Elena Bersan won the “Paolo Scandone” master thesis award, established by the Ordine dei Geologi della Regione Abruzzo e and the Maiella National Park

28.10.2021

Congratulations to Elena Bersan, former student of the Department of Geosciences and currently PhD student at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, who won the “Paolo Scandone” master thesis award, established by the Ordine dei Geologi della Regione Abruzzo e and the Maiella National Park.

Her work, entitled “Field and microstructural investigation of extensional faults in bituminous dolostones (Fornaca Valley, Central Apennines, Abruzzo)”, was supervised by Prof. Giulio Di Toro and co-supervised by Dr. Michele Fondriest.

The award is dedicated to the memory of prof. Paolo Scandone and is intended for theses dealing with the structural geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology or biostratigraphy of the territories of national parks or regional parks, as well as the UNESCO world Geoparks, on the Italian territory.

More information (in Italian): https://www.geologiabruzzo.it/