Publications

Estapa – short CV

  1. Siegel D.A., A.B. Burd, M. Estapa, E. Fields, L. Johnson, E. Romanelli, M.A. Brzezinski, K.O. Buesseler, S. Clevenger, I. Cetinić, L. Drago, C.A. Durkin, R. Kiko, S.J. Kramer, A. Maas, M. Omand, U. Passow, D.K. Steinberg. 2025. Assessing Marine Snow Dynamics During the Demise of the North Atlantic Spring Bloom Using In Situ Particle Imagery. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39: e2025GB008676.
  2. Bodel, A**, M Estapa, CA Durkin. 2025. Solitary phytoplankton cells sink in the mesopelagic ocean. PLoS ONE 20: e0321918.
  3. Song, Y., M. Omand, C. A. Durkin, M. L. Estapa, and K. O. Buesseler. 2025. GelCam : Visualizing sinking particle flux via a polyacrylamide gel‐based sediment trap. Limnology & Ocean Methods 23: 715–728.
  4. Kramer, S.J., Jones, E.L., Estapa, M.L., Paul, N.L., Rynearson, T.A., Santoro, A.E., Sudek, S., Durkin, C.A., 2025. Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux. The ISME Journal 19, wraf105.
  5. Stephens BM, M Roca-Martí, AE Maas, VJ Amaral, S Clevenger, S Traylor, CR. Benitez-Nelson, KO Buesseler, CA Carlson, Nicolas Cassar, M Estapa, AJ Fassbender, Y Huang, PJ Lam,O Marchal, S Menden-Deuer, N Paul, AE Santoro, DA Siegel, DP Nicholson. 2024. An upper mesopelagic zone carbon budget for the subarctic North Pacific.  Accepted, Biogeosciences.
  6. Simon, K., Slade, W., Estapa, M., Mikkelsen, O., & Pottsmith, C. 2025. Optical Sediment Trap for In Situ Monitoring of Sinking Marine Particles. Oceanography.
  7. Romanelli, E., Giering, S. L. C., Estapa, M., Siegel, D. A., & Passow, U. 2024. Can intense storms affect sinking particle dynamics after the North Atlantic spring bloom? Limnology and Oceanography, 69(12), 2963–2974.
  8. Buesseler, K. O., Bianchi, D., Chai, F., Cullen, J. T., Estapa, M., Hawco, N., John, S., McGillicuddy, D. J., Morris, P. J., Nawaz, S., Nishioka, J., Pham, A., Ramakrishna, K., Siegel, D. A., Smith, S. R., Steinberg, D., Turk-Kubo, K. A., Twining, B. S., Webb, R. M., Wells, M., White, A., Xiu, P., Yoon, J.-E. (2024). Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for marine carbon dioxide removal. Frontiers in Climate, 6, 1430957.
  9. Brzezinski, M. A., Johnson, L., Estapa, M., Clevenger, S., Roca-Martí, M., Romanelli, E., et al. (2024). Physical Mechanisms Sustaining Silica Production Following the Demise of the Diatom Phase of the North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom During EXPORTS. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(7), e2023GB008048.
  10. Stephens BM, Durkin CA, Sharpe G, Nguyen TTH, Albers J, Estapa ML, Steinberg DK, Levine NM, Gifford SM, Carlson CA, et al. 2024. Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles. The ISME Journal 18(1): wrad010. doi:
  11. Clevenger SJ, Benitez-Nelson CR, Roca-Martí M, Bam W, Estapa M, Kenyon JA, Pike S, Resplandy L, Wyatt A, Buesseler KO. 2024. Carbon and silica fluxes during a declining North Atlantic spring bloom as part of the EXPORTS program. Marine Chemistry 258: 104346.
  12. Estapa, M. L., C. A. Durkin, W. H. Slade, C. L. Huffard, S. P. O’Neill, and M. M. Omand. 2023. A new, global optical sediment trap calibration. Limnology & Ocean Methods lom3.10592. doi:
  13. Wojtal, P.K, S.C. Doherty, C.H. Shean, B.N. Popp, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, K.O. Buesseler, M.L.Estapa, M. Roca-Martí, H.G Close, 2023. Limnology and Oceanography. Deconvolving Mechanisms of Particle Flux Attenuation using Nitrogen Isotope Analyses of Amino Acids.
  14. Steinberg D.K., K. Stamieszkin, A.E. Maas, C.A. Durkin, U. Passow, M.L. Estapa, M.M. Omand, A.M.P. McDonnell, L. Karp-Boss, M. Galbraith, D.A. Siegel, 2023. The outsized role of salps in carbon export in the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 37(1).
  15. Durkin, C.A., I. Cetinić , M.L. Estapa, Z. Ljubešić , M. Mucko, A. R. Neeley, M.M. Omand, 2022. Tracing the source and export of carbon in the ocean though DNA sequencing of individual sinking particles. The ISME Journal.
