Publications


Cedric G. Fichot Google Scholar page

*graduate student, §undergraduate student, technician, visiting scholar, ˆgraduate student committee

In Progress

*Harringmeyer, J., N. Ghosh, *M. Weiser, D. Thompson, M. Simard, S. Lohrenz, and C. Fichot. (In review) Mapping Suspended Particle Properties in Nearshore Coastal Waters using Imaging Spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment

Fichot, C.G., M. Tzortziou, and A. Mannino (In press). Remote sensing of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) stocks, fluxes and transformations along the land-ocean aquatic continuum: advances, challenges, and opportunities. Earth Science Reviews.


2023

Brewin, R.J.W., S. Sathyendranath, G. Kulk, M-H. Rio, J.A. Concha, T.G. Bell, A. Bracher, C. Fichot, T.L. Frölicher, M.Galí, D.A. Hansell, T.S. Kostadinov, C. Mitchell, A. R. Neeley, E. Organelli, K. Richardson, C. Rousseaux, F. Shen, D. Stramski, M .Tzortziou, A.J. Watson, C.I. Addey, M. Bellacicco, H. Bouman, D. Carroll, I. Cetinić, G. Dall’Olmo, R. Frouin, J. Hauck, M. Hieronymi, C. Hu, V. Ibello, B. Jönsson C.E. Kong, Ž. Kovač, M. Laine, J. Lauderdale, S. Lavender, E. Livanou, J. Llort, L. Lorinczi, M. Nowicki, N.A. Pradisty, S. Psarra, D.E. Raitsos, A.B. Ruescas, J.L. Russell, J. Salisbury, R. Sanders, J.D. Shutler, X. Sun, F.G. Taboada, G. Tilstone, X. Wei, D.K. Woolf (2023). Ocean carbon from space: current status and priorities for the next decade. Earth Science Reviews, 240.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104386

Lehmann, M.K., D. Gurlin, N. Pahlevan, K. Alikas, J. Anstee, S.V. Balasubramanian, C.C.F Barbosa, C. Binding, A. Bracher, M. Bresciani, A. Burtner, Z. Cao, A.G. Dekker, C. Di Vittorio, N. Drayson, R.M Errera, V. Fernandez, D. Ficek, C.G. Fichot, P. Gege, C. Giardino, A.A. Gitelson, S.R. Greb, H. Henderson, H. Higa, A.I. Rahaghi, C. Jamet, D. Jiang, T. Jordan, K. Kangro, J.A. Kravitz, A.S. Kristoffersen, R. Kudela, L. Li, M. Ligi, H. Loisel, S. Lohrenz, R. Ma, D.A. Maciel, T.J. Malthus, B. Matsushita, M. Matthews, C. Minaudo, D.R. Mishra, S. Mishra, T. Moore, W.J. Moses, H. Nguyễn, E.M.L.M Novo, S. Novoa, D. Odermatt, D.M. O’Donnell, L.G. Olmanson, M. Ondrusek, N. Oppelt, S. Ouillon, F.W. Pereira, S. Plattner, A.R. Verdú, S.I. Salem, J.F Schalles, S.G.H Simis, E. Siswanto, B. Smith, I. Somlai-Schweiger, M.A Soppa, E. Spyrakos, E. Tessin, H.J van der Woerd, A. Vander Woude, R.A. Vandermeulen, V. Vantrepotte, M.R. Wernand, M. Werther, K. Young, L. Yue (2023). GLORIA – A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality. Sci Data 10, 100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01973-y


2022

Thompson, D.R., N. Bohn, P.G. Brodrick, N. Carmon, M.L. Eastwood, R. Eckert, C.G. Fichot, *J.P. Harringmeyer, H.M. Nguyen, M. Simard, and A.K. Thorpe (2022). Atmospheric lengthscales for global VSWIR imaging spectroscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (6), e2021JG006711. doi:10.1029/2021JG006711

Greenberg, E., D.R. Thompson, D. Jensen, P.A. Townsend, N. Queally, A. Chlus, C.G. Fichot, *J.P. Harringmeyer, M. Simard (2022). An Improved Scheme for Correcting Remote Spectral Surface Reflectance Simultaneously for Terrestrial BRDF and Water-Surface Sunglint in Coastal Environments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (3), e2021JG006712. doi:10.1029/2021JG006712

§Cronin-Golomb, O., *J. Harringmeyer, *M. Weiser, *X. Zhu, N. Ghosh, A. Novak, I. Forbrich and C.G. Fichot (2022). Modeling benthic solar exposure (UV and visible) in dynamic coastal systems to better inform seagrass habitat suitability. Science of the Total Environment, 812, 151481. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151481

