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Michael Steinke

School of Biological Sciences

University of Essex

Colchester

CO4 3SQ

United Kingdom

room: 4.10

email: msteinke (at) essex.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0)1206 873318

 

   
  RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Ecology and biogeochemistry of marine trace gases

  • Infochemistry of phytoplankton

  • Chemodetection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in zooplankton

  • Production of isoprene and ethene (ethylene) in marine algae and terrestrial plants

More Info on the Algae & Grazers website

 
     

BIOGRAPHY

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES

TEACHING

 

 

 

 
     
Biography

2006

Lecturer

University of Essex, Colchester, UK

2001

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

1997

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

1997

Ph.D.

University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Arnold HE, Kerrison PD, Steinke M (2013) Interacting effects of ocean acidification and warming on growth and DMS-production in the haptophyte coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. Global Change Biology 19(4): 1007-1016 (DOI) 

Exton DA, Suggett DJ, Steinke M, McGenity TJ (2012) Spatial and temporal variability of biogenic isoprene emissions from a temperate estuary. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26(2), GB2012 (DOI)

Exton DA, Suggett DJ, McGenity TJ, Steinke M (2013) Chlorophyll-normalized isoprene production in laboratory cultures of marine microalgae and implications for global models. Limnology and Oceanography, in press

Kerrison P, Suggett DJ, Hepburn LJ, Steinke M (2012) Effect of elevated pCO2 on the production of dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in two species of Ulva (Chlorophyceae). Biogeochemistry 110: 5-16 (DOI)

Lewis ND, Breckels MN, Steinke M, Codling EA (2013) Role of infochemical mediated zooplankton grazing in a phytoplankton competition model. Ecological Complexity: in press (DOI)

 

My publications in the Research Repository

List of all publications

 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Microbial degradation of isoprene in the terrestrial environment

Principal Investigator:

Dr Terry McGenity

 

Co-Investigators:

Dr Tracy Lawson

Dr Michael Steinke

 

PhD Student:

Mr Gordon Murphy

 

 

Funding (2012 - 2015):

 

Freshwater isoprene and its effect on the vertical distribution of zooplankton (Daphnia sp.)

Co-Investigators:

Dr Dominik Martin-Creuzburg (Konstanz) and Dr Michael Steinke (Essex)

 

Students:

Bettina Hodapp (Konstanz) and Rameez Subhan (Essex)

 

 

Funding (2013):

Konstanz-Essex Development Fund

 

Role of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in pelagic tritrophic interactions

Principal Investigator:

Dr Michael Steinke

 

Co-Investigators:

Dr Steve Archer (Bigelow Laboratory)

Dr Edd Codling (Essex)

 

Postdoctoral Researcher:

Dr Mark Breckels

PhD Student:

Ms Nicola Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Steve Archer, Mark Breckels, Michael Steinke & Edd Codling

Funding (2010 - 2013):

 

SELECTED KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES

Steinke M et al. (2012) Kids' Uni event at Colchester FirstSite, 26 May 2012

Steinke M, Exton DA and McGenity TJ (2011) 'Marine Gases - Challenges to the bio(geo)chemist' The Biochemist 33(3): 20-25 (PDF)

Steinke M and Liss PS (2007) 'The Smell of the Sea' BBC Radio 4 Material World, 2 August 2007. Listen again here

Steinke M (2006) 'Ocean Odours' Planet Earth, Winter 2006 (PDF)

 

TEACHING

I am the Course Director of the MSc in Marine Biology

 

BS112 Marine Biology and Oceanography

BS251 Marine Biodiversity

BS303 Estuarine and Coastal Ecology Field Module

BS344 Pollution: Impacts and Management

BS714 Marine Zoology

BS715 Marine Practical Skills

BS718 Marine Biotechnology

 

Location of Teaching Rooms

 

UPCOMING & RECENT EVENTS

Microscale Interactions in Aquatic Environments, Les Houches, 11-15 March 2013

 

 

Challenger Conference, UEA, 3-6 September 2012

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Steinke

Plankton artwork courtesy of Glynn Gorick