Alice Della Penna


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Peer-reviewed publications

30 - Lhériau‐Nice, Alexandre, Denham G. Cook, and Della Penna, A.,. “Highly mobile pelagic species co‐occur with fine‐scale ocean fronts.” Limnology and Oceanography, (2025), doi.org/10.1002/lno.70083

29 - Ozaki, R., Stephenson, F., Pinkerton, M., Finucci, B., Green, L., Della Penna, A., and Sila‐Nowicka, K., “Evidence of environmental niche separation between threatened mobulid rays in Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights from species distribution modelling”. Journal of Biogeography, 51(11), (2024), doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14976

28 - Michie, C., Lundquist C.,J., Lavery, S. D., and Della Penna, A., “Spatial and temporal variation in the predicted dispersal of marine larvae around coastal Aotearoa New Zealand.” Frontiers in Marine Science 10, (2024), doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1292081

27 - Lhériau‐Nice, A., & Della Penna, A., “Variability of Fine‐Scale Chlorophyll Fronts in the Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui ā Toi Hauraki Gulf, Aotearoa New Zealand”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, (2024), doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020391

26 - Braun, C. D., Della Penna, A., Arostegui, M.C.,[…], Thorrold, S.,R., “Linking vertical movements of large pelagic predators with distribution patterns of biomass in the open ocean”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2023), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306357120

25 - You, Y., Della Penna, A., Thrush, S., “Modelled broad-scale shifts on seafloor ecosystem functioning due to microplastic impacts on bioturbation”, Scientific Reports, (2023), doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44425-8

24 - Knowles, B., Bonachela, J.A., Cieslik, N., Della Penna, A., Diaz, B., Baetge, N., Behrenfeld, M.J., Naumovitz, K., Boss, E., Graff, J.R. and Halsey, K.H.,. “Altered growth and death in dilution-based viral predation assays”. PloS one, 18(7), p.e0288114. (2023), doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288114

23 - McKee, D. C., Doney, S. C., Della Penna, A., Boss, E. S., Gaube, P., & Behrenfeld, M. J., “Biophysical dynamics at ocean fronts revealed by Bio‐Argo floats.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2023), doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019226

22 - McKee, D. C., Doney, S. C., Della Penna, A., Boss, E. S., Gaube, P., Behrenfeld, M. J., & Glover, D. M., “Lagrangian and Eulerian time and length scales of mesoscale ocean chlorophyll from Bio-Argo floats and satellites”, Biogeosciences, (2022), doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5927-2022

21 - Della Penna, A., Llort., J., Moreau, S., Patel, R., Kloser, R., Gaube, P., Strutton, P., Boyd, P.W., “The Impact of a Southern Ocean Cyclonic Eddy on Mesopelagic Micronekton”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, (2022), doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018893

20 - Baetge, N., Bolaños, L. M., Della Penna, A., Gaube, P., Liu, S., Opalk, K., … & Carlson, C. A. ,“Bacterioplankton response to physical stratification following deep convection.” Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, (2022), doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00078

19 - Elliott, R. G., Montgomery, J. C., Della Penna, A., & Radford, C. A., “Satellite tags describe movement and diving behaviour of blue sharks Prionace glauca in the southwest Pacific.” Marine Ecology Progress Series, (2022), doi.org/10.3354/meps14037

18 - Whitehead, E. A., Russell, J. C., Hickey, A. J., Taylor, G. A., O’Reilly, K. M., Della Penna, A., & Dunphy, B. J., “Seabird stress and breeding: Endocrine and hematological stress biomarkers differ between gray‐faced petrel (Pterodroma gouldi) colonies”, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 1–12, (2022), doi.org/10.1002/jez.2576

17 - Schulien, J. A., Della Penna, A., […] and Behrenfeld, M., “Shifts in Phytoplankton Community Structure Across an Anticyclonic Eddy Revealed from High Spectral Resolution Lidar Scattering Measurements”, Frontiers in Marine Science, (2020), doi 10.3389/fmars.2020.00493

16 - Della Penna, A. and Gaube, P, “Mesoscale eddies structure mesopelagic communities”, Frontiers in Marine Science, (2020), doi 10.3389/fmars.2020.00454

15 - Bolaños, L., Karp-Boss, L., Choi C.,J., Worden, A., Graff, J., Haëntjens, N., Chase, A., Della Penna, A.,[…], and Giovannoni, S., “Small phytoplankton dominate western North Atlantic biomass ”, The ISME journal, (2020), doi 10.1038/s41396-020-0636-0

14 - Haëntjens, N., Della Penna, A., Briggs, N., Karp‐Boss, L., Gaube, P., Claustre, H., and Boss, E. “Detecting mesopelagic organisms using biogeochemical‐Argo floats”, Geophysical Research Letters, (2020), doi 10.1029/2019GL086088

13 - Behrenfeld, M.J., Gaube, P., Della Penna, A., O’Malley, R.T., Burt, W. J., Hu, Yongxiang, Bontempi, P., Steinberg, D. K., Boss, E. S., Siegel, D. A., A. Hostetler, C., Tortell, P., Doney, S. C., “Satellite-observed daily vertical migrations of global ocean animals”, Nature, (2019), doi 10.1038/s41586-019-1796-9

12 - Della Penna, A. and Gaube, P., “Data Report: Overview of (Sub)mesoscale Ocean Dynamics for the NAAMES Field Program”, Frontiers in Marine Science, (2019), doi 10.3389/fmars.2019.00384

