Projects

researcher, head of the Department of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
doc. RNDr. Ján Soták, DrSc.

International

Current
  • Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2020 – 31. 12. 2024
Finished
  • Cretaceous – Paleogene boundary in Carpathians – multidisciplinary research
    Program: Inter-institute agreement
    Duration: 1. 9. 2018 – 31. 12. 2021
  • Continental crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2014 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Foraminiferal research consortium
    Program: Other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2015 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Magura Piggy-back Basin at the font of the PKB: lito and biostratigraphy, provenance analysis and paleogeographic interpretations (Western Outer Carpathians, Poland and Slovakia).
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2015 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2013 – 31. 12. 2017
  • Responce of global ocean oxygenation to Early Cenozoic climate extremes
    Program: Bilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2013 – 31. 12. 2015
  • Climate and biota of the Early Paleogene
    Program: Multilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2011 – 31. 12. 2013
  • Macro- and microfossils, isotopes, litho- cyclo-, magneto-and biostratigraphy as tools for investigating the Lower Cretaceous within the Dolomites (Southern Alps, Northern Italy) - the Puez area as a new key region of the Tethyan realm
    Program: Multilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2008 – 31. 12. 2011
  • Rapid environmental/climate change in the Cretaceous Greenhouse World.
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2007 – 31. 12. 2010
  • 10. Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Palaeontologists
    Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
    Duration: 1. 9. 2009 – 12. 9. 2009
  • Current research in Planktonic Foraminifera
    Program: Multilateral - other
    Duration: 1. 1. 2003 – 31. 12. 2008
  • Triassic/Jurassic boundary events
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2003 – 31. 12. 2006
  • Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds: response to Ocean/Climate Global Changes
    Program: UNESCO
    Duration: 1. 1. 2002 – 31. 12. 2006

National

Current
  • -
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2024 – 31. 12. 2027
  • Chronostratigraphic standards and sedimentary archives of global changes of biota and paleoenvironments of the Western Carpathians
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 8. 2021 – 30. 6. 2025
Finished
  • Chronology of global events in Tethyan and Parathethyan basins of the Western Carpathians infered from evolution and life environments of fossil planktonic organisms.
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2020 – 31. 12. 2023
  • -
    Program: EU Structural Funds Research & Development
    Duration: 15. 10. 2022 – 30. 11. 2023
  • Early Alpidic tectonic evolution and palaeogeography of the Western Carpathians
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 8. 2018 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Global event stratigraphic correlations and paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous and Paleogene formations of the Western Carpathians: biotic, sedimentary and geochemical proxies
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2016 – 31. 12. 2019
  • Regional stratotypes for genetic, earthtime and paleoenvironmental properties of the Western Carpathian sedimentary basins
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2015 – 30. 6. 2019
  • Mesozoic changes of climate, sedimentation, palaeooceanologic proxies, environments and communities of marine organisms
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2016 – 31. 12. 2018
  • Paleoenvironmental record of global system instability in the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Formations of the Western Carpathians: changes of the physical and life conditions in time of biotic crisis, climatic extremes, impacts and syngenetic volcanisms.
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2012 – 31. 12. 2015
  • Comparison of paleoclimate and paleoceanography of the West Carpathian area at the beginning of Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2012 – 31. 12. 2015
  • Centre of excelence for integrated research of the Earth\'s geosphere
    Program: EU Structural Funds Research & Development
    Duration: 1. 9. 2010 – 28. 2. 2015
  • Paleoenvironments and biofacies of Mesozoic lithostratigraphic units in the Western Carpathians
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2009 – 31. 12. 2011
  • Tectonosedimentary breccias as tracer of the tectonic events in sedimentary record of the Mesozoic and Paleogene successions of the Western Carpathians
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2010 – 31. 12. 2011
  • High-resolution stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis of the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene formations of the Western Carpathians
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2009 – 31. 12. 2011
  • Educational guide round the geological geographical localities in the Central Slovakia
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 10. 2006 – 30. 4. 2010
  • Reconstruction of geological evolution and correlation of the Mesozoic complexes of the Tatric unit of the Western Carpathians and Austroalpine units of the Eastern Alps.
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2007 – 1. 12. 2009
  • Biochronology of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations of the Western Carpathians: plankton evolutionary events and their stratigraphic calibration
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 5. 2006 – 30. 10. 2009
Employees