Maristella Berta received the M.S. degree in environmental physics from the University of Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in environmental and industrial fluid mechanics from the University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, in 2012, where she studied Lagrangian transport and connectivity through the FSLE technique. In particular, she studies the current dynamics responsible for the dispersion of tracers, such as pollutant and larval transport. Her recent work focuses on passive transport driven by surface currents through the analysis of model outputs and observations.