Continuing with the Seminar program, the latest thesis presentation was given last Friday, 1st March, by Airam Sarmiento Lezcano. He explained the research he had carried out to date on ""Vertical distribution and ETS activity of Cyclothone species in the meso- and bathypelagic zones of the North Atlantic Ocean". Further details on his study can be accessed via his Doycag page .

When the Taliarte seminars resumed on 12th April 2019, Alba González Vega was the second of the two thesis presenters and explained her research on "Impact of the hydrothermal emissions of the shallow submarine volcano Tagoro (El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain) on the physical-chemical and biological properties of the local marine environment” Further details on the content of her talk can be accessed via our Doycag website.

After some weeks break, the seminar program in Taliarte resumed on 12th April 2019: Verónica Caínzos Díaz talked to us about her study on “Decadal variability of the Global Conveyor Belt”. Further details on this thesis can be accessed via our Doycag website .

The second of the two PhD presentations delivered on 15th February fell to Nadia Burgoa Gregorio who talked about “Mass, nutrients and DOC transports in Canary Basin” (further information can be found .

Yesterday 15th February, it was the turn of Nerea Marrero Betancort to give her research presentations in front of an ample group of fellow Ph.D. students, teaching staff and other students at different levels in oceanographic studies. Nerea Marrero explained her work on "Processing and advanced analysis of remote sensing data for the study of climate change in water areas of the Macronesia” (more details can be read .

The second PhD presentation in Taliarte on 1st February was entitled"The relationship between respiration rates and ETS activity in fishes in relation to swimming activity", and given by Ione Medina Suárez. A summary of his line of research can be read .

Today, 1st February, two new presentations were given in the Taliarte campus as part of the 2019 IOCAG Seminar program for Ph.D. students. The first was delivered by Markel Gómez Letona who explained his work entitled: "Response of prokaryotic communities to deep-water upwelling". More information on his study can be read .

On 18th January, the periodic seminars in which Ph.D. students present their research work to colleagues and teaching staff resumed in the Marine Science and Technology Park in Taliarte. Adelina gave a talk on her thesis entitled "Development of rapid screening methodology of microalgae suitable for industrial production". A summary of her work can be read .

Last Friday, 29th November, guest speaker Dr Riccardo Farneti from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, gave the second and final of his two presentations in conjunction with the seminar program for PhD students. This was entitled "Simulated South Atlantic transports and their variability during 1958-2007: results, problems, challenges and future plans", after which he was pleased to answer questions put to him.

As programmed, on 6th March in Taliarte, Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams was able to deliver a very interesting presentation entitled "Measuring the large-scale ocean circulation: Variability, connectivity and new approaches", during which she highlighted some of the research work carried out in her latest campaigns, what she and her team thought might be the results of the activities undertaken and what information was in fact revealed at the end of the study. Once more, here is her summary.