Mejia, F.H., C.E. Torgersen, and C.G. Fichot (2022). Keeping an eye on water quality from the sky. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, 619716. doi:10.3389/frym.2022.619716


2021

Nerma, V, S. Lohrenz, S. Chakraborty, and C.G. Fichot (2021). Underway Hyperspectral Bio-Optical Assessments of Phytoplankton Size Classes in the River-Influenced Northern Gulf of Mexico. Remote Sensing, 13 (17), 3346. doi:10.3390/rs13173346

*Harringmeyer, J., D.R. Thompson, K. Kaiser, M. Gierach, C. Cash and C.G. Fichot (2021). Detection and sourcing of CDOM in urban coastal waters with UV-visible imaging spectroscopy. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9:647966. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.647966

Massicotte, P., R.M.W. Amon, D. Antoine, P. Archambault, S. Balzano, S. Bélanger, R. Benner, D. Boeuf, A. Bricaud, F. Bruyant, G. Chaillou, M. Chami, B. Charrière, J. Chen, H. Claustre, P. Coupel, N. Delsaut, D. Doxaran, J. Ehn, C. Fichot, M-H Forget, P. Fu, J. Gangon, N. Garcia, B. Gasser, J-F Ghiglione, G. Gorsky, M. Gosselin, P. Gourvil, Y. Gratton, P. Guillot, H.J. Heipieper, S. Heussner, S.B. Hooker, Y. Huot, C. Jeanthon, W. Jeffrey, F. Joux, K. Kawamura, B. Lansard, E. Leymarie, H. Link, C. Lovejoy, C. Marec, D. Marie, J. Martin, J. Martín, G. Massé, A. Matsuoka, V. McKague, A. Mignot, W.L. Miller, J-C Miguel, A. Mucci, K. Ono, E. Ortega-Retuerta, C. Panagiotopoulos, T. Papakyriakou, M. Picheral, L. Prieur, P. Raimbault, J. Ras, R.A. Reynolds, A. Rochon, J-F Rontani, C. Schmechtig, S. Schmidt, R. Sempéré, Y. Shen, G. Song, D. Stramski, E. Tachibana, A. Thirouard, I. Tolosa, J-É Tremblay, M. Vaïtllingom, D. Vaulot, F. Vaultier, J.K. Volkman, H. Xie, G. Zheng, and M. Babin (2021). The MALINA oceanographic expedition: How do changes in ice cover, permafrost and UV radiation impact biodiversity and biogeochemical fluxes in the Arctic Ocean? Earth System Science Data, 13, 1561–1592. doi:10.5194/essd-13-1561-2021

Jiang, S., B. Matsushita, N. Pahlevan, D. Gurlin, M.K. Lehmann, C.G. Fichot, J. Schalles, H. Loisel, C. Binding, Y. Zhang, K. Alikas, K. Kangro, M. Uusõue, M. Ondrusek, S. Greb, W. J. Moses, S. Lohrenz, D. O’Donnell (2021). Remotely estimating total suspended solids concentration in clear to extremely turbid waters using a novel semi-analytical method. Remote Sensing of Environment. 258:112386. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112386

Jin, S., Y. Liu, S. Fagherazzi, H. Mi, G. Qiao, W. Xu, C. Sun, Y. Liu, B. Zhao, and C.G. Fichot (2021). River body extraction from sentinel-2A/B MSI images based on an adaptive multi-scale region growth method. Remote Sensing of Environment. 7:604893. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112297


2020

Tanioka, T., C.G. Fichot, and K. Matsumoto (2020). Toward Determining the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Upper-Ocean Ecosystem Stoichiometry From Satellite Remote Sensing. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:604893. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.604893

*Zhu, X., W.L. Miller, and C.G. Fichot (2020). Simple Method to Determine the Apparent Quantum Yield Matrix of CDOM Photobleaching in Natural Waters. Environmental Science and Technology, 54(21): 14096−14106. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c03605

Mi, H., C.G. Fichot, K.R. Bryan, G. Qiao, and S. Fagherazzi (2020). Rapid shoreline flooding enhances water turbidity by sediment resuspension: an example in a large Tibetan lake. Earth Surface Processes and Land Forms, 45(15): 3780-3790. doi:10.1002/esp.5000

Li, Y., C.G. Fichot, L. Geng, M.G. Scarratt, H. Xie (2020). The contribution of methane photoproduction to the oceanic methane paradox. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (14). doi:10.1029/2020GL088362

Balasubramanian, S. V., N. Pahlevan, B. Smith, C. Binding, J. Schalles, H. Loisel, D. Gurlin, S. Greb, K. Alikas, M. Randla, M. Bunkei, W. Moses, H. Nguyễn, M.K. Lehmann, D. O’Donnell, M. Ondrusek, T-H.Han, C.G. Fichot, T. Moore, E. Boss (2020). Robust algorithm for estimating total suspended solids (TSS) in inland and nearshore coastal waters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111768

