Research staff: Dr. Jamie Shutler

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
The Hoe
Plymouth
PL1 3DH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 633151
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 633101
email: jamspml.ac.uk

Research interests

Multi-disciplinary science exploiting satellite Earth observation data, in situ data and modelling approaches to study and monitor the marine carbon cycle, particularly in relation to climate. This includes studying air-sea gas exchange of climatically important gases, the distribution of calcium carbonate in the oceans, model evaluation and developing approaches for water quality monitoring of bathing waters and aquaculture sites.

Principal and co-investigator

ESA OceanFlux Greenhouse Gases (OceanFlux GHG), European Space Agency Support to Science Element project (Co-I) (2011-2013).

Improving CO2 flux estimations from the MyOcean Atlantic North West Shelf hydrodynamic ecosystem model (IFEMA), EC FP7 MyOcean Research and Development project (PI) (2010-2012).

Open Oceans and Coastal CO2 fluxes from Envisat and Sentinel 3 in support of global carbon cycle monitoring (OC-flux), European Space Agency Support to Science Element project (PI) (2009-2011).

Current projects and affiliations

European Space Agency fellow (OC-flux), European Space Agency OceanFlux GHG, NCEO (carbon theme), UK-SOLAS, EC MyOceans IFEMA and Oceans 2025 Theme 9 (Next generation ocean prediction systems) Theme 2 (Marine biogeochemical cycles) and Theme 6 (Science for sustainable marine resources).

MSc dissertation supervision

Cowling, R. (2011) Air-sea CO2 flux in Arctic seas, and the impact of retreating ice cover, University of Exeter, Dissertation for MSc in Climate Change and Risk Management, 86pp.

Snooke, R. (2010) Temporal and spatial variability of Coccolithophore blooms in the North Atlantic and their relationship to a changing climate, University of Exeter, Dissertation for MSc in Climate Change and Risk Management, 118pp.

Rushton, E. (2008) Coccolithophores in the north-east Atlantic sea shelf: A seven year time-series investigation into recent trends and forcing factors using satellite data, University of Exeter, Dissertation for MSc in Climate Change and Risk Management, 89pp.

Journal publications

Tilstone, G.H., Peters, S. W. M., van der Woerd, H. J., Eleveld, M. A., Ruddick, K., Schönfeld, W., Krasemann,H. , Martinez-Vicente, V., Blondeau-Patissier, D., Röttgers, R. , Sørensen, K., Jørgensen, P. V., Shutler, J. D. (2012) Variability in specific-inherent optical properties and their use in MERIS Ocean Colour algorithms in North Sea and Western English Channel Coastal Waters, Remote Sensing of Environment, 118, 320-338, doi:10.1016/jrse2011.11.019

Shutler, J. D., K. Davidson, P. I. Miller, S. C. Swan, M. G. Grant and E. Bresnan (2012) An adaptive approach to detect high biomass algal blooms from EO chlorophyll-a data in support of harmful algal bloom monitoring, Remote Sensing Letters, 3(2), 101-110

Saux-Picart, S., Butenschon, M., Shutler, J. D. (2011) Wavelet-based spatial comparison technique for analysing and evaluating two-dimensional geophysical model fields, Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 4, 3161-3183, doi:10.5194/gmdd-4-3161-2011, 2011,

Tilstone, G.H., Angel-Benavides, I. M., Pradhan, Y., Shutler, J. D., Groom, S. B., Sathyendranath, S. (2011) Assessment of chlorophyll-a algorithms available for SeaWiFS in coastal areas of the Bay of Bengal, Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.028.

Shutler, J. D., T. J. Smyth, S. Saux-Picart, S. L. Wakelin, P. Hyder, P. Orekhov, M. G. Grant, G. H. Tilstone and J. I. Allen (2011) Evaluating the ability of a hydrodynamic ecosystem model to capture inter- and intra-annual spatial characteristics of chlorophyll-a in the north east Atlantic, Journal of Marine Systems, 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.03.013

Shutler, J. D., M. G. Grant, P. I. Miller, E. Rushton and K. Anderson (2010) Coccolithophore bloom detection in the north east Atlantic using SeaWiFS: algorithm description, application and sensitivity analysis, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(5), 1008-1016, 10.1016/j.rse.2009.12.024.

Davidson, K., P. I. Miller, T. Wilding, J. D. Shutler, E. Bresnan, K. Kennington and S. Swan (2009) A large and prolonged bloom of Karenia mikimotoi in Scottish waters in 2006, Harmful Algae, 8, 349-361.

Shutler, J. D., P. E. Land, T. J. Smyth and S. B. Groom (2007) Extending the MODIS 1 km ocean colour atmospheric correction to the MODIS 500 m bands and 500 m chlorophyll-a estimation towards coastal and estuarine monitoring, Remote Sensing of Environment, 107, 521-532, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.004.

Shutler, J. D. and M. S. Nixon (2006) Zernike velocity moments for sequence based description of moving features, Image and Vision Computing, doi:10.1016/j.mavis.2005.12.001.

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), 2287-2301.

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.

Nixon, M. S., Carter, J. N., Shutler, J. D. and Grant, M. G. (2002) New Advances in Automatic Gait Recognition. Elsevier Information Security Technical Report, 7 (4). pp. 23-35.

Technical and commissioned research reports

Shutler, J. D. (2011) Open ocean and coastal CO2 fluxes from Envisat in support of global carbon cycle monitoring, OC-flux final project report, ESA contract 22341/09/01/I-EC, 40pp.

Shutler, J. D. (2011) Towards understanding the carbon sink created by blooms of coccolithophores in the North Atlantic, Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science Annual Report, 1pp.

Shutler, J. D. (2010) Uncertainties in global air-sea CO2 flux estimates caused by temporal averaging of wind speed, sea surface temperature and wave height, ESA OC-flux Technical report #02, 15pp.

Shutler, J. D. (2010) Global and coastal retrieval of air-sea gas transfer velocity from Envisat, ESA OC-flux Technical report #01, 18pp.

Barciela, R., Mahdon, R., Orrell, R., Shutler, J. & Miller, P. (2009) AlgaRisk 08: Pre-operational nuisance bloom warning system - assessment and future transition to an operational service. UK Met. Office, PML and EA, pp. 14.

Barciela, R., Mahdon, R., Miller, P., Orrell, R. & Shutler, J. (2009) AlgaRisk 08: A pre-operational tool for identifying and predicting the movement of nuisance algal blooms. Innovation for efficiency science programme. Environment Agency, pp. 32 (SC070082/SR1).

Davidson, K., Gillibrand, P., Wilding, T., Miller, P. & Shutler, J. (2009) Predicting the progression of the harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi along the Scottish coast and the potential impact for fish farming. The Crown Estate, pp. 101.

Davidson, K., Gillibrand, P., Wilding, T., Miller, P. & Shutler, J. (2007) Predicting the progression of the harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi along the Scottish coast and the potential impact for fish farming. Final project report to the Crown Estate, Scotland, Contract AQU/06/08, 93 pp.

Hardman-Mountford, N., T. Hirata, J. Shutler, P. Miller, J. Bailyes (2005), MERIS Level 3 pre-operational production service report (HiProGen): WP5000 user feedback, pp. 25, British National Space Centre, ESA Ministerial Preparatory Action.

Miller, P., S. Groom, J. Shutler, A. Neumann, K. Ebert, S. Kaitala, L. Pettersson, and A. Folkestad (2004) HABILE Deliverable D5: Assessment of future Earth Observation capability for HAB monitoring, 116 pp., EC Contract EVK3-CT2001-00063.