Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
Merit Remote Sensing Scientist
ssat @pml.ac.uk | +44 (0)1752 633100 (switchboard)Dr Shubha Sathyendranath is a scientist in the Remote Sensing Group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
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.
Notable achievements
2023: Dr Shubha Sathyendranath appointed MBE in the King's Birthday Honours
2022: Dr Sathyendranath awarded the Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit
2021: A.G. Huntsman Medal for Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
- Primary Production Parameters from Space (ESA Project)
- PAR for Primary Production (ESA Project)
Recent publications
- Shutler, JD; Gruber, N; Findlay, HS; Land, PE; Gregory, L; Holding, T; Sims, RP; Green, H; Piollé, J-F; Chapron, B; Sathyendranath, S; Rousseaux, CS; Donlon, CJ; Cooley, S; Turner, J; Valauri-Orton, A; Lowder, K; Widdicombe, S; Newton, J; Sabia, R; Rio, M-H; Gaultier, L; 2024. The increasing importance of satellite observations to assess the ocean carbon sink and ocean acidification. Earth-Science Reviews.
- Kulk, G; Sathyendranath, S; Platt, T; George, G; Suresan, AK; Menon, N; Evers-King, H; Abdulaziz, A; 2023. Using Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing for Flood Mapping: A Case Study in Lake Vembanad, India. Remote Sensing.
- Sathyendranath, S; Brewin, RJW; Ciavatta, S; Jackson, T; Kulk, G; Jonsson, B; Martinez Vicente, V; Platt, T; 2023. Ocean Biology Studied from Space. Surveys in Geophysics.
- Jonsson, B; Kulk, G; Sathyendranath, S; 2023. Review of algorithms estimating export production from satellite derived properties. Frontiers in Marine Science.
- Jonsson, B; Follett, CL; Bien, J; Dutkiewicz, S; Hyun, S; Kulk, G; Forget, GL; Müller, C; Racault, M-FLP; Hill, CN; Jackson, T; Sathyendranath, S; 2023. Using Probability Density Functions to Evaluate Models (PDFEM, v1.0) to compare a biogeochemical model with satellite-derived chlorophyll. Geoscientific Model Development.