SÁNDOR KELE

PhD

senior research fellow

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1371

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: keles@geochem.hu

room:  222

Main research interest

High level radioactive waste disposal, pore water geochemistry

Stable isotope geochemistry with special attention to: freshwater limestones, carbonate veins (vein-fills), paleoclimatology

Stable isotope geochemical study of tree rings

- Geochemistry and Paleoclimate (G & P Research Group)

Curriculum vitae

Place and date of birth: Nagykanizsa, 1979

Employment: 2003-: MTA Laboratory for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest

Current position: senior research fellow

Education:

- 2003: PhD. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. The title of the dissertation: "Investigations on freshwater limestones from the Carpathian-Basin: palaeoclimatological and sedimentological studies"

- 2003: Master of sciences (M.Sc.), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Dissertation topic: Stable isotope investigations on the Budakalász freshwater limestone. Supervisor: Dr. Csaba Szabó

- 2003-: PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest. Dissertation topic: Investigations on travertines from the Pannonina-Basin: paleoclimatological and sedimentological studies. Supervisor:  Dr. Csaba Szabó, Dr. Attila Demény

Membership in scientific organisations:

- Member of the Hungarian Geological Society (1997-)

- Member of the European Society for Isotope Research (2004-)

- Member of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (2005-)

- Member of the European Geosciences Union (2008-)

Public activity:

- 2003-   Member of the organization of the ECROFI XVII. (European Current Research On Fluid Inclusions)

- 2004-   Member of the organization of the IAS course called „Climatic and tectonis controls on travertine formation: the case of the Pannonian Basin.”

- Member of revision committe of the European Society for Isotope Research (2007-)

- Hungarian Hydrological Society (2010-)

- European Society for Isotope Research, secretary (2010-)

Research projects:

- OTKA K67583 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2007-2010) Environmental history with annual resolution. participate researcher (Project leader: Miklós Kázmér)

- TR-10/2006 Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2007-2009). Stable isotopic studies on travertines and thermal waters for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction: A comparative study on the genesis of occurrences in Turkey and Hungary. (Project leader)

- OTKA 81296 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2010-1014) Comparative study of the Upper Permian and Triassic dolomites of the Transdanubian Range and interpretation of their origin  (Project leader: Haas János)

Awards:

- 2001. Hungarian Paleontological Regional Meeting: 3rd place in the poster session

- 2002. Erasmus scholarship

- 2002 . Scienthific Conference of Students at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,Hungary: 2nd price

- 2003. National Scienthific Conference of Students, Miskolc, Hungary:

Sedimentology section: 1st place

Paleontology section: 1st place

- 2002/2003. Distinguished Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

- 2002/2003. Grant of the Pro Renovanda Culturae Hungariae Foundation

- 2004 XXXIV. Meeting of Young Geologists, 3rd place

- 2004 Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board

- 2005 European Society for Isotope Research (ESIR) VIII. Workshop: Poster Price for Young Scientists

- 2009 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Award

- 2010 Central European Geology, Best Paper Award for Young Researchers

Scholarships:

- 2002.january-february: un corso di lingua italiana per stranieri, Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, Firenze, Italy – (Intensive Language Preparation Course by the Erasmus Program of the European Committee)

- 2002. january-june: 5 months Erasmus scholarship at the University of Florence, Department of Earth Sciences, Firenze, Italy

- 2004-2005 10 months scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board, Belgium, Mol, SCK-CEN research institute

- 2004. november– 2005. april: 5 months scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board, Belgium, Mol, SCK∙CEN research institute

- 2005. august – 2005. december: 5 months scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board, Belgium, Mol, SCK∙CEN research institute

- 2007-2008: Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, bilateral cooperation (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Selected publications

reprints: keles (at) geochem hu

Fórizs, I., Gökgöz, A., Kele, S., Özkul, M., Deák, J., Baykara,M.O., Alçiçek, M.C. (2011): Comparison of the isotope hydrogeological features of thermal and cold karstic waters in the Denizli Basin (Turkey) and Buda Thermal Karst (Hungary). – Central European Geology, vol. 54/1., DOI: 10.1556/CEuGeol.54.2011.1.1 

Deák, J., Kele, S., Fórizs, I., Demény, A., Scheuer, Gy. (2011): Calculation of temperature and d¹⁸O of depositing water by measured d¹⁸O of recent travertines deposited from the Budapest thermal karst water. – Central European Geology, Vol. 54/1., DOI:10.1556/CEuGeol.54.2011.1.1. 

Kele S,  Özkul M, Gökgöz A, Fórizs I, Baykara MO, Alçiçek MC, Németh T (2011) Stable isotope geochemical and facies study of Pamukkale travertines: New evidences of low-temperature non-equilibrium calcite-water fractionation. – Sedimentary Geology, 238, pp. 191-212., 2011 

Kele S, Scheuer Gy, Demény A, Shen C-C, Hong-Wei, C. (2011): A Rózsadomb (Budapest) édesvízi mészköveinek U/Th sorozatos kormeghatározása és stabilizotóp-geokémiai vizsgálata, Földtani Közlöny, 141/2, 445-468, 2011 

Demény A, Kele S, Siklósy Z (2010): Empirical equations for the temperature dependence of calcite-water oxygen isotope fractionation from 10 to 70 degrees C., Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24, pp. 3521-3526, 2010

Sierralta, M., Kele, S., Melcher, F., Hambach, U., Reinders, J., van Geldern, R., Frechen, M. (2010): Characterisation and Uranium-series dating of Travertine from Süttő in Hungary., Quaternary International, 222, 178-193, 2010

Kele, S, Scheuer, Gy, Demény, A, Shen, C-C, Hong-Wei, C. (2009): U-series dating and isotope geochemical study of the Gellért Hill (Budapest) travertine., Central European Geology, 52:3-4, pp. 199-224, 2009 

Kele, S., Demény, A., Siklósy, Z., Németh, T., Tóth, M., B. Kovács, M., (2008) Chemical and stable isotope composition of recent hot-water travertines and associated thermal waters, from Egerszalók, Hungary: Depositional facies and non-equilibrium fractionation. – Sedimentary Geology, 211, pp. 53-72., 2008  

Kele, S., Korpás, L., Demény, A., Kovács-Pálffy, P., Bajnóczi, B., Medzihradszky, Zs. (2006) Paleoenvironmental evaluation of the Tata Travertine Complex (Hungary), based on stable isotopic and petrographic studies. - Acta Geologica Hungarica Vol. 49:1, pp. 1-31., 2006  

 Kele, S., Vaselli, O., Szabó, Cs., Minissale, A. (2003): Stable isotope geochemistry of Pleistocene travertine from Budakalász (Buda Mts., Hungary). - Acta Geologica Hungarica Vol. 46:2; pp. 161-175., 2003

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