Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
Head of Remote Sensing and Marine Optics
Dr Shubha Sathyendranath is Head of Remote Sensing
and Marine Optics at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and is the
Assistant Director for the Partnership for the Observation of the
Global Oceans.
Dr Sathyendranath's research interests include ocean colour
modelling, spectral characteristics of light penetration
underwater, bio-optical properties of phytoplankton, modelling
primary production, bio-geochemical cycles in the sea, climate
change, biological-physical interactions in the marine system,
ecological provinces in the sea, ecological indicators and
phytoplantkon functional types.
Selected recent publications
- Brewin RJW, Sathyendranath
S, Hirata T, Lavender SJ, Barciela RM, Hardman-Mountford
NJ. 2010. A three-component model of phytoplankton size class for
the Atlantic Ocean. Ecological Modelling, 221(11),
1472-1483.
- Bouman HA, Nakane T, Oka K, Nakata K,
Kurita K, Sathyendranath S, Platt T. 2010.
Environmental controls on phytoplankton production in coastal
ecosystems: A case study from Tokyo Bay. Estuarine Coastal and
Shelf Science, 87(1), 63-72.
- Platt T, Sathyendranath
S, White GN, Fuentes-Yaco C, Zhai L, Devred E, Tang C.
2010. Diagnostic properties of phytoplankton time series from
remote sensing. Estuaries and Coasts, 33(2),
428-439.
- Zhai L, Platt T, Tang C,
Sathyendranath S, Fuentes-Yaco C, Devred E, Wu YS.
2010. Seasonal and geographic variations in phytoplankton losses
from the mixed layer on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf. Journal
of Marine Systems, 80(1-2), 36-46.
- Koeller P, Fuentes-Yaco C, Platt T,
Sathyendranath S, Richards A, Ouellet P, Orr D,
Skuladottir U, Wieland K, Savard L, Aschan M. 2009. basin-scale
coherence in phenology of shrimps and phytoplankton in the North
Atlantic Ocean. Science, 324(5928), 791-793.
- Platt T, White GN, Zhai L,
Sathyendranath S, Roy S. 2009. The phenology of
phytoplankton blooms: Ecosystem indicators from remote sensing.
Ecological Modelling, 220(21), 3057-3069.
- Sathyendranath S, Stuart
V, Nair A, Oka K, Nakane T, Bouman H, Forget MH, Maass H, Platt T.
2009. Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio and growth rate of phytoplankton
in the sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 383,
73-84.
- Nair A, Sathyendranath S,
Platt T, Morales J, Stuart V, Forget MH, Devred E, Bouman H. 2008.
Remote sensing of phytoplankton functional types. Remote
Sensing of the Environment, 112(8), 3366-3375.
- Platt T, Sathyendranath
S. 2008. Ecological indicators for the pelagic zone of the
ocean from remote sensing. Remote Sensing of the
Environment, 112(8), 3426-3436.
- Fichot CG, Sathyendranath
S, Miller WL. 2008. SeaUV and SeaUV(C): Algorithms for the
retrieval of UV/Visible diffuse attenuation coefficients from ocean
color. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 112(4),
1584-1602.
- Devred E, Sathyendranath
S, Platt T. 2007. Delineation of ecological provinces
using ocean colour radiometry. Marine Ecology Progress
Series, 346, 1-13.
- Rusch DB, Halpern AL, Sutton G, Heidelberg
KB, Williamson S, Yooseph S, Wu DY, Eisen JA, Hoffman JM, Remington
K, Beeson K, Tran B, Smith H, Baden-Tillson H, Stewart C, Thorpe J,
Freeman J, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Venter JE, Li K, Kravitz S,
Heidelberg JF, Utterback T, Rogers YH, Falcon LI, Souza V,
Bonilla-Rosso G, Eguiarte LE, Karl DM, Sathyendranath
S, Platt T, Bermingham E, Gallardo V, Tamayo-Castillo G,
Ferrari MR, Strausberg RL, Nealson K, Friedman R, Frazier M, Venter
JC. 2007. The Sorcerer II global ocean sampling expedition:
Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific. PLOS
Biology, 5(3), 398-431.
Key research projects
- Dynamical assignment of boundaries of
ecological provinces by remote sensing
- Discrimination of phytoplankton functional
types from ocean colour
- Variability in carbon to chlorophyll ratio
of phytoplankton at sea
- Ecological indicators from
space
- Bio-optical traits of phytoplankton
functional types in the sea
- Assistant Director of the Partnership for
Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)
Committee memberships