IAMG 2011 Travel Grant Award for Sanaz Salati
Sanaz Salati, PhD student at the department of Earth Systems Analysis, received the 2011 travel grant award from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences to attend and give a presentation at the IAMG 2011 Annual Conference at Salzburg.
Sanaz Salati works with Professor Freek van der Meer and Dr. Frank van Ruitenbeek at ITC for her PhD degree. Her PhD research focuses on mapping alterations induced by hydrocarbon seeps using combined methods of geochemistry, field spectroscopy and hyperspectral remote sensing. Her presentation at the IAMG 2011 conference was titled “Quantifying analysis of spatial associations of hydrocarbon Seeps with geological features”.
The IAMG 2011 travel grant award, with an amount of USD 1000 was awarded to her based on the academic quality of her scheduled presentation and her registration as an IAMG member. Sanaz is active in the IAMG student chapter at ITC (ISCI).