Maria Cintia is Meteorologist from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and PhD in Oceanography from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. She is Professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad Nacional del Sur and Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She is currently the General Secretary of Science and Technology, Universidad Nacional del Sur. For 11 years she was director of the Argentine Institute of Oceanography (IADO). She has published extensively on the subject of ocean-atmosphere interaction, climate variability and its effects on lakes, estuarine circulation and dynamics, among others.