Brian Kendall, University of Waterloo

Research

Animal evolution Molybdenum Rhenium Thallium Uranium Boreal shield lakes Ocean redox conditions Organic-rich mudrocks

Latest papers

An expansive global oxygenation of Earth's surface environments 1.4 billion years ago.
Nature communications · 2025
Late-orogenic retrograde zircon growth.
Contributions to mineralogy and petrology. Beitrage zur Mineralogie und Petrologie · 2025
Evaluating manganese removal in groundwater using pilot scale biofilters: The role of filter media characteristics during start-up.
Water research · 2025

All 10 publications

Latest funding

Further development of redox-sensitive metal isotopes as tracers for sedimentary systems
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$258,000
Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$120,000
Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$385,000

All 7 grants and awards

10 publications.

01

An expansive global oxygenation of Earth's surface environments 1.4 billion years ago.

Yan H, Qin Z, Xu L, Mao J, Tang D, Huang Q, Yang X, Li Z, Li J, Li L, Robbins LJ, Kendall B, Canfield DE, Konhauser KO

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65551-z PMID: 41298364

02

Late-orogenic retrograde zircon growth.

Dyer SC, Edgeworth I, Kendall B, Yakymchuk C

Contributions to mineralogy and petrology. Beitrage zur Mineralogie und Petrologie2025

DOI: 10.1007/s00410-025-02219-3 PMID: 40271002

03

Evaluating manganese removal in groundwater using pilot scale biofilters: The role of filter media characteristics during start-up.

Arora H, Peldszus S, Lamba-Rautapuro N, Slawson R, Kendall B, Huck PM

Water research2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122711 PMID: 39488064

04

Effects of lithium isotopes on sodium/lithium co-transport and calcium efflux through the sodium/calcium/lithium exchanger in mitochondria.

Bukhteeva I, Rahman FA, Kendall B, Duncan RE, Quadrilatero J, Pavlov EV, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z

Frontiers in physiology2024

DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1354091 PMID: 38655027

05

Cascade electrocatalysis via AgCu single-atom alloy and Ag nanoparticles in CO2 electroreduction toward multicarbon products.

Du C, Mills JP, Yohannes AG, Wei W, Wang L, Lu S, Lian JX, Wang M, Guo T, Wang X, Zhou H, Sun CJ, Wen JZ, Kendall B, Couillard M, Guo H, Tan Z, Siahrostami S, Wu YA

Nature communications2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41871-w PMID: 37798263

06

Lithium isotopes differentially modify mitochondrial amorphous calcium phosphate cluster size distribution and calcium capacity.

Deline ML, Straub J, Patel M, Subba P, Grashei M, van Heijster FHA, Pirkwieser P, Somoza V, Livingstone JD, Beazely M, Kendall B, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z, Höschen C, Harrington G, Kuellmer K, Bian W, Schilling F, Fisher MPA, Helgeson ME, Fromme T

Frontiers in physiology2023

DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1200119 PMID: 37781224

07

Technical comment on "Reexamination of 2.5-Ga 'whiff' of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE".

Anbar AD, Buick R, Gordon GW, Johnson AC, Kendall B, Lyons TW, Ostrander CM, Planavsky NJ, Reinhard CT, Stüeken EE

Science advances2023

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3736 PMID: 37027472

08

Global ocean redox changes before and during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event.

Kunert A, Kendall B

Nature communications2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36516-x PMID: 36781894

09

Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period.

Zhang F, Xiao S, Kendall B, Romaniello SJ, Cui H, Meyer M, Gilleaudeau GJ, Kaufman AJ, Anbar AD

Science advances2018

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aan8983 PMID: 29938217

10

Transient episodes of mild environmental oxygenation and oxidative continental weathering during the late Archean.

Kendall B, Creaser RA, Reinhard CT, Lyons TW, Anbar AD

Science advances2015First author

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500777 PMID: 26702438