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Study of Geological/Tectonic Correlation of the Alpine and Pre-Alpine Units of the Western Carpathians and the Southern Carpathians and the Vardar Zone and Their Paleo-Tectonic Evolution
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Evidence number: 1
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Serbia
EAlpG - European Alps Geoid
Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2027
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Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Annotation: The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have caused a fundamental and lasting change in the field of Geodesy. Due to the missing link to the gravity field of the Earth, GNSS measurements yield purely geometric heights relative to a reference ellipsoid. To derive physical heights, additional information is necessary that describe the undulations of the height reference surface. This information is computed from global or regional gravity field models and is denoted as geoid or quasigeoid models. The combination of GNSS measurements and geoid models provides an efficient tool to determine heights. However, it does not reach the accuracy of the traditional leveling methods. Height reference systems are therefore still measured on a national basis and by the use of precision leveling. The national height reference systems differ regarding the definition (height type), the applied numerical standards as well as the choice of the geodetic datum (zero level). In the geodetic practice this results in different height levels that become most apparent at the national borders, yielding up to about 50 cm (between France and Germany).The cooperation is expected to enable the following achievements: • Harmonization of the underlying data for regional geoid modeling in the border regions of the partnering countries, • Determination of a joint geoid/quasigeoid model in the Alpine region (European Alps Geoid), • Analysis of the datum differences between the national height reference frames of the partnering countries, • Derive appropriate transformation rules between the national height reference frames, • Validation of global and continental gravity field models.
Partner countries: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland
FAIRNESS - FAIR Network of micrometeorological measurements, Akcia CA20108
Duration: 14. 10. 2021 - 13. 10. 2025
Evidence number: CA20108
Program: COST
Project leader: RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bilčík Dušan
Annotation: The FAIRNESS action intends to improve standardization and integration between databases/sets of micrometeorological measurements that are part of research projects or local/regional observational networks established for special purposes (agrometeorology, urban microclimate monitoring).Addressing identified challenges requires an effective transboundary network of researchers, stakeholders (extension services and environmental agencies, local authorities and ministries, SME) and civil society (specialized and general public) from Europe and beyond to identify and fill knowledge gaps, standardize, optimize and promote new environmental-tailored measurement and control procedures, enhance research effectiveness and improve dissemination.
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
OPENSENSE - Opportunistic precipitation sensing network
Duration: 13. 10. 2021 - 12. 10. 2025
Evidence number: CA20136
Program: COST
Project leader: Mgr. Onderka Milan, PhD.
Other cosolvers: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA20136/#tabs+Name:Management%20Committee
Annotation: Despite advances in remote sensing, precipitation observations remain one of the weakest links in the description of Earth’s water cycle. This is especially critical in the face of climate change, human-induced hydrologic changes e.g. due to rapid urbanisation, and consequent increase in frequency and magnitude of extreme events. Opportunistic sensing can greatly improve spatial and temporal resolution of standard precipitation monitoring networks on continental scale by complementing them with measurements from personal weather stations or devices primarily not intended for precipitation monitoring such as commercial microwave links or broadband satellite terminals. The number of opportunistic sensors has already now exceeded traditional in-situ observations by an order of magnitude, and it is increasing exponentially. Nevertheless, it is still unclear how to make this data operationally accessible, achieve robust quality control of these observations, and integrate them into standard observation systems.OPENSENSE brings together scientists investigating different opportunistic sensors, experts from national weather services, owners of sensor networks, and end-users of rainfall products to build a worldwide reference opportunistic sensing community. It will i) overcome key barriers preventing data exchange and acceptance as hydrometeorological observations ii) define standards to allow for large-scale benchmarking of OS precipitation products developing new methods for precipitation retrieval iii) coordinate integration of the opportunistic observations into traditional monitoring networks, and iv) identify potential new sources of precipitation observations. These coordinated activities will boost uptake of OS as precipitation observation methods and enable generation of high-quality precipitation products with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
PEGMAT - Evolved magmatic and pegmatic systems as source of critical row materials and industrial minerals
Duration: 1. 5. 2022 - 30. 4. 2025
Evidence number: ERA-MIN 3/2021/254/PEGMAT
Program: ERANET
Project leader: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc.
