Research staff: Steve Groom    

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
The Hoe
Plymouth
PL1 3DH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 633150
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 633101
email: sbgpml.ac.uk

Research interests

Near-real time and operational Earth observation; biological processes in the eastern Mediterranean; coccolithophore blooms; harmful algal blooms; airborne remote sensing; web-based visualisation and integration of data.

Current roles and projects

• Head of Science, Earth Observation
• Director NEODAAS-Plymouth
• ARSF-DAN Head of node
• Coordinator FP7 EAMNet
• PI in FP7 EUFAR/HYQUAPRO, FP7 MyOcean, ESA CoastColour, ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative

  Recent publications

  In press

  De Jesus, J., Walker, P., Grant, M.G., Groom, S.B., WPS orchestration using the Taverna workbench: The eScience approach, Computers & Geosciences

  Schmidt, S., Harlay, J., Borges, A.V., Groom, S.B., Delille, B., Roevros, N., Christodoulou, S., Chou, L. Particle export during a bloom of Emiliania huxleyi in the North-West European continental margin, J. Marine Systems.

  2011

  Harlay, J, Chou L., De Bodt C., Van Oostende, N., Piontek J., Suykens K., Engel A., Sabbe K., Groom S. and Borges A.V. (2011). Biogeochemical features and carbon budget associated to a coccolithophorid bloom in the northern Bay of Biscay (June 2006), Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 58, 111-127

  Tilstone, G.H., Angel-Benavides, I.M., Pradhan, Y., Shutler, J.D., Groom, S.B., Sathyendranath, S., (2011) An assessment of chlorophyll-a algorithms available for SeaWiFS in coastal and open areas of the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2277–2291

  2010

  Harlay J., A.V. Borges; C. Van Der Zee; B. Delille; R.H.M. Godoi; L.-S. Schiettecatte; N. Roevros; K. Aerts; P.-E. Lapernat; L. Rebreanu; S. Groom; M.-H. Daro; R. Van Grieken; L. Chou, (2010)Biogeochemical study of a coccolithophore bloom in the northern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic Ocean), in June 2004, Progr. Ocean, 86, 317-336

  Nobre, A.M., Ferreira, J.G., Nunes, J.P., Yan, X., Bricker, S., Corner, R., Groom, S., Gu, H., Hawkins, A.J.S., Hutson, R., Lan, D., Lencart e Silva, J.D., Pascoe, P., Telfer, T., Zhang, X., Zhu, M., (2010) Assessment of coastal management options by means of multilayered ecosystem models. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 87, 43-62.

  Cui, T., Zhang J., Groom S., Sun L, Smyth T, Sathyendranath S., (2010) Validation of MERIS ocean-color products in the Bohai Sea: A case study for turbid coastal waters, Remote Sensing of Environment 114, 2326–2336

  Ruddick, K., Brockmann, C., Doerffer, R., Lee, Z., Brotas, V., Fomferra, N., Groom, S., Krasemann, H., Martinez-Vicente, V., Sa, C., Santer, R., Sathyendranath, S., Stelzer, K., Pinnock, S (2010) The CoastColour project regional algorithm round robin exercise In: Remote sensing of the coastal ocean, land, and atmosphere environment, Book Series: Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 7858 Article Number: 785807 doi: 10.1117/12.869506

  2009

  Groom, S., Martinez-Vicente, V., Fishwick, J., Tilstone, G., Moore, G., Smyth, T. & Harbour, D. (in press) The Western English Channel Observatory: optical characteristics of station L4. Journal of Marine Systems. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.12.015

  Harlay, J., De Bodt, C., Engel, A., Jansen, S., d'Hoop, Q., Piontek, J., Van Oostende, N., Groom, S., Sabbe, K. & Chou, L. Abundance and size distribution of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in a coccolithophorid bloom in the northern Bay of Biscay. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56, 1251-1265.

  Reusen, I , Bachman, M , Beekhuizen, J, Ben-Dor, E ., Biesemans, J., 1; Brenguier, JL., Brown, P., Chabrillat, S., Eisele, A., Gomez-Sanchez, JA., Grant, M., Groom, S., Hanus, J., Heuvelink, GBM., Holzwarth, S., Hueni, A., Kaufmann, H., Knaeps, E., Kneubuhler, M., Malthus, T., Meuleman, K., Llanes, ED ., Mueller, A., Pimstein, A., Ortega, EP., Purcell, P., Ruhtz, T ., Schaale, M., Schaepman, M., Wendisch, M. (2009) EUFAR goes hyperspectral in FP7, In: First workshop on hyperspectral image and signal processing: evolution in remote sensing, 470-473.

  2008

  Otero, J., Alvarez-Salgado, X.A., Gonzalez, A.F., Miranda, A., Groom, S.B., Cabanas, J.M., Casas, G., Wheatley, B. & Guerra, A. (2008) Bottom-up control of common octopus Octopus vulgaris in the Galician upwelling system, northeast Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 362, 181-192.

  2007

  Crespo, B.G., Figueiras, F.G. & Groom, S. (2007) Role of across-shelf currents in the dynamics of harmful dinoflagellate blooms in the northwestern Iberian upwelling. Limnology and Oceanography, 52(6), 2668-2678.

