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Wade R. McGillis is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research spans several domains within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular concentration on hydrocarbon exploration, CO2 sequestration, and ecological studies related to marine and terrestrial environments.

Their work involves several main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, McGillis has contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology

Their research topics include:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Smart Materials for Construction

McGillis has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including James Leong, Noah McQueen, P. B. Kelemen, Michael Nielsen, and Rūta Karolytė. These collaborations reflect their interdisciplinary approach to environmental and geochemical studies.

Some of their recent research papers are:

  • H2 and CH4 outgassing rates in the Samail ophiolite, Oman: Implications for low-temperature, continental serpentinization rates (2023), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Highest rates of gross primary productivity maintained despite CO2 depletion in a temperate river network (2021), published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Observations of the seasonal buildup and washout of salts in urban bioswale soil (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Serpentinization rates in low-temperature, continental, ultramafic environments: Clues from H2 and CH4 outgassing rates in the Samail ophiolite, Oman (2021), published in Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • PANAMA HYDROLOGY AND EASTERN PACIFIC INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ) RESPONSE TO ENSO AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS SINCE THE EARLY 1700S (2023), published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The venues in which McGillis frequently publishes include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • A cubic relationship between air-sea CO2 exchange and wind speed

    Rik Wanninkhof;Wade R. McGillis

  • Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing*

    Rik Wanninkhof;William E. Asher;David T. Ho;Colm Sweeney

  • Direct covariance air‐sea CO2 fluxes

    W. R. McGillis;J. B. Edson;J. E. Hare;C. W. Fairall

  • Environmental turbulent mixing controls on air-water gas exchange in marine and aquatic systems

    Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Peter A. Raymond;James B. Edson

  • The boundary layer of swimming fish.

    E.J. Anderson;W.R. McGillis;M.A. Grosenbaugh

  • The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds

    James Edson;Timothy Crawford;Jerry Crescenti;Tom Farrar

  • Parameterization and Micrometeorological Measurement of Air–Sea Gas Transfer

    C. W. Fairaill;J. E. Hare;J. B. Edson;W. McGillis

  • Hydrological performance of extensive green roofs in New York City: observations and multi-year modeling of?three full-scale systems

    T B Carson;D E Marasco;P J Culligan;W R McGillis

  • Air‐sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific

    Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

  • Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

    R. G. Najjar;M. Herrmann;R. Alexander;E. W. Boyer

  • Air‐sea gas transfer: Its dependence on wind stress, small‐scale roughness, and surface films

    Nelson M. Frew;Erik J. Bock;Uwe Schimpf;Tetsu Hara

  • The role of free-surface turbulence and surfactants in air–water gas transfer

    S.P. McKenna;W.R. McGillis

  • Carbon dioxide flux techniques performed during GasEx-98

    Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Jonathan D. Ware;John W.H. Dacey

  • Variation in Surface Turbulence and the Gas Transfer Velocity over a Tidal Cycle in a Macro-tidal Estuary

    Christopher J. Zappa;Peter A. Raymond;Eugene A. Terray;Wade R. McGillis

  • Relationship between air‐sea gas transfer and short wind waves

    Erik J. Bock;Tetsu Hara;Nelson M. Frew;Wade R. McGillis

  • Effects of freezing, growth, and ice cover on gas transport processes in laboratory seawater experiments

    B. Loose;W. R. McGillis;P. Schlosser;D. Perovich

  • Gas diffusion through columnar laboratory sea ice: Implications for mixed-layer ventilation of CO2 in the seasonal ice zone

    B. Loose;B. Loose;B. Loose;P. Schlosser;P. Schlosser;D. Perovich;D. Ringelberg

  • Implementation of the Coupled Ocean‐Atmosphere Response Experiment flux algorithm with CO2, dimethyl sulfide, and O3

    C. W. Fairall;Mingxi Yang;Ludovic Bariteau;J. B. Edson

  • Water‐air flux of dimethylsulfide

    W. R. McGillis;J. W. H. Dacey;N. M. Frew;E. J. Bock

  • Pool boiling enhancement techniques for water at low pressure

    W.R. McGillis;V.P. Carey;J.S. Fitch;W.R. Hamburgen

  • On the Role of Marangoni Effects on the Critical Heat Flux for Pool Boiling of Binary Mixtures

    W. R. McGillis;V. P. Carey

  • Air-sea gas transfer: Its dependence on wind stress, small-scale roughness, and surface films : Air-Sea Exchange

    Nelson M. Frew;Erik J. Bock;Uwe Schimpf;Tetsu Hara

  • Air-sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific : Air-Sea Exchange

    Wade R. Mcgillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Zappa
Christopher J. Zappa Columbia University
Joe Salisbury
Joe Salisbury University of New Hampshire
James B. Edson
James B. Edson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
J. E. Hare
J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
David T. Ho
David T. Ho University of Hawaii System
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
Michael D. DeGrandpre
Michael D. DeGrandpre University of Montana
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric J. Hintsa
Eric J. Hintsa Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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