{"id":184180,"date":"2024-04-23T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=184180"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:07:35","slug":"catalina-martinez-gso-m-s-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/public-engagement\/catalina-martinez-gso-m-s-00\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina Martinez (GSO M.S. \u201900)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Catalina-Martinez-on-Alvin_mark_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133231\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Catalina-Martinez-on-Alvin_mark_600.jpg\" 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\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Catalina accepting her 2019 Women of Color in STEM Diversity Leadership in Government Award for demonstrating sustained leadership in creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Federal workforce.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/CMartinez-LostCityonHerc-1-e1713898526811-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"184181\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/CMartinez-LostCityonHerc-1-e1713898526811.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?attachment_id=184181\" class=\"wp-image-184181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/CMartinez-LostCityonHerc-1-e1713898526811-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, 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1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Catalina sitting on top of the Institute for Exploration&#8217;s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) <em>Hercules<\/em> during the Lost City Expedition on the NOAA ship <em>Ronald H. Brown<\/em> in 2005. <br>Photo credit: Dave Wright.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout right  \"><h1>Alum Spotlight<\/h1>\n\n<p>Hometown: Providence, RI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current town: Narragansett, RI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major Professor: Jennifer Specker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research focus: Reproductive biology of the monkfish<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/catalinamartinez1\/\" title=\"\">Connect on linkedin <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Catalina Martinez is the Equity Advisor for NOAA Ocean Exploration, providing strategic guidance to help integrate and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and justice (DEIAJ) priorities within NOAA, and also externally across a broad spectrum of STEM institutions and agencies. This work includes considering new ways to infuse DEIAJ across operations, programs, procedures, data access and service delivery, and expanding partnerships that prioritize co-creation and sustainable relationship building with underrepresented marginalized and minoritized groups and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martinez also works in a variety of ways to help mitigate barriers to entry, persistence, advancement and success for diverse groups in STEM academic programs and the workforce. She is a certified diversity professional with four degrees from the University of Rhode Island (URI B.S. \u201997, URI GSO M.S. \u201900, URI M.M.A. \u201902, URI M.B.A. \u201915), and began her ocean science career with NOAA more than 20 years ago, helping to formalize and manage important regional NOAA partnerships in the Northeast, and spent many years working on telepresence-enabled expeditions to explore little-known and unknown ocean areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently Martinez was one of the guest editors of The Oceanography Society\u2019s first-ever special edition of its journal <em>Oceanography<\/em> on<a href=\"https:\/\/tos.org\/oceanography\/issue\/volume-36-issue-4\"> Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Ocean Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martinez says she is grateful to URI for \u201cproviding the opportunity to explore my scientific interests as a non-traditional student, and for helping me find my way to a very unlikely ocean science career.\u201d She also says the mandatory cruise experience at GSO paved the way for her interest in pursuing additional ship-based opportunities as part of her career, and catalyzed her determination to help improve the safety and culture for women and individuals from underrepresented minoritized and other marginalized groups on board research vessels. \u201cMy academic and personal experiences at GSO were certainly instrumental in my professional pursuits and overall, how I\u2019ve engaged and navigated within the STEM world,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Catalina from her 2023 University of Rhode Island Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient lecture, in which she discussed her non-traditional career trajectory and shared some personal insights associated with the barriers and challenges to entry, persistence, advancement and success for people from marginalized and minoritized backgrounds in STEM.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GVLplnw1J6A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"URI Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient Lecture: Catalina Martinez\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GVLplnw1J6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalina Martinez is the Equity Advisor for NOAA Ocean Exploration, providing strategic guidance to help integrate and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and justice (DEIAJ) priorities within NOAA, and also externally across a broad spectrum of STEM institutions and agencies. 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