Argonne National Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs Alumni

Ken B. Anderson
Chemistry Division
Appointment from 1989-1991
Supervisor: Randall Winans

ANL Research Highlights

Development of general classification system for fossil resins and ambers that is now universally adopted (The Nature and Fate of Natural Resins in the Geosphere. II. Identification, Classification and Nomenclature of Resinites. K. B. Anderson, R. E. Winans, and R. E. Botto, (1992), Org. Geochem., 18(6), 829-841)

New Endeavors

Prof. Ken B. Anderson
Department of Geology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale , IL , 62901
Cell 618 201 3573
Fax 618 453 7393
kanderson@geo.siu.edu

I am now a professor of Geology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; I continue to specialize in organic geochemistry with a particular focus on coals and fossil resins. My work on coal is focused on development of environmentally benign strategies for the utilization of coal as an abundant and readily available source of energy and raw materials both in the U.S. and the developing world. My efforts related to fossil resins are focused on investigations of the evolution of higher plants and on the use of fossil resins as chemotaxonomic markers.