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Nikolai Maximenko is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is focused on several subfields, including Pollution, Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research addresses main topics such as Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Maximenko has a record of publications in various scientific venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Communications, and Nature Ecology & Evolution. Notable recent papers include:

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • High concentrations of floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich North Pacific Garbage Patch, 2023, PLoS Biology
  • An Integrated Observing System for Monitoring Marine Debris and Biodiversity, 2021, Oceanography

Frequent coauthors working with Maximenko include Jan Hafner, Rebecca R. Helm, Linsey E. Haram, James T. Carlton, and Mary Crowley. Collaborations appear across multiple projects, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to studying marine environments and pollution.

Best Publications

  • A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

    Erik Van Sebille;Erik Van Sebille;Chris Wilcox;Laurent Lebreton;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

    Kara Lavender Law;Skye Morét-Ferguson;Skye Morét-Ferguson;Nikolai A. Maximenko;Giora Proskurowski;Giora Proskurowski

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters.

    Nikolai Maximenko;Jan Hafner;Peter Niiler

  • Plastic pollution in the South Pacific subtropical gyre

    Marcus Eriksen;Nikolai Maximenko;Martin Thiel;Anna Cummins

  • Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

    Nikolai A. Maximenko;Bohyun Bang;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Mean Dynamic Topography of the Ocean Derived from Satellite and Drifting Buoy Data Using Three Different Techniques

    Nikolai Maximenko;Peter Niiler;Marie-Helene Rio;Oleg Melnichenko

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Using numerical model simulations to improve the understanding of micro-plastic distribution and pathways in the marine environment

    Britta D. Hardesty;Joseph Harari;Atsuhiko Isobe;Laurent Lebreton

  • Dynamically balanced absolute sea level of the global ocean derived from near‐surface velocity observations

    Pearn P. Niiler;Nikolai A. Maximenko;Nikolai A. Maximenko;James C. McWilliams

  • Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

    N. A. Maximenko;K. J. Richards;B. Bang;H. Sasaki

  • Composition and potential origin of marine debris stranded in the Western Indian Ocean on remote Alphonse Island, Seychelles.

    Aurélie V. Duhec;Richard F. Jeanne;Nikolai Maximenko;Jan Hafner

  • Tracking the sources and sinks of local marine debris in Hawai'i.

    Henry S. Carson;Megan R. Lamson;Davis Nakashima;Derek Toloumu

  • Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean

    Nikolai A. Maximenko;Oleg V. Melnichenko;Oleg V. Melnichenko;Pearn P. Niiler;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Measuring marine plastic debris from space : Initial assessment of observation requirements

    Víctor Martínez-Vicente;James R. Clark;Paolo Corradi;Stefano Aliani

  • Monitoring Ocean Currents with Satellite Sensors

    Kathleen Dohan;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Zonal jets in the Pacific Ocean

    K. J. Richards;N. A. Maximenko;F. O. Bryan;H. Sasaki

  • Near-surface dynamical structure of the Kuroshio Extension

    P. P. Niiler;N. A. Maximenko;N. A. Maximenko;G. G. Panteleev;G. G. Panteleev;T. Yamagata

  • A Plasticene Lexicon.

    Linsey E. Haram;James T. Carlton;Gregory M. Ruiz;Nikolai A. Maximenko

  • Numerical simulations of debris drift from the Great Japan Tsunami of 2011 and their verification with observational reports.

    Nikolai Maximenko;Jan Hafner;Masafumi Kamachi;Amy MacFadyen

  • Plastic Pollution in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre

    Marcus Eriksen;Anna Cummins;Nikolai Maximenko;Martin Thiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Knudsen
Per Knudsen Technical University of Denmark
Ole Baltazar Andersen
Ole Baltazar Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Niklas Schneider
Niklas Schneider University of Hawaii at Manoa
Erik van Sebille
Erik van Sebille Utrecht University
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Chris W. Hughes
Chris W. Hughes University of Liverpool
Rick Lumpkin
Rick Lumpkin Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Luca Centurioni
Luca Centurioni University of California, San Diego
Britta Denise Hardesty
Britta Denise Hardesty CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere
François Galgani
François Galgani French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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