The habilitation lecture of Judit Mádl-Szőnyi

Professor Judit Mádl-Szőnyi held her online lecture related to the habilitation procedure on May 13, 2022, under the title “Water as a living space, ecosystems and groundwater“.   The members of the habilitation committee were Dr. Szabolcs Harangi Szabolcs, president, Dr. Enikő Magyari, Dr. Péter Szűcs, Dr. Dénes Lóczy, Dr. Ákos …

European Geothermal PhD Days and EASYGO project training week

Second-year PhD student Ábel Markó participated in the European Geothermal PhD Days (2022.04.27-2022.04.29) and the EASYGO project training week (2022.04.20-2022.04.26), with the support of the József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeology Chair.  The ‘European Geothermal PhD Days’ is the most important conference for PhD students dealing with the research in …

AAPG conference 2022

The first AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) conference organized in Hungary focused on the global energy transition: therefore, one of the sections dealt with the possible cooperation between geothermal energy utilization and the hydrocarbon industry. As a member of the conference’s organizing committee, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi (ELTE) served as a …

Radon and human environment

On April 21, 2022, MS Energy Solutions, the ELTE LRG research group and the Earth Physics and Space Research Institute organized an online conference entitled “Radon and the human environment“. Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive noble gas that is harmful to health and is a natural decay product of …

Ábel Markó won CDP Scholarship

PhD student Ábel Markó, member of the Hydrogeology Chair, won a scholarship for the realization of his doctoral research in the Cooperative Doctoral Programme announced by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in the summer of 2021. The CDP offers funding to those who, in addition to their doctoral …

Attila Meskó Award

Based on the recommendation of the Scientific Committee of the Association of Hungarian Geophysicists, the paper “Thermohaline convection in a homogeneous porous medium” by Márk Szijártó and Attila Galsa (Hungarian Geophysics, 61(4), pp. 177-190.) received the Attila Meskó Award for the outstanding Hungarian geophysical paper of the year in 2021. …

Students’ success at the 52nd Meeting of Young Scientists

The Meeting of Young Scientists is a conference organized by the Youth Committee of the Association of Hungarian Geophysicists and the Youth Committee of the Hungarian Geological Society, which was held this year in Orosháza-Gyopárosfürdő between March 25-26.  At the event, geologists and geophysicists under the age of 35 could …

Radio interview with Judit Mádl-Szőnyi on the occasion of World Water Day 2022

Judit Mádl-Szőnyi was invited to the Pátria Radio program, where she was asked by János Vasík on the occasion of World Water Day on March 22, 2022. In the conversation, among other things, the water supply of the Carpathian basin and the storage capacity of the aquifers were discussed. It is important …