SÁNDOR KELE

PhD

research fellow

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1427

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: keles@geochem.hu

room:  1020

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

- 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: 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-)

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)

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

- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Award

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

Sierralta, M.,  Kele, S., Melcher, F., Hambach,  U., Reinders, J., van Geldern, R., Frechen, M., 2009 Characterisation and Uranium-series dating of Travertine from Süttő in Hungary. – Quaternary International (corrected manuscript), 2009

Özkul M, Kele S., Gökgöz A, Fórizs I, Alçiçek M C „Geochemical comparison of different travertine localities in the Denizli extensional basin, Western Turkey” (Denizli Havzası’nda (Batı Türkiye) Farklı Traverten Sahalarının Jeokimyasal Karşılaştırılması). 62^th Geological Congress of Türkiye, Abstract series, 13-17 April 2009

Kele, S. 2009 Tajvan szigetének hévforrás tevékenysége, geotermikus potenciálja és karbonátos lerakódásai. – Hidrológiai Közlöny, március-április, 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. Az édesvízi mészkövek titkai. Egerszalóktól Pamukkaléig. – Élet és Tudomány, LXIII. Évfolyam, 25. szám, pp. 784-787. 2008

Kele, S., Demény, A., Mehmet, Ö., Ali, G., Alçiçek, M. C., Siklósy, Z., Fórizs, I. Non-equilibrium fractionations during travertine deposition, or a new equilibrium line? – European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, Vienna, 13-18 April, 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, 1-31 (2006)

Kele, S., Moors, H., Van Geet, M., De Craen, M., Valkiers, S., Varlam, M. (2005) Geochemical investigations of the dissolved gases in the Boom Clay pore water.  UFZ-Report 02/2005 (Eds: G. Strauch, Stephan M. Weise), VIII Isotope Workshop, Extended Abstract Volume (ISSN 0948-9452), 70-72. (2005)

Kele, S., Korpás, L., Kovács-Pálffy, P., Lantos, M. (2004) Sedimentology, mineralogy, lake evolution and chronology of the Quaternary Tata thermal lacustrine travertine (Hungary). - „Topical issues of the research of Middle Palaeolithic period in Central Europe”, Tudományos füzetek (ISSN 0866-2908), 12:33-51  (2004)

 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; 161-175. (2003)

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