Sevrine is an accomplished marine ecosystem modeller and senior scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML). Within the Marine System Modelling group, she leads on zooplankton, food-web and higher trophic modelling.
Sevrine focuses on understanding the complex interactions within marine environments, particularly in relation to climate change and human impacts. Her work involves using innovative tools and methodologies to explore ecosystem dynamics, assess the health and resilience of marine ecosystems, as well as to inform conservation and management strategies. Sevrine is passionate about advancing scientific knowledge, throughout her career, she has contributed to various national and international research projects and has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to address global environmental challenges.
This has seen her become the coordinator of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Science to Impact Challenges area within PML, participate in climate change risk projects such as CS-NOW and the UK 4th Climate Change Risk Assessment. And, more recently take on the role of chair for the ICES Working Group on Integrative Physical-biologal Ecosystem Modelling (WGIPEM).
Selected Publications
- Building bridges between natural and social science disciplines: a standardized methodology to combine data on ecosystem quality trends; Richter, Roberts, Sailley et al., Philosophical transactions B, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0487
- Large projected reductions in marine fish biomass for Kenya and Tanzania in the absence of climate mitigation; Wilson, Sailley et al., Ocean and Coastal Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105921
- Impact of zooplankton food selectivity on plankton dynamics and nutrient cycling, Sailley et al., Journal of Plankton Research, DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbv020
- Carbon fluxes and pelagic ecosystem dynamics near two western Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguin colonies: An inverse model approach, Sailley et al., Marine Ecology Progress Series, DOI: 10.3354/meps10534
- Ducklow H., Doney S., Sailley S., 2015, Ecological controls on biogeochemical fluxes in the western Antarctic Peninsula studied with an inverse food web model. Advances in Polar Science: 26(2): 122-139
- Sailley et al., 2015, Impact of Zooplankton food selectivity on plankton dynamics and nutrient cycling. Journal Plankotn Research doi:10.1093/plankt/fbv020
- Polimene L., Mitra A., Sailley S., et al., 2015, Decrease in diatom palatability contributes to bloom formation in the Western English Channel, Progress in Oceanography
- D A Siegel, K O Buesseler, S C Doney, S F Sailley, M J Behrenfeld, and P W Boyd. Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food-web models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 03/2014; 28(3).
- Ducklow, H.W., W.R. Fraser, M.P. Meredith, S.E. Stammerjohn, S.C. Doney, D.G. Martinson, S.F. Sailley, O.M. Schofield, D.K. Steinberg, H.J. Venables, and C.D. Amsler. 2013. West Antarctic Peninsula: An ice-dependent coastal marine ecosystem in transition. Oceanography 26(3):190–203 T.
- Hashioka, M. Vogt, Y. Yamanaka, C. Le Quéré, M. Noguchi Aita, Séverine Alvain, L. Bopp, T. Hirata, I. Lima, S. Sailley, and S. C Doney, 2013, Phytoplankton competition during the spring bloom in four Plankton Functional Type Models. Biogeosciences 11/2013; 10(11):6833-6850.
- M Vogt, T Hashioka, M R Payne, E. T. Buitenhuis, C. Le Quéré, S. Alvain, M. N. Aita, L. Bopp, S. C. Doney, T. Hirata, I. Lima, S. Sailley, and Y. Yamanaka, 2013, The distribution, dominance patterns and ecological niches of plankton functional types in Dynamic Green Ocean Models and satellite estimates . Biogeosciences Discussions 01/2013; 10(10):17193-17247
- Doney S., Sailley S., 2013, When an ecological regime shift is really just stochastic noise. PNAS, 110(7): 2438-2439 Sailley et al., 2013, Carbon fluxes and pelagic ecosystem dynamics near two western Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguin colonies: an inverse model approach. MEPS 492:253-272
- Sailley et al., 2013, Comparing Food web structures and dynamics across a suite of global marine ecosystem models. Ecological modelling 261-262: 43-57
- Buitenhuis E.T., Rivkin R., Sailley S., and Le Quere C. , 2009, Global biogeochemical fluxes through microzooplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles doi:10.1029/2009GB003601.