Dr. Henry Houskeeper

In the hangar with the NASA DC-8 for the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP).

Assistant Scientist I
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering

Contact Information:
Email: henry.houskeeper@whoi.edu
Office: Bigelow Laboratory 202

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #11
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests

I study the aquatic light environment, spanning the open ocean to the coastal zone and inland waters. My methods include remote (airborne or satellite), in situ, and laboratory sensing.

Current projects include developing a global historical kelp forest dataset: kelpwatch.org

Selected Publications

Houskeeper, H.F., S.B. Hooker, and R.N. Lind. “Expanded linear responsivity for Earth and planetary radiometry.” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 41, no. 11 (2024): 1093-1105. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0133.1.

Houskeeper, H.F., and S.B. Hooker. “Extending aquatic spectral information with the first radiometric IR-B observations.” PNAS Nexus 2, no. 11 (2023): pgad340. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad340.

Houskeeper, H.F., S.B. Hooker, and Ky.C. Cavanaugh. “Spectrally simplified approach for leveraging legacy geostationary oceanic observations." Applied Optics 61, no. 27 (2022): 7966-7977. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.465491.

Houskeeper, H.F., I.S. Rosenthal, Ka.C. Cavanaugh, C. Pawlak, L. Trouille, J.E.K. Byrnes, T.W. Bell, and Ky.C. Cavanaugh. “Variability of giant kelp in the Islas Malvinas or Falkland Islands based on historical satellite imagery" PLoS One 17, no. 1 (2022): e0257933. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257933.

Houskeeper, H.F., D. Draper, R.M. Kudela, and E. Boss. “Chlorophyll absorption and phytoplankton size information inferred from hyperspectral particulate beam-attenuation." Applied Optics 59, no. 22 (2020): 6765-6773. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.396832.