Ivona Cetinić is an oceanographer in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research focuses on developing new ways of resolving ocean biogeochemistry and phytoplankton diversity from satellite and other remote observations. At the University of Southern California, she conceived of and participated in field campaigns focused on developing innovative ocean observing technology, several for which she served as chief scientist. These campaigns include the ground breaking Tara Oceans circumnavigation of the globe, as well as others that utilized unique fusions of cutting edge technology such as hyperspectral radiometry, light polarimeters, and airborne lidar, allowing for more detailed information about concentration and composition of particles in the ocean (as well as the atmosphere - SABOR and PACE-PAX). Dr. Cetinic has served as the project scientist for EXPORTS (EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing), a large scale NASA-led field campaign, as the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) Project Science Lead for Ocean Biogeochemistry, a NASA mission that launched in 2024 and most recently, a deputy mission scientist for PACE-PAX validation campaign. In the last 10 years, she has been a member of multiple international science teams and committees and has served as the co-chair of the Ocean Optics Conference, and member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Earth Sciences and Applications from Space. She earned her Ph.D. in biological oceanography at University of Southern California in 2009.
Ivona Cetinic (she/her)
(Senior Research Scientist)
| Email: | ivona.cetinic@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.1514 |
| Org Code: | 616 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 616.2 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | MORGAN STATE UNIV. |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Senior Research Scientist
Morgan State University, on-site at NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD, USA
2021 - Present
Senior Scientist
Universities Space Research Association, on-site at NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD, USA
2018 - 2021
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Maine - Orono, Maine, USA
2015 - Present
Scientist III
Universities Space Research Association, on-site at NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD, USA
2015 - 2018
Assistant Research Professor
University of Maine - Orono, Maine, USA
2015 - 2015
Research Associate/Marine Scientist
University of Maine - Orono, Maine, USA
2011 - 2014
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Maine - Orono, USA
2009 - 2011
Research Assistant
University of Southern California - Los Angeles, USA
2006 - 2008
Research Assistant
University of Zagreb - Zagreb, Croatia
2002 - 2004
Teaching Experience
University of Maine Walpole, USA
Instructor, Calibration and Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing; Summers of 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA
Teaching Assistant, Environmental Microbiology USC Catalina Semester; Fall, 2006
Teaching Assistant, Humans and their Environment; Fall, 2005
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Microbiology; Spring, 2005 and 2006
Teaching Assistant, General Biology: Organismal Biology and Evolution; Fall, 2004
University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
Teaching Assistant, Environmental Microbiology; Spring, 2003 and 2004
Teaching Assistant, Thallophyta; Fall, 2002 and 2003
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Cell Biology; 1997-1999
Education
PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography from University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA, 2009
B.Sc. Biology - Ecology from University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia, 2001
Publications
Refereed
2024. "Phytoplankton communities quantified from hyperspectral ocean reflectance correspond to pigment-based communities." Optics Express 32 (20): 34482 [10.1364/oe.529906] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Anomalous trends in global ocean carbon concentrations following the 2022 eruptions of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai." Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1): 247 [10.1038/s43247-024-01421-8] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges." Remote Sensing of Environment 302 (1): 113964 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113964] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Assessing the utility of high spectral resolution lidar for measuring particulate backscatter in the ocean and evaluating satellite ocean color retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 300 113898 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113898] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Assessment of Oceanographic Conditions during the North Atlantic EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Field Campaign." Progress in Oceanography 103170 [10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103170] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Our Evolving Understanding of Biological Carbon Export." Eos 104 [10.1029/2023eo230346] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "State of the Climate in 2022: Introduction." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (9): S1-S10 [10.1175/2023bamsstateoftheclimate_intro.