Discover the SALTGIANT ETN, a four year European project initiated in 2018 and dedicated to understand one of the largest salt deposits on Earth.
SALTGIANT is a rare cross-disciplinary network of natural and social scientists dedicated to understanding the formation of the Mediterranean Salt Giant, one of the largest salt deposits on Earth, and its implications for sub-seafloor microbial life, risk assessment in the oil industry, geo-economics of the Mediterranean region and the history of oceanography.
SALTGIANT contributes to respond to the growing demand for a new generation of scientists working in the interface between the natural and social sciences.
SALTGIANT brings together 24 academic organizations (13 beneficiaries, 11 partners), 6 private sector Oil&Gas companies, 2 mining sector companies, 1 biotechnology company, 1 geopolitics think tank, 1 museum and 1 specialist in transferable skills training from 11 countries to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectorial knowledge exchange between geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, microbiologist, geographers and historians in a network with PhD students at its core.
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SaltGiant Short Course in Salamanca (November, 25th to 29th 2019)
Modern and ancient oceans short course in Salamanca was organized by local host Dr. Francisco J. Sierro from the University of Salamanca (USAL) with the help of his PhD students (Lucía Alonso Azibeiro and Francesca Bulian) and IPGP management team. Photos by Jimmy...
The Saltgiant short course in Utrecht (7-10 October 2019)
From October, 7th to 10th 2019, the SALTGIANT Short Course « Numerical Modeling in Earth Sciences » was hosted by the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, Netherlands. This short course was dedicated to the SALTGIANT ESRs but also hosted 4 external ESRs selected for the...