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 projects

Director NEODAAS-Plymouth, ARSF-DAN Head of node, FP7 DevCoCast, FP7 EUFAR/HYQUAPRO, FP7 MyOcean

Recent publications

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

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.