Dr Niels Munksgaard ~ Senior Research Fellow
College of Science & Engineering
- About
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- Interests
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- Research
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- The use of stable isotopes in environmental science, for example to track water from rain through soil and river flow to freshwater plumes in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon or to understand the CO2 emissions from plants and soil as part of the carbon cycle and how this contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
- The art of measuring metals and other elements at very low concentration levels in the marine environment and using stable lead isotopes to trace the dispersion of emissions from mining and smelting operations.
- Research Disciplines
The long road to JCU Cairns started with a PhD in Petrology at the University of Copenhagen, then via Big Oil in the North Sea, driving an Electron Microprobe in Sydney, mapping Antarctic mountains, and years of researching metals in mud, water and biota for environmental monitoring all over Northern Australia. At JCU my task is to develop new portable instruments for field-based analysis of stable isotopes (H, C, O) in water, soil and other environmental samples. This work includes building some world-first gadgets that help provide new insights into weighty questions about global water and carbon cycling.
- Publications
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- Journal Articles
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- Birkel C, Duvert C, Correa A, Munksgaard N, Maher D and Hutley L (2020) Tracer-aided modeling in the low-relief, wet-dry tropics suggests water ages and DOC export are driven by seasonal wetlands and deep groundwater. Water Resources Research, 56 (4), Article: e2019WR026175, DOI:10.1029/2019WR026175.
- Duvert C, Hutley L, Birkel C, Rudge M, Munksgaard N, Wynn J, Setterfield S, Cendon D and Bird M (2020) Seasonal shift from biogenic to geogenic fluvial carbon caused by changing water sources in the wet-dry tropics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125 (2), Article: e2019JG005384, DOI:10.1029/2019JG005384.
- Fogwill C, Turney C, Menviel L, Baker A, Weber M, Ellis B, Thomas Z, Golledge N, Etheridge D, Rubino M, Thornton D, van Ommen T, Moy A, Curran M, Davies S, Bird M, Munksgaard N, Rootes C, Millman H, Vohra J, Rivera A, Mackintosh A, Pike J, Hall I, Bagshaw E, Rainsley E, Bronk-Ramsey C, Montenari M, Cage A, Harris M, Jones R, Power A, Love J, Young J, Weyrich L and Cooper A (2020) Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 13, pp. 489-497, DOI:10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0.
- Munksgaard N and Nelson P (in press) Coupled polymer-membrane equilibration and cavity ring-down spectrometry for the highly sensitive determination of dissolved methane in environmental waters. Analytical Letters, , DOI:10.1080/00032719.2020.1767122.
- Munksgaard N, Zwart C, Haig J, Cernusak L and Bird M (2020) Coupled rainfall and water vapour stable isotope time series reveal tropical atmospheric processes on multiple timescales. Hydrological Processes, 34 (1), pp. 111-124, DOI:10.1002/hyp.13576.
- Powell L, Lim H, Brown I, Huang T, Munksgaard N, Randall M, Holdsworth J and Cook H (2020) Innovation through collaboration: improving urban water management for a reef council. Water e-journal, 5 (3).
- Turney C, Fogwill C, Golledge N, McKay N, van Sebille E, Jones R, Etheridge D, Rubino M, Thornton D, Davies S, Ramsey C, Thomas Z, Bird M, Munksgaard N, Kohno M, Woodward J, Winter K, Weyrich L, Rootes C, Millman H, Albert P, Rivera A, van Ommen T, Curran M, Moy A, Rahmstorf S, Kawamura K, Hillenbrand C, Weber M, Manning C, Young J and Cooper A (2020) Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (8), pp. 3996-4006, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1902469117.
- Wynn J, Duvert C, Bird M, Munksgaard N, Setterfield S and Hutley L (in press) Land transformation in tropical savannas preferentially decomposes newly added biomass, whether C(3)or C(4)derived. Ecological Applications, , Article: e02192, DOI:10.1002/eap.2192.
- Buckton G, Cheesman A, Munksgaard N, Wurster C, Liddell M and Cernusak L (2019) Functional traits of lianas in an Australian lowland rainforest align with post-disturbance rather than dry season advantage. Austral Ecology, 44 (6), pp. 983-994, DOI:10.1111/aec.12764.
- Duvert C, Bossa M, Tyler K, Wynn J, Munksgaard N, Bird M, Setterfield S and Hutley L (2019) Groundwater‐derived DIC and carbonate buffering enhance fluvial CO2 evasion in two Australian tropical rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124 (2), pp. 312-327, DOI:10.1029/2018JG004912.
- Munksgaard N, Kurita N, Sánchez-Murillo R, Ahmed N, Araguas L, Balachew D, Bird M, Chakraborty S, Kien Chinh N, Cobb K, Ellis S, Esquivel-Hernández G, Ganyaglo S, Gao J, Gastmans D, Kaseke K, Kebede S, Morales M, Mueller M, Poh S, Santos V, Shaoneng H, Wang L, Yacobaccio H and Zwart C (2019) Data descriptor: daily observations of stable isotope ratios of rainfall in the tropics. Scientific Reports, 9, Article: 14419, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-50973-9.
- Munksgaard N, McBeath A, Ascough P, Levchenko V, Williams A and Bird M (2019) Partitioning of microbially respired CO₂ between indigenous and exogenous carbon sources during biochar degradation using radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes. Radiocarbon, 61 (2), pp. 573-586, DOI:10.1017/RDC.2018.128.
- Current Funding
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Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.
Department of Industry - Smart Cities and Suburbs Program
Council improving the water quality of the Great Barrier Reef through the use of smart sensors and the IoT for urban water management
- Indicative Funding
- $360,146 over 1 year (administered by Cairns Regional Council)
- Summary
- The primary aim of this grant application is to bring smart city technology into urban water management to improve urban water quality discharging to the Great Barrier Reef by: 1). Developing IOT technology to manage large data sets obtained from existing smart meters and water quality monitoring probes to make effective management decisions; and 2) Supporting the development of new cost effective, real time water quality monitoring technology. This grant application is for purchase of commercially available water quality monitoring probes suitable for a tropical urban stormwater environment, for supporting the development of new real time monitoring technology for nutrients; for the development of data analysis tools using IOT technology for both smart meter water consumption data, sewer pump station overflow data and stormwater water quality data so that the data is available in real time and can be used for effective decision making.
- Investigators
- Wei Xiang, HanShe Lim and Niels Munksgaard in collaboration with Lynne Powell (College of Science & Engineering and Cairns City Council)
- Keywords
- IoT infrastructure; Smart water sensors; Real-time water quality monitoring; Great Barrier Reef water quality; Urban water management
- Supervision
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Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.
These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.
- Current
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- A Deeper Understanding of Isoscapes in the Tropics (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Collaboration
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The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
Note: Map points are indicative of the countries or states that institutions are associated with.- 5+ collaborations
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- 1 collaboration
- Indicates the Tropics (Torrid Zone)
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