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Martin J. Kennedy is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside, located in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a concentration on subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Kennedy's research encompass Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Recent publications by Kennedy include:

  • Author Correction: Weathering in a world without terrestrial life recorded in the Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Potential for Residual Oil Zones to Maximize CO2 Storage Capacity in Australian Petroleum Provinces, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors in Kennedy's work are:

  • Mehrnoush Rafiei
  • Aleks Kalinowski
  • Eric Tenthorey
  • Michael B. Clennell
  • Richard Kempton

Kennedy publishes regularly in venues such as Nature Communications and the SSRN Electronic Journal, reflecting engagement with both peer-reviewed and preprint platforms.

Best Publications

  • Mineral surface control of organic carbon in black shale.

    Martin J. Kennedy;David R. Pevear;Ronald J. Hill

  • The late Precambrian greening of the Earth

    L. Paul Knauth;Martin J. Kennedy

  • Two or four Neoproterozoic glaciations

    Martin J. Kennedy;Martin J. Kennedy;Bruce Runnegar;Anthony R. Prave;K.-H. Hoffmann

  • Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates

    Ganqing Jiang;Martin J. Kennedy;Nicholas Christie-Blick

  • Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals?

    Martin J. Kennedy;Nicholas Christie-Blick;Linda E. Sohl

  • Is organic pore development in gas shales influenced by the primary porosity and structure of thermally immature organic matter

    S.C. Löhr;E.T. Baruch;P.A. Hall;M.J. Kennedy

  • Late Precambrian Oxygenation; Inception of the Clay Mineral Factory

    Martin Kennedy;Mary Droser;Lawrence M. Mayer;David Pevear

  • Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and isotopic geochemistry of Australian Neoproterozoic postglacial cap dolostones; deglaciation, delta 13 C excursions, and carbonate precipitation

    Martin J. Kennedy

  • U-Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe ages from the Doushantuo Formation in south China: Constraints on late Neoproterozoic glaciations

    Shihong Zhang;Ganqing Jiang;Junming Zhang;Biao Song

  • Neoproterozoic glaciation in the Earth System

    Ian J. Fairchild;Martin J. Kennedy

  • Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, and Textures of the Late Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Cap Carbonate in South China

    Ganqing Jiang;Martin J. Kennedy;Nicholas Christie-Blick;Huaichun Wu

  • Direct evidence for organic carbon preservation as clay-organic nanocomposites in a Devonian black shale; from deposition to diagenesis

    Martin John Kennedy;Stefan Carlos Löhr;Samuel Alex Fraser;Elizabeth Teresa Baruch

  • Carbon isotope excursions and the oxidant budget of the Ediacaran atmosphere and ocean

    Thomas F. Bristow;Martin J. Kennedy

  • Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate

    Martin Kennedy;David Mrofka;Christopher Carl von der Borch

  • Carbonate Deposition, Climate Stability, and Neoproterozoic Ice Ages

    Andy J. Ridgwell;Martin J. Kennedy;Ken Caldeira

  • Changing sources of base cations during ecosystem development, Hawaiian Islands

    M. J. Kennedy;O. A. Chadwick;P. M. Vitousek;L. A. Derry

  • Carbon isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic glacial carbonates as a test of paleoceanographic models for snowball Earth phenomena

    Martin J. Kennedy;Nicholas Christie-Blick;Anthony R. Prave

  • Clay mineral continental amplifier for marine carbon sequestration in a greenhouse ocean.

    Martin J. Kennedy;Thomas Wagner

  • A new hypothesis for organic preservation of Burgess Shale taxa in the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation, House Range, Utah

    Robert R. Gaines;Martin J. Kennedy;Mary L. Droser

  • Mineralogical constraints on the paleoenvironments of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

    Thomas F. Bristow;Martin J. Kennedy;Arkadiusz Derkowski;Mary L. Droser

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Christie-Blick
Nicholas Christie-Blick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Louis A. Derry
Louis A. Derry Cornell University
Simon C. George
Simon C. George Macquarie University
Ganqing Jiang
Ganqing Jiang University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mary L. Droser
Mary L. Droser University of California, Riverside
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Ian J. Fairchild
Ian J. Fairchild University of Birmingham
David N. Dewhurst
David N. Dewhurst Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lawrence M. Mayer
Lawrence M. Mayer University of Maine

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