ZOLTÁN KERN

junior research fellow

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1106

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: kern@geochem.hu

room:  309

Main research interests

Environmental and climate change, biogeochemistry, dendroclimatology, environmental isotopes,

Quaternary research, geomorphology

- Geochemistry and Paleoclimate (G & P Research Group)

Curriculum vitae

Place and date of birth: Budapest, 1977

Qualification: Certified teacher of geography and mathematics, MSc (2001, Eötvös University)

Membership:

- Hungarian Friends of Minerals (1998- )

- European Geosciences Union, (student member 2006, regular member 2007-)

- Hungarian Geological Society (2007-)

- International Glaciological Society (2008- )

- Association for Tree-Ring Research (2008- )

Languange:

English: advanced (Oxford, First Certificate in English, 2001)

Russian: elementary (State Accredited Languange Examination, 2008)

Scholarship:

PhD student, (2003-2006) Eötvös Loránd University, Geography–Meteorology programme

Project participation:

- OTKA K67583 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2007-2011) Environmental history with annual resolution.

- CRO-04/2006 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2007-2009) Investigation of environmental change on karstic sites – with special attention to recent processes.

- RO-37/05 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2006-2007) Investigation of spatial and temporal variability of environmental change of the Carpathian Region during the past five centuries.

- SLO-13/05 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation), (2006-2007) Quaternary events in the western part of Pannonian Basin (Slovenia, Hungary).

- OTKA T43666 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2003-2006), Geological and paleoclimatological applications of dendrochronology.

Selected publications

(full list of publications)

Kern Z.; Fórizs I.; Perşoiu, A.; Nagy B. (elfogadva) Stable isotope study of water sources and of an ice core from the Borţig Ice Cave, Romania. Data of Glaciological Studies (Materialy Glyatsiologicheskikh Issledovaniy)

Kern, Z.; Molnár, M.; Svingor, É., Perşoiu, A.; Nagy, B. (in press) High resolution, well preserved tritium record in the ice of Borţig Ice Cave (Bihor Mountains, Romania). The Holocene

Popa, I; Kern, Z. (2008) Long-term temperature reconstruction inferred from tree-ring records from the Eastern Carpathians. Climate Dynamics doi: 10.1007/s00382-008-0439-x

Kern, Z.; Surányi, G.; Molnár, M., Nagy, B.; Balogh, D. (2007) Investigation of natural perennial ice deposits of Durmitor Mts, Montenegro. In: Zelinka, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ice Caves, Liptovský Mikuláš, pp.70-73.

Kern, Z.; Popa, I. (2007) Climate-growth relationship of tree species from a mixed stand of Apuseni Mts, Romania. Dendrochronologia 24/2-3 pp.109-115. doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2006.10.006

Kern, Z.; Fórizs, I.; Kázmér, M.; Nagy, B.; Szántó, Zs., Gál, A.; Palcsu, L.; Molnár, M. (2004) Late Holocene environmental changes recorded at Gheţarul de la Focul Viu, Bihor Mts, Romania. Theoretical and Applied Karstology 17 pp.51-60.