Dr. Marta Cosma, former PhD student at the Department of Geosciences, won the Early-Career Poster Award at the 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology

 

Dr. Marta Cosma, former PhD student at the Department of Geosciences, won the Early-Career Poster Award at the 35th IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) Meeting of Sedimentology.

Her work, entitled “Piracy-controlled geometry of tide-dominated point bars: Combined evidence from ancient sedimentary successions and modern channel networks”, focuses on the interaction between adjacent meandering channels in the lagoonal landscapes, to better understand how this process controls the development of tide-dominated point bars (i.e. accumulations of sediment in the inner part of a channel bend).

The research was carried out by Dr. Cosma during her PhD studies at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua and was supervised by prof. Massimiliano Ghinassi and by proff. Andrea D’Alpaos and Nigel Mountney (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds), supervisor and co-supervisors of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Cosma, respectively.