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 …

TV interview by Márk Szijártó

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 …

Doctoral defense of Márk Szijártó

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 …

Awarded poster presentation at the ILP 2021 conference

Hana Ben Mahrez (PhD student at ELTE) participated in The International Lithosphere Program Task Force VI Sedimentary Basins conference that took place between 17 and 19 November 2021 in Rueil Malmaison, Paris, France. Hana had a poster presentation about the Decomposition of fluvio-deltaic sediments into hydro-stratigraphic units: seismic geomorphology and …

Participation in the World Geothermal Congress 2020+1

Ábel Markó (PhD student) participated in the on-site event of the World Geothermal Congress 2020+1, that took place in Reykjavík, Iceland between 24-27 October 2021. World Geothermal Congress is the world’s largest geothermal exhibition with over 2000 papers, organized by the International Geothermal Association in a hybrid format in 2021. Ábel presented two conference papers …

Obituary

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Erzsébet Tóth, one of the namesakes of the József and Erzsébet Tóth Hydrogeology Foundation, and beloved wife of the founder, Professor József Tóth. She passed away at the age of 88 on March 26th 2021 in Edmonton (Canada). She will be dearly missed. We will utilize and expand the generous donation of her and her husband according to their wishes to advance the science of hydrogeology to the best of our knowledge. May she rest in peace.

The Chair, Members of the Advisory Board, and the Staff of the József and Erzsébet Tóth Hydrogeology Foundation

Müller Imre

Müller Imre a híres „Regnum Marianum”-ban került közel a természethez. Alig 17 évesen, 1954-ben már gombászként új alfajt fedezett fel (Geastrum coronatum, varietas mülleri). 1956-ban Párizsban profi fényképésszé képezte magát. Párizsi szeminaristaként Pierre Theilhard de Chardin jezsuita paleontológus írásait olvasva „az értelmet kereső hit” vezérelte. 1964-1966 között misszionárius lett Afrikában. …