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Daniel F. McGinnis is an Associate Professor and Director of the F.-A. Forel Department of Environmental and Water Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has held academic and research positions at Eawag, GEOMAR, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). His research focuses on aquatic physics, greenhouse gas emissions, and physical-biogeochemical interactions in lakes and oceans.
- PhD in Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2003
- MS in Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2000
- BS in Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1996
McGinnis's research centers on benthic and water column turbulence, bubble and plume modeling, climate effects on aquatic systems, and greenhouse gas transport. He is a pioneer in the application of the aquatic eddy correlation technique for measuring oxygen and methane fluxes. His work integrates field measurements, numerical modeling, and instrument development to understand sediment-water interactions and gas dynamics.
His recent publications span topics such as methane emissions in lakes and reservoirs, eddy correlation methodology, oxygen flux dynamics, and CO2 seeps. These works reflect a strong trend toward understanding biogeochemical fluxes in stratified aquatic systems, with an emphasis on measurement innovation and climate change implications.
McGinnis has co-supervised several PhD students, including Karl Attard, Tonya DelSontro, Claudia Lorrai, and Lee Bryant. He has received no explicitly mentioned scientific awards in the provided text. He has been involved in numerous research grants and projects, including the EU-funded BALTIC GAS project, which investigates methane dynamics in the Baltic Sea.
He leads or has participated in major scientific expeditions in Greenland, the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, and Pacific Ocean. He developed the open-source SOHFEA software for eddy correlation analysis and has contributed to instrument design for aquatic flux measurements. His work often involves interdisciplinary collaboration across oceanography, limnology, and environmental engineering.
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