*Lang, S.E., Omand, M.M. Freilich, M.A, Scherbina, A.Y., Farrar, T. Middleton, L., Rodriguez, E. (2026) Estimating submesoscale-driven particulate organic carbon flux from remote sensing at a dynamic upwelling front. (submitted) https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.176366012.20405879/v1
**Song, Y., Omand, M.M. Durkin, C., Estapa, M. Steinberg, D. (2026) Diel Dynamics of Zooplankton Fecal Pellet Flux Revealed by Integrated Optical Observations and Modeling (submitted) https://doi.org/10.31223/X5RN0S
Gadimli, R., Thomas, C., Omand, M.M., Albert, J.N.L. (2026) Investigating the Durability of PHA-Coated Burlap for Coastal Restoration, Polymer Degradation and Stability. ACS Applied Engineering Materials https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.6c00063
Buesseler, K; Bianchi, D., Burns, W., Chai, F.; Cullen, J., Estapa, M.; Honda, M.; John, S.; Karl, D.; Klaas, C.; Li, Dou; Liu, Z.; McGillicuddy, D.; Morris, P.; Nishioka, J.; Omand, M.M.; Ramakrishna, K.; Roche, K.; Siegel, D.; Smith, S.; Twining, B.; Wells, M.; White, A.; Xiu, P.; Yoon, J.. (2026) The Case for Ocean Iron Fertilization Field Trials, Dialogues on Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1177/29768659261420631
Schlosser T, Lucas A, Omand M.M., Farrar J. (2025) Monsoons, plumes, and blooms: intraseasonal variability of subsurface primary productivity in the Bay of Bengal. Ocean Science. Vol 22(1) pp. 443–458 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4206
*Lang, S.E., Omand, M.M., Lenain, L. (2025) Airborne remote sensing of concurrent submesoscale dynamics and phytoplankton. Earth and Space Science DOI:10.1029/2025EA004285
Siegel, D., Burd, A., Estapa, M., Fields, E., Johnson, L., Romanelli, E., Brzezinski, M., Buesseler, K., Clevenger, S., Cetinic, I., Drago, L., Durkin, C., Kiko, R., Kramer, S., Maas, A, Omand, M.M., Passow, U. and Steinberg, D. (2025) Assessing Marine Snow Dynamics During the Demise of the North Atlantic Spring Bloom Using In Situ Particle Imagery. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008676
*Sprague, M.J., Omand, M.M., Fischer, G., Sousa, E., Rossby, R.T., Van Uffelen, L.J. (2025) Observational and Model-Based Assessment of a Self-Contained Receiver for Long Range Underwater Acoustic Geolocalization. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 42(7):777-791 DOI:10.1175/JTECH-D-24-0137.1
**Song, Y. Omand, M.M., Durkin, C.A., Estapa, M.E, Buesseler, K.O., (2025) GelCam: Visualizing Episodic Sinking Particle Flux via a Polyacrylamide Gel Based Sediment Trap. Submitted to Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. https://doi.org/10.31223/X59T40
Farrar, J. T., and E. D’Asaro, E. Rodríguez, A. Shcherbina, L. Lenain, M.M. Omand, A. Wineteer, P. Bhuyan, F. Bingham, A. B. V. Boas, E. Czech, J. D’Addezio, M. Freilich, L. Grare, D. Hypolite, G. Jacobs, P. Klein, S. Lang, I. M. Leyba, Z. Li, A. Mahadevan, J. McWilliams, D. Menemenlis, L. Middleton, J. Molemaker, L. O’Neill, D. Perkovic-Martin, N. Pizzo, L. Rainville, C. Rocha, R. M. Samelson, I. Simoes-Sousa, A. Thompson, D. Thompson, H. Torres, I. Uchoa, J. Wenegrat, E. Westbrook (2025): S-MODE: The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 106, E657–E677, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0178.1.
