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Martin A Montes-Hugo

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Coastal Observation Lab
Rutgers University
71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
Phone: 732-932-6555 (ext. 367)
Fax: 732-932-8578
E-mail: montes@marine.rutgers.edu

Ongoing Research interests

Climate variability of coastal and polar marine ecosystems, marine optics, microbial marine ecology, bio-geochemical processes of optically shallow waters

Projects:

Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research
Building robotic Darwin clusters for studying Southern ocean climate change
Multidisciplinary University Research Inititaive (MURI)

Course offerings:

Marine optics
Ocean color Remote sensing
Phytoplankton ecology of polar waters
Coastal biological oceanography

Education

Visiting Faculty, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 2007-
Postdoctoral Associate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2005-2007
M.S. Physical Oceanography, University of South Florida, 2003-2005
Research Analyst, University of Alaska-Faribanks, 2002-2004
Ph.D. Marine Ecology, CICESE, México, 1997-2002
B.S. Biological Sciences, UNPSJB, Argentina, 1989-1994

Experience

Postdoctoral Scholar, Rutgers University, 2007-
Postdoctoral Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2005-2007
Research assistant, University of South Florida, 2003-2005
Research assistant, CICESE, Mexico, 1995-2002
Research initiation fellow, CONICET, Argentina, 1004-1995

Honors

Distinguished citizen of Tampico City, Tamaulipas, México, 2000

Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America presented by the national Science foundation and the department of the NAVY USA, 1995

Best bachelor in Biology, Argentina, 1989

Publications

2008
Montes-Hugo M., Ducklow H., Doney S., Fraser W., Martinson D., Stammerjohn S., Schofield O. Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula (Science, accepted).
Schofield O., Chant R., Cahill B., Castaleo R., Gong D., Kohut J., Montes-Hugo M., Ramanduri R., Xu Y., Glenn S. Seasonal forcing of primary productivity on broad continental shelves (Oceanography, accepted).
Montes-Hugo M., Schofield O., Ducklow H. Sensitivity of particulate beam attenuation to different marine bacterial communities (Marine Ecology Progress Series, accepted).
Ducklow H. Erickson M., Kelly J., Montes-Hugo M., Ribic C.A., Smith R.C., Stammerjohn S.E.,Karl D.M. Particle export from the upper ocean over the continental shelf of the west AntarcticPeninsula: A long-term record, 1992-2007 Deep Sea Research II 55: 2118-2131.
Montes-Hugo M., Vernet M., Martinson D., Smith R. Middle-term variability (1997-2006) on phytoplankton size structure in Western Shelf of Antarctic Peninsula. Deep Sea Research II 55:2106-2117.

2007
Montes-Hugo M., Alvarez-Borrego S. Phytoplankton assemblages at the microlayer of a coastal lagoon: HPLC-derived photosynthetic pigments Marine Biology 151:1215-1236.
Montes-Hugo M, Vernet M., Smith R., Carder K 2007. Phytoplankton size-structure on theWestern shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula: A remote sensing approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29:801-829.
Montes-Hugo M. Two decades of aquaculture has not altered the phytoplankton communities of a coastal lagoon influenced by upwelling. Hidrobiologica 17:213-224.

2005
Montes-Hugo M., Carder K., Foy R., Cannizzaro J., Brown E., Pegau S. Estimating phytoplankton biomass in coastal waters of Alaska using airborne remote sensing. Remote sensing of Environment 98: 481-493.
Montes-Hugo M., Alvarez-Borrego S. Empirical relationships to estimate underwater PAR attenuation in San Quintin Bay using Sechii depth and horizontal sighting range. Ciencias Marinas 31: 685-695.

2004
Ibarra-Obando S., Smith S., Poumian-Tapia M., Camacho-Ibar V., Carriquiri J. and Montes-Hugo M. Benthic metabolism in San Quintin Bay, Baja California, Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 283: 99-112.
Montes-Hugo M., Alvarez Borrego S. and Gaxiola Castro G. 2004 Annual primary production of a shallow estuarine system during non-El Niño years. Marine Ecology Progress Series 277: 51-60.

2003
Montes-Hugo M.A, Alvarez Borrego S. And Giles Guzmán A. Estimating Underwater PAR.attenuation using a horizontal sighting instrument in a coastal lagoon of Baja California. Estuaries 26:1302-1309.
Montes-Hugo M. and Alvarez Borrego S. Spatial and temporal variation of Photosynthetic parameters of Phytoplankton in a sub-tropical coastal lagoon. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences 56: 517-525

Before 2000

1998

Montes-Hugo M., Alvarez-Borrego S., Zirino A. Winter pCO2 of surface waters of the gulf of California to the north of 30°N is in equilibrium with the atmospheric value. Ciencias Marinas 24: 483-490.

1995

Villafañe V., Helbling W., Holm Hansen O. and Montes-Hugo M. AMLR program: Horizontal and vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass near Elephant Island during January, February, and March 1995. Antarctic Journal of United States 30: 232-234