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Christof Meile

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA  30602  

cmeile@uga.edu

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf-2 (ECOGIG-2)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 6

2020

Rooze, J., Peterson, L., Peterson, R. N., & Meile, C. (2020). Porewater flow patterns in surficial cold seep sediments inferred from conservative tracer profiles and early diagenetic modeling. Chemical Geology, 536, 119468.

2019

Meile, C., & Scheibe, T. D. (2019). Reactive Transport Modeling of Microbial Dynamics. Elements, 15(2), 111–116.

2016

Rooze, J., & Meile, C. (2016). The effect of redox conditions and bioirrigation on nitrogen isotope fractionation in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 184, 227–239.

2015

Dornhoffer, T., Waldbusser, G., & Meile, C. (2015). Modeling lugworm irrigation behavior effects on sediment nitrogen cycling. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 534, 121–134.
Lai, M. - J., & Meile, C. (2015). Scattered data interpolation with nonnegative preservation using bivariate splines and its application. Computer Aided Geometric Design, 34, 37–49.

2014

Crespo-Medina, M., Meile, C. D., Hunter, K. S., Diercks, A. - R., Asper, V. L., Orphan, V. J., et al. (2014). The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout. Nature Geosci, 7(6), 423–427.

Conference Presentations - 18

2020

Rooze, J., Peterson, L., Peterson, R. N., & Meile, C. (2020). Porewater Flow Patterns at Cold Seeps Inferred From Conservative Tracer Profiles and Modeling. In 7th Annual Southern Biogeochemistry Symposium. Atlanta, GA : 03/14/20-03/15/20: Poster.

2019

Rooze, J., Peterson, L., Peterson, R., & Meile, C. (2019). Dynamics of porewater flow at cold seeps inferred from conservative tracer profiles and modeling. In 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oceanography. Holderness, NH : 07/14/19-07/19/19: Poster.

2017

Wang, Y., Ziervogel, K., & Meile, C. (2017). A model study of near-seabottom flow and its effect on sediment resuspension. In Georgia Water Resources Conference. Athens, GA : 04/19/17-04/20/17: Poster.

2016

Dornhoffer, T., & Meile, C. (2016). The use of benthic infauna to predict estuarine denitrification: Organismal and system scale analysis. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans, LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16: Poster.
Rooze, J., & Meile, C. (2016). Hydrodynamic and environmental controls on the nitrogen isotope effect of benthic N2 production. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans, LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16.
Rooze, J., & Meile, C. (2016). The isotopic signature of fixed nitrogen removal in bioirrigated marine sediments. In 3rd Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium. Knoxville, TN : 03/11/2016-03/14/2016: Poster.
Rooze, J., & Meile, C. (2016). The effect of bioirrigation and redox conditions on nitrogen isotope fluxes in marine sediments. In Ecological Society of America Southeastern Section 65th Annual Meeting. Columbia, SC : 03/31/2016-04/01/2016.
Rooze, J., & Meile, C. (2016). The effect of bioirrigation and redox conditions on nitrogen isotope fluxes in marine sediments. In Geological Society of America Southeastern Section 65th Annual Meeting. Columbia, SC : 03/31/2016-04/01/2016: Poster.

2015

Meile, C., Lai, M., Bracco, A., Luo, H., & Joye, S. (2015). Interpretation of oxygen profiles in the aftermath of the BP/Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon discharge. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Peterson, L., Peterson, R., Joye, S., Meile, C., Montoya, J., & Weber, S. (2015). Assessing Hydrocarbon Flow Through Sediments Using Radium Isotopes. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Peterson, R., Peterson, L. E., Montoya, J. P., Weber, S. C., Meile, C. D., & Joye, S. B. (2015). Radium Isotopes as Conservative Tracers of Hydrocarbon Transport Through the Water Column. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

King, E. L., Sibert, R., Battles, J., Fields, L., Joye, S. B., & Meile, C. (2014). Hydrocarbon processing at a natural seep in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Meile, C. (2014). Models of microbial metabolism: from cells to aggregates and beyond. In Gordon Conference on Marine Microbes. Walthem, MA : 06/22/14-06/27/14.

2013

Joye, S. B., Sibert, R., Battles, J., Fields, L., Kleindienst, S., Crespo-Medina, M., et al. (2013). Sediment biogeochemistry and microbial activity at natural hydrocarbon seeps and at sites impacted by anthropogenic hydrocarbon discharges. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.
Meile, C. (2013). Applied Math and Environmental Sciences in the Aftermath of the 2010 BP Oil Spill. In Applied Math Seminar. Athens, GA, March 20, 2013.
Meile, C. (2013). Marine microbial processes and their climate feedback. In Istituto Nazional di Alta Matematica Workshop on ââ?¬Å?Mathematical Paradigms of Climate Scienceââ?¬Â?. Rome, Italy, June 24, 2013.
Meile, C. (2013). Marine microbial processes: Climate feedbacks and model formulations. In Mathematics and Climate Research Network Junior Researchers Meeting. Carrboro, NC, October 8, 2013.

2012

Lai, M. - J., & Meile, C. (2012). Oxygen Anomalies in the Aftermath of the BP Oil Spill. In Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium. Athens, GA, February 25th, 2012: Poster.