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Spatial and temporal characterization of cyanobacteria blooms in the Mississippi Sound and their relationship to the Bonnet Carré Spillway openings." Harmful Algae 127 102472 [10.1016/j.hal.2023.102472] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Bayesian approach to a generalized inherent optical property model." Optics Express 31 (14): 22790 [10.1364/oe.486581] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade." Earth-Science Reviews 240 104386 [10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104386] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Know Before You Go: A Community-Derived Approach to Planning for and Preventing Sexual Harassment at Oceanographic Field Sites." Oceanography 36 (1): [10.5670/oceanog.2023.112] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Phytoplankton diversity and chemotaxonomy in contrasting North Pacific ecosystems." PeerJ 11 e14501 [10.7717/peerj.14501] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Reconciliation of total particulate organic carbon and nitrogen measurements determined using contrasting methods in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the NASA EXPORTS field campaign." Elem Sci Anth 11 (1): [10.1525/elementa.2022.00112] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Quantifying the Ocean's Biological Pump and Its Carbon Cycle Impacts on Global Scales." Annual Review of Marine Science 15 (1): [10.1146/annurev-marine-040722-115226] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Tracing the path of carbon export in the ocean though DNA sequencing of individual sinking particles." The ISME Journal [10.1038/s41396-022-01239-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Alignment of optical backscatter measurements from the EXPORTS Northeast Pacific Field Deployment." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 10 (1): [10.1525/elementa.2021.00021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "A Visual Tour of Carbon Export by Sinking Particles." Global Biogeochemical Cycles [10.1029/2021gb006985] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Global Oceans." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (8): S143-S198 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0083.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images." 38 [10.1575/1912/27377] [Report]
2021. "An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9 (1): [10.1525/elementa.2020.00107] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Development and Validation of an Empirical Ocean Color Algorithm with Uncertainties: A Case Study with the Particulate Backscattering Coefficient." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126 (5): [10.1029/2021jc017231] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Interannual Variability in the Thermal Habitat of Alexandrium catenella in the Bay of Fundy and the Implications of Climate Change." Frontiers in Marine Science 7 [10.3389/fmars.2020.587990] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Radiometric approach for the detection of picophytoplankton assemblages across oceanic fronts." Optics Express 28 (18): 25682 [10.1364/oe.398127] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Assessment of holographic microscopy for quantifying marine particle size and concentration." Limnology and Oceanography: Methods lom3.10379 [10.1002/lom3.10379] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Bayesian retrieval of optically relevant properties from hyperspectral water-leaving reflectances." Applied Optics 59 (23): 6902 [10.1364/ao.398043] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "State of the Climate in 2019: Global Oceans." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (8): S129-S184 [10.1175/bams-d-20-0105.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late." Nature 580 (7801): 26-28 [10.1038/d41586-020-00915-7] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Correcting non-photochemical quenching of Saildrone chlorophyll-a fluorescence for evaluation of satellite ocean color retrievals." Optics Express 28 (3): 4274 [10.1364/oe.382029] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Saildrone: adaptively sampling the marine environment." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (6): E744–E762 [10.1175/bams-d-19-0015.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective." Frontiers in Marine Science 6 644 [10.3389/fmars.2019.00644] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Approach for propagating radiometric data uncertainties through NASA ocean color algorithms." Frontiers in Earth Science [10.3389/feart.2019.00176] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "NanoSIMS single cell analyses reveal the contrasting nitrogen sources for small phytoplankton." The ISME Journal [10.1038/s41396-018-0285-8] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "A multi-method autonomous assessment of primary productivity and export efficiency in the springtime North Atlantic." Biogeosciences 15 (14): 4515-4532 [10.5194/bg-15-4515-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The adsorption of dissolved organic carbon onto glass fiber filters and its effect on the measurement of particulate organic carbon: A laboratory and modeling exercise." Limnology and Oceanography: Methods [10.1002/lom3.10248] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Multilayer approach for characterization of bacterial diversity in a marginal sea: From surface to seabed." Journal of Marine Systems 184 15-27 [10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.04.