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Overview

Christof Meile is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research focuses on Environmental Science and engages extensively with several subfields and topics related to this broad discipline.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Their work spans several subfields of Environmental Science such as:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

Meile's research covers multiple scientific topics with notable attention to:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Meile include:

  • Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediments, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Controls on Interspecies Electron Transport and Size Limitation of Anaerobically Methane-Oxidizing Microbial Consortia, 2021, mBio
  • Pore-Scale Numerical Investigation of Evolving Porosity and Permeability Driven by Biofilm Growth, 2021, Transport in Porous Media
  • The evolution of early diagenetic processes at the Mozambique margin during the last glacial-interglacial transition, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Porewater flow patterns in surficial cold seep sediments inferred from conservative tracer profiles and early diagenetic modeling, 2020, Chemical Geology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meile are:

  • Xiaojia He
  • Longhui Deng
  • Damian Bölsterli
  • Mark A. Lever
  • Grayson L. Chadwick

Meile publishes regularly in several scientific venues, including:

  • ChemElectroChem
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Best Publications

  • Genome characteristics of a generalist marine bacterial lineage.

    Ryan J Newton;Laura E Griffin;Kathy M Bowles;Christof Meile

  • Ecological Genomics of Marine Roseobacters

    M. A. Moran;R. Belas;M. A. Schell;J. M. Gonzalez

  • Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes

    Li Li;Kate Maher;Alexis Navarre-Sitchler;Jennifer Druhan

  • Flow and nutrient dynamics in a subterranean estuary (Waquoit Bay, MA, USA) : Field data and reactive transport modeling

    Claudette Spiteri;Caroline P. Slomp;Matthew A. Charette;Kagan Tuncay

  • Seasonal oscillation of microbial iron and sulfate reduction in saltmarsh sediments (Sapelo Island, GA, USA)

    Carla M. Koretsky;Charles M. Moore;Kristine L. Lowe;Christof Meile

  • Rapid Iron Reduction Rates Are Stimulated by High-Amplitude Redox Fluctuations in a Tropical Forest Soil.

    Brian Ginn;Christof Meile;Jared Wilmoth;Yuanzhi Tang

  • Dependence of calcite growth rate and Sr partitioning on solution stoichiometry: Non-Kossel crystal growth

    Gernot Nehrke;Gert-Jan Reichart;P. Van Cappellen;C. Meile

  • Tube-dwelling invertebrates: tiny ecosystem engineers have large effects in lake ecosystems

    Franz Hölker;Michael J. Vanni;Jan J. Kuiper;Christof Meile

  • Scale dependence of reaction rates in porous media

    Christof Meile;Kagan Tuncay

  • The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout

    M. Crespo-Medina;C. D. Meile;K. S. Hunter;A. R. Diercks

  • Modeling biogeochemical processes in subterranean estuaries: Effect of flow dynamics and redox conditions on submarine groundwater discharge of nutrients

    Claudette Spiteri;Caroline P. Slomp;Kagan Tuncay;Christof Meile

  • Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics

    Samantha B. Joye;Vladimir A. Samarkin;Beth N. Orcutt;Beth N. Orcutt;Ian R. MacDonald

  • Arsenic speciation in Mono Lake, California: Response to seasonal stratification and anoxia

    James T. Hollibaugh;Steve Carini;Hakan Gürleyük;Robert Jellison

  • Intermittent bioirrigation and oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments: An experimental and modeling study of three tellinid bivalves

    Nils Volkenborn;Christof Meile;Lubos Polerecky;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Carbon geochemistry of cold seeps: Methane fluxes and transformation in sediments from Kazan mud volcano, eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Ralf R. Haese;Christof Meile;Philippe Van Cappellen;Gert J. De Lange

  • Global estimates of enhanced solute transport in marine sediments

    Christof Meile;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Influence of pO2 on Iron Redox Cycling and Anaerobic Organic Carbon Mineralization in a Humid Tropical Forest Soil.

    Chunmei Chen;Christof Meile;Jared Wilmoth;Diego Barcellos

  • Quantifying bioirrigation using ecological parameters: a stochastic approach†

    Carla M. Koretsky;Christof Meile;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Quantifying bioirrigation in aquatic sediments: An inverse modeling approach

    Christof Meile;Carla M. Koretsky;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Quantification of Extracellular Carbonic Anhydrase Activity in Two Marine Diatoms and Investigation of Its Role

    Brian M. Hopkinson;Christof Meile;Chen Shen

  • Modelling the geochemical fate and transport of wastewater-derived phosphorus in contrasting groundwater systems.

    Claudette Spiteri;Caroline P. Slomp;Pierre Regnier;Christof Meile

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Van Cappellen
Philippe Van Cappellen University of Waterloo
Samantha B. Joye
Samantha B. Joye University of Georgia
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Pierre Regnier
Pierre Regnier Université Libre de Bruxelles
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
Joseph P. Montoya
Joseph P. Montoya Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark A. Lever
Mark A. Lever ETH Zurich
Gwenael Jouet
Gwenael Jouet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Mary Ann Moran
Mary Ann Moran University of Georgia

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