  Shutler, J.D., Land, P.E., Smyth, T.J., Groom, S.B. (2007) Extending the MODIS 1 km ocean colour atmospheric correction to the MODIS 500 m bands and 500 m chlorophyll-1 estimation towards coastal and estuarine monitoring, a Remote Sensing of Environment, 107, 521-532.

  2006

  Carr, M.E, M.A.M. Friedrichs, M. Schmeltz, M.N. Aita, D. Antoine, K.R. Arrigo, I. Asanuma, O. Aumont, R. Barber, M. Behrenfeld, R. Bidigare, E.T. Buitenhuis, J. Campbell, A. Ciotti, H. Dierssen, M. Dowell, J. Dunne, W. Esaias, B. Gentili, W. Gregg, S. Groom, N. Hoepffner, J. Ishizaka, T. Kameda, C. Le Quere, S. Lohrenz, J. Marra, F. Melin, K. Moore, A. Morel, T.E. Reddy, J. Ryan, M. Scardi, T. Smyth, K. Turpie, G. Tilstone, K. Waters, Y. Yamanaka (2006) A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color, Deep-Sea Research II, 53, 741-770.

  Varela, M, A. Bode, J. Lorenzo, M. T. Álvarez-Ossorio, A. Miranda, T. Patrocinio, R. Anadón, L. Viesca, N. Rodríguez, L. Valdés, Á. Urrutia,, M. Rodríguez, X. A. Álvarez-Salgado, S. Groom (2006) The effect of the "Prestige" oil spill on the plankton in the N-NW Spanish coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 53 (5-7), 272-286.

  Miller, P.I., J.D. Shutler, G.F. Moore, and S.B. Groom, (2006). SeaWiFS discrimination of harmful algal bloom evolution, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (11), 2287-230.

  Salas, N., L. Ortiz, M. Gilcoto, M. Varela, S. Groom, X.A. Álvarez-Salgado and J. Albaigés, (2006). Fingerprinting petroleum hydrocarbons in plankton and surface sediments during the spring and early summer blooms in the Galician coast (NW Spain) after the Prestige oil spill, Marine Environmental Research, 62, 388-413.

  2005

  Groom, S., Herut, B., Brenner, S., Zodiatis, G., Psarra, S., Kress, N., Krom, M.D., Law, C.S., and Drakopoulos, P., (2005). Satellite derived spatial and temporal biological variability in the Cyprus Eddy, Deep-Sea Research II, 52, 2990-3010.

  Kress N., T.F. Thingstad, P. Pitta, S. Psarra, T. Tanaka,, T. Zohary, S. Groom, B. Herut, R.F.C. Mantoura, T. Polychronaki, F. Rassoulzadegan, G. Spyres, Effect of P and N addition to oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean waters influenced by nearshore waters: a microcosm experiment, Deep-Sea Research II, 52, 3054-3073.

  Krom, M.D., Thingstad, T.F., Brenner, S., Carbo, P., Drakopoulos, P., Fileman, T.W., Flaten, G.A.F. Groom., S., Herut, B., Kitides, V., Kress, N., Law., C.S., Liddicoat, M.I., Mantoura, R.F.C., Pasternak, A., Pitta, P., Polychronaki, T., Psarra, S., , Rassoulzadegan, F., Skjoldal, E.F., Spyres, G., Tanaka, T., Tselipides, T., Wassmann, P., Wexels-Riser, C. , Woodward., E.M.S., Zodiatis, G., Zohary, T., (2005). Overview of the CYCLOPS P addition Lagrangian experiment in the Eastern Mediterranean, Deep-Sea Research II, 52, 3090-3108.

  Shutler, J. D., T. J. Smyth, P. E. Land, and S. B. Groom (2005) A near real-time automatic MODIS data processing system, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25 (5), 1049-1055.

  Smyth, T. J., G. H. Tilstone, and S. B. Groom (2005), Integration of radiative transfer into satellite models of ocean primary production, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C10014, doi:10.1029/2004JC002784.

  Thingstad, T.F., M.D. Krom, R.F.C. Mantoura, G.A.F. Flaten, S. B. Groom, B., Herut, N. Kress, C. Law, A. Pasternak, P. Pitta, S. Psarra, F. Rassoulzadegan, T. Tanaka, A. Tselepides, P. Wassmann, E.M.S. Woodward, C. Wexels Riser, G. Zodiatis, T. Zohary (2005) Nature of P limitation in the ultraoligotrophic Eastern, Mediterranean, Science, 309, 1068-1071.

  Tilstone, G.H., T. J. Smyth, R. J. Gowen, V. Martinez-Vicente, S. B. Groom. (2005) Inherent optical properties of the Irish Sea and their effect on satellite primary production algorithms, Journal of Plankton Research 27(10) 1-22.

  Zodiatis, G., P. Drakopoulos, S. Brenner, and S. Groom, (2005). Variability of the Cyprus warm core eddy during the CYCLOPS project, Deep-Sea Research II, 52, 2897-2910.

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