ˆZhang, X., C.G. Fichot, §C. Baracco, §R. Guo, S. Neugebauer, Z. Bengtsson, N. Ganju, S. Fagherazzi (2020). Determining the drivers of suspended sediment dynamics in tidal marsh-influenced estuaries using high-resolution ocean color remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 240. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111682


2019

Fichot, C.G., K. Matsumoto, B.M. Holt, M.M. Gierach, K. Tokos (2019). Assessing change in the overturning behavior of the Laurentian Great Lakes using remotely sensed lake surface water temperatures. Remote Sensing of Environment, 235. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111427

Mi, H., S. Fagherazzi, G. Qiao, Y. Hong, and C.G. Fichot (2019). Climate change leads to a doubling of turbidity in a rapidly expanding Tibetan lake. Science of the Total Environment, 688, 952-959. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.339

Jensen, D., M. Simard, K. Cavanaugh, Y. Sheng, C.G. Fichot, T. Pavelsky, R. Twilley (2019). Improving the Transferability of Suspended Solid Estimation in Wetland and Deltaic Waters with an Empirical Hyperspectral Approach. Remote Sensing, 11(13), 1629. doi:10.3390/rs11131629

Thompson, D., K. Cawse-Nicholson, Z. Erickson, C.G. Fichot, C. Frankenberg, B-C. Gao, M. Gierach, R.O. Green, N. Vijay, A. Thompson (2019). A unified approach to estimate land and water reflectances with uncertainties for coastal imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 231. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.05.017


2018

Needham, D., E.B. Fichot, E. Wang, L. Berdjeb , J. Cram , C.G. Fichot, J. Fuhrman (2018). Dynamics of finely resolved, abundant symbiotic marine plankton and other interacting microbes via automated high-frequency sampling. The ISME Journal, 12: 2417–2432. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0169-y

Whelan, M.E., S.T. Lennartz, T.E. Gimeno, R. Wehr, G. Wohlfahrt, Y. Wang, L.M.J. Kooijmans, T.W. Hilton, S. Belviso, P. Peylin, R. Commane, W. Sun, H. Chen, L. Kuai, I. Mammarella, K. Maseyk, M. Berkelhammer, K-F Li, D. Yakir, A. Zumkehr, Y. Katayama, J. Ogée, F.M. Spielmann, F. Kitz, B. Rastogi, J. Kesselmeier, J Marshall, K-M Erkkilä, L. Wingate, L.K. Meredith, W. He, R. Bunk, T. Launois, T. Vesala, J.A. Schmidt, C.G. Fichot, U. Seibt, S. Saleska, E.S. Saltzman, S.A. Montzka, J.A. Berry, and J.E. Campbell (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Carbonyl sulfide as a multi-scale tracer for carbon and water cycles. Biogeosciences, 15: 3625-3657. doi:10.5194/bg-15-3625-2018

Shen, Y., R. Benner, K. Kaiser, C.G. Fichot, and T.E. Whitledge. (2018). Pan-Arctic distribution of bioavailable dissolved organic matter and linkages with productivity in ocean margins. Geophysical Research Letters, 45: 1490–1498. doi:10.1002/2017GL076647

Cao, F., M. Tzortziou, C. Hu, A. Mannino, C.G. Fichot, R. Del Vecchio, R. Najjar, M. Novak (2018). Remote sensing retrievals of colored dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic carbon dynamics in North American estuaries and their margins. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 205: 151-165. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.014


2017

Trinh, R. C., C.G. Fichot, M.M. Gierach, B. Holt, N.K. Malakar, G. Hulley, & J. Smith (2017). Application of Landsat 8 for Monitoring Impacts of Wastewater Discharge on Coastal Water Quality. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00329


2016

Lu, C-J., R. Benner, C.G. Fichot, H. Fukuda, Y. Yamashita and H. Ogawa (2016). Sources and Transformations of Dissolved Lignin Phenols and Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in Otsuchi Bay, Japan. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3:85. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00085

Shen, Y., C.G. Fichot, S. Liang, and R. Benner (2016). Biological hot spots and the accumulation of marine dissolved organic matter in a highly productive ocean margin. Limnol. Oceanogr., doi:10.1002/lno.10290

Strong, A., K.E. Lowry, Z.W. Brown, M.M. Mills, G.L. van Dijken, R.S. Pickart, L.W. Cooper, K.E. Frey, R. Benner, C.G. Fichot, J.T. Mathis, N.R. Bates, and K.R. Arrigo (2016). Mass balance estimates of carbon export in different water masses of the Chukchi Sea Shelf. Deep-Sea Research II, 130,88-99. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.05.003

