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 Research Labs: Meile Lab Research Areas: Biogeochemistry Chemical Oceanography Climate Change 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 Selected Publications 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 Peterson, R.N., Meile, C. Peterson, L.E., Carter, M. and Miklesh, D. 2019. Groundwater discharge dynamics into a salt marsh tidal river. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 218, 324-333. 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. Chen, C., Meile, C., Wilmoth, J., Barcellos, D. and Thompson, A. 2018. Influence of pO2 on iron redox cycling and anaerobic organic carbon mineralization in a humid tropical forest soil. Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b01368. Meile, C. and Scheibe, T.D. 2018. Reactive transport modeling and biogeochemical cycling. In: Reactive Transport Modeling (eds. Y. Xiao, F. Whitaker, T. Xu and C. Steefel). doi:10.1002/9781119060031.ch10 Yuan, X., Cai, W.-J., Meile, C., Hopkinson, B.M., Ding, Q., Schoef, V., Warner, M.E., Hoadley, K.D., Chen, B., Liu, S., Huang, H., Ye, Y. and Grottoli, A.G. 2018. Quantitative interpretation of vertical profiles of calcium and pH in the coral coelentron. Marine Chemistry, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2018.06.001. Ginn, B., Meile, C., Wilmoth, J., Tang, Y. and Thompson, A. 2017. Rapid iron reduction rates are stimulated by high-amplitude redox fluctuations in a tropical forest soil. Environmental Science & Technology 51, 3250-3259. Li L., Maher K., Navarre-Sitchler A., Druhan J., Meile C., others 20. 2016. Expanding the Role of Reactive Transport Models in Earth Surface Processes. Earth-Science Reviews. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML 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 Meile C., Jones C.. 2016. A mathematical perspective on microbial processes in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Mathematical paradigms of climate science. 15:3-14. Google Scholar BibTex XML Lowell RP, Houghton J, Farough A, Craft K, Larson B, Meile C. 2015. Mathematical modeling of diffuse flow in seafloor hydrothermal systems: The potential extent of the subsurface biosphere at ocean ridges. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Google Scholar BibTex XML Hoelker F, Vanni MJ, Kuiper JJ, Meile C, others 10. 2015. Tube-dwelling invertebrates: tiny ecosystem engineers have large effects in lake ecosystems. Ecology Monographs. Google Scholar BibTex XML Larson B, Houghton J, Lowell RP, Farough A, Meile C. 2015. Subsurface conditions in hydrothermal vents inferred from diffuse flow composition, and models of reaction and transport. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Google Scholar BibTex XML Dornhoffer T, Waldbusser G, Meile C. 2015. A modeling study of lugworm irrigation behavior effects on sediment nitrogen cycling. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 534 Google Scholar BibTex XML Lai M-J, Meile C. 2015. Scattered data interpolation with nonnegative preservation using bivariate splines and its application. Computer Aided Geometric Design. :-. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Tishchenko V, Meile C, Scherer MM, Pasakarnis TS, Thompson A. 2015. Fe2+ catalyzed iron atom exchange and re-crystallization in a tropical soil. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 148:191-202. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Crespo-Medina M., Meile C.D., Hunter K.S., Diercks A.R., Asper V.L., Orphan V.J., Tavormina P.L., Nigro L.M., Battles J.J., Chanton J.P. et al.. 2014. The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout. Nature Geoscience. 7:423-427. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Ginn BR, Habteselassie MY, Meile C, Thompson A. 2014. Effects of sample storage on microbial Fe-reduction in tropical rainforest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 68:44-51. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Loftis KM, Meile C. 2014. Isotopes and elemental ratios in multi-parameter mixing models. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 12:694–702. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Palomo L, Meile C, Joye SB. 2013. Drought impacts on biogeochemistry and microbial processes in salt marsh sediments: a flow-through reactor approach. Biogeochemistry. 112:389–407. Google Scholar BibTex XML Schutte C., Hunter K.S., McKay P., Di Iorio D., Joye S.B, Meile C. 2013. Patterns and controls of nutrient concentrations in a southeastern United States tidal creek. Oceanography. 26(3):132-139. Google Scholar BibTex XML Hopkinson BM, Meile C, Shen C. 2013. Quantification of extracellular carbonic anhydrase activity in two marine diatoms and investigation of its role. Plant physiology. 162:1142–1152. Google Scholar BibTex XML Dornhoffer T, Waldbusser G, Meile C. 2012. Burrow patchiness and oxygen fluxes in bioirrigated sediments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 412 Google Scholar BibTex XML Chan L-K, Newton RJ, Sharma S, Smith CB, Rayapati P, Limardo AJ, Meile C, Moran MA. 2012. Transcriptional changes underlying elemental stoichiometry shifts in a marine heterotrophic bacterium. