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 …
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 …
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 …
On the occasion of the World Water Day, Márk Szijártó from the József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeological Chair and Fundation was featured on Novum TV on 21 March 2022. Márk spoke about the vital role of the groundwater in our daily lives, as it is the source of much …
On February 3, 2022, Márk Szijártó, a colleague of the József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeology Chair, defended his doctoral thesis. The title of his doctoral dissertation is “Basin-scale numerical investigation of subsurface water flow and heat transport processes”, which he successfully defended and was awarded ‘summa cum laude’ by …
