Meinrat Andreae

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Meinrat O. Andreae, born in 1949 in Augsburg, is a German biogeochemist. Since 1987, he has worked as Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz.[1]

Biography

Meinrat O. Andreae studied

University of California at San Diego. In his doctoral thesis, he examined the chemical speciation of arsenic in the ocean. He discovered that planktonic algae regulate the oxidation state of arsenic in seawater and synthesize a variety of organoarsenic compounds. A secondary discovery of his work was that marine phytoplankton also manufactures the raw materials for the volatile sulfur compound dimethyl sulfide
.

Andreae taught oceanography in the Department of Oceanography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, from 1978 until 1982 as an assistant professor, then from 1982 to 1986 as associate professor, and from 1986 to 1987 as full professor. During this time he researched the

ecosystems
. In the 1980s, he was together with Paul Crutzen one of the first scientists to discover the worldwide importance of biomass burning.

In 1987 he was appointed member of the

aerosols from marine sulfur emissions. Campaigns in the Amazon forest then led to a new focus, the biogeochemical processes of exchange between tropical forests and the atmosphere. On expeditions in the Congo, the Amazon, and Southern Africa he studied the emissions from vegetation fires, the exchange of trace gases, and the production of biogenic aerosol particles. Since 2000, research into the role of atmospheric aerosols in the climate system has been at the center of Andreae's research. In 2009, he set up a new working group, applying methods of isotope geochemistry and mass spectrometry to problems of paleoclimatology and marine biogeochemistry
.

As a visiting professor, Andreae taught at the

Waldo E. Smith Medal[4] and became a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2010, Andreae was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa by the Ghent University
in Belgium.

Meinrat O. Andreae and his coworkers have published nearly 500 articles in scientific journals and books.

Research

The scientists of the MPIC Department of Biogeochemistry, in close cooperation with the Departments of Atmospheric Chemistry and Multiphase Chemistry, study interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere of our planet. The results of these studies contribute to the understanding of global biogeochemical cycles, global climate processes, and the impact of mankind on these processes.

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References

Scholia has an author profile for Meinrat Andreae.
  1. ^ Employee profile Archived 2017-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, MPIC, retrieved 2015-07-10.
  2. ^ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, December 18, 2009, retrieved 2015-07-10.
  3. ^ Newly elected members, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 2013, retrieved 2015-07-10.
  4. doi:10.1029/2015EO022949
    .
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