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Daniel C. McCorkle is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these fields, they specialize in oceanography, ecology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses several topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine biology and ecology research, geology and paleoclimatology research, isotope analysis in ecology, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Recent publications by Daniel C. McCorkle include:

  • Impacts of Multiple Stressors on a Benthic Foraminiferal Community: A Long-Term Experiment Assessing Response to Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia and Warming (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Isotopic Characterization of Water Masses in the Southeast Pacific Region: Paleoceanographic Implications (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Community Science for Coastal Acidification Monitoring and Research (2021), published in Coastal Management
  • Anomalies in the carbonate system of Red Sea coastal habitats (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • On the cycling of 231Pa and 230Th in benthic nepheloid layers (2021), published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Frequently publishing in several venues, their work has appeared multiple times in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans and Biogeosciences. They also have publications in Frontiers in Marine Science, Coastal Management, and Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers.

Collaborative research plays a role in their career, with frequent coauthors including Jennie E. Rheuban, Adam V. Subhas, Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Anna P. M. Michel, and Parker Gassett.

Best Publications

  • Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification

    Justin B. Ries;Anne L. Cohen;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • Natural abundance-level measurement of the nitrogen isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method

    D.M. Sigman;M.A. Altabet;R. Michener;D.C. McCorkle

  • Ocean Warming Slows Coral Growth in the Central Red Sea

    Neal E. Cantin;Anne L. Cohen;Kristopher B. Karnauskas;Ann M. Tarrant

  • Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: implications for its use as a paleoproxy

    James McManus;William M Berelson;Gary P Klinkhammer;Kenneth S Johnson

  • The influence of microhabitats on the carbon isotopic composition of deep-sea benthic foraminifera

    Daniel C. McCorkle;Lloyd D. Keigwin;Bruce H. Corliss;Steven R. Emerson

  • The δ15N of nitrate in the southern ocean: Consumption of nitrate in surface waters

    D. M. Sigman;M. A. Altabet;D. C. McCorkle;R. Francois

  • The δ15N of nitrate in the Southern Ocean: Nitrogen cycling and circulation in the ocean interior

    Daniel Mikhail Sigman;M. A. Altabet;D. C. McCorkle;R. Francois

  • Changes in the δ13C of surface water particulate organic matter across the subtropical convergence in the SW Indian Ocean

    Roger Francois;Mark A. Altabet;Ralf Goericke;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • Carbon fluxes and burial rates over the continental slope and rise off central California with implications for the global carbon cycle

    Clare E. Reimers;Richard A. Jahnke;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • The isotopic composition of diatom-bound nitrogen in Southern Ocean sediments

    Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Mark A. Altabet;Roger Francois;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • Morphological and compositional changes in the skeletons of new coral recruits reared in acidified seawater: Insights into the biomineralization response to ocean acidification

    Anne L. Cohen;Daniel C. McCorkle;Samantha J. de Putron;Glenn A. Gaetani

  • Vertical distributions and stable isotopic compositions of live (stained) benthic foraminifera from the North Carolina and California continental margins

    Daniel C. McCorkle;Bruce H. Corliss;Christie A. Farnham

  • Stable carbon isotopes in marine porewaters

    Daniel C. McCorkle;Steven R. Emerson;Paul D. Quay

  • Evidence of a dissolution effect on benthic foraminiferal shell chemistry: δ13C, Cd/Ca, Ba/Ca, and Sr/Ca results from the Ontong Java Plateau

    Daniel C. McCorkle;Pamela A. Martin;David W. Lea;Gary P. Klinkhammer

  • Distinguishing between water column and sedimentary denitrification in the Santa Barbara Basin using the stable isotopes of nitrate

    D. M. Sigman;R. Robinson;A. N. Knapp;A. van Geen

  • Long-term effects of nutrient and CO2 enrichment on the temperate coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis and Solander, 1786)

    Michael Holcomb;Daniel C. McCorkle;Anne L. Cohen

  • The relationship between pore water carbon isotopic composition and bottom water oxygen concentration

    Daniel C McCorkle;Steven R Emerson

  • The distribution of nitrate 15N/14N in marine sediments and the impact of benthic nitrogen loss on the isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate

    Moritz F. Lehmann;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Daniel C. McCorkle;Julie Granger

  • Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western Pacific reef

    Kathryn E. F. Shamberger;Anne L. Cohen;Yimnang Golbuu;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • The calcite lysocline as a constraint on glacial/interglacial low‐latitude production changes

    Daniel M. Sigman;Daniel C. McCorkle;William R. Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne L. Cohen
Anne L. Cohen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joan M. Bernhard
Joan M. Bernhard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Justin B. Ries
Justin B. Ries Northeastern University
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Helena L. Filipsson
Helena L. Filipsson Lund University
G. Thomas Chandler
G. Thomas Chandler University of South Carolina
Gary P. Klinkhammer
Gary P. Klinkhammer Oregon State University
Bruce H. Corliss
Bruce H. Corliss University of Rhode Island
Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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