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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
László Rybach, professor emeritus of ETH Zürich, honorary doctorate of ELTE, external member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences gave a lecture entitled “Use of shallow resources by geothermal heat pumps and the Swiss GHP success story” on May 5, 2022, by the invitation of the Chair. In connection with the …
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 …
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 …
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. …
The ISMAR11 (11th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge) international conference was held between April 11 and 15, 2022. The conference is organized every three years at different locations, this year it was held in Long Beach, California, USA. The Hydrogeology Chair was represented by Zsóka Szabó (PhD student) and …
