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Christof Meile

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Professor

Education:

Ph.D. 2003, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

M.Sc. 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Dipl. Nat.wiss. 1996, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Research Emphasis:

Reactive-Transport Modeling and Biogeochemical Cycling 

bioturbation, microbial metabolism, in silico microbial models and upscaling, nutrient dynamics and human impacts at the land-ocean interface, salt marsh carbon and groundwater dynamics, iron cycling and redox oscillations, hydrothermal vents, oil spill impacts

Labs:
Research Interests:

Reactive-Transport Modeling and Biogeochemical Cycling 

bioturbation, microbial metabolism, in silico microbial models and upscaling, nutrient dynamics and human impacts at the land-ocean interface, salt marsh carbon and groundwater dynamics, iron cycling and redox oscillations, hydrothermal vents, oil spill impacts

For a list of publications see

https://meilelab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/publications

 

Bice, K., J. Schalles, M. Alber, J. Sheldon and Meile, C. 2023. Temporal patterns and causal drivers of aboveground plant biomass in a coastal wetland: insights from time-series analyses. Frontiers in Marine Science. Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology. Volume 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1130958

Jung, H., Song, H.-S. and Meile, C. 2023. CompLaB v1.0: a scalable pore-scale model for flow, biogeochemistry, microbial metabolism, and biofilm dynamics. Geoscientific Model Development 16, 1683–1696, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1683-2023.

Rooze, J., Peterson, L., Peterson, R.N. and Meile, C. 2020. Porewater flow patterns in surficial cold seep sediments inferred from conservative tracer profiles and early diagenetic modeling. Chemical Geology, accepted. 

Meile, C. and Scheibe, T. 2019. Reactive transport modeling of microbial dynamics. Elements. 15, 111-116, doi: 10.2138/gselements.15.2.111

Jung, H. and Meile, C. 2019. Upscaling of microbially driven first-order reactions in heterogeneous porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2019.04.006

He, X., Kempes, C., Chadwick, G., McGlynn, S. Shi, Y., Orphan, V. and Meile, C. 2018. Microbial interactions in the anaerobic oxidation of methane: Model simulations constrained by process rates and activity patterns. Environmental Microbiology; doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14507.

Barcellos, D., O'Connell, C.S., Silver, W., Meile, C. and Thompson, A. 2018. Hot spots and hot moments of soil moisture explain fluctuations in iron and carbon cycling in a humid tropical forest soil. Soil Systems, 2(4), 59; doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems2040059.

Miklesh, D. and Meile, C. 2018. Porewater salinity in a southeastern United States salt marsh: controls and interannual variation. PeerJ 6:e5911; doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5911.

Rooze J., Meile C..  2016.  The effect of redox conditions and bioirrigation on nitrogen isotope fractionation in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML

 

 

 

Events Featuring...

Marine Sciences Rm 261

Jonathan Ledoux, a graduate student in Dr. Christof Meile's lab, will present his MS thesis titled “Drivers of Groundwater Flow at a Back Barrier Island - Marsh Transect in Coastal Georgia” on Friday, June 19th at 1:00pm in Marine Sciences Rm 261. Please join us for this event.

Articles Featuring Christof Meile

The Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia (https://marsci.uga.edu) seeks an Academic Professional Associate with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2023. Located on the main campus in Athens, this is a full-time, non-tenure-track, nine-…

The Marine Science department was used as a client for Yen-I Lee's 3510 Public Relations Research course. This effort was spearheaded by our very own Christof Meile in order to evaluate how we can better communicate our awesome program here to everyone…

ASLO Fellows are recognized as having achieved excellence in their contributions to ASLO and the aquatic sciences. The ASLO Fellows program was initiated in 2015 to honor those ASLO members who have consistently volunteered their time and efforts in…

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