  16. Durkin CA, Buesseler KO, Cetinić I, Estapa ML, Kelly RP, Omand M. 2021. A Visual Tour of Carbon Export by Sinking Particles. Global Biogeochem Cycles 35(10). doi:
  17. Long JS, Fassbender AJ, Estapa ML. 2021. Depth‐Resolved Net Primary Production in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: A Comparison of Satellite and Profiling Float Estimates in the Context of Two Marine Heatwaves. Geophys Res Lett48(19). doi:
  18. Siegel, D.A., I. Cetinić, J.R. Graff, C. Lee, N. Nelson, M.J. Perry, I.S. Ramos, D.K. Steinberg, K. Buesseler, R. Hamme, A.J. Fassbender, D. Nicholson, M.M. Omand, M. Robert, A. Thompson, and the EXPORTS Science Team (includes M.L. Estapa), 2021. Overview of the Export Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific Field Deployment.  Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9(1). 
  19. Roca-Martí, M., Benitez-Nelson, C.R., Umhau, B.P., Wyatt, A.M., Clevenger, S.J., Pike, S.M., Estapa, M.L., Resplandy, L., Buesseler, K.O., 2021. Concentrations, ratios, and sinking fluxes of major bioelements at Ocean Station Papa. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9(1).
  20. Estapa M.L., Buesseler KO, Durkin CA, Omand MM, Benitez-Nelson CR, Breves E, Kelly RP, Pike SM, Roca-Martí M. 2021. Biogenic sinking particle fluxes and sediment trap collection efficiency at Ocean Station Papa. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9(1). doi:
  21. Buesseler, K.O., C.R. Benitez-Nelson, M. Roca-Martí, A.M. Wyatt, L.Resplandy, S.J. Clevenger, J. Drysdale, M.L. Estapa, S. Pike, B.P. Umhau, 2020. High resolution spatial and temporal measurements of particulate organic carbon flux using thorium-234 in the NE Pacific Ocean during the EXPORTS Program.  Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 8(1): 030. 
  22. Baker, C. A., M. L. Estapa, M. Iversen, R. Lampitt, and K. Buesseler. 2020. Are all sediment traps created equal? An intercomparison study of carbon export methodologies at the PAP-SO site. Progress in Oceanography 184: 102317. doi:
  23. Estapa, M., J. Valdes, K. Tradd, J. Sugar, M. Omand, and K. Buesseler. 2020. The Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap: Two Decades of Progress. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 37: 957–973.
  24. Estapa, M.L,  M. Feen*, and E. Breves, 2019. Direct observations of biological carbon export from profiling floats in the subtropical North Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 282–300.
  25. Fassbender, A.F., H.I. Palevsky, T.R. Martz, A.E. Ingalls, Martha Gledhill, S.E. Fawcett, J.A. Brandes, L.I. Aluwihare, the participants of COME ABOARD (includes M. Estapa), and DISCO XXV. 2017. Perspectives on Chemical Oceanography in the 21st century: Participants of the COME ABOARD Meeting examine aspects of the field in the context of 40 years of DISCO. Marine Chemistry, 196: 181-190, doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2017.09.002
  26. Estapa, M., C. Durkin, K. Buesseler, R. Johnson, and M. Feen*. 2017. Carbon flux from bio-optical profiling floats: Calibrating transmissometers for use as optical sediment traps. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 120: 100–111. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.12.003
  27. Estapa, M.L., Siegel, D.A., Buesseler, K.O., Stanley, R.H.R., Lomas, M.R., Nelson, N.B., 2015.  Decoupling of net community production and export production at submesoscale fronts in the Sargasso Sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, doi:10.1002/2014GB004913.
  28. Estapa, M.L., Breier, J.A., German, C.R., 2015.  Particle dynamics in the rising plume at Piccard Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Cayman Rise:  new applications of optical sensors.  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16, doi:10.1002/2015GC005831.
  29. Durkin, C. A., M. L. Estapa, and K. O. Buesseler 2015. Observations of carbon export by small sinking particles in the upper mesopelagic, Marine Chemistry, 175: 72-81.
  30. Estapa, M.L., Buesseler, K.O., Boss, E., Gerbi, G.P., 2013. Autonomous, high-resolution observations of particle flux in the oligotrophic ocean.  Biogeosciences, 10: 5517-5531.
  31. Estapa, M.L., Mayer L.M., Boss E., 2012.  Rate and apparent quantum yield of photodissolution. Limnology and Oceanography, 57(6): 1743-1756.
  32. Estapa, M.L., Boss E., Mayer L.M., Roesler C.R., 2012.  Role of iron and organic carbon in mass-specific light absorption by particulate matter from Louisiana coastal waters, Limnology and Oceanography, 57(1): 97-112.
  33. Estapa, M. L., Mayer, L.M., 2010.  Photooxidation of particulate organic matter.  Marine Chemistry, 122:  138-147.
  34. Mayer, L.M., L.L. Schick, K.R. Hardy, M. L. Estapa, 2009.  Photodissolution and other photochemical changes upon irradiation of algal detritus.  Limnology and Oceanography, 54: 1688-1698.