A video recap of the Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes workshop 2023, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria3/18/2024 El pasado jueves tuve la oportunidad de participar junto con los compañeros Aridane González y José Joaquín Hernández en un evento de divulgación en la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Gran Canaria. Allí hablamos en tres bloques, primero Aridane abordó del problema del calentamiento global y de las medidas que se están tomando para adaptar y mitigar sus efectos. Después hablamos de la circulación del Atlántico Norte y de los efectos locales que tiene la ralentización de la AMOC y concluimos con el CEO de PLOCAN que ofreció una ponencia sobre proyectos existentes de energía renovable en Canarias. La Sociedad nos acogió en sus instalaciones llenas de historia y nos permitió difundir nuestro trabajo en un ambiente distendido y con alto interés por el tema. Debajo del cartel les dejo los links a los medios que difundieron el evento.
After a long trip and an unexpected short layover in Dallas, we are finally back home from the Ocean Science Meeting 2024 that took place last week in New Orleans, LA, USA. . There, our research group successfully presented the results from four different studies linked with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: two on the Canary Current, one on the circulation of the Western North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, and the last one on the South Atlantic circulation. Overall, it was a very productive meeting with much networking for future work and collaboration. In addition, we got to see old friends and colleagues in a city full of jazz music. I was particularly thrilled to see how our previous Ph.D. student fits nicely into her postdoctoral job at Georgia Tech. The Ocean Science Meeting takes place twice a year and is one of the two largest meetings in our research field, so it represents a unique forum for science dissemination.
Ayer concluyó el curso en Instrumentación Oceanográfica de la Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria (SPEG) y de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. El curso organizado por Patricia Caro que empezó una charla inaugural de Miguel Angel Ojeda, directivo de la Unidad Tecnológica Marina del CSIC, terminó ayer con una visita guiada al Buque Oceanográfico Sarmiento de Gamboa. El curso fue una oportunidad única para que alumnos con distinto background pudieran conocer de primera mano (a través de la interacción investigadores de la ULPGC y del IEO de Tenerife y de empresas como DC ambientales) la instrumentación oceanográfica y manipularla con el fin de formar a técnicos marinos cualificados.
Link al curso Monday was a fun day. Our Ph.D. student Verónica successfully defended her thesis entitled: Thirty years of GO-SHIP and WOCE data: Atlantic overturning of mass, heat, freshwater, and anthropogenic Carbon transport. Dr. Caínzos will leave soon for Georgia Tech, Atlanta where she will work with Dr. Susan Lozier. During her Ph.D. she has published four articles as first author and six more as coauthor (total 10)!! She has also acquired sea-going skills and carried-out two research stays at the University of Bergen and NOAA-Miami. We will surely miss her here and wish her all the best for her next career step. V. Caínzos, A. Hernández-Guerra, G.D. McCarthy, E.L. McDonagh, M. Cubas Armas, M.D. Pérez Hernández. (2022) Thirty years of GOSHIP and WOCE data: Atlantic Overturning of mass, heat and freshwater transport. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 e2021GL096527
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096527 Caínzos, V., Hernández Guerra, A., Farneti, R., Pérez Hernández, M. D., Talley, L. D. (2023). Mass, Heat, and Freshwater Transport From Transoceanic Sections in the Atlantic Ocean at 30°S and 24.5°N: Single Sections Versus Box Models? Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103412. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103412 Caínzos Díaz, V.. Hernández Guerra, A., McCarthy, G.D., McDonagh, E. L., Cubas Armas, M., Pérez Hernández, M. D. (2022). Thirty years of GOSHIP and WOCE data: Atlantic Overturning of mass, heat and freshwater transport. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 e2021GL096527 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096527 Caínzos, V., Velo, A., Pérez, F. F., & Hernández-Guerra, A. (2022). Anthropogenic carbon transport variability in the Atlantic Ocean over three decades. