MÁRTA POLGÁRI

PhD

senior research fellow, departimental head

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1258

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: polgari@geochem.hu

room: 217

CURRICULUM VITAE

Address:

Pócsmegyer-Surány

Szegfű str. 25.

H-2017

Date and place of birth: Budapest, 4, October, 1956.

Personal data: married, two children

Tel: (36)-1-3193119/1258, (36)-1-3092600/1258 (office)

Telafax; (36)-1-3193145 (office)

Cellular: 06-209-284650

Tel: (36)-26-395323 (home)

Telefax; (36)-26-3961l 5 (home)

E-mail: polgari@sparc.core.hu

Citizenship: Hungarian

Languages: Hungarian, English

Profession: Geologist, Ph.D of Earth Sciences

Academic training: Faculty of Natural Science, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest

1975-1980  graduated with distinction as research geologist in 1980

Diploma work: Comparative Petrographic and Mineralogical Study of the Alluvium of the Maros and Körös Rivers – Budapest, 1980

Post-graduate training:

1981-1983 Doctor's thesis: Geochemical Study of the Úrkút Manganese Carbonate Ores and the Related Formations – József Attila University, Szeged

1983-1992 Candidate of geosciences (Ph. D., H.A.S., 1992) Thesis: Manganese geochemistry  reflected by black shale formation and diagenetic processes - Model of formation of the carbonatic manganese ore of Úrkút

Name and address of employer: Institute for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Budapest, Budaörsi str. 45.

H-1112

Hungary

Present position: senior research fellow

Research experiences:

during university years:

- sedimentary petrology

- laser spectroscopy of minerals

- canning electron microscopy of minerals

in the Laboratory for Geochemical Research:

- electron microprobe studies on various ores (manganese ores, bauxites, etc.)

- geochemistry of sedimentary manganese ore deoposits

- black shales

- natural zeolites

- geomicrobiology

- cathodoluminescence methods

Professional affiliation:

- member of the Hungarian Geological Society (1980-)

- secretary of the Hungarian National Committee of IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme) (1994-2000)

Awards:

1982 Prize of Youth given by the Hungarian Geological Society

1992 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation, 1^st Award

Participation in international research programmes:

IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme) Project No. 111. (Genesis of Manganese Ore Deposits) 1980-1985.

IGCP Project No. 226. (Correlation of Manganese Sedimentation to Paleoenvironments) 1986-1991.

IGCP Project No. 254. (Metalliferous Black Shales) l987-1992. as the leader of the Hungarian working group

IGCP Project No. 318. (Genesis and Correlation of Marine Polymetallic Oxides) 1992-1996 as the leader of the Hungarian working group

IGCP Project No. 357. (Organics and Mineral Deposits) 1993-1997.

IGCP Project No. 429. (Organics in Major Environmental Issues) 1998-2002. as the leader of the Hungarian working group

Study trips and field work in foreign countries:

1981. Sept. - Rumania, South Carpathian Mountains (one week) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies)

1982. Sept. - Czechoslovakia, Jurassic manganese indications (one week) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies)

1983. 10, Jun. – 10, Sept. - Canada, Quebec, Labrador Through, Schefferville, Sokoman Iron Formation,  manganese project

1987. Imini, Morocco (one week) field trip Imini manganese formation (sponsored by IGCP project No. 226. and the Soros Foundation)

1988. Jun. – North Corea  (two weeks) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies)

1988. Jul. - China, Beijing, ISOSRMD Symposium and field trip to Wafangzi Mn-formation (two weeks) (sponsored by IGCP project No. 254. and the Soros Foundation)

1989. Jul.- Aug. - U.S.A., Washington D.C. 28. International Geological Congress, and study trip (one month) at the USGS  and at the Universities of Cincinatti and Arizona and in Canada (Gold Valley) (sponsored by IGCP project No. 254., the Soros Foundation, and the Hungarian Geological Society)

1990. Sept. - Japan, Sapporo (three weeks), Cretaceous and recent Fe-Mn mineralization on the Hokkaido Island, field trip (as the guest of Univ. of Hokkaido)

1998. Aug. one week long study trip  (USGS) Menlo Park, California

2001. Jun-Jul. 5 weeks long study trip (USGS) Menlo Park, California, and fields of recent volcanic activity (Yellowstone National Park, Mono Lake, Sunset Crater)

2001. Oct. Greece, hydrothermal karst formations, Thassos

Scientific presentations on international conferences:

1981 Miskolc, 24^th Hungarian Conferenrence on Spectrography, "Laser Microspecroscopical Investigation of Garnets from the Alluvium of the Maros and Körös Rivers", Proceedings

1985 Cracow, Poland, XIII. Congress of the Carpatho-Balkan Geological Association, "Manganese Nodules from the Bakony Mts. Hungary"

1986 Lulea, Sweden, 7^th IAGOD Meeting, "Comparative Investigation on Ferromanganese Oxide Deposits from the Hungarian Jurassic" (co-authors: D.S.Cronan, A.Mindszenty, I.Dódony, A.Galácz), Abst: Terra Cognita, 1986, 6. 3. (sponsored by the Soros Foundation)

