Dr Robert Steele

Independent Research Officer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3849

Email

rcjs@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

ES5031 Analytical Sciences, Module Coordinator

ES5050 Earth's Greatest Hits

ES5014 The Chemistry of the Solar System

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.

Selected publications

• Open access

  A rapid, simple, and low-blank pumped ion-exchange column chromatography technique for boron purification from carbonate and seawater matrices

  Xu, C., Jurikova, H., Nuber, S., Steele, R. C. J., Trudgill, M. D., Barker, S., Lear, C. H., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 29 Jan 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 2, 13 p., e2023GC011228.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A simple, low-blank batch purification method for high-precision boron isotope analysis

  Trudgill, M. D., Nuber, S., Block, H., Crumpton-Banks, J., Jurikova, H., Littley, E., Shankle, M., Xu, C., Steele, R. C. J. & Rae, J. W. B., 15 Mar 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 3, e2023GC011350.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The formation and aqueous alteration of CM2 chondrites and their relationship to CO3 chondrites: A fresh isotopic (O, Cd, Cr, Si, Te, Ti, and Zn) perspective from the Winchcombe CM2 fall

  Greenwood, R. C., Findlay, R., Martins, R., Steele, R. C. J., Shaw, K. M. M., Morton, E., Savage, P. S., Murphy, M. E., Rehkämper, M., Franchi, I. A., Elliott, T., Suttle, M. D., King, A. J., Anand, M., Malley, J., Howard, K. T., Zhao, X., Johnson, D., Liu, M. C., McCain, K. A., & 1 others Stephen, N. R., 15 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Early View, 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system

  King, A. J., Daly, L., Rowe, J., Joy, K. H., Greenwood, R. C., Devillepoix, H. A. R., Suttle, M. D., Chan, Q. H. S., Russell, S. S., Bates, H. C., Bryson, J. F. J., Clay, P. L., Vida, D., Lee, M. R., O'Brien, Á., Hallis, L. J., Stephen, N. R., Tartèse, R., Sansom, E. K., Towner, M. C., & 104 others Cupak, M., Shober, P. M., Bland, P. A., Findlay, R., Franchi, I. A., Verchovsky, A. B., Abernethy, F. A. J., Grady, M. M., Floyd, C. J., Van Ginneken, M., Bridges, J., Hicks, L. J., Jones, R. H., Mitchell, J. T., Genge, M. J., Jenkins, L., Martin, P-E., Sephton, M. A., Watson, J. S., Salge, T., Shirley, K. A., Curtis, R. J., Warren, T. J., Bowles, N. E., Stuart, F. M., Di Nicola, L., Györe, D., Boyce, A. J., Shaw, K. M. M., Elliott, T., Steele, R. C. J., Povinec, P., Laubenstein, M., Sanderson, D., Cresswell, A., Jull, A. J. T., Sýkora, I., Sridhar, S., Harrison, R. J., Willcocks, F. M., Harrison, C. S., Hallatt, D., Wozniakiewicz, P. J., Burchell, M. J., Alesbrook, L. S., Dignam, A., Almeida, N. V., Smith, C. L., Clark, B., Humphreys-Williams, E. R., Schofield, P. F., Cornwell, L. T., Spathis, V., Morgan, G. H., Perkins, M. J., Kacerek, R., Campbell-Burns, P., Colas, F., Zanda, B., Vernazza, P., Bouley, S., Jeanne, S., Hankey, M., Collins, G. S., Young, J. S., Shaw, C., Horak, J., Jones, D., James, N., Bosley, S., Shuttleworth, A., Dickinson, P., McMullan, I., Robson, D., Smedley, A. R. D., Stanley, B., Bassom, R., McIntyre, M., Suttle, A. A., Fleet, R., Bastiaens, L., Ihász, M. B., McMullan, S., Boazman, S. J., Dickeson, Z. I., Grindrod, P. M., Pickersgill, A. E., Weir, C. J., Suttle, F. M., Farrelly, S., Spencer, I., Naqvi, S., Mayne, B., Skilton, D., Kirk, D., Mounsey, A., Mounsey, S. E., Mounsey, S., Godfrey, P., Bond, L., Bond, V., Wilcock, C., Wilcock, H. & Wilcock, R., 18 Nov 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 46, 18 p., eabq3925.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A copper isotope investigation of methane cycling in Late Archaean sediments

  Zavina-James, N. A. V., Zerkle, A. L., Steele, R. C. J., Warke, M. R., Izon, G. & Savage, P. S., 16 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Precambrian Research. In press, 10 p., 106267.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Elemental abundances of major elements in the solar wind as measured in Genesis targets and implications on solar wind fractionation

  Heber, V., McKeegan, K., Steele, R. C. J., Jurewicz, A., Rieck, K., Guan, Y., Wieler, R. & Burnett, D. S., 20 Jan 2021, In: Astrophysical Journal. 907, 1, 15.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  New insights into the ~74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores

  Crick, L., Burke, A., Hutchison, W., Kohno, M., Moore, K. A., Savarino, J., Doyle, E. A., Mahony, S., Kipfstuhl, S., Rae, J. W. B., Steele, R. C. J., Sparks, R. S. J. & Wolff, E. W., 18 Oct 2021, In: Climate of the Past. 17, 5, p. 2119–2137

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Nucleosynthetic heterogeneities in meteorites

  Steele, R. C. J., 2021, Encyclopedia of Geology . Alderton, D. & Elias, S. A. (eds.). 2nd ed. Elsevier Inc., p. 242-257

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  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. 201, p. 245-259 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  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., & 6 others 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 › peer-review

 

See more publications