Prof. Fiamma Straneo was appointed CliC Co-chair on January 1, 2018, for a 3-year period. She is replacing Dr. Gerhard Krinner and will co-chair the CliC Scientific Steering Group together with Dr. James Renwick, appointed in 2017.
Fiamma Straneo is a Professor in Polar Climate and Oceans at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining Scripps, she was a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She studies the high latitude North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and their interaction with the atmosphere, sea-ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet. Much of her research has focused on obtaining and interpreting data from the challenging regions at the glaciers’ margins using a variety of platforms such as icebreakers, fishing vessels, helicopters, snowmobiles and autonomous vehicles. Straneo has led over a dozen field expeditions to the Arctic and Greenland.
Straneo is a fellow of the Leopold Leadership Program, co-chair and founder of the Greenland Ice Sheet/Ocean Science Network (GRISO), a member of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Science Team and of the ASOF (Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes). She received the Sverdrup Award by the Ocean Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union in 2016. Straneo obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington, USA, following a Laurea cum Laude in Physics from the University of Milan, Italy.
Welcome Fiamma!