Two young colleagues from our institute have been honored with the Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award

Two young colleagues from our institute have been honored with the Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award.

The Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award is a distinction managed by the X. Section of Earth Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This biennial award recognizes the published scientific research results led by young researchers.

This year, the Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award was among others presented to two young researchers from the HUN-REN Institute of Geophysics and Space Science: Dániel Kalmár and Levente Patkó.

In his award-winning research (https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC010937), Dániel Kalmár studied the structure of the lithosphere. The research analyzed data collected over two decades by hundreds of seismological stations in the Carpathian-Pannonian region. As a result of this work, which encompasses a vast amount of data, we now have a more accurate picture of the lithosphere’s thickness in the area and the location of discontinuities within it. The study compared images derived from S and P receiver functions with available seismic tomography and heat flow data, enabling more precise inferences about the lithosphere’s rheological properties than ever before.

Levente Patkó received the award for a geochemical case study from the Carpathian-Pannonian region (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2019.09.012), in which he and the group led by him examined the interactions between basaltic melts and mantle wall rocks in detail. The study describes how the composition of both the melt and the wall rock changes during their interaction, which also affects the geophysical properties of the upper mantle (e.g., electrical conductivity, seismic properties). The findings of this research extend well beyond regional significance, as basaltic melts occur and migrate at sub-crustal depths in many tectonic settings worldwide.