11 - Rousselet, L., Doglioli, A.M., de Verneil, A., Pietri, A., Della Penna, A., Berline, L., Marrec, P., Grégori, G., Thyssen, M., Carlotti, F. and Barrillon, S., “Vertical motions and their effects on a biogeochemical tracer in a cyclonic structure finely observed in the Ligurian Sea”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, (2019), doi 10.1029/2018JC014392

10 - Gaube P., Braun, C. D., Lawson, G. L., McGillicuddy, D. J., Della Penna, A., Skomal, G. B., … & Thorrold, S. R. “Mesoscale eddies influence the movements of mature female white sharks in the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea”, Scientific Reports, (2018), doi 10.1002/2014jc010111

9 - Marrec P., Doglioli A., Della Penna A.,[…], G. Gregori, “Coupling physics and biogeochemistry thanks to high-resolution observations of the phytoplankton community structure in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea”, Biogeosciences, (2018), doi 10.5194/bg-15-1579-2018

8 - Della Penna, A., De Monte, S., Wotherspoon, S., Trull, T., Johnson, C. and d’Ovidio, F., “Mesoscale Variability of Conditions Favoring an Iron‐Induced Diatom Bloom Downstream of the Kerguelen Plateau”, JGR: Oceans, (2018), doi 10.1029/2018JC013884

7 - Moreau S., Llort J., Patel R., Della Penna A., Langlais C., Lenton A., Matear R.J., Phillips H., Strutton P.G. , “Eddy-induced carbon transport across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current”, Biogeosciences, (2017), doi 10.1002/2017GB005669

6 - Della Penna, A., Koubbi, P., Cotté, C. Bon,C. and d’Ovidio, F., “Lagrangian analysis of multisatellite data in support of open ocean MPA design”, Deep Sea Research II, (2017), doi 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.12.014

5 - Grenier, M., Della Penna, A. and Trull, T., “Autonomous profiling float observations of the high biomass plume downstream of the Kerguelen plateau in the Southern Ocean”, Biogeosciences, (2015), doi 10.5194/bg-12-2707-2015

4 - Della Penna, A., De Monte, S., Kestenare, E., Guinet, C. and d’Ovidio, F., “Quasi-planktonic behavior of foraging top marine predators”, Scientific Reports, 5 (2015), doi 10.1038/srep18063

3 - d’Ovidio, F., Della Penna, A., Trull, T., Nencioli, F., Pujol, I., Rio, M.H., Park, Y.H., Cotté,C., Zhou, M. and Blain, S., “The biogeochemical structuring role of horizontal stirring: Lagrangian perspective on iron delivery downstream of the Kerguelen plateau”, Biogeosciences, (2015), doi 10.5194/bg-12-5567-2015

2 - Bon, C., Della Penna, A., d’Ovidio, F., Arnaould, J.P.Y. and Bost, C., “Influence of oceanographic structures on foraging strategies: Macaroni penguins at Crozet Islands”, Movement Ecology.,(2015), doi 10.1186/s40462-015-0057-2

1 - d’Ovidio, F., De Monte, S., Della Penna, A., Cotté,C. and Guinet, C., “Ecological implications of eddy retention in the open ocean: a Lagrangian approach” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 46, no. 25 (2013): 254023, doi 10.1088/1751-8113/46/25/254023

Other publications

9 - Doglioli A., Ballerini T. (eds). “People, science and instruments of the BioSWOT-Med Campaign.”, (2025) [doi.org/10.13155/105690] ([doi.org/10.13155/105690]), - contribution

8 - Doglioli, A., Grégori, G., D’Ovidio, F.,[…], Della Penna, A.,, […], “BioSWOT Med. Biological applications of the satellite Surface Water and Ocean Topography in the Mediterranean”, (2024)

7 - Della Penna., A., “Variability of oceanographic features off the North Shelf”, in “State of our Seabirds 2021”, (2021)

6 - Della Penna., A., Braun, C.D., Gaube, P., and d’Ovidio, F., “Fine-scale structuring of open ocean ecosystems: From observations to management in a changing climate’’, U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter, Fall 2021, (2021)

5 - Hasson, A., Boutin, J., Della Penna, A., Morrow, R., and d’Ovidio, F., “Les satellites pour l’observation des tourbillons océaniques”, in “L’Atlas des nouveaux mondes - Territoires d’exploration et de découverte”, (in French), CNRS editions, (2019)

4 - Koubbi P., Mignard C., Causse R., Da Silva O., Baudena A., Bost C., Cotté C., d’Ovidio F., Della Penna A., Delord K., Fabri-Ruiz S., Ferrieux M., Guinet C., Lo Monaco C., Sauce de T., Weimerskirch H., “Ecoregionalisation of the Kerguelen and Crozet islands oceanic zone. Part II: The Crozet oceanic zone “, (2016).

3 - Della Penna, A., Wotherspoon, S., Trull, T., De Monte, S., Johnson, C., d’Ovidio, F., , “Lagrangian approach to phytoplankton mesoscale biogeography in the Kerguelen region”, Proceedings of CS-DC 2015, (2015)

2 - Milosevic, T. and Della Penna, A., “Developing twenty-first century skills: insights from an intensive interdisciplinary workshop Mosaic of Life”, (2013)

1 - Drivet, A., Della Penna, A.,, Signore, D., “Artefatti per l’insegnamento della probabilità. Il laboratorio di ottobre scienza.” (in Italian), Induzioni, (2012)