Claudia Benitez-Nelson

Recent Publications:

Bargu, S., M. W. Silver, M. D. Ohman, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, D.L. Garrison (2012) The mystery behind Hitchcock’s film “The Birds”. Nature Geoscience, 5, 2-3.

*Sekula-Wood, E., Benitez-Nelson, C.R., **Bennett. M.A., Thunell, R.C. (2011) Magnitude and composition of sinking particulate phosphorus fluxes in Santa Barbara Basin, California. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, revised.

*Sekula-Wood, E. Benitez-Nelson, C.R. Morton, S. Anderson, C.R. and Thunell, R.C. (2011) Pseudo-nitzschia and domoic acid fluxes in Santa Barbara Basin (CA) from 1993 to 2008. Harmful Algae, 10, 567-575, doi:10.1016/j.hal.2011.04.009.

Stukel, M., M. Landry, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, R. Goericke (2011) Trophic Cycling and Carbon Export in the California Current Ecosystem. Limnology & Oceanography, 56(5), 1866-1878.

*Lyons, G., Benitez-Nelson, C.R.,, and Thunell, R.C. (2011) Phosphorus composition of sinking particles in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, Limnology & Oceanography, 56, 1093-1105.

*Anderson, C.R., Kudela, R.M., Benitez-Nelson, C.R., Sekula-Wood, E., Burrell, C., Langlois, G., Siegel, D. (2011) Detecting toxic diatom blooms from ocean color and a regional ocean model. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L04603, doi:10.1029/2010GL045858.
Silver, M.W., Bargu, S., Coale, S.L., Benitez-Nelson, C.R., Garcia, A.C., Roberts, K.J., Sekula-wood, E., Bruland, K.W., Coale, K.H. (2010)

Toxic diatoms and domoic acid in natural and iron enriched waters of the oceanic Pacific, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(47) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006968107.

*Maiti, K., C. R. Benitez-Nelson, K.O Buesseler (2010) Insights into particle formation and remineralization using the short-lived radionuclide, Thorium-234. Geophysical Research letters, 37, L15608, doi:10.1029/2010GL044063, 2010