IMO postdoctoral researchers Dr. Deborah Steele and Dr. Anthony Bertagnolli were awarded Fondecyt Postdoctoral Projects 2016 to develop their proposals "The physiological state of phytoplankton: quantitification of allomers under different oceanographic and experimental conditions as a tool to improve satellite biomass and primary production estimates in the eastern South Pacific" and "Thaumarchaeal ecophysiology amid seasonal de-oxygenation along the central Chilean coast," respectively.

Dr. Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño was awarded a Fondecyt Project for Research Initiation with his proposal entitled: Spatial shifts in the trophic function of the mesozooplankton in the Eastern South Pacific foodweb."