Johnson, L., Siegel, D., Thompson, A., Fields, E., Erickson, Z., Cetinic, I., Lee, C., D'Asaro, E., Nelson, N., Omand, M.M., Sten, M., Traylor, S.,Nicholson, D., Graff, J., Steinberg, D., Sosik, H., Buesseler, K., Brzezinski, M., Soto Ramos, I., Carvalho, F., Henson, S. (2023). Assessment of oceanographic conditions during the North Atlantic export processes in the ocean from RemoTe sensing (EXPORTS) field campaign. Progress in Oceanography DOI: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5C097
Niebergall, A.K., Traylor, S., Huang, Y., Feen, M., Meyer, M.G., McNair, H.M., Nicholson, D., Fassbender, A.J., Omand, M.M., Marchetti, A., Menden-Deuer, S., Tang, W., Gong, W., Tortell, P., Hamme, R., Cassar N. (2023) Evaluation of new and net community production estimates by multiple ship-based and autonomous observations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene; 11 (1): 00107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00107
Mucko, M., Mihanović, H., Matek, A., Achterberg, E.P., Omand, M.M., Pestorić, B., Lucic, D., Čižmek, H., Colic, B., Orlić, M. et al. Fine-scale changes in plankton community in oligotrophic stratified waters of Lastovo Island (Adriatic Sea) during ITW forcings. 1st International Scientific Symposium Interdisciplinary Approach to the Scientific Research of the Adriatic Sea InspireAdriatic. Zagreb: Institut Ruđer Bošković, 2023. str. 32-33
Estapa M.E., Durkin, C.A., Slade, W.H., Huffard, C.L., O’Neill, S.P., Omand, M.M. (2023) A new, global optical sediment trap calibration. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods DOI: LOM-23-02-0019.R1
Steinberg D, Stamieszkin K, Maas A, Durkin C, Passow U, Estapa M, Omand M.M., McDonnell A, Karp‐Boss L, Galbraith M, Siegel D. (2022) The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(1):-. DOI: 10.1029/2022GB007523.
Grassian, B., Roman, C., Omand M.M., Wishner, K., Seibel, B. (2022) Multi-sensor observation of a rapidly dispersing micronekton thin layer. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103924
Durkin, C.A., Cetinić, I., Estapa, M., Ljubesic, Z., Mucko, M., Neeley, A., Omand, M.M., (2022) Tracing the path of carbon export in the ocean though DNA sequencing of individual sinking particles. ISME J 16, 1896–1906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01239-2
Erickson, Z.K., Fields, E., Omand, M.M., Johnson, L., Thompson, A.F., D’Asaro, E., Carvalho, F., Dove, L.A., Lee, C.M., Nicholson, D.P., Shilling, G., Cetinić, I., Siegel. D., (2022) EXPORTS North Atlantic eddy tracking. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/29464. DOI: 10.1575/1912/29464
Durkin, C.A, Buesseler, K.O., Cetinić, I., Estapa, M.L, Kelly, R.P., Omand, M.M. (2021) A visual tour of carbon export by sinking particles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(10) https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB006985
Omand, M.M., Steinberg, D.K., Stamieszkin K.S. (2021) Cloud shadows drive vertical migrations of deep-dwelling marine life. PNAS,118 (32) e2022977118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022977118
Rossby, T., Omand, M.M., Palter, J., Hebert, D. (2021). On rates of isopycnal dispersion at the submesoscale. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL093526. https://doi-org.uri.idm.oclc.org/10.1029/2021GL093526
Estapa, M, Buesseler, K, Durkin, CA, Omand, M.M., Benitez-Nelson, CR, Roca-Martı ́, M, Breves, E, Kelly, RP, Pike, S. (2021). Biogenic sinking particle fluxes and sediment trap collection efficiency at Ocean Station Papa. Elementa:Science of Anthropocene 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.20.00122.
Dever, M., Nicholson, D., Omand, M.M. and Mahadevan A. (2021). Size-differentiated export in a different dynamical regimes in the ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006764
*Johnson, A. and Omand, M.M. (2021). Evolution of a subducted carbon-rich filament on the edge of the North Atlantic Gyre. Journal of Geophysical Research doi:10.1029/2020JC016685
Farrar, T., et al. (2020), S-MODE: The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment, 3533-3536, doi:10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323112.
