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"

Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA: "The Indian Ocean and its Role in Regional Climate – From Obscurity to Centre Stage"

Dr. Hans van Haren, Senior Scientist NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research: "Deep-ocean internal wave turbulence observations using a kilometer-long thermistor string"

Dr. Ebenezer Nyadjro, Mississippi State University/ NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi : "Satellite observations of salinity variability in the Atlantic and Indian

Maurice Huguenin, 
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia: "Drivers and distribution of global ocean heat uptake over the last half century"

Dr. Andrew Pauling, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: "The Impact of Antarctic Meltwater on Sea Ice and Climate"

Dr. Annika Reintges, University of Reading, Meteorology Department: "Subpolar North Atlantic mean state influences the response of the AMOC to the NAO"

Dr. Jérôme Vialard, Laboratoire d'Océanographie, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France: "Atmospheric nonlinearities and ENSO & CLIVAR working group on ENSO conceptual models"