1987 Imini, Morocco, IGCP Project No. 226. Workshop, "The Influence of the Toarcian Oceanic Ánoxic Event in the Úrkút Basin, Bakony Mts., Hungary - a preliminary report" (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 226)

1987 Praha, Czechoslovakia, Jesenik, IGCP Project No. 254. Inaugular Meeting, " Hungarian Black Shale Formations - a preliminary report (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254)

1988 Pezinska Baba, Czechoslovakia, IGCP Project No. 254. Meeting, "The relationship between the Jurassic Manganese Carbonate Mineralization and the Associated Black Shales, Úrkút Basin,    Hungary" (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254)

1988 Beijing, China, IAS, ISOSRMD Symposium,"Geology and Geochemical Characteristics of the Oligocene Manganese Carbonate Indication, Hungary" (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 254)

1989 Pribram, Czechoslovakia, IGCP Project No. 254. Meeting, "Contribution to the Organo-Geochemical Study of the Black-Shale - Mn-Carbonate Sequence Úrkút, Hungary and Comparison to the  Mn-Carbonate Occurrences in Branisko Mts. E. Slovakia" (co-authors: B. Molak, É. Surova.) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254)

1989 Washington, U.S.A., 28^th International Geological Congress, "Stable Isotope Evidence for the Origin of the Úrkút Manganese Ore Deposit, Hungary" (co-authors: P.M. Okita, J.R. Hein) (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 254 and the Hungarian Geological Society)

1989 Úrkút, Magyarország, IGCP Project No. 226. Workshop, "Formation Mechanisms of the Úrkút Mn-Carbonate Ores - a possible hypothesis" (co-author: Z. Szabó)

1990 Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido University, "Geochemical features of Hungarian Mn ores and indications" (guest of Univ. of Hokkaido)

1994 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 10^th International Zeolite Conference, "Geoautoclave-type zeolitization in the Mecsek Mts., SW-Hungary" (co -authors: I. Fórizs, M. Tóth, Z. Máthé) (sponsored by the Hungarian Science Foundation -OTKA)

1998 Praha, Czech Republic, IGCP Project No. 429  Inaugural Meeting, „Preliminary report on the summary research of Jurassic black shale hosted Mn-mineralization, Úrkút Basin, Hungary  - The role of manganese in microbial life” (co-author: Kecskés M.) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 429)

1999 London, 5^th biennal SGA Meeting and the 10^th Quadrennial IAGOD Meeting (London) United Kingdom, 22-25 August 1999, „Environmental effects of Toarcian manganese ores, Úrkút, Hungary” (co-authors: Farkas J. Szabó Z) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 429 and the „Mecenatura” project of the OMFB)

1999 Vienna, Austria, MinWien99 Conference, „Contribution of Volcanic Vitreous (tuff) Material? New Aspect of Genesis of the Black Shale Hosted Jurassic Mn-carbonate Ore Formation, Úrkút Basin, Hungary”

2002 Bratislava, Slovak Republic,  CBGA XVII. Conference, 1-4, September, „Stable isotope evidence for the origin of the Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore of Eplény, Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary” (co-authors: J.R. Hein, Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z.)

2003 Miskolc, Hungary, 2^nd”Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians” International Conference, Miskolc, March 6-7, 2003, Micromineralogical and clay mineralogical study of the Eplény Limestone Formation, Úrkút, Hungary (co-authors: Pekker P, Weiszbrg T.)

2003 Athens, Greece, 7^th Biennial SGA Conference, 24-28, August, „Submarine primary Sr-rich Mn-oxide mineralization in the Jurassic Transdanubian Range (Hungary) (co-authors: Szabó-Drubina M., Tóth, M., Szabó Z., Abonyi Tóth Zs.,)

2004 Firenze, Italy, 32nd IGC, 20-28, August, Bacterial-hydrothermal formation of black-shale hosted manganese mineralizations of Jurassic age, Central Europe, Hungary (co-authors: Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z.)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Polgári, M. (1993). Manganese geochemistry reflected by black shale formation and diagenetic processes - Model of formation of the carbonatic manganese ore of Úrkút - A Mn geokémiája a feketepala képződés és a diagenetikus folyamatok tükrében - Az úrkúti karbonátos mangánérc képződési modellje). Special series of Hungarian Geological Institute, Polgári, M. (ed.) and Fórizs, I. (technical ed.) Karpati Publish House, Uzsgorod, pp. 211.

Polgári, M., Szabó, Z., Szederkényi, T. (Eds.). (2000). Manganese Ores in Hungary – In commemoration of professor Gyula Grasselly - Mangánércek Magyarországon - Grasselly Gyula akadémikus emlékére. Published by: Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Juhász Publish House,  Szeged, Hungary, pp.675.