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Simultaneous polarimeter retrievals of microphysical aerosol and ocean color parameters from the “MAPP” algorithm with comparison to high-spectral-resolution lidar aerosol and ocean products." Applied Optics 57 (10): 2394 [10.1364/ao.57.002394] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Airborne and shipborne polarimetric measurements over open ocean and coastal waters: Intercomparisons and implications for spaceborne observations." Remote Sensing of Environment 206 375-390 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.12.015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Estimation of Phytoplankton Accessory Pigments from Hyperspectral Reflectance Spectra: Toward a Global Algorithm." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans [10.1002/2017jc012859] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Unusual winter zooplankton bloom in the open southern Adriatic Sea." TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 41 1024-1035 [10.3906/zoo-1702-17] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Using Bio-Optics to Reveal Phytoplankton Physiology from a Wirewalker Autonomous Platform." Oceanography 30 (2): 128–131 [10.5670/oceanog.2017.233] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "From toes to top-of-atmosphere: Fowler’s Sneaker Depth index of water clarity for the Chesapeake Bay." Optics Express 25 (8): A361 [10.1364/oe.25.00a361] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Evidence of small-scale spatial structuring of phytoplankton alpha- and beta-diversity in the open ocean." Journal of Ecology 104 (6): 1682–1695 [10.1111/1365-2745.12634] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Characterizing the phytoplankton soup: pump and plumbing effects on the particle assemblage in underway optical seawater systems." Optics Express 24 (18): 20703 [10.1364/oe.24.020703] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Ocean Lidar Measurements of Beam Attenuation and a Roadmap to Accurate Phytoplankton Biomass Estimates." EPJ Web of Conferences 119 22003 [10.1051/epjconf/201611922003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Combined Atmospheric and Ocean Profiling from an Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar." EPJ Web of Conferences 119 22001 [10.1051/epjconf/201611922001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Diatom community in the depths of the South Adriatic: an injection of carbon by biological pump." Rapport du Commission internationale pour l’exploration scientifique de la Mer Mediterranee 41 274 [Proceedings]
2016. "In depth characterization of marine cyanobacteria community: targeting of Prochlorococcus ecotypes." Rapport du Commission internationale pour l’exploration scientifique de la Mer Mediterranee 41 275--275 [Proceedings]
2015. "Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom." Science 348 (6231): 222-225 [10.1126/science.1260062] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A simple optical index shows spatial and temporal heterogeneity in phytoplankton community composition during the 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment." Biogeosciences 12 (7): 2179--2194 [10.5194/bg-12-2179-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Women in Oceanography: Continuing Challenges." Oceanography 27 (4): 5-13 [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Net community production and export from Seaglider measurements in the North Atlantic after the spring bloom." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 119 (9): 6121--6139 [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Optical community index to assess spatial patchiness during the 2008 North Atlantic Bloom." Biogeosciences Discussions 11 (9): 12833--12870 [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Ecological succession among iron-oxidizing bacteria." ISME J 8 (4): 804-815 [10.1038/ismej.2013.197] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Particulate organic carbon and inherent optical properties during 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117 (C6): [10.1029/2011jc007771] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Estimates of net community production and export using high-resolution, Lagrangian measurements of O2, NO3−, and POC through the evolution of a spring diatom bloom in the North Atlantic." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 64 157-174 [10.1016/j.dsr.2012.01.012] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "High-resolution observations of aggregate flux during a sub-polar North Atlantic spring bloom." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 58 (10): 1031-1039 [10.1016/j.dsr.2011.07.007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Harmful algae and their potential impacts on desalination operations off southern California." Water Research 44 (2): 385-416 [10.1016/j.watres.2009.06.051] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Calibration procedure for Slocum glider deployed optical instruments." Optics Express 17 (18): 15420 [10.1364/oe.17.015420] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Rapid downward transport of the neurotoxin domoic acid in coastal waters." Nature Geosci 2 (4): 272-275 [10.1038/ngeo472] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Spatial and temporal distribution of phytoplankton in a highly stratified estuary (Zrmanja, Adriatic Sea)." Marine Ecology 28 169-177 [10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00180.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Phytoplankton Seasonality in a Highly Stratified Karstic Estuary (Krka, Adriatic Sea)." Hydrobiologia 555 (1): 31-40 [10.1007/s10750-005-1103-7] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2023. "Reports from EXPORTS modeling and data-mining activities." Technical Memorandum [Report]