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  1. Siegel D.A., A.B. Burd, M. Estapa<\/strong>, E. Fields, L. Johnson, E. Romanelli, M.A. Brzezinski, K.O. Buesseler, S. Clevenger, I. Cetini\u0107, 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. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025GB008676<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Bodel, A**, M Estapa<\/strong>, CA Durkin. 2025. Solitary phytoplankton cells sink in the mesopelagic ocean. PLoS ONE 20: e0321918. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0321918<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Song, Y., M. Omand, C. A. Durkin, M. L. Estapa<\/strong>, and K. O. Buesseler. 2025. GelCam\u202f: Visualizing sinking particle flux via a polyacrylamide gel\u2010based sediment trap. Limnology & Ocean Methods 23: 715\u2013728. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/lom3.10724<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Kramer, S.J., Jones, E.L., Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, 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. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ismejo\/wraf105<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Stephens BM, M Roca-Mart\u00ed, AE Maas, VJ Amaral, S Clevenger, <\/em>S Traylor,<\/em> CR. Benitez-Nelson, KO Buesseler, CA Carlson, Nicolas Cassar,<\/em> M Estapa<\/strong>, <\/em>AJ Fassbender, Y Huang,<\/em> PJ Lam,O Marchal, <\/em>S Menden-Deuer, N Paul, <\/em>AE Santoro, DA Siegel, DP Nicholson. 2024. An upper mesopelagic zone carbon budget for the subarctic North Pacific.  Accepted<\/em>, Biogeosciences<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/egusphere-2024-2251<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Simon, K., Slade, W., Estapa, M.<\/strong>, Mikkelsen, O., & Pottsmith, C. 2025. Optical Sediment Trap for In Situ Monitoring of Sinking Marine Particles. Oceanography<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5670\/oceanog.2025e109<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Romanelli, E., Giering, S. L. C., Estapa, M<\/strong>., 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\u20132974. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/lno.12723<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Buesseler, K. O., Bianchi, D., Chai, F., Cullen, J. T., Estapa, M.,<\/strong> 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<\/em>, 6<\/em>, 1430957. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fclim.2024.1430957<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Brzezinski, M. A., Johnson, L., Estapa, M., Clevenger, S., Roca-Mart\u00ed, 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. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2023GB008048<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Stephens BM, Durkin CA, Sharpe G, Nguyen TTH, Albers J, Estapa ML<\/strong>, Steinberg DK, Levine NM, Gifford SM, Carlson CA, et al. 2024. Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles. The ISME Journal <\/em>18<\/strong>(1): wrad010. doi:10.1093\/ismejo\/wrad010<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Clevenger SJ, Benitez-Nelson CR, Roca-Marti\u0301 M, Bam W, Estapa M<\/strong>, 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. doi: 10.1016\/j.marchem.2023.104346<\/a<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Estapa, M. L.<\/strong>, C. A. Durkin, W. H. Slade, C. L. Huffard, S. P. O\u2019Neill, and M. M. Omand. 2023. A new, global optical sediment trap calibration. Limnology & Ocean Methods lom3.10592. doi:10.1002\/lom3.10592<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Wojtal, P.K, S.C. Doherty, C.H. Shean, B.N. Popp, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, K.O. Buesseler, M.L.Estapa<\/strong>, M. Roca-Marti\u0301, H.G Close, 2023. Limnology and Oceanography. Deconvolving Mechanisms of Particle Flux Attenuation using Nitrogen Isotope Analyses of Amino Acids. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/lno.12398<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Steinberg D.K., K. Stamieszkin, A.E. Maas, C.A. Durkin, U. Passow, M.L. Estapa<\/strong>, 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). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2022GB007523<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Durkin, C.A., I. Cetinic\u0301 , M.L. Estapa<\/strong>, Z. Ljubes\u030cic\u0301 , 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. Doi:10.1038\/s41396-022-01239-2<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Durkin CA, Buesseler KO, Cetini\u0107 I, Estapa ML<\/strong>, Kelly RP, Omand M. 2021. A Visual Tour of Carbon Export by Sinking Particles. Global Biogeochem Cycles<\/em> 35<\/strong>(10). doi: 10.1029\/2021GB006985<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Long JS, Fassbender AJ, Estapa ML<\/strong>. 