At the Earth Festival held at the Budapest Zoo, the MTA ATK Institute of Soil Sciences and the Hungarian Soil Science Society were represented together in 2019, in accordance with the traditions of previous years.
A report on a remote conference, its location, the capital Santiago and its surroundings. Picture summary of work in the desert-high mountain environment – results, pitfalls, future plans.
Éva Lehoczky, scientific advisor, doctor of the MTA and Gergely Tóth scientific advisor, doctor of the MTA, were elected as members of the General Assembly of the members of the Scientific Committee for Soil Science, Water Management and Crop Production of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the MTA.
Dendrochronology is a scientific research method that goes beyond simple tree ring calculations, with which, in addition to the dating possibilities provided by tree ring databases, many environmental information can also be collected and analysed.
Brigitta Tóth, senior research fellow at the Institute of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry of MTA ATK, received the Academic Youth Award from László Lovász, President of the MTA, on 7 February 2019 at the Academy's Headquarters.
András Makó, senior research fellow at the Institute of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry of MTA ATK, successfully defended his grand doctoral thesis.
Our colleague János Mészáros will be conducting field measurements in Chile between 28 December 2018 and 15 February 2019 as part of the Hungarian Dry Andean Research Programme.