Fichot, C.G., R. Benner, K. Kaiser, Y. Shen, R.M.W. Amon, H. Ogawa, and C-J. Lu (2016). Predicting dissolved lignin phenol concentrations in the coastal oceans from chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) absorption coefficients. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3:7. doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00007

Fichot, C.G., B. Downing, B. Bergamaschi, L. Windham-Myers, M. Marvin-DiPasquale, D. Thompson, and M. Gierach (2016). High-resolution remote sensing of water quality in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 573−583. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b03518


2015

Mouroulis, P., B. Van Gorp, H. Dierssen, M. Gierach, C. Fichot (2015).The Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM): Recent Campaigns and Developments. Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment. doi:10.1364/hise.2015.hm4b.5

Yamashita, Y., C.G. Fichot, Y. Shen, R. Jaffé, and R. Benner (2015). Linkages among fluorescent dissolved organic matter, dissolved amino acids and lignin-derived phenols in a river-influenced ocean margin. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2:92. doi:10.3389/fmars.2015.00092

Launois, T., S. Belviso, L. Bopp, C.G. Fichot, and P. Peylin (2015). A new model for the global biogeochemical cycle of carbonyl sulfide Part 1: Assessment of direct marine emissions with an oceanic general circulation and biogeochemistry model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15: 2295-2312. doi:10.5194/acp-15-2295-2015


2014

 

Ortega-Retuerta, E., C.G. Fichot, K.R. Arrigo, G.L. van Dijken, and F. Joux (2014). Response of marine bacterioplankton to a massive under-ice phytoplankton bloom in the Chukchi Sea (Western Arctic Ocean). Deep-Sea Research II, 105: 74-84. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.03.015

Fichot, C.G. and R. Benner (2014). The fate of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in a river-influenced ocean margin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28(3): 300-318. doi:10.1002/2013GB004670

Fichot, C.G., S.E. Lohrenz, and R. Benner (2014). Pulsed, cross-shelf export of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya river system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119(2): 1176-1194. doi:10.1002/2013JC009424

Cao, F., C.G. Fichot, S.B. Hooker, and W.L. Miller (2014). Improved algorithms for accurate retrieval of UV/Visible diffuse attenuation coefficients in optically complex, inshore waters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 144: 11-27. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.003


2013

Fichot, C.G., K. Kaiser, S.B. Hooker, R.M.W. Amon, M. Babin, S. Bélanger, S.A. Walker, and R. Benner (2013). Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean. Nature: Scientific Reports, 3: 1053. doi:10.1038/srep01053
Highlighted in Science, Editor’s Choice, Vol. 339, doi:10.1126/science.339.6119.491-c


2012

Shen, Y., C.G. Fichot, and R. Benner (2012). Dissolved organic matter composition and bioavailability reflect ecosystem productivity in the western Arctic Ocean. Biogeosciences, 9: 4993- 5005. doi:10.5194/bg-9-4993-2012

Fichot, C.G. and R. Benner (2012). The spectral slope coefficient of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (S275-295) as a tracer of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in river-influenced ocean margins. Limnology and Oceanography, 57(5): 1453-1466. doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1453

Shen, Y., C.G. Fichot, and R. Benner (2012). Floodplain influence on dissolved organic matter composition and export from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River system to the Gulf of Mexico. Limnology and Oceanography, 57(4): 1149-1160. doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.1149


2011

Belviso, S., I. Masotti, A. Tagliabue, L. Bopp, P. Brockmann, C.G. Fichot, and 9 authors (2011). DMS dynamics in the most oligotrophic subtropical zones of the global ocean. Biogeochemistry, 110: 215-241. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9648-1

Fichot, C.G., and R. Benner (2011). A novel method to estimate DOC concentrations from
CDOM absorption coefficients in coastal waters. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(3). doi:10.1029/2010GL046152


2010

Fichot, C.G., and W.L. Miller (2010). An approach to quantify depth-resolved marine photochemical fluxes using remote sensing: Application to carbon monoxide (CO) photoproduction. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114: 1363-1377. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.01.019


2008

Zhang, Y., H. Xie, C.G. Fichot, G. Chen (2008). Dark production of carbon monoxide (CO) from dissolved organic matter in the St. Lawrence estuarine system: Implication for the global coastal and blue water CO budgets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113, C12020. doi:10.1029/2008JC004811

Fichot, C.G., S. Sathyendranath, and W.L. Miller (2008). SeaUV and SeaUVc: Algorithms for the retrieval of diffuse attenuation coefficients (UV/Visible domain) from ocean color. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(4): 1584-1602. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.08.009