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Ireland
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
16453
World Ranking
1984
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Frank McDermott is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

Their work spans significant subfields including Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology. The topics covered in their research address areas such as Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Integrated Energy Systems Optimization, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Recent papers by McDermott include:

  • Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution (2020, Nature)
  • Inter-hemispheric synchroneity of Holocene precipitation anomalies controlled by Earth's latitudinal insolation gradients (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Which Reanalysis Dataset Should We Use for Renewable Energy Analysis in Ireland? (2021, Atmosphere)
  • Water quality perceptions and private well management: The role of perceived risks, worry and control (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Engineered silver nanoparticle (Ag-NP) behaviour in domestic on-site wastewater treatment plants and in sewage sludge amended-soils (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Eadaoin Doddy
  • Seánie Griffin
  • João Monteiro Correia
  • C. Sweeney
  • David van Acken

The primary venues where McDermott publishes are Applied Geochemistry, Nature, Nature Communications, Atmosphere, and the Journal of Environmental Management.

In 2020, McDermott was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Best Publications

  • Palaeo-climate reconstruction from stable isotope variations in speleothems: a review

    Frank McDermott

  • U-Th isotopes in arc magmas: Implications for element transfer from the subducted crust

    C. J. Hawkesworth;S. P. Turner;F. McDermott;D. W. Peate

  • Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems

    Ian J. Fairchild;Claire L. Smith;Andy Baker;Lisa Fuller

  • Mantle and Slab Contributions in ARC Magmas

    C. J. Hawkesworth;K. Gallagher;J. M. Hergt;F. McDermott

  • Trace element and SrNdPb isotopic constraints on a three-component model of Kamchatka Arc petrogenesis

    Pavel Kepezhinskas;Frank McDermott;Marc J. Defant;Alfred Hochstaedter

  • Controls on trace element Sr-Mg compositions of carbonate cave waters: implications for speleothem climatic records

    Ian J Fairchild;Andrea Borsato;Anna F Tooth;Silvia Frisia

  • Cenozoic K-rich adakitic volcanic rocks in the Hohxil area, northern Tibet: Lower-crustal melting in an intracontinental setting

    Qiang Wang;Frank McDermott;Ji-feng Xu;Hervé Bellon

  • Centennial-Scale Holocene Climate Variability Revealed by a High-Resolution Speleothem δ18O Record from SW Ireland

    Frank McDermott;David P. Mattey;Chris Hawkesworth

  • Calcite Fabrics, Growth Mechanisms, and Environments of Formation in Speleothems from the Italian Alps and Southwestern Ireland

    Silvia Frisia;Andrea Borsato;Ian J. Fairchild;Frank McDermott

  • U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul

    Rainer Grün;Chris Stringer;Frank McDermott;Roger Nathan

  • Element Fluxes Associated with Subduction Related Magmatism

    Christopher John Hawkesworth;J. M. Hergt;R. M. Ellam;F. McDermott

  • Seasonal variations in Sr, Mg and P in modern speleothems (Grotta di Ernesto, Italy)

    YiMing Huang;YiMing Huang;Ian J. Fairchild;Andrea Borsato;Silvia Frisia

  • Aragonite-Calcite Relationships in Speleothems (Grotte De Clamouse, France): Environment, Fabrics, and Carbonate Geochemistry

    Silvia Frisia;Andrea Borsato;Ian J. Fairchild;Frank McDermott

  • Holocene climate variability in Europe: Evidence from δ18O, textural and extension-rate variations in three speleothems

    Frank McDermott;Silvia Frisia;Yiming Huang;Yiming Huang;Antonio Longinelli

  • Elemental U and Th variations in island arc rocks: implications for U-series isotopes

    Chris Hawkesworth;Simon Turner;David Peate;Frank McDermott

  • Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record.

    James U. L. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Annual to sub-annual resolution of multiple trace-element trends in speleothems

    Ian J. Fairchild;Andy Baker;Andrea Borsato;Silvia Frisia

  • Impacts of the EA and SCA patterns on the European twentieth century NAO–winter climate relationship

    Laia Comas-Bru;Frank McDermott

  • Mass-spectrometric U-series dates for Israeli Neanderthal/early modern hominid sites

    F. McDermott;F. McDermott;R. Grün;C. B. Stringer;C. J. Hawkesworth

  • Late Holocene annual growth in three Alpine stalagmites records the influence of solar activity and the North Atlantic Oscillation on winter climate

    Silvia Frisia;Andrea Borsato;Nereo Preto;Frank McDermott

  • Very high-frequency and seasonal cave atmosphere PCO2 variability: Implications for stalagmite growth and oxygen isotope-based paleoclimate records

    James U.L. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Dirk L. Hoffmann;David A. Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris J. Hawkesworth
Chris J. Hawkesworth University of Bristol
James U. L. Baldini
James U. L. Baldini Durham University
Ian J. Fairchild
Ian J. Fairchild University of Birmingham
Silvia Frisia
Silvia Frisia University of Newcastle Australia
Andrea Borsato
Andrea Borsato University of Newcastle Australia
Simon Turner
Simon Turner Macquarie University
David P. Mattey
David P. Mattey Royal Holloway University of London
David Richards
David Richards University of Bristol
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Andy Baker
Andy Baker University of New South Wales

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