List of papers published in English

Polgári M, Szabó Z, Szabó-Drubina M, Hein R.J, Yeh H-W. (2005): A porous silica rock („tripoli”) in the footwall of the Jurassic Úrkút manganese deposit, Hungary: composition, and origin through carbonate dissolution (Sedimentary Geology, in press)

Polgári M, Philippe M, Szabó-Drubina M, Tóth M. (2004): Manganese-impregnated wood from a Toarcian manganese ore deposit, Eplény Mine, Bakony Mts, Transdanubia, Hungary (Neues Jahrbuch, Geol. Paläont. Mh., in press)

Polgári M., Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z. (2004): Theoretical model for the Mid-European Jurassic Mn-carbonate mineralization Úrkút, Hungary. Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey. Vol. 79, 1, 53-61.

Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina M., Hein, J.R., Szabó Z. (2003): Mn-carbonate from the Eplény Mine, Hungary and chemical, mineralogical, and stable isotope comparisons with other Jurassic Mn-carbonate deposits: Analysis of an archive sample (Bull. of Geol. Soc. Hung., 133/1, 21-35)

Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina M., Hein, J.R. (2003): Phosphogenesis in Jurassic black shale-hosted Mn-carbonate deposits, Úrkút and Eplény, Hungary: Investigations on archive sample drillcore Úrkút-136 (Bull of Geol. Soc. Hung., 133/1, 37-48)

Pekker P., Weiszburg T.G., Polgári M. (2003): Micromineralogical and clay mineralogical study of the Eplény Limestone Formation, Úrkút, Hungary. Acta Miner-Petr. Szeged. Abstract Series, 1, 85. (2^nd”Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians” International Conference, Miskolc, March 6-7, 2003)

Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina, M., Tóth, M., Szabó, Z., Abonyi Tóth, Zs. (2003): Submarine primary Sr-rich Mn-oxide mineralization in the Jurassic Transdanubian Range (Hungary), Proc. of the 7^th Biennial SGA  Meet. Athens/Greece/ 24-28 Aug. Eds.: Demetrios G. Eliopoulos et al., Millpress Rotterdam, Netherlands 1233-1236.

Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina M., Hein, J.R., Szabó Z. (2002): Stable isotope evidence for the origin of the Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore of Eplény, Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary. Geologica Carpathica, 53, 100-102.

Polgári, M. (2001): Contribution of volcanic material?– A new aspect of the genesis of the black shale-hosted Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore formation, Úrkút Basin, Hungary. Acta Geologica Hungarica, 44/4, 419-438.

Farkas,  J., Szabó, Z., Polgári, M. (1999). Environmental effects of Toarcian manganese ores, Úrkút, Hungary. Proceedings of the 5^th biennal SGA Meeting and the 10^th Quadrennial IAGOD Meeting (London) United Kingdom, 22-25 August 1999, Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing, Stanley et al. (eds), Balkeema, Rotterdam, 227-230.

Máthé, Z., Fórizs, I., Tóth, M., Polgári, M. (1997): Contributions to the Clay Mineralization and Zeolitization of the Miocene Tuffs in the Mecsek Mts., Hungary. Geologica Carpathica - Series Clays, 6, 1, 47-55.

Polgári, M., Fórizs, I., Máthé, Z., Tóth, M., Pécsi-Donáth, É. (1997). Geoautoclave-type zeolitization in the Miocene rhyolite tuff, Mecsek Mts. SW Hungary - In: Natural Zeolites - Sofia, 95 - Kirov, G.L., Filizova and O. Petrov (eds.) p. 227-240.

Pantó, Gy., Demény, A., Polgári M. (1996). Genesis of secondary Mn-oxide ores in the Úrkút deposit, Hungary: An oxygen isotope study. Mineral. Deposita, 31, 238-241.

Polgári, M., Fórizs, I. (1996). Distribution of Mn in Carbonates from the Uppony Mts., NE-Hungary. Geologica Carpathica, 47, 4, 215-225.

Grasselly, Gy., Balogh, Kad., Tóth, M., Polgári M. (1994). K/Ar age of manganese oxide ore of Úrkút, Hungary: Ar retention in K-bearing Mn-minerals. Geologica Carpathica, 45, 6, 365-373.

Polgári., M., Molak, A., Surova, E. (1992). An organic geochemical study to compare Jurassic black shale hosted manganese-carbonate deposits: Úrkút, Hungary and Branisko Mountains, East Slovakia. Explor. Mining Geol., l, l, 63-67.

Cronan, D.S., Galácz, A., Mindszenty, A., Moorby, S.A., Polgári, M. (1991). Tethyan Ferromanganese Oxide Deposits from the Hungarian Jurassic. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 655-668.

Polgári, M., Okita, P.M., Hein, J.R. (1991). Stable Isotope Evidence for the Origin of the Úrkút Manganese Ore Deposit, Hungary. Journ. of Sed. Petr., 61, 3, 384-393.

Polgári, M. (1988). Hungarian Black Shale Formations - a preliminary report, pp. 67-77. In: J. Pasava, Z. Gabriel (eds.), Proceedings of the IGCP 254 Inaugular Meeting, Prague.

Miszlivecz, E., Polgári, M. (1987). Fe-P-bearing calcareous concretions from Zirc "Marble Quarry", Annales, 27-30.