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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding scientific contributions in the PHOBOS experiment at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the ATLAS experiment at the large hadron collider regarding the effect of geometry on observables in highenergy nuclear collisions and to the development of tools and techniques for characterizing the geometry of these collisions

Overview

Peter D. Steinberg is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable specializations in oceanography and ecology.

Steinberg's work extensively covers topics related to marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, and coral and marine ecosystems studies. Additional areas include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, coastal and marine management, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

The researcher frequently publishes in several scientific journals. The most common venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Communications, Molecular Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and the Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Coauthors who frequently collaborate with Steinberg include Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Adriana Vergés, Georgina Wood, Melinda A. Coleman, and Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez.

Recent published papers reflect Steinberg's focus on marine ecosystems and restoration. Selected works include:

  • The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Kelp Forest Restoration in Australia (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions (2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Restore or Redefine: Future Trajectories for Restoration (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Emerging Solutions to Return Nature to the Urban Ocean (2020, Annual Review of Marine Science)

Steinberg has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017. The citation acknowledges contributions to the PHOBOS experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, specifically regarding the study of geometry effects on observables in high-energy nuclear collisions and the development of related analytical tools and techniques.

Best Publications

  • Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life.

    Hans-Curt Flemming;Jost Wingender;Ulrich Szewzyk;Peter Steinberg

  • The tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems: climate-mediated changes in herbivory and community phase shifts

    Adriana Vergés;Peter D. Steinberg;Mark E. Hay;Alistair G. B. Poore

  • Should we stay or should we go: mechanisms and ecological consequences for biofilm dispersal.

    Diane McDougald;Diane McDougald;Scott A. Rice;Scott A. Rice;Nicolas Barraud;Peter D. Steinberg

  • Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species

    Catherine Burke;Peter Steinberg;Doug Rusch;Staffan Kjelleberg

  • The seaweed holobiont: Understanding seaweed-bacteria interactions

    Suhelen Egan;Tilmann Harder;Catherine Burke;Peter Steinberg;Peter Steinberg

  • Impacts of climate change in a global hotspot for temperate marine biodiversity and ocean warming

    Thomas Wernberg;Bayden D. Russell;Pippa J. Moore;Pippa J. Moore;Scott D. Ling

  • Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp

    Adriana Vergés;Christopher Doropoulos;Hamish A. Malcolm;Mathew Skye

  • Phlorotannin-protein interactions.

    Stern Jl;Hagerman Ae;Steinberg Pd;Mason Pk

  • Composition, uniqueness and variability of the epiphytic bacterial community of the green alga Ulva australis.

    Catherine Burke;Torsten Thomas;Matt Lewis;Peter Steinberg

  • Broad spectrum effects of secondary metabolites from the red alga delisea pulchra in antifouling assays

    R De Nys;P D Steinberg;P Willemsen;S A Dworjanyn

  • Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis

    Torsten Thomas;Doug Rusch;Matt Z DeMaere;Pui Yi Yung

  • Chapter 10 – The Chemical Ecology of Plant–Herbivore Interactions in Marine versus Terrestrial Communities

    Mark E. Hay;Peter D. Steinberg

  • Chemical defence against bacteria in the red alga Asparagopsis armata: linking structure with function

    Nicholas A Paul;R De Nys;P D Steinberg

  • Host specificity in marine sponge-associated bacteria, and potential implications for marine microbial diversity.

    Michael W. Taylor;Peter J. Schupp;Peter J. Schupp;Ingela Dahllöf;Staffan Kjelleberg

  • FEEDING PREFERENCES OF TEGULA FUNEBRALIS AND CHEMICAL DEFENSES OF MARINE BROWN ALGAE

    Peter D. Steinberg

  • Larval settlement of the common Australian sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma in response to bacteria from the surface of coralline algae

    Megan J. Huggett;Megan J. Huggett;Jane E. Williamson;Jane E. Williamson;Rocky de Nys;Rocky de Nys;Staffan Kjelleberg

  • Chemical mediation of bacterial surface colonisation by secondary metabolites from the red alga Delisea pulchra

    R. Maximilien;R. De Nys;C. Holmstrom;L. Gram

  • Glomalin production by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: a mechanism of habitat modification?

    Matthias C Rillig;Peter D Steinberg

  • The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

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  • Differential decomposition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae and glomalin

    Peter D Steinberg;Matthias C Rillig

  • Predation, herbivory and kelp evolution

    James A. Estes;Peter D. Steinberg

  • Tolerance of Marine Invertebrate Herbivores to Brown Algal Phlorotannins in Temperate Australasia

    Peter D. Steinberg;Ian van Altena

Frequent Co-Authors

Staffan Kjelleberg
Staffan Kjelleberg Nanyang Technological University
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli
Ezequiel M. Marzinelli University of New South Wales
Adriana Vergés
Adriana Vergés University of New South Wales
Rocky de Nys
Rocky de Nys James Cook University
Melinda A. Coleman
Melinda A. Coleman Southern Cross University
Torsten Thomas
Torsten Thomas University of New South Wales
James R. Guest
James R. Guest Newcastle University
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia
Tilmann Harder
Tilmann Harder University of Bremen
Scott A. Rice
Scott A. Rice Nanyang Technological University

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