Dr Robert Steele

Dr Robert Steele

Independent Research Officer

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3849
Email
rcjs@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

ES5032 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.

PhD supervision

  • Enza Magnier

Selected publications

  • Open access

    Overcoming polyatomic interferences in sulfur isotope analysis using MC-ICP-MS

    Yu, Y., Sugden, P., Steele, R. C. J., Nuruzzama, M. & Burke, A., 6 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. Early View, 11 p.

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

  • Open access

    Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

    Trudgill, M., Rae, J. W. B., Whiteford, R., Adloff, M., Crumpton-Banks, J., Van Mourik, M., Burke, A., Cuperus, M., Corsetti, F., Doherty, D., Gray, W., Greenop, R., Hong, W.-L., Lepland, A., McIntyre, A., Neiroukh, N., Rose, C. V., Ruhl, M., Saunders, D. & Siri, M. M. F. R. & 5 others, Steele, R. C. J., Stüeken, E. E., West, A. J., Ziegler, M. & Greene, S. E., 14 Jul 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 11 p., 6471.

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

  • 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. ‐. & 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

 

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