Ph.D. Franz Philip Tuchen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, NOAA/AOML, Miami, USA: "Atlantic Tropical Instability Waves: multidecadal trends and variability during extreme warm events"
Dr. Ingo Richter, Application Laboratory (APL) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan: "Revisiting the inconsistent relation between ENSO and the tropical Atlantic"
Yusuke Terada, University of Tokyo, Japan: "Interannual variation of the intraseasonal variability at 1000m depth in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean"