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Overview

Maria T. Maldonado is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers several subfields including Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Pollution.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Maria T. Maldonado has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their common coauthors are:

  • Adrian Marchetti
  • Cheng Kuang
  • Jingxuan Li
  • Jay T. Cullen
  • Jian Guo

The primary venues where Maria T. Maldonado has published include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Insights into the bioavailability of oceanic dissolved Fe from phytoplankton uptake kinetics" (2020), published in The ISME Journal
  • "A Call to Include Plastics in the Global Environment in the Class of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Pollutants" (2023), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Concentrations and properties of ice nucleating substances in exudates from Antarctic sea-ice diatoms" (2020), published in Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • "Probing the Bioavailability of Dissolved Iron to Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Using In Situ Single Cell Iron Quotas" (2021), published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Strong Margin Influence on the Arctic Ocean Barium Cycle Revealed by Pan-Arctic Synthesis" (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization

    Philip W. Boyd;Andrew J. Watson;Cliff S. Law;Edward R. Abraham

  • Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms

    Adrian Marchetti;Micaela S. Parker;Lauren P. Moccia;Ellen O. Lin

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Importance of stirring in the development of an iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom.

    Edward R. Abraham;Cliff S. Law;Philip W. Boyd;Samantha J. Lavender;Samantha J. Lavender

  • The role of heterotrophic bacteria in iron-limited ocean ecosystems

    Philippe D. Tortell;Philippe D. Tortell;Maria T. Maldonado;Nell M. Price

  • Utilization of iron bound to strong organic ligands by plankton communities in the subarctic Pacific Ocean

    Maria T. Maldonado;Neil M. Price

  • FeCycle: Attempting an iron biogeochemical budget from a mesoscale SF6 tracer experiment in unperturbed low iron waters

    P W Boyd;Cliff S Law;D A Hutchins;E R Abraham

  • REDUCTION AND TRANSPORT OF ORGANICALLY BOUND IRON BY THALASSIOSIRA OCEANICA (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE)

    Maria T. Maldonado;Neil M. Price

  • The effect of Fe and Cu on growth and domoic acid production by Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries and Pseudo-nitzschia australis

    Maria T. Maldonado;Margaret P. Hughes;Eden L. Rue;Mark L. Wells

  • Copper‐dependent iron transport in coastal and oceanic diatoms

    Maria T. Maldonado;Andrew E. Allen;Joanne S. Chong;Kevin Lin

  • Marine bacteria and biogeochemical cycling of iron in the oceans

    Philippe D Tortell;Maria T Maldonado;Julie Granger;Neil M Price

  • N and O isotope effects during nitrate assimilation by unicellular prokaryotic and eukaryotic plankton cultures

    J. Granger;D.M. Sigman;M.M. Rohde;M.T. Maldonado

  • The fate of added iron during a mesoscale fertilisation experiment in the Southern Ocean

    Andrew R Bowie;Andrew R Bowie;Maria T Maldonado;Russell D Frew;Peter L Croot

  • Influence of N substrate on Fe requirements of marine centric diatoms

    Maldonado Mt;Price Nm

  • Adaptive strategies by Southern Ocean phytoplankton to lessen iron limitation: Uptake of organically complexed iron and reduced cellular iron requirements

    Robert F. Strzepek;Maria T. Maldonado;Keith A. Hunter;Russell D. Frew

  • Spinning the “Ferrous Wheel”: The importance of the microbial community in an iron budget during the FeCycle experiment

    R. F. Strzepek;M. T. Maldonado;J. L. Higgins;J. Hall

  • Acquisition of iron bound to strong organic complexes, with different Fe binding groups and photochemical reactivities, by plankton communities in Fe-limited subantarctic waters

    Maria T. Maldonado;Robert F. Strzepek;Sylvia Sander;Philip W. Boyd

  • From laboratory manipulations to Earth system models: scaling calcification impacts of ocean acidification

    A. Ridgwell;D. N. Schmidt;C. Turley;C. Brownlee

  • Retention of dissolved iron and Fe-II in an iron induced Southern Ocean phytoplankton bloom

    Peter L. Croot;Andrew R. Bowie;Russell D. Frew;Maria T. Maldonado

  • Co-limitation of phytoplankton growth by light and Fe during winter in the NE subarctic Pacific Ocean

    Maria T. Maldonado;Philip W. Boyd;Paul J. Harrison;Neil M. Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Philippe D. Tortell
Philippe D. Tortell University of British Columbia
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Jay T. Cullen
Jay T. Cullen University of Victoria
Peter Croot
Peter Croot University of Galway
Russell D. Frew
Russell D. Frew University of Otago
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Neil M. Price
Neil M. Price McGill University
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland University of California, Santa Cruz
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences

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