Partner countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Romania
CoLiBrI - Continental Lithosphere: a Broadscale Investigation
Duration: 1. 1. 2019 - 31. 12. 2024
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Program: European Science Foundation (ESF)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Prof. RNDr. Roman Pašteka
Annotation: Project “Continental Lithosphere: a Broadscale Investigation” is European initiative to advance our understanding of orogenesis, mantle dynamics, plate reorganizations, surface processes and seismic hazard in the Alps-Apennines-Carpathians-Dinarides orogenic system.
Partner countries: Australia, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Project website: https://wp.unil.ch/orog3ny/research/colibri/
Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys
Duration: 1. 1. 2020 - 31. 12. 2024
Evidence number: UNESCO IGCP 710
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc., doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: The aim of this IGCP project is to bring together geologists from the western and eastern parts of the former Tethys (Morocco/Iberia–SE Asia) for establishing a common framework and a common tectonostratigraphical concept (latest Paleozoic–Mesozoic with emphasis on Permian–Jurassic).
Benchmark experiments and modeling of alloy systems involving flow and solidification
Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2024
Evidence number: CAS-SAS-2023-01
Program: Mobility
Project leader: doc. Mgr. Guba Peter, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Juraj Kyselica, Ján Šimkanin
Annotation: Regions of mixed solid-liquid phases, or so-called mushy regions, play an important role in geology and geophysics. The phase change in the mushy layers is a source of convective motions leading to the redistribution of mass and heat in the solidifying system. A striking consequence is the formation of vertical chimneys through which plumes of buoyant fluid rise. The project aims at understanding the growth of a mushy layer with chimney convection. We will design and conduct a series of benchmark solidification experiments on salt solutions. Theoretical modelling will focus on understanding the factors controlling the convective mushy layer growth and the evolution of its internal structure over a long time horizon. A further aim will be to quantify the convective fluxes between the mush and the molten alloy, which are crucial for macrosegregation. Understanding the above phenomena is vital for the explanation of the origin of the Earth\'s core convection, magma solidification as well as the mass transport between the shells and subsurface oceans of the icy moons.
Partner countries: Czech Republic
D-Rex - Deposit-to-Regional Scale Exploration
Duration: 1. 12. 2020 - 30. 11. 2023
Evidence number: ERA-MIN 2/2020/1102/D-Rex
Program: ERANET
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bezák Vladimír, CSc., Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Madzin Jozef, PhD., Mgr. Ondrášová Lenka, RNDr. Vajda Peter, PhD., Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Annotation: Mineral deposits are a small part of a very large geological context, the so-called mineral system. The first objective of D-Rex is to build onto this new paradigm with geophysical data from three prospective areas in Sweden, Greenland and Finland. Therefore, the second objective of D-Rex is the integration of multi-facetted geophysical data acquired at those prospective areas. The third objective of D-Rex is the unification, optimum integration and visualization of geological and geophysical data on the basis of the Common Earth Modelling (CEM) concept.Key element of the project involves: Electromagnetic (deposit scale) surveys; Development of multimethod 3D modelling/inversion technique; Joint inversion assisted by machine learning techniques to couple different geophysical parameters, to uncover correlations between them as well as their absence; Regional to deposit scale models integration into Common Earth Model based on all available geophysical and geological data; Building predictivity maps based on the regional models; Correlation and interpretation of regional scale together with deposit scale models.The outputs of this project will be novel technologies and workflows that directly address Europe’s goal to become self-sufficient in terms of raw materials. We will achieve an improved understanding of the geological history of key mineral districts in Europe and by proxy also other similar or related European metallogenic zones. This understanding will result in improved models for the formation of minerals and allow us to better predict their expected locations. This will lead to the discovery of new, higher-grade and possibly larger mineral deposits and thus better supply.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden
Project website: https://mt.research.ltu.se/web/

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Adria Array
Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2022
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Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Csicsay Kristián, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc., Mgr. Bystrický Erik, RNDr. Cipciar Andrej, Mgr. Fojtíková Lucia, PhD., Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Šugár Martin, PhD.
