Marco Viaretti PhD student of the 37 cycle has been selected for one of the two 2022 SPI scholarship for early-career paleontologists (PhD students and Post-Doc researchers), an award of the Italian Paleontological Society (SPI), for a project entitled “Seasonal seawater pH variations in the Late Paleozoic – Boron isotopes from brachiopod shells as a paleo-proxy”. The award carries a monetary value of €2,000 to be used to support the research at the St. Andrews Isotope Geochemistry (STAiG) laboratory facilities of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK in collaboration with Dr. Hana Jurikova.