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3 Google Scholar BibTex XML Joye SB, Leifer I, MacDonald IR, Chanton JP, Meile CD, Teske AP, Kostka JE, Chistoserdova L, Coffin R, Hollander D et al.. 2011. Comment on “A Persistent Oxygen Anomaly Reveals the Fate of Spilled Methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico”. Science. 332:1033. DOI Google Scholar BibTex XML Porubsky WP, Joye SB, Moore WS, Tuncay K, Meile C. 2011. Field measurements and modeling of groundwater flow and biogeochemistry at Moses Hammock, a backbarrier island on the Georgia coast. Biogeochemistry. 104:69–90. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Porubsky WP, Walker RL, Payne K. 2010. Natural attenuation of nitrogen loading from septic effluents: Spatial and environmental controls. Water research. 44:1399–1408. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Porubsky WP, Walker RL, Payne K. 2010. Natural attenuation of nitrogen loading from septic effluents: Spatial and environmental controls. Water research. 44:1399–1408. Google Scholar BibTex XML Pallud C, Kausch M, Fendorf S, Meile C. 2009. Spatial patterns and modeling of reductive ferrihydrite transformation observed in artificial soil aggregates. Environmental science & technology. 44:74–79. Google Scholar BibTex XML Joye SB, Samarkin VA, MacDonald IR, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M, Teske AP, Lloyd KG, Lever MA, Montoya JP, Meile CD et al.. 2009. Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics. Nature Geoscience. 2:349–354. Google Scholar BibTex XML King EL, Tuncay K, Ortoleva P, Meile C. 2009. In silico Geobacter sulfurreducens metabolism and its representation in reactive transport models. Applied and environmental microbiology. 75:83–92. Google Scholar BibTex XML Spiteri C, Slomp CP, Tuncay K, Meile C. 2008. Modeling biogeochemical processes in subterranean estuaries: Effect of flow dynamics and redox conditions on submarine groundwater discharge of nutrients. Water resources research. 44 Google Scholar BibTex XML Orcutt B, Meile C. 2008. Constraints on mechanisms and rates of anaerobic oxidation of methane by microbial consortia: process-based modeling of ANME-2 archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria interactions.. Biogeosciences. 5:1587–1599. Google Scholar BibTex XML Spiteri C, Slomp CP, Charette MA, Tuncay K, Meile C. 2008. Flow and nutrient dynamics in a subterranean estuary (Waquoit Bay, MA, USA): field data and reactive transport modeling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 72:3398–3412. Google Scholar BibTex XML Nehrke G, Reichart G-J, Van Cappellen P, Meile C, Bijma J. 2007. Dependence of calcite growth rate and Sr partitioning on solution stoichiometry: non-Kossel crystal growth. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta. 71:2240–2249. Google Scholar BibTex XML Moran MA, Belas R, Schell MA, Gonzalez JM, Sun F, Sun S, Binder BJ, Edmonds J, Ye W, Orcutt B et al.. 2007. Ecological genomics of marine roseobacters. Applied and environmental microbiology. 73:4559–4569. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Tuncay K. 2006. Scale dependence of reaction rates in porous media. Advances in water resources. 29:62–71. Google Scholar BibTex XML Hollibaugh JT, Carini S, Gürleyük H, Jellison R, Joye SB, LeCleir G, Meile C, Vasquez L, Wallschläger D. 2005. Arsenic speciation in Mono Lake, California: Response to seasonal stratification and anoxia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 69:1925–1937. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Berg P, Van Cappellen P, Tuncay K. 2005. Solute-specific pore water irrigation: Implications for chemical cycling in early diagenesis. Journal of Marine Research. 63:601–621. Google Scholar BibTex XML Koretsky CM, Moore CM, Lowe KL, Meile C, DiChristina TJ, Van Cappellen P. 2003. Seasonal oscillation of microbial iron and sulfate reduction in saltmarsh sediments (Sapelo Island, GA, USA). Biogeochemistry. 64:179–203. Google Scholar BibTex XML Haese RR, Meile C, Van Cappellen P, De Lange GJ. 2003. Carbon geochemistry of cold seeps: methane fluxes and transformation in sediments from Kazan mud volcano, eastern Mediterranean Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 212:361–375. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Van Cappellen P. 2003. Global estimates of enhanced solute transport in marine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography. 48:777–786. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Tuncay K, Van Cappellen P. 2003. Explicit representation of spatial heterogeneity in reactive transport models: application to bioirrigated sediments. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 78:231–234. Google Scholar BibTex XML Koretsky CM, Meile C, Van Cappellen P. 2002. Quantifying bioirrigation using ecological parameters: a stochastic approach. Geochem. Trans. 3:17–30. Google Scholar BibTex XML Meile C, Koretsky CM, Van Cappellen P. 2001. Quantifying bioirrigation in aquatic sediments: an inverse modeling approach. Limnology and Oceanography. 46:164–177. Google Scholar BibTex XML Courses Regularly Taught MARS 1010 MARS 4100 MARS 6810 MARS 8020 MARS 1010L