Patrick MEISTER, Dr. habil. (Lecturer)
Raumnummer: 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 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
Veröffentlichungen (aus u:cris)
2022
Microbial alkalinity production and silicate alteration in methane charged marine sediments: implications for porewater chemistry and diagenetic carbonate formation. / Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in); Herda, Gerhard; Petrishcheva, Elena; Gier, Susanne (Korresp. Autor*in); Dickens, Gerald; Liu, Bo.
in: Frontiers in Earth Science, 17.01.2022.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
The role of microorganisms in iron cycling in marine sediments. / Reyes, Carolina (Korresp. Autor*in); Meister, Patrick.
Systems Biogeochemistry of Major Marine Biomes . John Wiley & Sons, 2022.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Buch › Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband › 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; Bernasconi, Stefano; Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in).
in: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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 (Korresp. Autor*in); Reitner, Joachim; Tepe, Nathalie; Hohl, Simon V.; Van Kranendonk, Martin; Hofmann, Thilo; Köberl, Christian; Meister, Patrick.
in: Precambrian Research, Band 344, 105742, 15.07.2020.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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; Schneider, D.; Babková, Hana; Peticzka, Robert; Maier, Andreas; Arp, Gernot; Daniel, Rolf ; Meister, Patrick.
in: Biogeosciences, Band 17, Nr. 7, 16.04.2020, S. 2085–2106.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Ostwald’s step rule: a consequence of growth kinetics and nano-scale energy landscape. / Meister, Patrick.
Nucleation and growth of sedimentary minerals. 2020. (IAS Special Publications).Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Buch › Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband › Peer-Review
2019
The Carbon-Isotope Record of the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere. / Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in); Reyes, Carolina.
in: Geosciences, Band 9, Nr. 12, 507, 05.12.2019.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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 (Korresp. Autor*in); Liu, Bo; Khalili, Arzhang; Böttcher, Michael; Jørgensen, Bo Barker.
in: Journal of Marine Systems, Band 200, 103227, 08.2019.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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; Klackl, Stefanie; Preto, Nereo; Breda, Anna; Gier, Susanne; Kloetzli, Urs; Bernasconi, Stefano M.; Arp, Gernot; Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in).
in: Solid earth, Band 10, Nr. 4, 31.07.2019, S. 1243-1267.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Sulphur and carbon isotopes as tracers of past sub-seafloor microbial activity. / Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in); Brunner, Benjamin; Picard, Aude; Böttcher, Michael E.; Jørgensen, Bo Barker.
in: Scientific Reports, Band 9, 604, 24.01.2019.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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, Band 125, 2019.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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 ; Bau, Michael; Walde, Detlef H.G.; Galer, Stephen J.G.; Jiang, Shao-Yong; Meister, Patrick.
in: Gondwana Research, Band 67, 2019, S. 101-114.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
2018
Anaerobic methane oxidation inducing carbonate precipitation at abiogenic methane seeps in the Tuscan archipelago (Italy). / Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in); Wiedling, Johanna; Lott, Christian; Bach, Wolfgang; Kuhfuss, Hanna; Wegener, Gunter; Böttcher, Michael; Deusner, Christian; Lichtschlag, Anna; Bernasconi, Stefano; Weber, Miriam.
in: PLoS ONE, Band 13, Nr. 12, e0207305, 19.12.2018.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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).Veröffentlichung: Buch › 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; Pudlo, Dieter; Picard, Aude; Lichtschlag, Anna; März, Christian; Wagenknecht, Laura; Wehrmann, Laura M.; Vogt, Christoph; Meister, Patrick.
in: Environmental Earth Sciences, Band 76, Nr. 4, 161, 16.02.2017.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Isotope and elemental geochemistry of black shale-hosted fossiliferous concretions (Early Cretaceous Santana Formation, Brazil). / Heimhofer, Ulrich (Korresp. Autor*in); Meister, Patrick; Bernasconi, Stefano M.; Ariztegui, Daniel; Martill, David M.; Rios-Netto, Aristoteles M.; Schwark, Lorenz.
in: Sedimentology, Band 64, Nr. 1, 01.2017.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
2016
Bacterial communities potentially involved in iron-cycling in Baltic Sea and North Sea sediments revealed by pyrosequencing. / Reyes, Carolina (Korresp. Autor*in); Dellwig, Olaf; Dähnke, Kirstin; Gehre, Matthias; Noriega-Ortega, Beatriz E.; Böttcher, Michael E.; Meister, Patrick; Friedrich, Michael W.
in: FEMS microbiology ecology, Band 92, Nr. 4, 04.2016.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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.; Gussone, N.; Teichert, B.M.A.; Meister, P.
in: Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Band 125-126, 03.2016, S. 117–132.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Reproducing authigenic carbonate precipitation in the hypersaline Lake Acıgöl (Turkey) with microbial cultures. / Balci, Nurgul (Korresp. Autor*in); Menekşe, Meryem ; Gül Karagüler, Nevin; Sönmez, M. Şeref ; Meister, Patrick.
in: Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry, Band 33, 2016.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
2015
Methanogenesis produces strong C-13 enrichment in stromatolites of Lagoa Salgada, Brazil : a modern analogue for Palaeo-/Neoproterozoic stromatolites? / Birgel, D.; Meister, P.; Lundberg, R.; Horath, T. D.; Bontognali, T. R. R.; Bahniuk, A. M.; de Rezende, C. E.; Vasconcelos, C.; McKenzie, J. A.
in: Geobiology, Band 13, Nr. 3, 05.2015, S. 245-266.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › 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, Band 27, 2015, S. 400-408.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
2014
Using stable Mg isotopes to distinguish dolomite formation mechanisms : A case study from the Peru Margin. / Mavromatis, Vasileios; Meister, Patrick; Oelkers, Eric H.
in: Chemical Geology, Band 385, 14.10.2014, S. 84-91.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Early diagenetic quartz formation at a deep iron oxidation front in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific – A modern analogue for banded iron/chert formations? / Meister, Patrick (Korresp. Autor*in); Chapligin, Bernhard; Picard, Aude; Meyer, Hanno; Fischer, Cornelius; Rettenwander, Daniel; Amthauer, Georg; Vogt, Christoph; Aiello, Ivano W.
in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014, S. 188-207.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
Two opposing effects of sulfate reduction on carbonate precipitation in normal marine, hypersaline, and alkaline environments: REPLY. / Meister, Patrick.
in: Geology, Band 42, Nr. e315, 2014.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review
2013
Control of sulphate and methane distributions in marine sediments by organic matter reactivity. / Meister, P.; Liu, B.; Ferdelman, T.G.; Jørgensen, B.B.; Khalili, A.
in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Band 104, 2013, S. 183-193.Veröffentlichung: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer-Review