vPICO award to Mathia Sabino
21. September 2021, von Tom Jaeppinen
The European Geosciences Union (EGU), the leading organization for Earth, planetary and space research in Europe, brings together every year geoscientist from all over the world to discuss new research developments. Special awards and medals are offered by the Union to recognize scientists for outstanding contributions in Earth, planetary and space sciences. Among them, the Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) award recognizes early career researchers for exceptional poster or PICO (Presenting Interactive COntent) presentations. During the latest edition (OSPP Awards 2021), Mathia Sabino was selected as one of the awardees. Dr. Sabino recently completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Earth System Sciences at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include the reconstruction of environmental conditions typifying the deposition of pluri-kilometre-wide and kilometre-thick accumulations of salts and siliciclastic rocks, i.e. Salt Giants. The virtual PICO presentation for which Dr. Sabino was awarded dealt with parts of his doctoral studies, focusing on the reconstruction of the climate and water column conditions along the northern margin of the Mediterranean Basin during the late Miocene, about 6 million years ago. At that time, the youngest Salt Giant on Earth started to be deposited in the Mediterranean Basin, during the paleoceanographic event known as ‘Messinian salinity crisis’.