Dr Robert Steele

Independent Research Officer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463849

Email

rcjs@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

ES5031 Analytical Sciences, Module Coordinator

Research areas

My main scientific focus concerns understanding the processes by which solar systems and planets form. Primarily, I develop new analytical techniques to measure elemental and isotopic compositions in terrestrial samples, meteorites and their components. I examine the processing of presolar material in the early Solar System on its journey to become the planets and asteroids we know today.

PhD supervision

• Molly Trudgill
• Laura Crick

Selected publications

• Matrix effects on the relative sensitivity factors for manganese and chromium during ion microprobe analysis of carbonate: implications for early Solar System chronology

  Steele, R. C. J., Heber, V. S. & McKeegan, K. D., 15 Mar 2017, In : Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. p. 245-259 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The Stubenberg meteorite?An LL6 chondrite fragmental breccia recovered soon after precise prediction of the strewn field

  Bischoff, A., Barrat, J-A., Bauer, K., Burkhardt, C., Busemann, H., Ebert, S., Gonsior, M., Hakenmüller, J., Haloda, J., Harries, D., Heinlein, D., Hiesinger, H., Hochleitner, R., Hoffmann, V., Kaliwoda, M., Laubenstein, M., Maden, C., Meier, M. M. M., Morlok, A., Pack, A., Ruf, A., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Schönbächler, M., Steele, R. C. J., Spurný, P. & Wimmer, K., 2 Aug 2017, In : Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 52, 8, p. 1683-1703

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The isotope geochemistry of Ni

  Elliott, T. & Steele, R. C. J., 1 Jan 2017, In : Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 82, 1, p. 511-542 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Titanium isotope source relations and the extent of mixing in the proto-Solar nebula examined by Independent Component Analysis

  Steele, R. C. J. & Boehnke, P., 25 Mar 2015, In : Astrophysical Journal. 802, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Statistical bias in isotope ratios

  Coath, C. D., Steele, R. C. J. & Lunnon, W. F., 1 Jan 2013, In : Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry . 28, 1, p. 52-58 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Neutron-poor nickel isotope anomalies in meteorites

  Steele, R. C. J., Coath, C. D., Regelous, M., Russell, S. & Elliott, T., 26 Sep 2012, In : Astrophysical Journal. 758, 1, 59.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Confirmation of mass-independent Ni isotopic variability in iron meteorites

  Steele, R. C. J., Elliott, T., Coath, C. D. & Regelous, M., 15 Dec 2011, In : Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75, 24, p. 7906-7925

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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