Patrick MEISTER, Dr. habil. (Lecturer)
Room Number: 2B385
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53470
Research Interests:
My research is focused on the most fundamental aspects of how life and Earth interacted throughout possibly the last 4.4 billion years. The essential mechanisms are, on the one hand, that organisms catalyse biogeochemical processes otherwise inhibited under Earth surface conditions and therefore alter global geochemical cycles. On the other hand, biotic effects on mineral formation have fundamentally impacted Earth’s geological record.
Understanding these interactions requires an interdisciplinary approach, using insights from geobiology, sedimentology, (micro)biology, (bio)geochemistry, palaeontology, mineralogy, and environmental sciences. My studies include ongoing processes in modern systems, signatures in the geological record, and process-oriented computer models, with the overarching goal to gain fundamental knowledge about the role that life has played in Earth’s exogenic cycle.
News:
New Publication (April 2023): Dolomit: Nanostrukturen im Schlamm des Neusiedler Sees nachgewiesen
New modelling paper in Frontiers in Earth Science
Projects:
- Simulating biogeochemical processes with numerical models
- Diagenetic imprints in marine sediments as signatures of a dynamic deep biosphere
- Studying primary Triassic dolomites using high-resolution petrographic and mineralogical tools
- Implications on early Earth's conditions from modern analogues
- Reconstruction of Tethyan environments
Publications (taken from u:cris)
2024
Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial-scale growth of Mg-calcite and protodolomite. / Neuhuber, Stephanie; Gier, Susanne; Draganits, Erich et al.
In: Sedimentology, Vol. 71, No. 3, 04.2024, p. 912-940.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fossilized giant sulfide-oxidizing bacteria from the Devonian Hollard Mound seep deposit, Morocco. / Smrzka, Daniel; Zwicker, Jennifer; Schulz-Vogt, Heide et al.
In: Geobiology, Vol. 22, No. 1, e12581, 01.01.2024.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2023
Nanoscale Pathway of Modern Dolomite Formation in a Shallow, Alkaline Lake. / Meister, Patrick; Frisia, Silvia; Dódony, István et al.
In: Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 23, No. 5, 03.05.2023, p. 3202–3212.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Temporal evolution of shallow marine diagenetic environments: Insights from carbonate concretions. / Loyd, Sean (Corresponding author); Meister, Patrick; Liu, Bo et al.
In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 351, 01.05.2023.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
The role of microorganisms in iron reduction in marine sediments. / Reyes, Carolina (Corresponding author); Meister, Patrick.
Systems Biogeochemistry of Major Marine Biomes . ed. / Aninda Mazumdar. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. p. 41-60.Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › peer-review
Microbial alkalinity production and silicate alteration in methane charged marine sediments: implications for porewater chemistry and diagenetic carbonate formation. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Herda, Gerhard; Petrishcheva, Elena et al.
In: Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol. 9, 756591, 17.01.2022.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
Microfacies and C/O-isotopes in lacustrine dolomites reflect variable environmental conditions in the Germanic Basin (Arnstadt Formation, Upper Triassic). / Hofbauer, Barbara; Viehmann, Sebastian; Gier, Susanne et al.
In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 1, 17.12.2021, p. 66-87.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ostwald’s step rule: a consequence of growth kinetics and nano-scale energy landscape. / Meister, Patrick.
2021.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
2020
Carbonates and cherts as archives of seawater chemistry and habitability on a carbonate platform 3.35 Ga ago: Insights from Sm/Nd dating and trace element analysis from the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia. / Viehmann, Sebastian (Corresponding author); Reitner, Joachim; Tepe, Nathalie et al.
In: Precambrian Research, Vol. 344, 105742, 15.07.2020.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Authigenic formation of Ca-Mg carbonates in the shallow alkaline Lake Neusiedl, Austria. / Fussmann, Dario; von Hoyningen-Huene, A.J.E.; Reimer, Andreas et al.
In: Biogeosciences, Vol. 17, No. 7, 2085, 16.04.2020, p. 2085–2106.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2019
The Carbon-Isotope Record of the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Reyes, Carolina.
