Burton M. Kennedy

Guest Scientist

Affiliate

Building 070A, Room 4418D

M/S 70A4418

Phone: 510-486-6451

Fax: 510-486-5686

bmkennedy@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Burton (Mack) Kennedy completed his PhD in Planetary Science with a focus on early solar system isotopic structures and chronology from Washington University, St. Louis in 1981. Subsequently, he was awarded a post doctoral research position in the UC Berkeley Department of Physics. During his tenure in the Physics Department, he established a noble gas isotope geochemistry lab designed specifically to develop and use noble gases and their isotopes as natural tracers for fluid processes in the Earth’s crust. In 1991, Kennedy joined the Earth Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab, as a staff scientist, incorporating the noble gas laboratory into the newly founded Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Directed by Prof. Don DePaolo. While a member of ESD Kennedy has served as the Group Leader for the Environmental Measurement Laboratory, providing geochemical analytical support to ESD (1995-2001); the Group Leader for the Center for Isotope Geochemistry (1999-Present); and was a ESD Program Lead for Geothermal Energy Development.

Experience

Program Lead: Geothermal Energy Development, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 2001-2016
Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2000-Present, 1990-1991
Group Leader: Center for Isotope Geochemistry, LBNL-ESD, 1999-Present
Staff Scientist, LBNL-ESD, 1991-Present
Group Leader: Environmental Measurements Laboratory, LBNL-ESD, 1995-2001
Asst. Research Geophysicist V, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, 1990-1992
Asst. Research Geophysicist I-IV, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, 1985-1990
Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, 1981-1985
United States Army; Honorable Discharge, June, 1971, 1969-1971

Advisory Boards, Committees, and Councils

Member, California Geothermal Energy Collaborative (CGEC) Steering Committee
Co-Chair, CGEC Geothermal Resource Committee
Co-Chair, DOE Geothermal Technologies Program Committee on Reservoir Creation for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Chairman, IAEA Advisory Group Meeting: “State of the Art and Development Needs for Noble Gas Isotope Applications in Geothermal Reservoir Exploration and Monitoring”, Vienna, Austria, 2001
Member, Safety Review Committee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 2000-2006
Member, Safety Committee, Chemical Hazards, LBNL-ESD, 1999-2006
IGPP Proposal Review Committee, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006
Co-chairman, Scientific Program Committee, Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology, and Isotope Geology

Active Research Projects

Integrated Isotopic Studies of Geochemical Processes. Co-PI with Prof. D.J. DePaolo, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, UC Berkeley and Drs. M.S. Conrad and John Christensen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD). DoE Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Engineering and Geosciences Division.
Air-Derived Noble Gases In Sediments: Sites for Acquisition of Trapped Components. Co-PI with Prof. Tom Torgersen, Dept of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut. DoE Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Engineering and Geosciences Division.
Development of Isotopic Techniques for Reservoir and Aquifer Characterization. PI, DoE Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Engineering and Geosciences Division.
International Partnership for Geothermal Technology (IPGT) Support and Collaborative Research on Chemical and Isotopic Signatures of High Temperature Geothermal Systems, Iceland. PI, DoE, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Geothermal Technologies.
Impact of Fluid Injection on Natural Isotopic Systems at EGS Sites. PI, DoE, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Geothermal Technologies.
Integrated Approach to Use Natural Chemical and Isotopic Tracers to Estimate Fracture Spacing and Surface Area in EGS Systems. Co-PI, DoE, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Geothermal Technologies.
Development of fluid injection strategies for optimizing steam production at The Geysers geothermal field, California. PI, PIER Research and Development Grant, California Energy Commission.