Preprints
Dove, L.A., Freilich, M.A., Siegelman, L., Fox-Kemper, B., and Hall, P. (in review) Pycnocline stratification shapes submesoscale vertical tracer transport.
Beaudin, E., Capone, D., Lang, S., Omand, M., di Lorenzo, E., Decima, M., Freilich, M. A. (submitted). Submesoscale Eddy Trapping Affects Community Composition and Biogeochemistry Beyond the Coastal Upwelling Zone.
Gangrade, S., Freilich, M.A., Beaudin, É., Luis, K., Leyba, I., Omand, M., Lang, S., O'Neill, L. and Capone, D., (in review). Open ocean biogeochemical impacts of extreme terrestrial precipitation.
Krinos, A., Mars Brisbin, M., Costa, A., Shapiro, S., Follows, M.J., Freilich, M.A., Alexander, H. (in review). Nutrient response strategies drive coastal range shifts of phytoplankton taxa.
Beaudin, E., di Lorenzo, E., Freilich, M.A., Miller, A. (in review) Transport Pathways of Gulf of Alaska Coastal Waters and Implications for Ecosystem Response.
Neto, M., Marquet, P., Freilich, M.A., Martí, L., and Sanchez-Pi, N. (in review). Beyond the Critical Depth: The Metabolic and Physical Drivers of Phytoplankton Persistence in a Changing Ocean.
Lang, S., Omand, M.O., Freilich, M.A., Shcherbina, A., Farrar, T., Middleton, L. (in review). Estimating submesoscale-driven particulate organic carbon flux from remote sensing at a dynamic upwelling front.
Panaïotis, T., Irisson, J.-O., Freilich, M.A., Cael, BB (in revision). A closer look at plankton: potential interactions inferred from centimeter-scale in situ observations.
Kim, H.H., Wolfe, W.H., Lawrence, E., Doney, S.C., Moran, M.A., Freilich, M.A., Krinos, A., Yang, M.Y., Covert, M.W., Braakman, R., Scott, H.G., Segre, D., Litchman, E., Weissman, J.L., Agmon, E. (in review). Scalable, substrate-explicit metabolic network modeling of heterotrophic bacteria for ocean biogeochemistry.
Selected recent publications
Seitz, L.R., Freilich, M.A., Pizzo, N. (2026) The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Dove, L. A., & Freilich, M. A. (2026). Biophysical Dynamics of Mesoscale Eddies. Oceanography, 39(1), 14-23.
Gonzalez, M., Dove, L.A., Freilich, M.A. (2025). Distribution and Transport of Antarctic Winter Water Biogeochemical Properties. Geophysical Research Letters.
Centeno, D., Lopez, A., Palomino, A., Taboada, J., Sinclair, R., Montgomery, Q., Sanchez, M.N., Marquez, C., Arzeno-Soltero, I.B., Freilich, M.A. (2025). Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, and Environmental Injustices: Mechanisms and Knowledge Gaps at the Salton Sea. GeoHealth
Ruiz Seitz, L., and Freilich, M. A. (2025). Joint effects of submesoscale lateral dispersion and biological reactions on biogeochemical flux. Geophysical Research Letters.
Freilich, M.A., Poirier, C., Dever, M., Alou, E., Allen, J., Cabornero, A., Choi, C., Sudek, L., Ruiz, S., Pascual, A., Farrar, J.T., D'Asaro, E., Worden, A.Z., Mahadevan, A. (2024). Microbially enriched intrusions from the deep chlorophyll maximum transport carbon to the mesopelagic ocean. PNAS. (Science editor's highlight, news coverage)
Centeno, D., Arzeno-Soltero, I., Delgado, A., Freilich, M., Marquez, C., Montgomery, Q., Palomino, A., Penalber, G., Sinclair, R. (2023). Salton Sea Environmental Work and the Importance of Community Science. Oceanography.
Freilich, M.A., Lenain, L., Gille, S., (2023) Characterizing the role of non-linear interactions in the transition to submesoscale dynamics at a dense filament. Geophysical Research Letters.
Freilich, M.A., Flierl, G., Mahadevan, M. (2022). Diversity of growth rates maximizes phytoplankton productivity in an eddying ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL096180. (pre-print)
Freilich, M., Mignot, A., Flierl, G., and Ferrari, R. (2021). An investigation of grazing behaviors that result in winter phytoplankton biomass accumulation. Biogeosciences, 18, 5595–5607.