Current Post: Reader in Biological Oceanography

Room Number: 01.24

Telephone: 01603 592531 (+44 1603 592531)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: g.malin@uea.ac.uk

Web Page: Personal web page

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Chair, Health and Safety Executive
• UEA Biohazaard and Genetic Manipulation Sub-Committee Rep

Research Interests

The biogenic production of trace gases of atmospheric significance in marine waters dimethyl sulphide (DMS), volatile compounds that contain iodine, bromine and chlorine and non-methane hydrocarbons; how the interactions between various marine organisms (marine phytoplankton, microzooplankton, bacteria, viruses, seaweeds) and their environment, leads to the production of trace gases; understanding the physiology, biochemistry and ecology behind trace gas production.


Biography

I did my BSc and a PhD on nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria at the University of Liverpool. I then spent 2 years as a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Postdoctoral Fellow at Bristol University working on chemotaxis in cyanobacteria, before moving to the University of East Anglia (UEA) to work on biogenic production of dimethylsulphide (DMS) for 8 months in 1985. After this I worked in the USA on high-affinity arabinose uptake in bacteria; a project that I undertook to learn some molecular biological techniques. I returned to UEA in March 1987 and worked on a series of 2-3 year contracts, initially picking up the DMS-related research again, and then getting involved in further projects on volatile halocarbons and hydrocarbons, air-sea gas exchange, marine microbial ecology and seaweed physiology. In 1998 I was awarded a prestigious 5-year U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Advanced Research Fellowship to work on the biogenic production of trace gases of atmospheric significance in marine waters. In May 2004 I was awarded a rare 2nd 5-year NERC Advanced Fellowship and following this I will move to a Faculty position within the School of Environmental Sciences. I now work in the Trace Gas Biogeochemistry group of the Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry (LGMAC) and my fellowships have allowed me the opportunity to establish a research group and the LGMAC Marine Trace Gas Biology Laboratory. In addition, I have been the Chair of the School of Environmental Sciences Researchers’ Affairs Forum since 2002, and I am a member of the University of East Anglia’s Contract Research Staff Working Group and Contract Research Staff Training Steering Committee.
 

Significant Publications

• Hughes, C.,  Franklin, D.J and Malin, G. Iodomethane production by two important marine cyanobacteria: Prochlorococcus marinus (CCMP 2389) and Synechococcus sp. (CCMP 2370). Marine Chemistry. In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2011.01.007  
• Bell, T.G., Poulton, A.J. and Malin, G.  2010. Strong linkages between dimethylsulphoniopropionate DMSP) and phytoplankton community physiology in a large sub-tropical and tropical Atlantic Ocean dataset. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24, GB3009, doi: 10.1029/2009GB003617

• Franklin, D.J., Steinke, M., Young, J., Probert, I. and Malin, G. 2010.  Dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP), DMSP-lyase activity (DLA) and dimethylsulphide (DMS) in 10 species of coccolithophore. Marine Ecology Progress Series 410, 13-23.

• Franklin, D.J., Poulton, A.J., Steinke, M., Young, J., Peeken, I. and Malin, G. 2009. Dimethylsulphide, DMSP-lyase activity and microplankton community structure inside and outside of the Mauritanian upwelling. Progress in Oceanography 83(1-4), 134-142.

• Reid, P.C., Fischer, A.C., Lewis-Brown, E., Meredith, M.P., Sparrow, M., Andersson, A.J., Antia, A., Bates, N.R., Bathmann, U., Beaugrand, G., Brix, H., Dye, S., Edwards, M.,  Furevik, T., Gangstø, R., Hátún, H., Hopcroft, R.R., Kendall, M., Kasten, S., Keeling, R., Le Quéré, C., Mackenzie, F.T., Malin, G., Mauritzen, C., Ólafsson, J., Paull, C., Rignot, E., Shimada, K., Vogt, M., Wallace, C., Wang, Z. and Washington, R. 2009. Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change. Advances in Marine Biology 56, 1-150.

• Chance, R., Baker, A.R., Küpper, F.C., Hughes, C., Kloareg, B. and Malin, G. 2009. Release and transformations of inorganic iodine by marine macroalgae. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82, 406-414. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.02.004

• Buitenhuis, E.T., Pangerc, T., Franklin, D.J., Le Quéré, C. and Malin, G. 2008. Growth rates of six coccolithophorid strains as a function of temperature. Limnology & Oceanography 53: 1181-1185. IF 3.277. http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_53/issue_3/1181.pdf

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