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2022GB007475. http://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007475 Ahora que ya estamos bien metidos en 2023 les voy a comentar las últimas noticias por ahora. Por un lado para Mayo estamos organizando la 21 edición de la reunión internacional Arctic and Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Meeting (ASOF) que tendrá lugar en las instalaciones del Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria. ASOF se centra en estudiar los flujos oceánicos de masa, calor, agua dulce y hielo de las cuencas Árticas y Subárticas. El programa se estableció en 2000 con el objetivo de coordinar los distintos programas nacionales de observación de flujos oceánicos existentes en cada una de las entradas de agua a la cuenca Ártica. Desde 2010, el programa realiza reuniones anuales con los objetivos de discutir resultados sobre el estado y evolución del Ártico, entender los impactos que los cambios observados en el ártico tienen en la circulación global y coordinar la continuación de los diferentes programas de observación y medición (https://asof.awi.de/science/asof-ii-objectives/). Por otra parte nuestra doctoranda más senior que está a punto de defender la tesis, ha aceptado una plaza postdoctoral con la Dra. Susan Lozier en el Georgia Tech de Atlanta y en el grupo estamos muy contentos por ella. Si quieres conocer su trabajo pincha aquí. Pero además los otros doctorandos la siguen de cerca teniendo enviados o a punto de enviar a revista un artículo cada uno de primer autor. Buenas noticias para el proyecto FAR-DWO que tendrá su primera campaña de altas latitudes en verano y contará con una de nuestras estudiantes no sólo para la campaña sino para el procesamiento de datos. Igualmente IfGLOO tirará sus primeros gliders este año. Así que 2023 so far so good... ¡les cuento más pronto! ------------------------------------------------------- Now that we are well into 2023 I am going to tell you the latest news so far. On the one hand, for May we are organizing the 21st edition of the international Arctic and Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Meeting (ASOF) that will take place in the facilities of the Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria. ASOF focuses on the study of the oceanic fluxes of mass, heat, freshwater and ice in the Arctic and Subarctic basins. The program was established in 2000 with the aim of coordinating the various existing national ocean observation programs in each of the Arctic basin water inflows. Since 2010, the program holds annual meetings with the objectives of discussing results on the state and evolution of the Arctic, understanding the impacts that observed changes in the Arctic have on the global circulation and coordinating the continuation of the different observation and measurement programs (https://asof.awi.de/science/asof-ii-objectives/). On the other hand, our most senior PhD student, who is about to defend her thesis, has accepted a postdoctoral position with Dr. Susan Lozier at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and we are very happy for her. If you want to know more about her work click here. But also the other doctoral students are following her closely, having sent or being about to send, a first author article to a journal. Good news for the FAR-DWO project that will have its first high latitude cruise in summer and will count with one of our students not only for the survey but also for the data processing. Also IfGLOO will launch its first gliders this year. So 2023 so far so good..... I'll tell you more soon! It's September again. Hence, let's take the chance to recap last year. What a year! I taught 240 hours between November and July, mentored two Final Degree Projects and a Master's Degree Project, and became the Secretary of my research Institute. At the same time, I moved and had a baby around (stopping here a second to acknowledge the help of her grandparents). Last year was hard work. Hence, I must congratulate Mara Navarro and Laura Domènech on their successful Final Degree Projects. They worked on water masses changes using the Bindoff and McDougall (1994) methodology. Mara put her focus on the South Atlantic while Laura on the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. In addition, both of them got graded with a 10. Furthermore, yesterday, Mae Presas defended her Master Thesis about Changes in the Subantarctic and Polar Fronts crossing the Malvina's Plateau and got a high grade. Working with these students on their first hands-on research projects was awesome. I invite you all to check their work in the Mentoring section. On the more senior side, Ph.D. student Verónica Caínzos published her first article as the first author in Geophysical Research Letters. She has taken all the available Go-Ship repeated hydrographic sections at the Atlantic to infer the state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in the last 30 years. A super interesting work using inverse box models to estimate transport, heat, and freshwater. Following closely, Ph.D. student Cristina Arumí also published her first work on the AMOC in the Pacific Ocean. They all deserve a big congratulation. I invite you all to check their work in the Publications section. We had the VII Expanding Ocean Frontiers conference and Lynne Talley visited the SAGA research group. Prospectives for this academic year, 240 hours of teaching for Engineering Degrees, Marine Science Degree, and Master and Ph.D. Programs in Oceanography and a Master's Degree Project. Scientifically, a lot of exciting things for this year, including deploying Gliders, a cruise on the Denmark Strait, interdisciplinary and international collaborations, and organizing a meeting. So stay put and, reserve May 10-12 for the Arctic and Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Meeting that will take place in Gran Canaria
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