Szabó Brigitta (Tóth Brigitta)
Department
Department of Soil Physics and Water Management
Post, title
senior scientist
Professional experiences
soil science, soil physics, soil hydrology, prediction of soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity, pedotransfer functions, data mining, mapping soil hydraulic properties
TEACHING
- 2014-2017:
- Soil science: lecture, seminars and laboratory exercises (HU and EN)
- Soil protection: lecture and laboratory exercises (HU)
- Soil and water in rangeland systems: lecture and laboratory exercises (EN)
- Soil physics module of Irrigated crop production: lecture and seminars (HU and EN)
MEMBERSHIP
- 2004 - Hungarian Soil Science Society, member
- 2015 - Hungarian Soil Science Society, Soil Physics Section, secretary
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Szabó, B., Weynants, M., and Weber, T. K. D. 2021. Updated European hydraulic pedotransfer functions with communicated uncertainties in the predicted variables (euptfv2), Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 151–175.
- Su, Z.; Zeng, Y.; Romano, N.; Manfreda, S.; Francés, F.; Ben Dor, E.; Szabó, B.; Vico, G.; Nasta, P.; Zhuang, R.; Francos, N.; Mészáros, J.; Dal Sasso, S.F.; Bassiouni, M.; Zhang, L.; Rwasoka, D.T.; Retsios, B.; Yu, L.; Blatchford, M.L.; Mannaerts, C. 2020. An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources. Water, 12, 1495.
- Tóth, G., Kismányoky, T., Kassai, P., Hermann, T., Fernandez-Ugalde, O., Szabó, B. 2020. Farming by soil in Europe: status and outlook of cropping systems under different pedoclimatic conditions. PeerJ 8:e8984.
- Alaoui, A., Barão, L., Ferreira, C.S.S., Schwilch, G., Basch, G., Garcia-Orenes, F., Morugan, A., Mataix-Solera, J., Kosmas, C., Glavan, M., Szabó, B., Hermann, T., Vizitiu, O.P., Lipiec, J., Frąc, M., Reintam, E., Xu, M., Di, J., Fan, H., Sukkel, W., Lemesle, J., Geissen, V. & Fleskens, L. 2020. Visual Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Management Practices on Soil Quality. Agronomy Journal, 112, 2608–2623.
- Szabó, B., Szatmári, G., Takács, K., Laborczi, A., Makó, A., Rajkai, K., and Pásztor, L. 2019. Mapping soil hydraulic properties using random forest based pedotransfer functions and geostatistics. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 23, 2615–2635.
- Manfreda, S., McCabe, M.F., Miller, P.E., Lucas, R., Pajuelo Madrigal, V., Mallinis, G., Ben Dor, E., Helman, D., Estes, L., Ciraolo, G., Müllerová, J., Tauro, F., de Lima, M.I., de Lima, J.L.M.P., Maltese, A., Frances, F., Caylor, K., Kohv, M., Perks, M., Ruiz-Pérez, G., Su, Z., Vico, G., Tóth, B. 2018. On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring. Remote Sensing 10: 641.
- Van Looy, K., Bouma, J., Herbst, M., Koestel, J., Minasny, B., Mishra, U., Montzka, C., Nemes, A., Pachepsky, Y., Padarian, J., Schaap, M., Tóth, B., Verhoef, A., Vanderborght, J., van der Ploeg, M., Weihermüller, L., Zacharias, S., Zhang, Y., Vereecken, H. 2017. Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives. Reviews of Geophysics, 55:1199-1256.
- Makó, A., Weynants, M., Rajkai, K., Hermann, T., Tóth, G., Tóth, B. 2017. Pedotransfer functions for converting laser diffraction particle-size data to conventional ones. European Journal of Soil Science. 68: 769–782.
- Tóth, B., Weynants, M., Pásztor, L., Hengl, T. 2017. 3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 250 m resolution. Hydrological Processes. 31:2662–2666. EU-SoilHydroGrids download
- Pachepsky, Y., Rajkai, K., Tóth, B. 2015. Pedotransfer in soil physics: trends and outlook. Agrokémia és Talajtan. 64. 2. 339-360.
- Tóth, B., Weynants, M., Nemes, A., Makó, A., Bilas, G. and Tóth, G. 2015. New generation of hydraulic pedotransfer functions for Europe. European Journal of Soil Science. 66: 226–238.
- Tóth, B., Makó, A., Guadagnini, A., Tóth, G. 2012. Water retention of salt affected soils: quantitative estimation using soil survey information. Arid Land Research and Management, 26. 103-121.
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
Publications
Education
2005 – MSc in environmental management in agriculture
2011 – PhD in agricultural sciences, soil physics