Participation of HUN-REN EPSS in the Researchers’ Night 2024 event

This year, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (EPSS) participated in the Researchers’ Night 2024 event with a rich programme both in Budapest and Sopron.

Researchers of the Kövesilgethy Radó Seismological Observatory welcomed the interested people together with the Sas-hegy visitor centre of the Danube-Ipoly National Park Administration. The visitors gained an insight into the physics of earthquakes, got to know some of the results of the earthquake research in Hungary, as well as the instruments of the Sas-hegy measuring station.
The description of this programme on the Researchers’ Night website (In Hungarian):
https://app.kutatokejszakaja.hu/esemenyek/duna-ipoly-nemzeti-park-igazgatosag/miert-hullamos-a-sas-hegy-gyomra

As a part of the programme organized by the EPSS in Sopron, the Zero Magnetic Field Lab (ZBL) has been opened for the visitors in the Széchenyi István Geophysical Observatory. In the institute’s building in Sopron, guests were treated to a guided exhibition presenting Loránd Eötvös’ oeuvre, a mini cinema showing educational short films in the field of geophysics, geology, and space sciences, a collection of rocks from the deep interior of the Earth, and a series of lectures on topics relevant to the institute’s research areas. Some activities of the institute related to plate tectonics, the deformations and degassing processes of the Earth’s crust, the space-borne assessment and observation of the earth’s surface and atmospheric electrical phenomena, and the origin of the aurora borealis have been presented.
Description of the programme in Sopron on the institute’s website:
epss.hun-ren.hu/en/kutatok-ejszakaja-2024/

Text by József Bór. Photos are courtesy of Veronika Barta, Kitti Berényi, Marietta Csatlós, Gábor Hatos, Thomas Lange, Anna Szlávy