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2023

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D-Index
95
Citations
38578
World Ranking
472
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Trevor Platt was affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to the fields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work included significant contributions to understanding marine and coastal ecosystems, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, coral and marine ecosystems studies, Vibrio bacteria research studies, marine biology and ecology research, as well as marine and fisheries research.

Frequent publication venues for their work included:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Surveys in Geophysics
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaborators who often coauthored papers with Trevor Platt included:

  • Shubha Sathyendranath
  • Gemma Kulk
  • Robert J. W. Brewin
  • Grinson George
  • Abdulaziz Anas

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research. These include:

  • Primary Production, an Index of Climate Change in the Ocean: Satellite-Based Estimates over Two Decades, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Reconciling models of primary production and photoacclimation [Invited], 2020, Applied Optics
  • 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
  • A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications - version three, 2022, Earth system science data

In recognition of contributions to science, Trevor Platt was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in natural assemblages of marine phytoplankton

    T. Platt;C.L. Gallegos;W.G. Harrison

  • Mathematical formulation of the relationship between photosynthesis and light for phytoplankton

    Alan D. Jassby;Trevor Platt

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern;Granger Sutton;Karla B. Heidelberg;Karla B. Heidelberg

  • An estimate of global primary production in the ocean from satellite radiometer data

    A. Longhurst;S. Sathyendranath;T. Platt;C. Caverhill

  • Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models

    Corinne Le Quéré;Sandy P Harrison;Sandy P Harrison;I Colin Prentice;I Colin Prentice;Erik Theodoor Buitenhuis

  • Oceanic Primary Production: Estimation by Remote Sensing at Local and Regional Scales

    Trevor Platt;Shubha Sathyendranath

  • Autotrophic picoplankton in the tropical ocean.

    W. K. W. Li;D. V. Subba Rao;W. G. Harrison;J. C. Smith

  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND LIGHT FOR NATURAL ASSEMBLAGES OF COASTAL MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON1

    Trevor Platt;Alan D. Jassby

  • Marine ecology: Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival

    Trevor Platt;César Fuentes-Yaco;Kenneth T Frank

  • Spectral Analysis in Ecology

    Trevor Platt;Kenneth L. Denman

  • Photosynthesis of picoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean

    Trevor Platt;D. V. Subba Rao;Brian Irwin

  • An ocean-colour time series for use in climate studies: The experience of the ocean-colour climate change initiative (OC-CCI)

    Shubha Sathyendranath;Robert J.W. Brewin;Carsten Brockmann;Vanda Brotas

  • Primary productivity of planet earth: biological determinants and physical constraints in terrestrial and aquatic habitats

    Richard J. Geider;Evan H. Delucia;Paul G. Falkowski;Adrien C. Finzi

  • The structure of pelagic marine ecosystems.

    T Platt;K Denman

  • Vertical Nitrate Fluxes in the Oligotrophic Ocean

    Marlon R. Lewis;David Hebert;W. Glen Harrison;Trevor Platt

  • Remote sensing of phytoplankton pigments: A comparison of empirical and theoretical approaches

    S. Sathyendranath;G. Cota;V. Stuart;H. Maass

  • Organisation in the pelagic ecosystem

    T. Platt;K. Denman

  • Ocean primary production and available light: further algorithms for remote sensing

    Trevor Platt;Shubha Sathyendranath;Shubha Sathyendranath;Carla M. Caverhill;Marlon R. Lewis

  • Regionally and seasonally differentiated primary production in the North Atlantic

    S. Sathyendranath;A. Longhurst;C. M. Caverhill;T. Platt

  • Biological control of surface temperature in the Arabian Sea

    Shubha Sathyendranath;Shubha Sathyendranath;Albert D. Gouveia;Satish R. Shetye;P. Ravindran

  • Physiological Bases of Phytoplankton Ecology

    Trevor Platt

Frequent Co-Authors

Shubha Sathyendranath
Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Robert J. W. Brewin
Robert J. W. Brewin University of Exeter
Steve Groom
Steve Groom Plymouth Marine Laboratory
W. G. Harrison
W. G. Harrison Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Vanda Brotas
Vanda Brotas University of Lisbon
Marlon R. Lewis
Marlon R. Lewis Dalhousie University
Robert Frouin
Robert Frouin University of California, San Diego
Osvaldo Ulloa
Osvaldo Ulloa University of Concepción
David Antoine
David Antoine Curtin University
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité

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