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Niels C. Munksgaard

Niels C. Munksgaard

Niels C. Munksgaard publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Niels C. Munksgaard sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Niels C. Munksgaard D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Niels C. Munksgaard sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Niels C. Munksgaard is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research focuses predominantly on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specialized emphasis on several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, water science and technology, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their main research topics encompass geology and paleoclimatology research, isotope analysis in ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, flood risk assessment and management, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Munksgaard has contributed to numerous publications in several academic venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Water Resources Research
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Munksgaard include:

  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Do 2H and 18O in leaf water reflect environmental drivers differently?, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Sediment metal enrichment and ecological risk assessment of ten ports and estuaries in the World Harbours Project, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Tracer-Aided Modeling in the Low-Relief, Wet-Dry Tropics Suggests Water Ages and DOC Export Are Driven by Seasonal Wetlands and Deep Groundwater, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal, 2020, Nature Geoscience

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors across their body of work. Key collaborators include:

  • Michael I. Bird
  • Clément Duvert
  • Lindsay B. Hutley
  • Rainy Comley
  • Lucas A. Cernusak

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants.

    Lucas A. Cernusak;Margaret M. Barbour;Stefan K. Arndt;Alexander W. Cheesman

  • Trace metals, arsenic and lead isotopes in dissolved and particulate phases of North Australian coastal and estuarine seawater

    Niels Crosley Munksgaard;David Livingstone Parry

  • Identification of environmental lead sources and pathways in a mining and smelting town: Mount Isa, Australia

    A.K. Mackay;M.P. Taylor;N.C. Munksgaard;Karen A. Hudson-Edwards

  • Rare earth elements as provenance indicators in North Australian estuarine and coastal marine sediments

    Niels Crosley Munksgaard;Kezia Lim;David Livingstone Parry

  • Evidence for mantle metasomatism: an oxygen and strontium isotope study of the Vulsinian District, Central Italy

    Paul Martin Holm;Niels Crosley Munksgaard

  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

    Chris S.M. Turney;Christopher J. Fogwill;Christopher J. Fogwill;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas P. McKay

  • Continuous analysis of δ18O and δD values of water by diffusion sampling cavity ring‐down spectrometry: a novel sampling device for unattended field monitoring of precipitation, ground and surface waters

    Niels C. Munksgaard;Chris M. Wurster;Michael I. Bird

  • Do 2H and 18O in leaf water reflect environmental drivers differently?

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  • Stable Isotope Anatomy of Tropical Cyclone Ita, North-Eastern Australia, April 2014

    Niels Munksgaard;Costijn Zwart;Naoyuki Kurita;Adrian Bass

  • Extreme short‐term stable isotope variability revealed by continuous rainwater analysis

    Niels Munksgaard;Niels Munksgaard;Christopher Wurster;Adrian Bass;Michael Bird

  • Lead isotope ratios determined by ICP-MS: Investigation of anthropogenic lead in seawater and sediment from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia☆

    Niels C Munksgaard;Grant J Batterham;David L Parry

  • High δ18O and possible pre-eruptional Rb-Sr isochrons in cordierite-bearing Neogene volcanics from SE Spain

    Niels Crosley Munksgaard

  • Sediment metal enrichment and ecological risk assessment of ten ports and estuaries in the World Harbours Project

    G.F. Birch;J.-H. Lee;E. Tanner;J. Fortune

  • Hydroperiod, soil moisture and bioturbation are critical drivers of greenhouse gas fluxes and vary as a function of landuse change in mangroves of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

    Clint Cameron;Lindsay B. Hutley;Daniel A. Friess;Niels C. Munksgaard

  • Data Descriptor: Daily observations of stable isotope ratios of rainfall in the tropics

    Niels C. Munksgaard;Niels C. Munksgaard;Naoyuki Kurita;Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo;Nasir Ahmed

  • Lead isotope ratios determined by ICP-MS: Monitoring of mining-derived metal particulates in atmospheric fallout, Northern Territory, Australia

    Niels C. Munksgaard;David L. Parry

  • Groundwater-Derived DIC and Carbonate Buffering Enhance Fluvial CO2 Evasion in Two Australian Tropical Rivers

    Clément Duvert;Mylène Bossa;Mylène Bossa;Kyle J. Tyler;Jonathan G. Wynn

  • A global database of water vapor isotopes measured with high temporal resolution infrared laser spectroscopy.

    Zhongwang Wei;Zhongwang Wei;Xuhui Lee;Xuhui Lee;Franziska Aemisegger;Marion Benetti

  • The biogeochemistry of insectivorous cave guano: a case study from insular Southeast Asia

    Christopher M. Wurster;Niels Munksgaard;Niels Munksgaard;Costijn Zwart;Michael Bird

  • Microwave extraction-isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy (ME-IRIS): a novel technique for rapid extraction and in-line analysis of δ18O and δ2H values of water in plants, soils and insects.

    Niels C. Munksgaard;Niels C. Munksgaard;Alexander W. Cheesman;Christopher M. Wurster;Lucas A. Cernusak

  • Source of the Cooma Granodiorite, New South Wales — a possible role of fluid‐rock interactions

    Niels C. Munksgaard

  • Stable isotopic signature of Australian monsoon controlled by regional convection

    C. Zwart;N.C. Munksgaard;N.C. Munksgaard;N. Kurita;M.I. Bird

  • Tracer-Aided Modeling in the Low-Relief, Wet-Dry Tropics Suggests Water Ages and DOC Export Are Driven by Seasonal Wetlands and Deep Groundwater

    Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Clément Duvert;Alicia Correa;Niels C. Munksgaard

  • Antarctic ice sheet discharge driven by atmosphere-ocean feedbacks at the Last Glacial Termination

    Christopher Fogwill;Chris Turney;Nick Golledge;David Etheridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Christopher J. Fogwill
Christopher J. Fogwill Cranfield University
Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania
Nicholas R. Golledge
Nicholas R. Golledge Victoria University of Wellington
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
David Etheridge
David Etheridge Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lucas A. Cernusak
Lucas A. Cernusak James Cook University
Michael E Weber
Michael E Weber University of Bonn

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