Dr. André B. Couto

Project OC-CCI (Climate Change Initiative – Ocean Colour, funded by the ESA). . Quality control of the OC-CCI product; Project AQUA-USERS (AQUAculture USEr driven operational remote sensing information services, funded by FP7 EU) . Characterize phytoplankton phenology and environmental variables for 8 european sites of the project, using satellite derived data (e.g., Chl, SST, ADG, SPM);

Oceanographer Assess the physical and biological oceanographic component of the western Australian region using time-series of: in situ observations (Maria Island station nutrient biology and physical parameters, Neville and Graham SCUBA diving dataset), remote sensing products (e.g. SST, Ocean Color), reanalysis datasets (e.g. BlueLink Reanalysis), and modelled output (e.g. OFAM) in a climate variability perspective. Assess western Australian ocean phenology variability using ocean colour remote sensing.

Thesis title ‘The role of climate variability (and change) on global primary production’.

Marine