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(in alphabetical order by first name)

• Alexandra Gronholz (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: To investigate the variability of the meridional overturning circulation in the South Atlantic and its link to the eddy processes using the Modular Ocean Model version 6
  Institution: Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies and NOAA AOML, USA
  Funding: NOAA Climate Program Office
  Advisor: Shenfu Dong


• Bruno Castaldi (Ph.D. Student)
  Topic: Connections between Agulhas Leakage and the South America's Climate - a study using a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model
  Institution: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto Oceanografico (IOUSP), Brazil
  Funding: Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil
  Advisor: Edmo J.D. Campos


• Daniel Valla (Ph.D. Student)
  Topic: To determine the contribution of variations in the water mass composition to the variability of volume transport of the South Atlantic western boundary current from hydrographic sections
  Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires and Servicio de Hidrografia Naval, Argentina
  Funding: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina
  Advisor: Alberto Piola


• Fabricio Oliveira (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: To investigate the impact of the Agulhas leakage on the meridional heat transport and meridional overturning circulation variability of the South Atlantic and its coastal western regions
  Institution: Instituto Oceanografico-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil
  Funding: Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil
  Advisor: Edmo J.D. Campos


• Karen Guihou (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: Dynamical links between Large Marine Ecosystems around southern South America
  Institution: Servicio de Hidrografia Naval, Argentina
  Funding: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas and Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Argentina
  Advisor: Alberto Piola, Elbio Palma and Maria Paz Chidichimo


• Marion Kersale (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: To investigate South Atlantic - North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation linkages using trans-basin AMOC observational networks at 26.5N and 34.5S
  Institution: Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies and NOAA AOML, USA
  Funding: NOAA Climate Program Office
  Advisor: Christopher S. Meinen, Renellys C. Perez, Matthieu Le Henaff


• Matheus V. Cortezi (Ph.D. Student)
  Topic: Investigating the variability of subtropical mode water in the southwestern Atlantic from PIES data
  Institution: Oceanographic Institute of the University of Sao Paulo
  Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
  Advisor: Olga Sato


• Paola Castellano (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: Study the impact of the increase transport in the Agulhas leakage on the circulation of the Tropical Atlantic and the inter-hemispheric exchange of mass
  Institution: Laboratorio de Modelagem Numerica, Instituto Oceanografico-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil.
  Funding: Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil
  Advisor: Edmo J.D. Campos


• Sudip Majumder (Postdoctoral Investigator)
  Topic: The interannual variability of the Brazil Current
  Institution: Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies and NOAA AOML, USA
  Funding: National Science Foundation, USA
  Advisor: Marlos Goes


• Wlademir Jose de Santis Junior (Ph.D. Student)
  Topic: To Investigate the mechanisms of how the Indonesian Throughflow may control the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a coupled model
  Institution: Instituto Oceanografico-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil.
  Funding: Concelho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil
  Advisor: Edmo J.D. Campos