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INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL

EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA

 

Stéphane MARITORENA
Assistant Researcher

Tel.: (805) 893 4308
Fax.: (805) 893 2578
e-mail: stephane@icess.ucsb.edu


Address:

ICESS
6841 Ellison Hall
UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

 

Research interests:

  • Marine optics in ocean and coastal waters.
  • Bio-optical modeling
  • Ocean Color algorithm development and remote sensing
  • Remote sensing in coastal zones
  • Bio-optical properties of algae, photoacclimatization. (phytoplankton, zooxanthellae, macrophytes)

 

Recent publications:

  • Siegel, D. A. S. Maritorena, N. B. Nelson, M. J. Behrenfeld, and C. R. McClain. 2005. Colored dissolved organic matter and its influence on the satellite-based characterization of the ocean biosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L20605, doi:10.1029/2005GL024310. [PDF]

  • Siegel, D.A., S. Maritorena, N.B. Nelson and M.J. Behrenfeld. 2005. Independence and Interdependencies Among Global Ocean Color Properties: Reassessing the Bio-Optical Assumption. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, C07011, doi:10.1029/2004JC002527. [PDF]

  • Maritorena S. and D.A. Siegel. 2005. Consistent Merging of Satellite Ocean Color Data Sets Using a Bio-Optical Model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 94(4): 429-440. [PDF]

  • Claustre, H. and S. Maritorena. 2003. The Many Shades of Ocean Blue. Science, 302: 1514-1515. [PDF]

  • Siegel, D.A., S. Maritorena, N.B. Nelson, D.A. Hansell and M. Lorenzi-Kayser. 2002. Global Distribution and Dynamics of Colored Dissolved and Detrital Organic Materials. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(C12): 10.1029/2001JC000965. [PDF]

  • Chomko, R. M, H.R. Gordon, S. Maritorena and D.A. Siegel. 2002. Simultaneous determination of oceanic and atmospheric parameters for ocean color imagery by spectral optimization: A validation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 84(2): 208-220. [PDF]

  • Maritorena S., D.A. Siegel and A. Peterson. 2002. Optimization of a Semi-Analytical Ocean Color Model for Global Scale Applications. Applied Optics, 41(15): 2705-2714. [PDF]

  • Maritorena, S., C. Payri, M. Babin, H. Claustre, L. Bonnafous, A. Morel and M. Rodière. 2002. Photoacclimatization in the zooxanthellae of Pocillopora verrucosa and comparison with a pelagic algal community. Oceanologica Acta, 25(3-4): 125-134. [PDF]

  • Andréfouët, S., S. Maritorena and L. Loubersac. 2002. Un bilan de la télédétection appliquée aux milieux coralliens. Oceanis, 26(3): 311-349. [PDF]

  • Barlow R.G., J. Aiken, P.M. Holligan, D.G. Cummings, S. Maritorena and S. Hooker. 2002. Phytoplankton pigment and absorption characteristics along meridional transects in the Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. I, 47: 637–660. [PDF]

  • Claustre, H., Morel, A., Hooker, S.B., Babin, M., Antoine, D., Oublekheir, K., Bricaud, A., Leblanc, K., Quéguiner, B. and S. Maritorena. 2002. Is desert dust making oligotrophic waters greener? Geophysical Research Letters, 29(10): 10.1029/2001GL014056. [PDF]

  • Morel A. and S. Maritorena. 2001. Bio-optical properties of oceanic waters : a reappraisal. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C4) : 7163-7180. [PDF]

  • Payri, C., S. Maritorena, C. Bizeau and M. Rodiere. 2001. Photoacclimation in the tropical coralline algae Hydrolithon onkodes from a French Polynesian Reef. Journal of Phycology, 37(2) : 223-234. [PDF]

  • Siegel, D.A., T.K. Westberry, M.C. O'Brien, N.B. Nelson,A.F. Michaels, J.R. Morrison, A. Scott, E.A. Caporelli, J.C. Sorensen, S.Maritorena, S.A. Garver, E.A. Brody, J. Ubante and M.A. Hammer. 2001. Bio-optical modeling of primary production on regional scales: the Bermuda BioOptics project. Deep-Sea Res. II, 48 : 1865-1896. [PDF]

  • Maritorena, S., A. Morel and B. Gentili. 2000. Determination of the fluorescence quantum yield by oceanic phytoplankton in their natural habitat. Applied Optics, 39(36) : 6725 - 6737. [PDF]

  • Siegel, D.A., M. Wang, S. Maritorena and W. Robinson. 2000. Atmospheric correction of satellite ocean color imagery: the black pixel assumption. Applied Optics, 39 : 3582 - 3591. [PDF]

  • Hooker S.B. and S. Maritorena. 2000. An Evaluation of Oceanographic Radiometers and Deployment Methodologies. Journal ofAtmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17(6) : 811-830. [PDF]

  • O'Reilly J. E., S. Maritorena, B. G. Mitchell, D. A. Siegel, K. L. Carder, S. A. Garver, M. Kahru and C. R. McClain. 1998. Ocean Color Chlorophyll Algorithms for SeaWiFS. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(C11): 24,937-24,953. [PDF]

  • Maritorena, S. and N. Guillocheau. 1996. Optical properties of the water and spectral light absorption by living and non-living particles and by yellow substances in coral reef waters of French Polynesia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 131 : 245-255.

  • Maritorena, S. 1996. Remote sensing of the water attenuation in coral reefs : A case study in French Polynesia. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 17(1) : 155-166.

  • Maritorena, S., A. Morel and B. Gentili. 1994. Diffuse Reflectance of Oceanic Shallow Waters : Influence of the Water Depth and Bottom Albedo. Limnology and Oceanography, 39(7) : 1689-1703. [PDF]

  • Drollet, J.H., M. Faucon, S. Maritorena and P.M.V. Martin. 1994. A Survey of Environmental physico-chemical Parameters During a Minor Coral Mass Bleaching Event in Tahiti in 1993. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 45(7) : 1149-1156.