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In 2012\u20132017, shellfish stocks were poisoned by Alexandrium catenella, a dinoflagellate species that produces paralytic shellfish toxins (PST). Remote sensing data may provide an environmental context for the drivers of PST events in Tasmania. We conducted spatial and temporal trend analyses of the Multi-Scale Ultra-High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) and Ocean Color Climate Change Initiative chlorophyll-a (OC-CCI chl-a) to determine if SST and chl-a correlated with the major toxin increases from 2012 to 2017. Along with the trends, we compare the remotely sensed oceanographic parameters of SST and chl-a to toxin events off the east coast of Tasmania to provide environmental context for the high-toxin period. Spatial and temporal changes for chl-a differ based on the north, central, and southeast coast of Tasmania. For sites in the north, chl-a was 5.3% higher from the pre-PST period relative to the PST period, 5.1% along the central part of the coast, and by 6.0% in the south based on deviations from the coastal study area time series. Overall, SST has slightly decreased from 2007 to 2020 (tau = \u22120.011, p = 0.827) and chl-a has significantly decreased for the east coast (tau = \u22120.164, p = 1.58 \u00d7 10\u22123). A negative relationship of SST and PST values occurred in the north (r = \u22120.530, p = 5.32 \u00d7 10\u22125) and central sites (r = \u22120.225, p = 0.157). The correlation between satellite chl-a (from OC-CCI, Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Aqua) and in situ data is weak, which makes it difficult to assess relationships present between chl-a and toxin concentrations. Moving forward, the development of a regional chl-a algorithm and increased in situ chl-a collection and plankton sampling at a species level will help to improve chl-a measurements and toxic phytoplankton production monitoring around Tasmania.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030665","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,31]],"date-time":"2022-01-31T01:46:21Z","timestamp":1643593581000},"page":"665","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Chlorophyll-a and Sea Surface Temperature Changes in Relation to Paralytic Shellfish Toxin Production off the East Coast of Tasmania, Australia"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0002-6660","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lael","family":"Wakamatsu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7004, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1391-9086","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gregory L.","family":"Britten","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA"}]},{"given":"Elliot J.","family":"Styles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7004, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5284-6428","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrew M.","family":"Fischer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7004, Australia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C., Campbell, K., Condie, S., Dorantes-Aranda, J., Murray, S., Turnbull, A., and Ugalde, S. 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