline Bes;Anne Postec;Nan Mei

  • Microbial ecology of the newly discovered serpentinite-hosted Old City hydrothermal field (southwest Indian ridge).

    Aurélien Lecoeuvre;Bénédicte Ménez;Mathilde Cannat;Valérie Chavagnac

  • Abiotic formation of condensed carbonaceous matter in the hydrating oceanic crust

    Marie Catherine Sforna;Marie Catherine Sforna;Daniele Brunelli;Céline Pisapia;Valerio Pasini;Valerio Pasini

  • Microbial diversity in a submarine carbonate edifice from the serpentinizing hydrothermal system of the Prony Bay (New Caledonia) over a 6-year period

    Anne Postec;Marianne Quéméneur;Méline Bes;Nan Mei

Frequent Co-Authors

François Guyot
François Guyot French National Museum of Natural History
Daniele Brunelli
Daniele Brunelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Muriel Andreani
Muriel Andreani Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Magali Ader
Magali Ader Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Claude Payri
Claude Payri Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Pascale Bénézeth
Pascale Bénézeth Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Wolfgang Bach
Wolfgang Bach University of Bremen
Karim Benzerara
Karim Benzerara Sorbonne University
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University
Roger C. Searle
Roger C. Searle Durham University

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