*Walcutt, N.L., Knörlein, B., Cetinic ́I., Ljubesic, Z., Bosak, S., Sgouros, T., Montalbano, A.L., Neeley, A., Menden-Deuer, S., Omand, M.M.(2020). Assessment of Holographic Microscopy for Quantifying Marine Particle Size and Concentration. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods doi: 10.1002/lom3.10379
Omand, M.M., Govindarajan, R., Mahadevan, A., (2020). Sinking flux of particulate organic matter in the oceans: Sensitivity to particle characteristics. Nature: Scientific Reports 10, 5582 doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60424-5
Estapa, M., Valdes, J., Tradd, K., Sugar, J., Omand, M.M., Buesseler K., (2020). The neutrally buoyant sediment trap: two decades of progress. JAOTech 37, 957–973, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0118.1.
*Walcutt, N.L., Knorlein, B., Sgouros, T., Cetinic, I. and Omand M.M., (2019). Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective. Front. Mar. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00644
Sherin, C.K., Sarma, V.V.S.S., Rao, G.D., Viswanadham R., Omand, M.M., Murty, V.S.N. (2018). New to total primary production ratio (f-ratio) in the Bay of Bengal using isotopic composition of suspended particulate organic carbon and nitrogen. Deep Sea Research I, 139: 43-54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.06.002.
Omand, M.M., Cetinic, I., Lucas, A.J., and Mahadevan, A. (2017). Using bio-optics to reveal phytoplankton physiology from a WireWalker autonomous platform. Oceanography 30(2):128–131, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.233.
Lee, C.M., Paluszkiewicz, T., Rudnick, D.L., Omand, M.M., and Todd, R.E. (2017). Autonomous Instruments Significantly Expand Ocean Observing. Oceanography 30(2):18–28, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.211.
Rossby, T., Fischer, G. and Omand, M.M. (2017). A new technology for continuous long-range tracking of fish and lobster. Oceanography30(2):36–37, https://doi.org/ 10.5670/oceanog.2017.217.
Lotliker, A.A., Omand, M.M., Lucas, A.J., Laney, S.R., Mahadevan, A. and Ravichandran, M. (2016). Penetrative Radiative Flux in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography. 29(2):214–221, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.53.
Lucas, A. J., Nash, J. D., Pinkel, R., MacKinnon, J. A., Tandon, A. Mahadevan, A. Omand, M.M., Freilich, M., Sengupta, D., Ravichandran, M. and Le Boyer, A. (2016). Adrift Upon a Salinity-Stratified Sea: A View of Upper- Ocean Processes in the Bay of Bengal During the Southwest Monsoon. Oceanography. 29(2):134–145, http:// dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.46.
Sutanu Sarkar, S., Pham, H.T., Ramachandran, S., Nash, J.D., Tandon, A., Buckley, J., Lotliker, A. A. and Omand, M.M. (2016). The Interplay Between Submesoscale Instabilities and Turbulence in the Surface Layer of the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography. 29(2):146–157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.47.
Mahadevan, A., Spiro Jaeger, G. Freilich, M. Omamd, M.M., Shroyer, E., Sengupa, D. (2016). Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal: Its fate and role in air-sea heat exchange. Oceanography. 29(2): 72-81, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/ oceanog.2016.40 (28)
V.V.S.S. Sarma, Rao, G.D., Viswanadham, R., Sherin, C.K., Salisbury, J., Omand, M.M. Mahadevan, A., Murty, V.S.N., Shroyer, E.L., Baumgartner, M. and Stafford K. (2016) Effects of Freshwater Stratification on Nutrients, Dissolved Oxygen, and Phytoplankton in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography. 29(2):222–231, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.5670/oceanog.2016.54.
