During the 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (AJG), held in Tunisia, Hammamet, from 11 to 15 November 2018, the paper "Geochemical and isotopic marks for tracing groundwater salinization: Santiago Island, Republic of Cape Verde, case study" by Paula Carreira, António Lobo De Pina, Alberto Mota Gomes, José Marques, and Fernando Monteiro Santos, received the Springer's Best Paper Award for the Track 6: Hydrology, hydrogeology, hydrochemistry" of the AJG Conference.