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Daniel Frank Mcginnis

Daniel Frank Mcginnis

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
6474
World Ranking
5025
National Ranking
121

Overview

Daniel Frank Mcginnis is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on the subfields of Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation.

Mcginnis has contributed to multiple publications in leading scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Freshwater Biology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Mcginnis include:

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer (2021), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • Potential role of submerged macrophytes for oxic methane production in aquatic ecosystems (2022), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • The role of internal feedbacks in shifting deep lake mixing regimes under a warming climate (2021), published in Freshwater Biology
  • Evaluation of the methane paradox in four adjacent pre-alpine lakes across a trophic gradient (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • Methane emission offsets carbon dioxide uptake in a small productive lake (2020), published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mcginnis include:

  • Daphne Donis
  • Timon Langenegger
  • César Ordóñez
  • Tonya DelSontro
  • Hans-Peter Grossart

Best Publications

  • Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified waters: How much methane reaches the atmosphere?

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;J. Greinert;Y. Artemov;S. E. Beaubien

  • 1300-m-high rising bubbles from mud volcanoes at 2080m in the Black Sea: Hydroacoustic characteristics and temporal variability

    Jens Greinert;Yuriy Artemov;Viktor Egorov;Marc De Batist

  • Extreme Methane Emissions from a Swiss Hydropower Reservoir: Contribution from Bubbling Sediments

    Tonya DelSontro;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Sebastian Sobek;Ilia Ostrovsky

  • Sediment trapping by dams creates methane emission hot spots.

    Andreas Maeck;Tonya DelSontro;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Helmut Fischer

  • Quantifying gas ebullition with echosounder: the role of methane transport by bubbles in a medium‐sized lake

    I. Ostrovsky;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;L. Lapidus;W. Eckert

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Daphne Donis;Evanthia Mantzouki;Daniel F. McGinnis;Dominic Vachon;Dominic Vachon

  • Predicting diffused-bubble oxygen transfer rate using the discrete-bubble model.

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;John C Little

  • Technical note: drifting versus anchored flux chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions from running waters

    Andreas Lorke;Pascal Bodmer;Pascal Bodmer;Christian Noss;Zeyad Alshboul

  • Methane Production in Oxic Lake Waters Potentially Increases Aquatic Methane Flux to Air

    Kam W. Tang;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Danny Ionescu;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • A water column study of methane around gas flares located at the West Spitsbergen continental margin

    Torben Gentz;Ellen Damm;Jens Schneider von Deimling;Susan Mau

  • Paradox reconsidered: Methane oversaturation in well-oxygenated lake waters

    Kam W. Tang;Kam W. Tang;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Katharina Frindte;Volker Brüchert

  • Full-scale evaluation of methane production under oxic conditions in a mesotrophic lake.

    Daphné Donis;Sabine Flury;Sabine Flury;A. Stöckli;Jorge Enrique Spangenberg

  • Interaction between a bubble plume and the near field in a stratified lake

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;A. Lorke;A. Wüest;A. Stöckli

  • Size Does Matter: Importance of Large Bubbles and Small-Scale Hot Spots for Methane Transport

    Tonya DelSontro;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Bernhard Wehrli;Ilia Ostrovsky

  • Contribution of oxic methane production to surface methane emission in lakes and its global importance.

    Marco Günthel;Daphné Donis;Georgiy Kirillin;Danny Ionescu

  • Variable sediment oxygen uptake in response to dynamic forcing

    Lee D. Bryant;Claudia Lorrai;Claudia Lorrai;Daniel F. Mcginnis;Andreas Brand

  • Application of Oxygen Eddy Correlation in Aquatic Systems

    Claudia Lorrai;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Peter Berg;Andreas Brand

  • Quantification of methane emissions at abandoned gas wells in the Central North Sea

    Lisa Vielstädte;Jens Karstens;Matthias Haeckel;Mark Schmidt

  • Measurements of eddy correlation oxygen fluxes in shallow freshwaters: Towards routine applications and analysis

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Peter Berg;Andreas Brand;Andreas Brand;Claudia Lorrai;Claudia Lorrai

  • Enhancing Surface Methane Fluxes from an Oligotrophic Lake: Exploring the Microbubble Hypothesis

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Georgiy Kirillin;Kam W. Tang;Sabine Flury

  • Sources and sinks of methane in Lake Baikal: A synthesis of measurements and modeling

    M. Schmid;M. De Batist;N. G. Granin;V. A. Kapitanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Lorke
Andreas Lorke University of Koblenz and Landau
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Peter Linke
Peter Linke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Mark Schmidt
Mark Schmidt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Jens Greinert
Jens Greinert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
John C. Little
John C. Little Virginia Tech
Kam W. Tang
Kam W. Tang Swansea University

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