In: Geosciences, Vol. 9, No. 12, 507, 05.12.2019.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Factors controlling the carbon isotope composition of dissolved inorganic carbon and methane in marine porewater: An evaluation by reaction-transport modelling. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Liu, Bo; Khalili, Arzhang et al.
In: Journal of Marine Systems, Vol. 200, 103227, 12.2019.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Precipitation of dolomite from seawater on a Carnian coastal plain (Dolomites, northern Italy) : evidence from carbonate petrography and Sr isotopes. / Rieder, Maximilian; Wegner, Wencke; Horschinegg, Monika et al.
In: Solid earth, Vol. 10, No. 4, 31.07.2019, p. 1243-1267.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dolomite formation by nanocrystal aggregation in the dolomia principale of the brenta dolomites (Northern Italy). / Meister, P.; Frisia, S.
In: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol. 125, No. 1, 03.2019, p. 183-196.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Metal cycling in Mesoproterozoic microbial habitats: Insights from trace elements and stable Cd isotopes in stromatolites. / Viehmann, Sebastian; Hohl, Simon V.; Kraemer, Dennis et al.
In: Gondwana Research, Vol. 67, 03.2019, p. 101-114.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sulphur and carbon isotopes as tracers of past sub-seafloor microbial activity. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Brunner, Benjamin; Picard, Aude et al.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, No. 1, 604, 24.01.2019.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
Anaerobic methane oxidation inducing carbonate precipitation at abiogenic methane seeps in the Tuscan archipelago (Italy). / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Wiedling, Johanna; Lott, Christian et al.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 12, e0207305, 19.12.2018.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The formation of authigenic and early diagenetic minerals and their potential to preserve signatures of past biogeochemical conditions. / Meister, Patrick.
2018. (Habilitation Thesis).Publications: Book › peer-review
2017
Mineralogical and geochemical analysis of Fe-phases in drill-cores from the Triassic Stuttgart Formation at Ketzin CO2 storage site before CO2 arrival. / Kasina, Monika; Bock, Susanne; Würdemann, Hilke et al.
In: Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 76, No. 4, 161, 16.02.2017.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Isotope and elemental geochemistry of black shale-hosted fossiliferous concretions from the Cretaceous Santana Formation fossil Lagerstatte (Brazil). / Heimhofer, Ulrich (Corresponding author); Meister, Patrick; Bernasconi, Stefano M. et al.
In: Sedimentology, Vol. 64, No. 1, 01.2017, p. 150-167.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2016
Bacterial communities potentially involved in iron-cycling in Baltic Sea and North Sea sediments revealed by pyrosequencing. / Reyes, Carolina (Corresponding author); Dellwig, Olaf; Dähnke, Kirstin et al.
In: FEMS microbiology ecology, Vol. 92, No. 4, 054, 04.2016.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Repeated occurrences of methanogenic zones, diagenetic dolomite formation and linked silicate alteration in southern Bering Sea sediments (Bowers Ridge, IODP Exp. 323 Site U1341). / Wehrmann, L.M.; Ockert, C.; Mix, A.C. et al.
In: Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Vol. 125-126, 03.2016, p. 117–132.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reproducing authigenic carbonate precipitation in the hypersaline Lake Acıgöl (Turkey) with microbial cultures. / Balci, Nurgul (Corresponding author); Menekşe, Meryem ; Gül Karagüler, Nevin et al.
In: Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry, Vol. 33, No. 9, 2016, p. 758-773.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2015
Methanogenesis produces strong 13C enrichment in stromatolites of Lagoa Salgada, Brazil : a modern analogue for Palaeo-/Neoproterozoic stromatolites? / Birgel, D.; Meister, P.; Lundberg, R. et al.
In: Geobiology, Vol. 13, No. 3, 05.2015, p. 245-266.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
For the deep biosphere, the present is not always the key to the past: what we can learn from the geological record. / Meister, Patrick.
In: Terra Nova: the European journal of geosciences, Vol. 27, No. 6, 2015, p. 400-408.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review