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 brings together 30 academic organizations (13 beneficiaries, 17 partners), 6 private sector Oil&Gas companies, 2 mining sector companies, 1 biotechnology company, 1 geotechnical institute, 1 museum and 1 specialist in transferable skills training from 12 countries to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectorial knowledge exchange between geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, microbiologist, geographers and historians in a network with 15 PhD students at its core.
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SaltGiant Field course “Dead Sea and hyper saline environment” in Israel (November, 21st to 25th 2021)
By Jimmy Moneron (ESR 11) and Ido Sirota (GSI) With sporadic waves of Covid pandemics, the Dead Field Course was uncertain to be held and has been postponed several times, it finally happened during a short lull in the end of 2021. A bit less than half of the ESR and...
SaltGiant Field course “Drilling Training School” in Sorbas (October, 25th to 31st 2021)
By Fadl Raad (ESR 3) and Hanneke Heida (ESR 2) After years of preparation, setbacks and changes to the plan, the last week of October saw a gathering of 26 participants and organizers to possibly the most ambitious SaltGiant trip to date: the drilling training school...