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18 December 2018: The call for the “Training School 3: The Messinian Salinity Crisis from a fieldwork perspective” is now open (deadline 15 January 2019)

27-28-29 November 2018: MEDSALT Action presented at the Annual Congress of the Academia Europaea and the young Academy of Europe (Barcelona)

5 November 2018: The call for the Fifth MEDSALT Short Term Scientific Mission is now open (deadline 30 November)

9-10 October 2018: 4th MEDSALT Management Committee Meeting and Working Group meeting in Belgrade

4 May 2018: Open letter on behalf of MEDSALT network (English version) – Comunicado en nombre de la red de científicos europeos (MEDSALT) (Spanish version)

3 May 2018: Medsalt-2 solicitud 2018

27 April 2018: The call for the Fourth Short Term Scientific Mission is now open

9 April 2018: COST Actions in Geosciences at EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna

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SALTGIANT Event Trieste 17 June 2019 – 26 June 2019

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Training School 1: Seismic interpretation applied to salt basins in different geodynamic settings (Cyprus, September 2017)

Gypsum crust from the bottom of a shallow saltern pond (200 g l−1 salinity) in Eilat, Israel, showing layered communities of phototrophic microbes. The orange-brown upper layer is dominated by unicellular cyanobacteria and the green layer by filamentous cyanobacteria; and the red-purple layer contains a dense community of purple sulfur bacteria (e.g. Halochromatium spp.) that oxidize sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria present in the lower grey layer, © Andreas Thywißen. (For more details see: McGenity TJ & Oren A (2012) Hypersaline environments. In Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival. EM Bell (ed.) CAB International, UK. pp. 402-437)

The red pond on the left is saturated with NaCl, and has a visible halite crust. The mound of harvested salt is about 2.5 m high, © Rafael Bosch. (For more details see: McGenity TJ & Oren A (2012) Hypersaline environments. In Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival. EM Bell (ed.) CAB International, UK. pp. 402-437)

Microscopic image from a natural hypersaline brine (salinity > 200 g l−1). Based on distinctive morphologies the following can be identified: the eukaryotic green alga Dunaliella salina living alongside the haloarchaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi (flat square with gas vesicles; numerous cells are dividing like a sheet of postage stamps). A rod-shaped microbe can also be seen, © Mike Dyall-Smith. (For more details see: McGenity TJ & Oren A (2012) Hypersaline environments. In Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival. EM Bell (ed.) CAB International, UK. pp. 402-437)

Scanning electron micrograph of Halococcus salifodinae strain BIp, isolated from a salt mine in Austria, © Gerhard Wanner. (For more details see: McGenity TJ & Oren A (2012) Hypersaline environments. In Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival. EM Bell (ed.) CAB International, UK. pp. 402-437)

Laboratory-made crystals of NaCl encasing the haloarchaeon, Halorubrum saccharovorum. The cloudiness of the halite (NaCl) crystals is due to the large number of brine inclusions. Each crystal is ca. 1 cm square, © Terry J. McGenity. (For more details see: McGenity TJ & Oren A (2012) Hypersaline environments. In Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival. EM Bell (ed.) CAB International, UK. pp. 402-437)

Medsalt OGS Explora Cuise, Baleares July 2015 (credits Angelo Camerlenghi)

Sampling intercalated clays within the Sorbas (SE. Spain) Messinian peripheral primary gypsum Popescu-Suc (credits Marcello Natalicchio)

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