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Overview

Kenneth M. Kemner is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive contributions to geophysics, environmental chemistry, oceanography, astronomy, astrophysics, and geochemistry and petrology.

They have published extensively in the following venues:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Minerals
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Kemner's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Their recent scientific publications include:

  • "From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Distribution and speciation of Sb and toxic metal(loid)s near an antimony refinery and their effects on indigenous microorganisms" (2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • "Combined Effects of Fe(III)-Bearing Clay Minerals and Organic Ligands on U(VI) Bioreduction and U(IV) Speciation" (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming" (2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • "Controls on Iron Reduction and Biomineralization over Broad Environmental Conditions as Suggested by the Firmicutes Orenia metallireducens Strain Z6" (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)

Kemner frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Vanessa Bailey
  • Kaizad Patel
  • Allison Myers-Pigg
  • Stephanie Pennington
  • Nicholas Ward

Best Publications

  • Functionalized Monolayers on Ordered Mesoporous Supports

    X. Feng;G. E. Fryxell;G. E. Fryxell;L.-Q. Wang;L.-Q. Wang;A. Y. Kim;A. Y. Kim

  • Formation of sphalerite (ZnS) deposits in natural biofilms of sulfate-reducing bacteria.

    Matthias Labrenz;Gregory K. Druschel;Tamara Thomsen-Ebert;Benjamin Gilbert

  • Reduction of Uranium(VI) by Mixed Iron(II)/Iron(III) Hydroxide (Green Rust): Formation of UO2 Nanoparticles

    Edward J O'Loughlin;Shelly D Kelly;Russell E Cook;Roseann Csencsits

  • Protein Oxidation Implicated as the Primary Determinant of Bacterial Radioresistance

    Michael J Daly;Elena K Gaidamakova;Vera Y Matrosova;Alexander Vasilenko

  • Nanometre-size products of uranium bioreduction.

    Yohey Suzuki;Shelly D. Kelly;Kenneth M. Kemner;Jillian F. Banfield;Jillian F. Banfield

  • c-Type cytochrome-dependent formation of U(IV) nanoparticles by Shewanella oneidensis.

    Matthew J Marshall;Alexander S Beliaev;Alice C Dohnalkova;David W Kennedy

  • Inhibition of bacterial U(VI) reduction by calcium

    Scott C. Brooks;James K. Fredrickson;Sue L. Carroll;David W. Kennedy

  • Deinococcus geothermalis: The Pool of Extreme Radiation Resistance Genes Shrinks

    Kira S. Makarova;Marina V. Omelchenko;Elena K. Gaidamakova;Vera Y. Matrosova

  • X-ray absorption fine structure determination of pH-dependent U-bacterial cell wall interactions

    S.D Kelly;K.M Kemner;J.B Fein;D.A Fowle

  • Adsorption of cadmium to Bacillus subtilis bacterial cell walls: a pH-dependent X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy study

    M.I. Boyanov;S.D. Kelly;K.M. Kemner;B.A. Bunker

  • Actinide sequestration using self-assembled monolayers on mesoporous supports.

    Glen E. Fryxell;Yuehe Lin;Sandra K. Fiskum;Jerome C. Birnbaum

  • In situ bioreduction of uranium (VI) to submicromolar levels and reoxidation by dissolved oxygen.

    Weimin Wu;Jack M Carley;Jian Luo;Matthew A. Ginder-Vogel

  • Sulfur-mediated electron shuttling during bacterial iron reduction

    Theodore M. Flynn;Theodore M. Flynn;Edward J. O’Loughlin;Bhoopesh Mishra;Bhoopesh Mishra;Thomas J. DiChristina

  • Microbial populations stimulated for hexavalent uranium reduction in uranium mine sediment.

    Yohey Suzuki;Shelly D. Kelly;Kenneth M. Kemner;Jillian F. Banfield

  • U(VI) reduction to mononuclear U(IV) by Desulfitobacterium species.

    Kelly E. Fletcher;Maxim I. Boyanov;Sara H. Thomas;Qingzhong Wu

  • Uranyl Incorporation in Natural Calcite

    S. D. Kelly;M. G. Newville;L. Cheng;K. M. Kemner

  • Reduction of AgI, AuIII, CuII, and HgII by FeII/FeIII hydroxysulfate green rust ☆

    Edward J. O’Loughlin;Shelly D. Kelly;Kenneth M. Kemner;Roseann Csencsits

  • The MRCAT insertion device beamline at the Advanced Photon Source

    C. U. Segre;N. E. Leyarovska;L. D. Chapman;W. M. Lavender

  • Influence of Magnetite Stoichiometry on U VI Reduction

    Drew E. Latta;Drew E. Latta;Christopher Aaron Gorski;Christopher Aaron Gorski;Maxim I. Boyanov;Edward J. O'Loughlin

  • Elemental and Redox Analysis of Single Bacterial Cells by X-ray Microbeam Analysis

    Kenneth M. Kemner;Shelly D. Kelly;Barry Lai;Joerg Maser

Frequent Co-Authors

James K. Fredrickson
James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jeremy B. Fein
Jeremy B. Fein University of Notre Dame
Craig S. Criddle
Craig S. Criddle Stanford University
Glen E. Fryxell
Glen E. Fryxell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
David B. Watson
David B. Watson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michelle M. Scherer
Michelle M. Scherer University of Iowa
Wei-Min Wu
Wei-Min Wu Stanford University
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Alice Dohnalkova
Alice Dohnalkova Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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