12/n Yesterday I shared the very beginning of it, today, let's talk about where it was when I started my research on these as a postdoc at @mit_eaps in 2006 #sharehdr 13/n A lot was still unknown about the Eighteen Degree Water at this time: quantifying the layer and understanding its driving mechanisms were at the heart of the CLIMODE project #sharehdr

6/n I'll start the defense by the very beginning of it (should I ?), and like for many oceanographic studies, it all started seriously with the 1872-1876 Challenger Expedition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge… #sharehdr 7/n In 1873, going from St Thomas to Bermuda up to Halifax, they collected these amazing deep temperature data: between 100 and 300m depths, the ocean temperature is nearly homogeneous from station 52 to station 25, i.e. over 1000km centered near Bermuda #sharehdr

1/n Dear colleagues, on Nov. 27th I will defend what we call in France a "HdR". Wikipedia says it's "a qualification required in order to conduct self-contained university teaching", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitat… #sharehdr 2/n ... adding: "The degree is conferred for a habilitation thesis […], which was reviewed by and successfully defended before an academic committee", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitat… #sharehdr