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Fiamma Straneo
Alma mater	University of Milan (MS), University of Washington (PhD), Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (POSTDOC)
Occupation(s)	Physical Oceanographer, Professor in Polar Climate and Oceans at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
Awards	Sverdrup Award 2016, Bjerknes Center Fellow for Climate Research 2002-2006, Leopold Leadership Program Fellow 2013

Fiamma Straneo

Fiamma Straneo, also known as Fiammetta Straneo, is a Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanographer and professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her primary research focuses on the interaction between the polar North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans with the atmosphere, polar and sub-polar oceans, dense water formation, overturning circulation, ice sheets interaction, specifically the Greenland ice sheet, and their roles on the global climate system.

Early life and education

Straneo attended the University of Milan, Italy, where she earned her Laurea cum Laude with honors (MS) in physics in 1992. Straneo came to the United States in 1993 and pursued a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography at the University of Washington, Seattle. She worked as a research assistant until graduating in 1999, writing her thesis on the dynamics of rotating convection, horizontal stratification, and wind .

Career and Research

In 1999, Straneo came to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as a postdoctoral scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research. She officially joined the institution as an assistant scientist in the department of Physical Oceanography in 2002 and in 2014, promoted to senior scientist. At the start of her career, Straneo focuses on the impact of climate change on the ice sheets . In 2008, she started fieldwork in Greenland. Since then, Straneo had led over 20 field expeditions with helicopters, icebreakers, vessels, autonomous and underwater vehicles, probing for changes in temperature, flows, salinity. She also used noble gases to trace melted freshwater's footprints at the margins of the ice sheets. One of her most mentioned work during her time at WHOI discussed the presence of subtropical and tropical currents that come in contact at the ice margins. Her research at the time provided data that support a popular but untested hypothesis, as well as introducing additional factors that explain the acceleration of the Greenland ice sheets melting that contribute greatly to sea level rise. Since then her work expanded toward the impacts of ice melt and fresh water fluxes on the ocean circulations, fjords, glacial movements on the marine ecosystem of the Northern polar region . Through the data she obtained, Straneo and her team collaborated with glaciologists, atmospheric scientists, pale-oceanographic scientists, and engineers, aiming to build models that accurately predict sea-level rising and address the dynamic ice loss. Her primary funding come from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Straneo spent 18 years at WHOI and joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego on July 1, 2017 as a Physical Oceanographer and professor in Polar Climate and Ocean. There, Straneo worked closely with POSTDOC researchers and graduate students. She aimed to expand the field of polar science research and increase public awareness of effect of climate change on the polar region and the global ocean system.

Awards and honors

• Fellow of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Norway, 2002-2006
• Fellow of the Leopold Leadership Program, 2013
• Sverdrup Lecture Award by the Ocean Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union, 2016

Public engagement

• Co-chair and founder of the Greenland Ice Sheet/Ocean Science Network (GRISO) 2013
• Co-chair the Climate and Cryosphere (Clic) Scientific Steering Group 2017
• Member of the Bjerknes Scientific Advisory Council at the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, 2016

Publications

Straneo’s work has been published in several reviewed scientific publication including Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of geophysical research: Biogeosciences, Nature Geoscience, Journal of Climate, The Cryosphere. The following is some of her most cited works:

• Fiammetta Straneo, Gordon S Hamilton, David A Sutherland, Leigh A Stearns, Fraser Davidson, Mike O Hammill, Garry B Stenson, Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid (2010). "Rapid circulation of warm subtropical waters in a major glacial fjord in East Greenland". Nature Geoscience. 3 (3): 182-186.
• Fiammetta Straneo, Patrick Heimbach (2013). "North Atlantic warming and the retreat of Greenland's outlet glaciers". Nature. 505 (7478): 36-43.
• Fiammetta Straneo, Ruth G Curry, David A Sutherland, Gordon S Hamilton, Claudia Cenedese, Kjetil Våge, Leigh A Stearns (2011). "Impact of fjord dynamics and glacial runoff on the circulation near Helheim Glacier". Nature Geoscience. 4 (5): 322-327.
• Daniel White, Larry Hinzman, Lilian Alessa, John Cassano, Molly Chambers, Kelly Falkner, Jennifer Francis, William J Gutowski, Marika Holland, R Max Holmes, Henry Huntington, Douglas Kane, Andrew Kliskey, Craig Lee, James McClelland, Bruce Peterson, T Scott Rupp, Fiamma Straneo, Michael Steele, Rebecca Woodgate, Daqing Yang, Kenji Yoshikawa, Tingjun Zhang (2007)."The arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts". Journal of geophysical research: Biogeosciences. 112 (G4) .
• Fiammetta Straneo, David A Sutherland, David Holland, Carl Gladish, Gordon S Hamilton, Helen L Johnson, Eric Rignot, Yun Xu, Michele Koppes (2012). "Characteristics of ocean waters reaching Greenland's glaciers". Annals of Glaciology. 53 (60): 202-210.

For additional researches, view Fiamma Straneo-Google Scholar.