Frank Kinnaman | Earth Science

Associate Specialist

Office Location:

Woodhouse 2009

Specialization:

Areas of Research
Methane concentrations and stable isotopes in marine settings, Valentine group lab instrument operation and maintenance, field devices and samplers for shallow marine settings and deep sea vehicle use.

Sponsor:
Dave Valentine

Publications:

#	Year	Title and Authors	Publisher	Category
1	2006	In-situ Sensing of Methane Emissions from Natural Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps: A Potential Remote Sensing Technology. Ira Leifer, Dar Roberts, Jack Margolis, and Franklin Kinnaman	Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 245, p. 509-522	Journal article – peer reviewed
2	2007	Gaseous emission rates from natural petroleum seeps in the Upper Ojai Valley, CA. Marlene Duffy, Franklin Kinnaman, Jordan F. Clark, David L. Valentine, and Edward A. Keller.	Environmental Geosciences. v. 14, p. 97-207	Journal article – peer reviewed
3	2007	Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation associated with the aerobic microbial oxidation of methane, ethane, propane and butane.Kinnaman, F. S., Valentine, D. L., and Tyler, S. C.	Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 71, p. 271-283	Journal article – peer reviewed
4	2008	A survey of methane isotope abundance (¹⁴C, ¹³C, ²H) from five nearshore marine basins that reveals unusual radiocarbon levels in subsurface waters. John Kessler, William Reeburgh, David Valentine, Franklin Kinnaman, Edward Peltzer, Peter Brewer, James Southon and Stanley Tyler.	Journal of Geophysical Research. v. 113, C12021	Journal article – peer reviewed
5	2009	Hydrogen-isotopic variability in lipids from Santa Barbara Basin sediments. Chao Li, Alex Sessions,Franklin Kinnaman, David Valentine	Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 73, p. 271-283	Journal article – peer reviewed
6	2010	Compositional variability and air-sea flux of ethane and propane in the plume of a large, marine seep field near Coal Oil Point, CA. Susan Mau, Monica Heintz, Franklin Kinnaman and David Valentine.	Geo-Marine Letters. v. 30, p. 367-378	Journal article – peer reviewed
7	2010	Gas flux and carbonate occurrence at a shallow seep of thermogenic natural gas. Kinnaman, F. S., Valentine, D. L.	Geo-Marine Letters. v. 30, p. 355-365	Journal article – peer reviewed
8	2010	Propane Respiration Jump-Starts Microbial Response to a Deep Oil Spill. David L. Valentine,John D. Kessler, Molly C. Redmond, Stephanie D. Mendes,Monica B. Heintz, Christopher Farwell, Lei Hu, Franklin S. Kinnaman, Shari Yvon-Lewis, Mengran Du, Eric W. Chan, Fenix Garcia Tigreros, and Christie J. Villanueva.	Sciencexpress Sept. 2010, p. 208-211	Journal article – peer reviewed

Courses:

Earth 4 Oceanography