ZOLTÁN KERN

PhD

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

- Geochemistry and Paleoclimate (G & P Research Group)

Curriculum vitae

Place and date of birth: Budapest, 1977

Qualification:

- 2001 Certified teacher of geography and mathematics, MSc (2001, Eötvös University); Title of the Thesis: Carpathian caves hiding perennial ice

- 2010 PhD degree, Earth Sciences-Physical Geography (Eötvös University); Title of the Dissertation: Climate and environmental changes reconstructed from tree rings and cave ice.

Membership:

- Hungarian Friends of Minerals (1997-2004)

- 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

Honours and Awards:

- 2010 Youth Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Project participation:

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

- CN-48/2007 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2009-2010) Rates of soil development and erosion – an annual resolution study

- 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.; László, P. (2010) Size specific steady-state accumulation-area ratio: an improvement for equilibrium-line estimation of small palaeoglaciers. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 2782-2788 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.033

Kern, Z.; Grynaeus, A.; Morgós, A. (2009) Reconstructed precipitation for Southern Bakony Mountains (Transdanubia, Hungary) back to AD 1746 based on ring widths of oak trees. Időjárás 113/4: 299-314.

Kern Z.; Popa I.; Varga, Zs.; Széles, É. (2009) Degraded temperature sensitivity of a stone pine chronology explained by dendrochemical evidences. Dendrochronologia 27: pp.121-128. doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2009.06.005

Kern Z.; Molnár M.; Svingor, É., Perşoiu, A.; Nagy B. (2009) High resolution, well preserved tritium record in the ice of Borţig Ice Cave, Bihor Mountains, Romania. The Holocene 19 pp.729–736. doi:10.1177/0959683609105296

Popa, I; Kern, Z. (2009) Long-term summer temperature reconstruction inferred from tree-ring records from the Eastern Carpathians. Climate Dynamics 32. pp.1107-1117 doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0439-x