Paul A. Steudler
The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
508-289-7491 (voice)
508-457-1548 (fax)
steudler@mbl.edu
Further Information: http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/Staff/steudler.html
Education
B.S. Chemistry, Ohio University, 1965
M.S. Organic Chemistry - Marine Natural Products, Minor: Biochemistry,
University of Oklahoma, 1973
Professional Experience
| 1994 - present | Environmental Chemist, Senior Research Specialist. The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
| 1985 - 1994 | Environmental Chemist, Research Specialist. The Ecosystems
Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
| 1975 - 1984 | Environmental Chemist, Research Associate in Ecology. The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
| 1973 - 1975 | Separation-Isolation-Analytical Chemist. Smith, Kline and French Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, P |
| 1968 - 1970 | Marine Inorganic Chemist. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA |
| 1966 - 1968 | Organic Research Chemist. Olin Chemicals Corporation, Research
Center, New Haven, CT |
Memberships in Professional Societies
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
Recent and Relevant Publications
Steudler, P. A., R. D. Bowden, J. M. Melillo and J. D. Aber. 1989. Influence of nitrogen fertilization on methane uptake in temperate forest soils. Nature 341:314-316.
Steudler, P., J. Melillo, R. Bowden, M. Castro and A. Lugo. 1991. The effects of natural and human disturbances on soil nitrogen dynamics and trace gas fluxes in a Puerto Rican wet forest. Biotropica 23(4a):356-363.
Castro, M. S., W. T. Peterjohn, J. M. Melillo and P. A. Steudler. 1994. Effects of nitrogen fertilization on the fluxes of N2O, CH4, and CO2 from soils in a Florida slash pine plantation. Can. J. of For. Res. 24:9-13.
Castro, M. S., P. A. Steudler, J. M. Melillo, J. D. Aber and R. D. Bowden. 1995. Factors controlling atmospheric methane consumption by temperate forest soils. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 9:1-10.
Steudler, P. A., R. D. Jones, M. S. Castro, J. M. Melillo and D. Lewis. 1996. Microbial controls of methane oxidation in temperate forest and agricultural soils, pp. 69-84. In: J. C. Murrell and D. P. Kelly (eds.), The Microbiology of Atmospheric Trace Gases: Sources, Sinks and Global Change Process. NATO ASI Series Global Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Steudler, P. A., J. M. Melillo, B. J. Feigl, M. C. Piccolo and C. C. Cerri. 1996. Consequence of forest-to-pasture conversion on the CH4 fluxes in the Brasilian Amazon Basin. J. Geophys. Res. 101:18,547-18,554.
Magill, A. H., J. D. Aber, J. J. Hendricks, R. D. Bowden, J. M. Melillo and P. A. Steudler. 1997. Biogeochemical response of forest ecosystems to simulated chronic nitrogen deposition. Ecol. Appl. 7:402-415.
Gulledge, J., P. A. Steudler and J. P. Schimel. 1998. Effect of CH4-starvation on atmospheric CH4 oxidizers in taiga and temperate forest soils. Soil Biol. & Biochem. 30:1463-1467.
Lewis, D. A., W. Garrison, E. Wommack, A. Whittemore, P. Steudler and J. Melillo. 1999. Influence of environmental changes on degradation of chiral pollutants in soils. Nature 401:898-901.
Bowden, R. D., G. Rullo, G. R. Stevens and P. A. Steudler. 2000. Soil fluxes of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane at a productive temperate deciduous forest. J. Environ. Qual. 29:268-276.
Magill, A., J. Aber, G. Berntson, W. McDowell, K. Nadelhoffer, J. Melillo, and P. Steudler. 2000. Long-term nitrogen additions and nitrogen saturation in two temperate forests. Ecosystems 3:238-253.
Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens and S. Morrisseau. 2002. Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system. Science 298:2173-2176.
Venterea, R., P.M. Groffman, L. V. Verchot, A. H. Magill, J. D. Aber and P. A. Steudler. 2003. Nitrogen oxide gas emissions from temperate forest soils receiving long-term nitrogen inputs. Global Change Biology, 9, 346-357.
Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens and S. Morrisseau. Soil warming - a major consequence of global climate change. Chapter 14. In: D. Foster and J. Aber (eds.), Forests in Time, The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. Synthesis Volume of the Harvard Forest LTER Program. Yale University Press, in press.
List of Graduate or Postgraduate Advisors and Recent Collaborators
J. D. Aber, Univ. New Hampshire; A. Ahmad, Harvard University; R. D. Bowden, Allegheny College; M. Castro, Appalachian Environmental Lab.; C. Cavanaugh, Harvard University; C. C. Cerri, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura; B. J. Feigl, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura; J. Gulledge, Tulane University; J. E. Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory; R. D. Jones, Florida International University; D. W. Kicklighter, Marine Biological Laboratory; D. L. Lewis, University of Georgia; J. M. Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory; B. Moore, III, University of New Hampshire; K. J. Nadelhoffer, Marine Biological Laboratory; C. Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory; B. J. Peterson, Marine Biological Laboratory; M. C. Piccolo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura; C. J. Vorosmarty, University of New Hampshire