She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was the founding editor-in-chief of Limnology and Oceanography: Letters.
In 1995 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked on phosphorus cycling in Lake Mendota.
[1] Soranno was the inaugural editor in chief for Limnology and Oceanography Letters,[2] a role she held from 2015 until 2019.
Her early work modeled non-point sources of phosphorus[4] and quantified the spatial patterns in chemistry and biology across a series of lakes in North America.
[7] Soranno's research has determined the degree of water quality monitoring for lakes is less in communities with more under-represented groups,[8] and she has examined the prevalence of data sharing in different scientific fields.