Wijesekera, H.W., E. Shroyer, A. Tandon, M. Ravichandran, D. Sengupta, S.U. Jinadasa, H.J. Fernando, N. Agrawal, K. Arulananthan, G.S. Bhat, M. Baumgartner, J. Buckley, L. Centurioni, P. Conry, J.T. Farrar, A.L. Gordon, V. Hormann, E. Jarosz, T.G. Jensen, S. Johnston, M. Lankhorst, C.M. Lee, L.S. Leo, I. Lozovatsky, A.J. Lucas, J. Mackinnon, A. Mahadevan, J. Nash, M.M. Omand, H. Pham, R. Pinkel, L. Rainville, S. Ramachandran, D.L. Rudnick, S. Sarkar, U. Send, R. Sharma, H. Simmons, K.M. Stafford, L. St. Laurent, K. Venayagamoorthy, R. Venkatesan, W.J. Teague, D.W. Wang, A.F. Waterhouse, R. Weller, and C.B. Whalen, 2016: ASIRI: An Ocean– Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97, 1859–1884, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS- D-14-00197.1
Omand, M.M., Perry, M.J., D’Asaro, E., Lee, C., Briggs, N.A., Cetinic, I. and Mahadevan, A. (2015) Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom. Science, 348(6231) p. 222-225. doi: 10.1126/ science.1260062
Omand, M.M. and Mahadevan, A. (2014) Shape of the Oceanic Nitracline. Biogeosciences Discuss. 11, p. 14729-14763, doi:10.5194/bgd-11-14729-2014
Omand, M.M. and Mahadevan, A. (2013) Large-scale alignment of oceanic nitrate and density. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118, p. 1–11, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20379
Omand, M.M, Feddersen, F., Guza, R.T. and Franks, P.J.S. (2012) Episodic vertical nutrient fluxes and nearshore phytoplankton blooms in Southern California. Limnology and Oceanography, 57(6) p. 1673-1688. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1673
Omand, M.M, Leichter, J.L., Franks, P.J.S., Guza, R.T., Lucas, A.J., and Feddersen, F. (2011). Physical and Biological processes underlying the sudden appearance of a red-tide patch in the nearshore. Limnology and Oceanography, 56(3) p. 787-801.
Omand, M.M, Feddersen, F., Clark, D.B., Franks, P.J.S., Leichter, J.L., and Guza, R.T. (2009) The influence of bubbles and sand on Chlorophyll-a fluorescence measurements in the surfzone. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 7 p. 354-362. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0787
Clark, D.B., Feddersen, F., Omand, M.M and Guza, R.T. (2009). Measuring fluorescent dye in the bubbly and sediment laden surfzone. Water, Soil and Air Pollution, 204(1-4) p. 103-115. 10.1007/s11270-009-0030-z
Omand, M.M, Campbell, J.L. and Maxwell, J.A. (2005) Simulation of the relationship between element concentrations and X-ray yields in the Mars Exploration Rover's X- ray spectrometer. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. In Phys. Research B229 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2004.11.014
NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Fassbender, A.J., Bourbonnais, A., Clayton, S., Gaube, P., Omand, M.M., Franks, P.J.S., Altabet, M.A., and McGillicuddy Jr., D.J. (2018) Interpreting Fine-Scale Mosaics of Ocean Biogeochemistry. Eos, 99, https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2018EO109707.
Clayton, S., Gaube, P., Nagai, T. Omand, M.M., and Honda, M. (2017) Fine-scale biophysical controls on nutrient supply, phytoplankton community structure, and carbon export in western boundary current regions. US CLIVAR Variations Newsletter. 15(4): 17-21.
PATENTS
Meyer, A., Santoro, A.E, Omand, M.M. (2023). 3-D PRINTED BACTERIA TO ACCELERATE THE DEGRADATION OF BIOPLASTICS. US Patent No. 63/513,856, filed July 14, 2023, issue date July 15, 2024.
Omand, M.M., Hansen, T. (2024). OCEAN SAFE EEL TRAP ENTRY. US Patent No. 63703975, filed Oct 6, 2024, patent pending.