A fundamental concern of the Geoverbund ABC/J is to support early-career scientists. Doing so, for the ninth time the Geoverbund ABC/J Young Academics Award was granted for outstanding, innovative, and interdisciplinary research in the field of geosciences, including geography.
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Dr. Melanie Bartz with her PhD supervisor Prof. Dr. H. Brückner |
This year’s second prize went to Dr. Melanie Bartz (Institute of Geography; University of Cologne – supervisor Prof. Dr. H. Brückner) for her PhD thesis, entitled “Quaternary fluvial environments in NE Morocco inferred from geochronological and sedimentological investigations”, which was embedded in the C02 project of the second phase of the CRC 806.