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Dionysios E. Raitsos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Raitsos has published extensively in several journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "MARIDA: A benchmark for Marine Debris detection from Sentinel-2 remote sensing data," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Remotely Sensing the Source and Transport of Marine Plastic Debris in Bay Islands of Honduras (Caribbean Sea)," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Robert J. W. Brewin
  • Ibrahim Hoteit
  • John A. Gittings
  • George Krokos
  • Giorgio Dall'Olmo

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing the phytoplankton seasonal succession of the Red Sea.

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Yaswant Pradhan;Robert J. W. Brewin;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

  • Global climate change amplifies the entry of tropical species into the eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Gregory Beaugrand;Dimitrios Georgopoulos;Argyro Zenetos

  • A long-term chlorophyll dataset reveals regime shift in North Sea phytoplankton biomass unconnected to nutrient levels

    Abigail McQuatters-Gollop;Dionysios E. Raitsos;Martin Edwards;Yaswant Pradhan

  • Obtaining Phytoplankton Diversity from Ocean Color: A Scientific Roadmap for Future Development.

    Astrid Bracher;Astrid Bracher;Heather A. Bouman;Robert J. W. Brewin;Annick Bricaud;Annick Bricaud

  • An intercomparison of bio-optical techniques for detecting dominant phytoplankton size class from satellite remote sensing

    Robert J.W. Brewin;Nick J. Hardman-Mountford;Samantha J. Lavender;Dionysios E. Raitsos

  • Abrupt warming of the Red Sea

    D. E. Raitsos;Ibrahim Hoteit;Perdana Prihartato;T. Chronis

  • The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report

    Karina Von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Enrique Alvarez-Fanjul;Lars Axell

  • Impacts of warming on phytoplankton abundance and phenology in a typical tropical marine ecosystem

    John A. Gittings;Dionysios E. Raitsos;George Krokos;Ibrahim Hoteit

  • Ecological connectivity between the areas beyond national jurisdiction and coastal waters: Safeguarding interests of coastal communities in developing countries

    Ekaterina Popova;David Vousden;Warwick H.H. Sauer;Essam Y. Mohammed

  • Phytoplankton functional types from Space.

    Shubha. Sathyendranath;Jim Aiken;S. Alvain;R. Barlow

  • Impact of El Niño Variability on Oceanic Phytoplankton

    Marie Fanny Racault;Shubha Sathyendranath;Robert J.W. Brewin;Dionysios E. Raitsos

  • Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish.

    Amatzia Genin;Liraz Levy;Galit Sharon;Dionysios E. Raitsos

  • Monsoon oscillations regulate fertility of the Red Sea

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Dionysios E. Raitsos;Xing Yi;Trevor Platt;Marie‐Fanny Racault

  • Phytoplankton phenology indices in coral reef ecosystems: Application to ocean-color observations in the Red Sea

    Marie-Fanny Racault;Dionysios E. Raitsos;Michael L. Berumen;Michael L. Berumen;Robert J.W. Brewin

  • MARIDA: A benchmark for Marine Debris detection from Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

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  • Identifying four phytoplankton functional types from space: An ecological approach

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Samantha J. Lavender;Christos D. Maravelias;John Haralabous

  • Coccolithophore bloom size variation in response to the regional environment of the subarctic North Atlantic

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Samantha J. Lavender;Yaswant Pradhan;Toby Tyrrell

  • Uncertainty in Ocean-Color Estimates of Chlorophyll for Phytoplankton Groups

    Robert J. W. Brewin;Stefano Ciavatta;Shubha Sathyendranath;Thomas Jackson

  • Extending the SeaWiFs chlorophyll data set back 50 years in the northeast Atlantic

    Dionysios E. Raitsos;Philip C. Reid;Samantha J. Lavender;Martin Edwards

  • Marine heatwaves reveal coral reef zones susceptible to bleaching in the Red Sea

    Lily G C Genevier;Tahira Jamil;Dionysios E Raitsos;Dionysios E Raitsos;Georgios Krokos

  • Non-linearities, regime shifts and recovery: The recent influence of climate on Black Sea chlorophyll

    Abigail McQuatters-Gollop;Laurence D. Mee;Dionysios E. Raitsos;Georgy I. Shapiro

  • Exploring the Red Sea seasonal ecosystem functioning using a three-dimensional biophysical model

    G. Triantafyllou;Fengchao Yao;G. Petihakis;K. P. Tsiaras

Frequent Co-Authors

Ibrahim Hoteit
Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Robert J. W. Brewin
Robert J. W. Brewin University of Exeter
Shubha Sathyendranath
Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
Abigail McQuatters-Gollop Plymouth University
Trevor Platt
Trevor Platt Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards Plymouth University
Meric Srokosz
Meric Srokosz National Oceanography Centre
David Antoine
David Antoine Curtin University
Philip C. Reid
Philip C. Reid Plymouth University
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Giorgio Dall'Olmo Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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