2021. Depth\u2010Resolved 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 Lett<\/em>48<\/strong>(19). doi: 10.1029\/2021GL093462<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Siegel, D.A., I. Cetinic\u0301, 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<\/strong>), 2021. Overview of the Export Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific Field Deployment.  Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene <\/em>9(1).  doi:10.1525\/elementa.2020.00107<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Roca-Mart\u00ed, M., Benitez-Nelson, C.R., Umhau, B.P., Wyatt, A.M., Clevenger, S.J., Pike, S.M., Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, Resplandy, L., Buesseler, K.O., 2021. Concentrations, ratios, and sinking fluxes of major bioelements at Ocean Station Papa. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene<\/em> 9(1). doi: 10.1525\/elementa.2020.00166<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Estapa M.L.<\/strong>, Buesseler KO, Durkin CA, Omand MM, Benitez-Nelson CR, Breves E, Kelly RP, Pike SM, Roca-Mart\u00ed M. 2021. Biogenic sinking particle fluxes and sediment trap collection efficiency at Ocean Station Papa. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene<\/em> 9(1). doi: 10.1525\/elementa.2020.20.00122<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Buesseler, K.O., C.R. Benitez-Nelson, M. Roca-Mart\u00ed, A.M. Wyatt, L.Resplandy, S.J. Clevenger, J. Drysdale, M.L. Estapa<\/strong>, S. Pike, B.P. Umhau, <\/em>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<\/em> 8(1): 030.<\/em>  doi:10.1525\/elementa.030<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Baker, C. A., M. L. Estapa<\/strong>, 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<\/em> 184: 102317. doi:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pocean.2020.102317<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Estapa, M., <\/strong>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<\/em>. 37: 957\u2013973. doi:10.1175\/JTECH-D-19-0118.1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Estapa, M.L<\/strong>,  M. Feen*, and E. Breves, 2019.<\/em> Direct observations of biological carbon export from profiling floats in the subtropical North Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles<\/em>, 282\u2013300. doi:10.1029\/2018GB006098<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  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<\/strong>), 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<\/em>, 196: 181-190, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marchem.2017.09.002<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Estapa, M.<\/strong>, 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<\/em> 120: 100\u2013111. doi:10.1016\/j.dsr.2016.12.003<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, 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, <\/em>29, doi:10.1002\/2014GB004913.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, 16, doi:10.1002\/2015GC005831.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Durkin, C. A., M. L. Estapa<\/strong>, and K. O. Buesseler 2015. Observations of carbon export by small sinking particles in the upper mesopelagic, Marine Chemistry<\/em>, 175<\/em>: 72-81.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, Buesseler, K.O., Boss, E., Gerbi, G.P., 2013. Autonomous, high-resolution observations of particle flux in the oligotrophic ocean.  Biogeosciences, 10:<\/em> 5517-5531.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, Mayer L.M., Boss E., 2012.  Rate and apparent quantum yield of photodissolution. Limnology and Oceanography,<\/em> 57(6): 1743-1756.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. Estapa, M.L.<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, 57(1): 97-112.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Estapa, M. L.<\/strong>, <\/em>Mayer, L.M., 2010.<\/em>  Photooxidation of particulate organic matter.  Marine Chemistry<\/em>, 122:  138-147.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. Mayer, L.M., L.L. Schick, K.R. Hardy, M. L. Estapa<\/strong>, 2009.  Photodissolution and other photochemical changes upon irradiation of algal detritus.  <\/em><\/strong>Limnology and Oceanography, <\/em>54: 1688-1698.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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