Position: Principal Investigator

Address: Environmental Research Institute,
Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0)1847 889585

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890014

E-mail: Francois.Muller@thurso.uhi.ac.uk

Joined ERI: March 2005

Background:

• Ingénieur Chimiste (1979), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Strasbourg, France.
  
  
• MSc in Oceanography (1981), University of Southampton, UK.
  
  
• PhD in Oceanography (1988), University of Rhode Island, USA.

Research Interests:

• Consequences of climatic and weather changes for marine ecosystems
  
  
• Variability in terrestrial inputs of humic substances to coastal waters
  
  
• Characterisation of the chemical forms of trace metals in seawater
  
  
• Role of colloids in freshwater and marine environments
  
  
  

Selected Publications:

• Muller, F.L.L., A. Larsen, C.A. Stedmon, M. Sondergaard (2005). Interactions between trace metals and bacterial/algal polulations in fjord surface waters during a nutrient stimulated summer bloom. Limnology and Oceanography 50, 1855-1871.
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., S. Jacquet, W.H. Wilson (2003). Biological factors regulating the chemical speciation of Cu, Zn and Mn under different nutrient regimes in a marine mesocosm experiment. Limnology and Oceanography 48, 2289-2302.
  
  
• Tankéré, S.P.C., D.G. Bourne, F.L.L. Muller, V. Torsvik (2002). Microenvironments and microbial community structure in sediments. Environmental Microbiology 4, 97-105
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., S.B. Gulin, Å. Kalvøy (2001). Chemical speciation of copper and zinc in surface waters of the western Black Sea. Marine Chemistry 76, 233-251
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• Tankéré, S.P.C., F.L.L. Muller, J.D. Burton, P.J. Statham, C. Guieu, J.-M. Martin (2001). Trace metal distributions in shelf waters of the western Black Sea. Continental Shelf Research 21, 1501-1532.

Selected Presentations:

• Muller, F. L. L. (2007). Teasing apart the mixed pools of terrestrial and marine organic acids in Norwegian coastal waters. Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology and Geochemistry, New London, NH, USA, 8-13 July 2007.
  
  
• Muller, F. L. L. (2006). Estimating organic acid contributions to seawater alkalinity during a phytoplankton bloom, western Norway. Challenger Conference for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom, 11-14 September 2006.
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., A. Larsen (2004). Trace metal inputs to the Raunefjord during an intense summer rain event could have influenced the outcome of competition among algal and bacterial species. Annual Meeting of the Association of Norwegian Oceanographers, Trondheim, Norway, 4-6 November 2004.
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., A. Larsen (2004). Interactions between algal/bacterial populations and trace metals in fjordic surface waters during a nutrient-stimulated diatom bloom. Geochemistry Division Symposium, 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, 28 March-1 April 2004.
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., W.H. Wilson, S. Jacquet (2002). Influences of major nutrients on the behaviour of Cu, Zn and Mn during a marine mesocosm experiment. Phytoplankton Productivity Conference, Bangor, UK, 18-22 March 2002.
  
  
• Muller, F.L.L., S. Jacquet, W.H. Wilson (2001). Interactions among Zn, Cu and Mn in regulating plankton community structure and biomass production during a marine mesocosm experiment. Third International Symposium on Functioning of Coastal Ecosystems, Gdynia, Poland, 19-22 June 2001.

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