Publications

(in progress)

Fontela, M. & Padín,X. A. Interannual air-sea CO₂ Fluxes in the NW Iberian Upwelling System.
Fontela, M., Voelker, A., SINES crew, Abrantes, F. The imprint of anthropogenic climate change in the SW Iberian Upwelling System: a warmer, more acidic and less oxygenated ocean.

(reverse chronological order, first-author publications are listed along with a related figure.)

Fontela, M., Fernández-Román, D., Farnelid, H., Fernández-Carrera, A., Marañón, E., Martínez-García, S., Rodríguez-Ramos, T., Varela, M.M., Mouriño-Carballido, B. 2025. Puzzling out the ecological niche construction for nitrogen fixers in a coastal upwelling system.. ISME Communications (currently in minor review)

Kitch, G. D., Duke, P. J., Grabb, K. C., Simancas-Giraldo, S., Adekunbi, F. O., Addey, C. I., Arbilla, L. A., Carvalho, A. C. O., Chu, S. N., Green, R. A., Hamnca, S., Ghosh, A., Kirkland, A., Lowder, K. B., Meléndez, M., Fontela, M., Robache, K., Ringham, M. C., Rønning, J., Schockman, K. M., Stoll, M. M., Renó de Oliveira, R., Wright-Fairbanks, E. K. 2025. - Early Career Recommendations for the Equitable Growth of a Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Sector. Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 6(1), e2024CN000246. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024CN000246
Fernández Castro, B., Fernández Román, D., Ferron, B., Fontela, M., Lherminier, P., Naveira Garabato, A., Pérez, F. F., Spingys, C., Polzin, K., Velo, A. 2024. Isopycnal eddy stirring dominates thermohaline mixing in the upper subpolar North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020817.
Mercier, H., Desbruyères, D., Lherminier, P., Velo, A., Carracedo, L., Fontela, M., and Pérez, F. F.: 2024 - New insights into the eastern subpolar North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation from OVIDE. Ocean Sci., 20, 779–797, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-779-2024
Miloslavich, P., O’Callaghan, J., Heslop, E., McConnell, T., Heupel, M., Satterthwaite, E., Lorenzoni, L., Schloss, I., Belbeoch, M., Rome, N., Widdicombe, S., Olalekan Elegbede, I. & Fontela, M. (2024). - Ocean Decade Vision 2030 White Papers - Challenge 7: Sustainably expand the Global Ocean Observing System. Paris, UNESCO-IOC. (The Ocean Decade Series, 51.7.). https://doi.org/10.25607/brxb-kr45
Fontela, M., Velo, A., Brown,P. J., Pérez, F., 2023 - Carbonate System Species and pH. Book chapter in Marine Analytical Chemistry Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 J. Blasco, A. Tovar-Sánchez (eds.). DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-14486-8_1

Schadeberg, A., Ford, E., Wieczorek, A.M., Gammage, L.C., López-Acosta, M., Buselic, I., Turk Dermastia, T., Fontela, M., Galobart, C., Llopis Monferrer, N., Lubośny, M., Piarulli, S., Suaria, G., 2022. - Productivity, pressure, and new perspectives: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on marine early-career researchers.. ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI:10.1093/icesjms/fsac167. Code for reproducibility: Fontela, M. & López-Acosta, M. 2022. Code to reproduce figures in “Productivity, pressure and new perspectives: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on early-career marine researchers”. Zenodo.
Pérez, F., Olafsson, J., Ólafsdóttir,R., Fontela, M. & Takahashi, T., 2021 - Contrasting drivers and trends of ocean acidification in the subarctic Atlantic. Scientific Reports, 11, 13991. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93324-3
García-Ibañez, M.I., Bates, N., Bakker, D., Fontela, M., Velo, A. 2021 - Cold-water corals in the Subpolar North Atlantic Ocean exposed to aragonite undersaturation if the 2°C global warming target is not met. Global and Planetary Change. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103480
Fontela, M., Velo, A., Gilcoto, M., Pérez, F., 2021 - Anthropogenic CO₂ and ocean acidification in Argentine Basin Water Masses over almost five decades of observations. Science of The Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146570. Code for reproducibility: Fontela, M. 2021. mfontela/ArgentineBasin: Tracer trends in Argentine Basin Water Masses (Version v1). Zenodo.

Fontela, M., Pérez, F., Mercier, H., Lherminier. P., 2020 - North Atlantic Western Boundary Currents are intense dissolved organic carbon streams Frontiers in Marine Science. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.593757

Fontela, M., Pérez, F., Carracedo, L.I., Padín, X.A., Velo, A., García-Ibañez, M.I., Lherminier. P., 2020 - The Northeast Atlantic is running out of excess carbonate in the horizon of cold-water corals communities Scientific Reports 10, 14714 (2020). DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-71793-2

Pedrosa-García, M.C., Fontela, M., Quintana, B., Pérez, F., Marcos, T., 2020 Precise 210Pb determination with high-efficiency gamma spectrometry for dating of marine sedimentary cores Applied Radiation and Isotopes, DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108962
Fontela, M., Francés, G., Quintana, B., Álvarez-Fernández, M. J., Nombela, M. A., Alejo, I., Pedrosa, M. and Pérez, F. F. 2019. Dating the Anthropocene in deep-sea sediments: how much carbon is buried in the Irminger Basin? Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.02.008

Fontela, M., Mercier, H., Pérez F. F., 2019. Long-term integrated biogeochemical budget driven by circulation in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic.. Progress in Oceanography, DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.02.004

Broullón, D., Fontela, M., Padín, X.A., Pérez, F. F., 2018. Climate change and ocean acidification, EduCO2cean Magazine. 2 - 4, pp. 67 - 88. ISBN 978-84-697-9954-3
Fontela, M., 2018. Transport and budget of carbon, nutrients and oxygen in the North Atlantic. PhD Thesis.

Pérez, F.F., Fontela, M., García-Ibañez, M.I., Mercier, H., Velo, A., Lherminier, P., Zunino, P., de la Paz, M., Alonso-Pérez, F., Guallart, E. F., Padín X.A., 2018. Meridional overturning circulation conveys fast acidification to the deep Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 554, 515–518, DOI: 10.1038/nature25493
Fontela, M., García-Ibañez, M.I., Hansell, D.A., Mercier, H., Pérez, F.F., 2016. Dissolved Organic Carbon in the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Scientific Reports 6, 26931, DOI: 10.1038/srep26931

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