Awards 

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The following awards support and supported research at UIC-OGL

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External funding

Granting agency: NSF-OPP-Biology and Medecine, SGER.

Project: Natural attenuation of a helicopter fluids spill on Lake Fryxell ice cover (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antractica).

Fabien Kenig (PI) and Peter Doran

Amount: $ 60,427

Period: 10/01/03-09/30/05

Status: current

Granting agency: NASA-Exobiology

Project: Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in the geological record: chemical synthesis and significance of very persistent biogeomolecules.

Fabien Kenig (PI)

Amount: $ 191,082

Period: 04/15/03-04/14/05

Status: current

Granting agency: NASA, Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets

Project: 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).

Amount: UIC share: $ 486,440 of $ 1,418,453

Period: 01/15/03- 01/14/06

Status: current

Granting agency: NSF Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, OPP-0126270

Project: Paleoclimate inferred from lake sediment cores in Taylor Valley, Antarctica.

Peter Doran (UIC, PI), Co-PIs: Fabien Kenig (UIC), Steve Forman (UIC)

Amount: $ 99,789

Period: 08/15/02 to 08/14/04

Status: expired

Granting agency: NSF-EAR-Instrument and Facilities.

Project: Acquisition of an isotope ratio mass spectrometer for continuous flow analyses of carbon, hydrogen, and chlorine isotopic compositions of organic compounds

Fabien Kenig (PI); Co-PIs: Neil Sturchio (UIC), Peter Doran (UIC)

Amount: $ 72,000

Period: 09/01/03-08/31/04

Status: expired

Granting agency: NSF EAR-Geology and Paleontology
Project: Water column structure in Jurassic and Cretaceous epeiric seas: molecular fossils and their isotopic composition
PI: Fabien Kenig
Amount: $171,216
Period: 2/1/97 to 01/31/00
Status: expired

Granting agency: NSF OCE- Oceanographic Technology Program Project: Development of the capabilities to measure proxies of microbial activity within ocean crust. 
coPI: Fabien Kenig; Collaborative project with James Cowen, PI (University of Hawaii) and Paul Johnson (University of Washington)
Amount: $31,913 (UIC share)
Period: 03/01/97 to 02/28/00
Status: expired

Granting agency: NSF LExEN (Life in Extreme Environments)
Project: Development of the capabilities to measure proxies of microbial activity within ocean crust.
coPI: Fabien Kenig; Collaborative project with James Cowen, PI (University of Hawaii), Paul Johnson (University of Washington) and Stephen Giovannoni (Oregon State University).
Amount: $74,426 (UIC share)
Period: 10/01/97 to 09/30/99
Status: expired

Granting agency: University of Hawaii
Project: Chemostat calibration of the southern ocean diatom d18O and d13C variations for paleoceanographic reconstructions NSF OCE- Marine Geology and Geophysics, Subcontract to F Kenig
PI: Popp B. N. and Laws E. (University of Hawaii)
Amount: Subcontract to UIC, $34,290
Period: 1/1/96 to 12/31/98
Status: expired

Internal funding

Granting agency: UIC Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Project: Building a GeoWall Facility in Earth & Environmental Sciences

Martin Flower (PI); Co-PIs: Torbjorn Törnqvist , Peter Doran, Roy Plotnick and Fabien Kenig.

Amount: $ 9,800

Period: 06/01/03 to 05/30/04

Status: expired  9,800

Granting agency: UIC Campus Research Board

Project: Synthesis of branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms: a key to early life on Earth.

PI: Fabien Kenig

Amount: $14,950

Period: 7/1/02 to 6/30/03

Status: expired 

Granting agency: UIC Campus Research Board
Project: Water column structure in Jurassic and Cretaceous Seas
PI: Fabien Kenig
Amount: $14,921
Period: 7/1/96 to 6/30/97
Status: expired 

Last update: 02/01/2005 FK

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