**About the Editors**

**SeungHyun Son** (Research Scientist) received BS and MS degrees in oceanography from Busan National University, in Busan, South Korea in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in oceanography from the University of New Hampshire in 2004. After postdoctoral appointments at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada and the University of Maine, he joined NOAA/NESDIS/STAR in 2007. His current research is focused on validation/evaluation of the satellite ocean color products, such as VIIRS on SNPP and NOAA-20, and algorithm development and application for ocean color remote-sensing. His broader interests span monitoring water quality properties and the marine ecosystem using various satellite remote sensing and sea-measured data, human/climate-induced changes in the coastal ecosystems, understanding the spatial/temporal variation in phytoplankton productivity at various scales, and understanding interactions between the physical structure of the marine ecosystem and phytoplankton.

**Trevor Platt** (PML Professorial Fellow) is a Professorial Fellow at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in UK. His research interests include: the physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton; thermodynamics of open-ocean ecosystems; the influence of physical structure of the marine environment on populations living within it; submarine optics; size structure of marine communities; remote sensing of ocean colour; the ocean carbon cycle and climate change, and the ecological approach to fisheries' management.

**Shubha Sathyendranath** (Merit Remote Sensing Scientist) is a scientist in the Remote Sensing Group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in UK. Dr. Satheydnranath's research interests include ocean colour modelling, spectral characteristics of light penetration underwater, bio-optical properties of phytoplankton, modelling primary production, bio-geochemical cycles in the sea, climate change, biological–physical interactions in the marine system, ecological provinces in the sea, ecological indicators and phytoplankton functional types.
