ZOLTÁN SIKLÓSY

junior research fellow

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1223

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: siklosy@geochem.hu

room:  220-221

Main research interests

- Petrological and geochemical investigations on speleothems

- Paleoclimatological investigation of stalagmites

- Geochemical studies on travertines

- Geochemistry and Paleoclimate (G & P Research Group)

Curriculum vitae

Place and date of birth: 1979, Budapest

Working place: 2003- : Institute for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Present position: junior research fellow

Educational history:

- 2003: M.Sc.: in geology at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest
Dissertation topic: Petrologic, geochemical and stable isotopic studies on travertine cone and red calcites (Vértes-Mts., North Hungary) : Evidence for magmaitc fluid influence

- 2003- PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest
Dissertation topic: Stable isotope and trace elements stratigraphy of Hungarian speleothems - climate variability preserved in stalagmite records

Membership in scientific organisations:

- 1997- Member of the Hungarian Geological Society

- 2001-2003 SEG - Society of Economic Geologists member

- 2002- Geologica Hungarica ser.25, english translator

- 2003- Member of the organization of the European Current Research On Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI) XVII., Budapest, Hungary, June 5-7.

- 2004- Member of the European Society for Isotope Research

- 2004 Climatic and tectonic controls on travertine formation: the case of the Pannonian Basin – conference organiser (2004)

- 2005- Member of the European Geosciences Union (2005-)

Scholarships and awards:

- 2002: 4 months: Erasmus scholarship at the University of Modena, Italy

- 2003: Distinguished Student of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (Budapest)

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

- 2004 Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 month, prof. Torsten W. Vennemann, Stable isotope laboratory

- 2005 Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board, University of Bergen, Norway, 3 month, prof. Stein-Erik Lauritzen, U-series dating laboratory

- 2005-2009: Scientific member of a Hungarian Research Found research project: „Paleoclimatology of Hungarian Holocene dripstones based on U-series dating and stable isotope analyses” (OTKA № T 049713)

- 2006: Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, bilateral cooperation (Romania)

- 2006-2010: Official collaborating scientist within the Millenium European Climate EU6 project (№ 017008)

- 2007-2009: Hungarian – Croatian Intergovernmental S&T Cooperation Programme member, „Investigation of the regional environmental changes on karstic sample sites with special attention to recent processes”

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

- 2008: Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

- 2008: Award of the Hungarian Meterologist Association (research foundation)

Selected publications 

Manuscripts

Siklósy, Z. (2003) Petrologic, geochemical and stable isotopic investigation of red calcites and travertine cones in South-Vértes (Hungary). Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 91. (MsC Thesis)

Siklósy, Z. (2000) Petrologic and geochemical studies on travertine cone (North Hungary): Evidence for magmatic fluid influence. Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, pp: 43. (Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students)

Papers

Siklósy, Z., Demény, A., Vennemann, T.W., Pilet, S., Kramers, J., Leél-Ossy, Sz., Bondár, M., Shen, C-C. and Hegner, E. 2009: Bronze Age volcanic event recorded in stalagmites by combined isotope and trace element studies. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2009; 23: 801–808 (reprint request: siklosy (at) geochem hu) abstract

Siklósy, Z., Demény, A., Pilet, S., Leel-Ossy, Sz., Lin, K. and Shen C.C. (2008): Monitoring environmental pollution using a stalagmite from Hungary. PAGES News, Vol. 16 Nº 3. pp. 27-28. (pdf)

Siklósy, Z., Demény, A., Pilet, S., Leel-Ossy, Sz. (2008): Speleothems as a sensitive indicators of environmental pollution. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-07482, 2008. (pdf)

Demény, A., Siklósy, Z. (2008): Combination of off-line preparation and continuous flow mass spectrometry: D/H analyses of inclusion waters. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22, 1329-1334. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117948288/

abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 /ask for reprint: siklosy (at) geochem (dot) hu /

Kele, S., Demény, A., Siklósy, Z., Németh, T., Tóth, M. and Kovács, B. 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 (2008) 53–72. (pdf)

Z. Siklosy, A. Demeny, T.W. Vennemann, E. Hegner, J. Kramers, Sz. Leel-Ossy (2007): Climate changes and volcanic signals during the Bronze Age: a stalagmite record Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 71, Issue 15, Supp. 1, p. A936 (pdf)

Siklósy Z, Demény A, Vennemann T.W, Kramers J, Lauritzen S.E, Leél-Őssy Sz (2007): Middle bronze age climate change recorded in a Hungarian stalagmite: triggering by volcanic activity?, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 00777, 2007 (pdf)

Siklósy, Z., Demény, A., Szabó, Cs., Korpás, L., Gálné Sólymos, K. (2006): Petrographic and geochemical studies on the Upper Cretaceous travertine cone and red calcites (Vértes Mts., Hungary), In Hungarian, Földtani Közlöny 136/3, 369-398. /ask for reprint: siklosy (at) geochem (dot) hu /

Siklosy, Z., Demeny, A., Vennemann, T.W., Kramers, J., Leel-Ossy, Sz. (2006): Stable isotope compositions of speleothems from Hungary: climate conditions and local variations. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 8, 06905. (pdf)

Siklósy Z, Demény A, Vennemann T.W, Kramers J, Leél-Őssy, Sz (2005): Stable isotope data and trace element variation from Holocene speleothems in Hungary, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 01329. (pdf)

Full publication list:

http://www.geochem.hu/~siklosy/siklosy_publ.htm