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Gavin H. Tilstone is affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant concentration in subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their work covers several main topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and fisheries research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis.

Tilstone has authored multiple papers reflecting these interests. Notable publications include:

  • Primary Production, an Index of Climate Change in the Ocean: Satellite-Based Estimates over Two Decades (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Performance of Ocean Colour Chlorophyll a algorithms for Sentinel-3 OLCI, MODIS-Aqua and Suomi-VIIRS in open-ocean waters of the Atlantic (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Field Intercomparison of Radiometer Measurements for Ocean Colour Validation (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade (2023, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications - version three (2022, Earth system science data)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Tilstone include Robert J. W. Brewin, Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Tânia Casal, Silvia Pardo, and Craig Donlon.

Research dissemination has been mainly through several key venues, featuring numerous publications in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Optics Express
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • Optical remote sensing of chlorophyll a in case 2 waters by use of an adaptive two-band algorithm with optimal error properties.

    Kevin George Ruddick;Herman Gons;Machteld Rijkeboer;Gavin Holdcroft Tilstone

  • Composition of dissolved organic matter along an Atlantic Meridional Transect from fluorescence spectroscopy and Parallel Factor Analysis

    Piotr Kowalczuk;Gavin H. Tilstone;Monika Zabłocka;Rüdiger Röttgers

  • Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?

    Imants G. Priede;Odd Aksel Bergstad;Peter I. Miller;Michael Vecchione

  • The Genetics of Metal Tolerance and Accumulation in Higher Plants

    Mark R. Macnair;Gavin H. Tilstone;Susanne E. Smith

  • Diatom dynamics in a coastal ecosystem affected by upwelling: coupling between species succession, circulation and biogeochemical processes

    Gavin H. Tilstone;Belén Martín Míguez;F. G. Figueiras;E. G. Fermín

  • Primary production, an index of climate change in the Ocean: satellite-based estimates over two decades

    Gemma Kulk;Trevor Platt;James Dingle;Thomas Jackson

  • Upwelling-downwelling sequences in the generation of red tides m a coastal upwelling system

    Gavin H. Tilstone;F. G. Figueiras;Fernando Fraga

  • Plankton respiration in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean

    Carol Robinson;Carol Robinson;Pablo Serret;Pablo Serret;Gavin Tilstone;Gavin Tilstone;Eva Teira

  • Integration of radiative transfer into satellite models of ocean primary production

    T. J. Smyth;G. H. Tilstone;S. B. Groom

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Photosynthesis–irradiance parameters of marine phytoplankton: synthesis of a global data set

    Heather A. Bouman;Trevor Platt;Martina Doblin;Francisco G. Figueiras

  • Carbon sequestration in the deep Atlantic enhanced by Saharan dust

    Katsiaryna Pabortsava;Richard S. Lampitt;Jeff Benson;Christian Crowe

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 3

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

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

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

  • Can benthic community structure be used to predict the process of bioturbation in real ecosystems

    Ana M. Queirós;Nicholas Stephens;Richard Cook;Chiara Ravaglioli;Chiara Ravaglioli

  • Variability in specific-absorption properties and their use in a semi-analytical ocean colour algorithm for MERIS in North Sea and Western English Channel Coastal Waters

    Gavin H. Tilstone;Steef W.M. Peters;Hendrik Jan van der Woerd;Marieke A. Eleveld

  • Significance of nanophytoplankton photosynthesis and primary production in a coastal upwelling system (Ría de Vigo, NW Spain)

    Gavin H. Tilstone;F. G. Figueiras;E. G. Fermín;Belén Arbones

  • Primary production and nitrate uptake within the seasonal thermocline of a stratified shelf sea

    A.E. Hickman;C.M. Moore;J. Sharples;M.I. Lucas

  • Phytoplankton composition, photosynthesis and primary production during different hydrographic conditions at the Northwest Iberian upwelling system

    Gavin H. Tilstone;F. G. Figueiras;Luisa M. Lorenzo;Belén Arbones

  • Measured and remotely sensed estimates of primary production in the Atlantic Ocean from 1998 to 2005

    Gavin Tilstone;Timothy Smyth;Alex J. Poulton;Rory Hutson

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J Smyth
Timothy J Smyth Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Kevin Ruddick
Kevin Ruddick Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Robert J. W. Brewin
Robert J. W. Brewin University of Exeter
Shubha Sathyendranath
Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Francisco G. Figueiras
Francisco G. Figueiras Spanish National Research Council
Carol V. Robinson
Carol V. Robinson University of Oxford
Steve Groom
Steve Groom Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Giorgio Dall'Olmo Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Peter I. Miller
Peter I. Miller Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Glen A. Tarran
Glen A. Tarran Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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