Participation at the “Groundwater, key to the sustainable development goals” conference in Paris

The international conference “Groundwater, key to the sustainable development goals” was held between May 18 and 20, 2022, at Sorbonne University, in Paris. It was organized by the French Hydrogeology Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH-CFH) and the French National Commission for UNESCO. The purpose of the conference …

Members of the Hydrogeology Chair attended EGU General Assembly 2022

The EGU General Assembly 2022, the first hybrid EGU meeting, was a great success, with 12,332 presentations in 791 sessions. A total of 7,315 participants from 89 countries attended the conference in person in Vienna and 7,002 participants from 116 countries followed the sessions via online.  The conference was held …

195th General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Lecture session with the participation of the Chair on the occasion of the International Year of Caves and Karst

In connection with the 195th General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on May 19, 2022, a scientific session was held in the Great Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the occasion of the International Year of Caves and Karst.  On behalf of the Chair, two of …

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. …