Dr Andrew McGonigle

Senior Research Fellow

Andrew McGonigle Room number: F4
Telephone (internal): 27961
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 7961
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 7961
Email: A.McGonigle@Sheffield.ac.uk

Andrew has an MSci degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of St. Andrews and a DPhil in Laser Physics from the University of Oxford. He then held a NERC post doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge before moving to Sheffield in 2005. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Remote Sensing and as an associate scientist of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia.

Research interests

His research is focused on the development and application of remote sensing techniques for environmental, particularly volcanic, remote sensing, for which he was named a Laureate in the 2008 Rolex Awards for Enterprise competition.

Current research

My current work falls within the following three themes:

Volcano Remote Sensing
Development and application of sensors for monitoring volcanic plumes, in order to improve our understanding of how volcanoes work.
Volcano remote sensing research

Volcano Atmosphere Interactions
Better understanding the radiative and chemical impacts of volcanic emissions to the atmosphere.
Volcano-Atmosphere interactions research

Other Environmental Sensing
Development and deployment of spectroscopic tools for studying other environmental phenomena, such as anthropogenic pollution.
Other Environmental Sensing research

Field targets include the southern Italian volcanoes, Masaya volcano, Nicaragua and the volcanoes of Papua New Guinea.

Key publications

  • McGonigle, A.J.S., Aiuppa, A., Giudice, G., Tamburello, G., Gurrieri, S. and Hodson, A.J. (2008). Unmanned aerial vehicle measurements of volcanic carbon dioxide fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06303.
    doi:10.1029/2007GL03250
  • McGonigle, A.J.S. (2007). Measurement of volcanic SO2 fluxes with differential optical absorption spectroscopy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 162(3-4), 111-122.
    doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.02.001
  • McGonigle, A.J.S. (2005) Volcano remote sensing with ground based spectroscopy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 363, 2915-2929.
    doi:10.1098/rsta.2005.1668
  • McGonigle, A.J.S., Hilton, D.R., Fischer, T.P., and Oppenheimer, C. (2005). Plume velocity determination for volcano SO2 flux measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L11302.
    doi:10.1029/2005GL022470
  • McGonigle, A.J.S., Oppenheimer, C., Galle, B., Edmonds, M., Caltabiano, T., Salerno, G., and Burton, M., (2003) Volcanic sulphur dioxide flux measurements at Etna, Vulcano and Stromboli obtained using an automated scanning static ultraviolet spectrometer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B9), 2455.
    doi:10.1029/2002JB002261
  • McGonigle, A.J.S., Oppenheimer, C., Galle, B., Mather, T.A., and Pyle, D.M., (2002) Walking traverse and scanning DOAS measurements of volcanic gas emission rates, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(20), 1985.
    doi:10.1029/2002GL015827

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