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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