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Professor Trevor Platt, FRS, FRSC (1942-2020) – A heartfelt tribute
International Journal of Remote Sensing ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 , DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2020.1766297 Aneesh A. Lotliker 1 , Arvind Singh 2 , Nimit Kumar 3 , Rajdeep Roy 4 , Ravidas K. Naik 5 , Satya Prakash 1
International Journal of Remote Sensing ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 , DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2020.1766297 Aneesh A. Lotliker 1 , Arvind Singh 2 , Nimit Kumar 3 , Rajdeep Roy 4 , Ravidas K. Naik 5 , Satya Prakash 1
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Prof. Trevor Charles Platt was one of the pioneering researchers in the fields of oceancolour remote sensing and primary-productivity modelling. He cultivated a great cohort of young researchers in the field, especially in developing countries, such as India. After a short illness, he passed away on 5 April 2020 in Plymouth, UK. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath, who was a pillar of support in all his endeavours. They travelled together the length and breadth of this planet to train young minds. Here, we pay tribute to his contribution by providing a glimpse of his stellar professional life during which he secured a place in the hearts of the people who worked with him. Trevor was born on 12 August 1942 at Salford, England. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nottingham in the UK. His 1965 MA thesis at the University of Toronto in Canada was titled ‘Computer analysis of beam handling system for a linear accelerator’. Soon after, he began his professional career at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, while simultaneously pursuing his work towards a PhD in biology at Dalhousie University, also in Nova Scotia. He graduated in 1970 with a dissertation titled ‘Some effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on phytoplankton productivity’. He took over as Head of the Biological Oceanography Section at BIO in 1972 and continued to serve in this role till 2000, after which he continued working at BIO as a scientist. He moved to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom, in 2008, as a Professorial Fellow. Trevor’s skills and interests were broad and varied, including such topics as the thermodynamics of the open-ocean ecosystem; the influence of the physical structure of the marine environment on populations living in it; the physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton; the size structure of marine communities; theoretical ecology; the ocean carbon cycle and climate change; submarine optics, with a particular emphasis on the importance of microorganisms to light penetration in the sea; remote sensing of ocean colour; and the ecological approach to fisheries management. He contributed significantly to each of these topics, publishing about 320 academic publications, which have been cited more than 22,000 times in total. Trevor’s long list of awards and honours is testimony to his many achievements. Before he turned 40, he was honoured with the APICS-Fraser Gold Medal for ‘outstanding research by a young scientist’ in 1981. In 1984 he received the Rosenstiel Award from the University of Miami for his work on phytoplankton population dynamics and primary productivity. He was presented with the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in 1988 for outstanding contributions to developing the interface between the physics and biology of the ocean. This was soon followed by his being recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRCS) in 1990, followed by the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Sciences in 1992. In 1998, he was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He was the recipient of the Timothy R. Parsons medal for excellence in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING 2020, VOL. 41, NO. 15, 5653–5656 https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2020.1766297
更新日期：2020-05-25
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