Annotation: The thematic focus of the AdriaArray Initiative is the understanding of active deformation of the “Adriatic plate and its surroundings”, referred to as “AdriaArray area” in the following. AdriaArray is an international initiative to foster collaborative research, capacity and community building, with a focus on the geodynamic processes and the associated geohazards. The AdriaArray initiative will further foster the scientific exchange and cooperation especially of early career scientists.
Partner countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland
N/A - AdriaArray in Slovakia
Duration: 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2022
Evidence number: SAV-AV ČR-21-02
Program: Mobility
Project leader: Mgr. Csicsay Kristián, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc., Mgr. Fojtíková Lucia, PhD., Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Šugár Martin, PhD.
Annotation: The AdriaArray is a new European initiative, rooted on previous successful multidisciplinary AlpArray project realised in a broad international cooperation. Currently about 20 institutions join forces for the new large-scale passive seismic experiment with stations to be deployed from French Massif Central on the west, across the Carpathians in the east to the Balkan on the south. Temporary seismic stations from the MOBNET pool of the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (lG CAS) installed in Slovakia, link the two large European experiments and provide unique data for structural studies of the Western Carpathians. The main purpose of the bilateral Czech-Slovak Mobility Plus Project is to intensify cooperation between both institutions and to transfer experience with organizing, running and data processing Joint Czech-Slovak research will be oriented towards seismic-gravity and geophysical-petrological modelling of the Carpathian lithosphere, seismotectonics and will search relation of the deep Earth processes with surface phenomena including natural hazards.
Application of a new SpaceMap program for calculation of 3D complex crustal model in the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin region
Duration: 1. 4. 2020 - 31. 12. 2022
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bilčík Dušan, RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc., Mgr. Dérerová Jana, PhD., Mgr. Godová Dominika, RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The main motivation of project is to calculate new and original 3D complex crustal model in the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin region. It will be based on the results obtained by 3D gravity modelling taking into account other geophysical constrains. For calculation of the 3D crustal model we will used new SpaceMap program, which is an important part of the modern, one of the best in the world, 3D GMT-AUTO algorithm.
Partner countries: Ukraine
N/A - Correlation and comparisom of the products of the late Permian and early to mid Triassic magmatic activity in the Balkanides (median and external zones) and Western Carpathians
Duration: 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2022
Evidence number: BAS-SAS-21-06
Program: Mobility
Project leader: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Maraszewska Maria, PhD., Mgr. Števko Martin, PhD.
Partner countries: Bulgaria
N/A - Comparison of geophysical and geological structures of the Western Carpathian lithosphere with other orogenic areas in Europe ämainly Bohemian Massif and Norwegian Caledonides)
Duration: 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2022
Evidence number: SAV-AV ČR-21-07
Program: Mobility
Project leader: RNDr. Bezák Vladimír, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Buchholcerová Anna, PhD., RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The project is focused on the comparison of geophysical parameters of the crust and lithosphere of various orogene areas (Alpine in the Western Carpathians, Hercynian in the Bohemian massif and Caledonian in Norway). We will use the results of older projects and also newly collected mainly magnetotelluric data.
Partner countries: Czech Republic
Regional conductivity anomalies role in tectonic development of the Carpathians
Duration: 11. 2. 2019 - 31. 12. 2022
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The project is focused on the geophysical study the Earth’s lithosphere of the Carpathians in the area of Slovakia. Newly collected and old magnetotelluric (MT) data and geophysical (gravity and thermal) data available from previous experiments will be modelled by joint inversion algorithms. We will localize the accumulations of the highly conductive fractions, either fluids or electronic conductors related to tectonic disturbances in the crust of Slovakia. The Carpathian Conductivity Anomaly (CCA) will be identified among structures and imaged along the contact zone between the Inner and Outer Carpathians
Partner countries: Poland
DIG - De-risking Ireland’s Geothermal Energy Potential
Duration: 11. 2. 2019 - 30. 12. 2022
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Program: Iné
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The four-year research project will integrate multi-disciplinary, multi-scale geophysical, geological and geochemical data by means of joint analysis, interpretation, modelling and inversion. The DIG team assembled for the project brings comprehensive knowledge of geophysical and geological methods. These include active and passive seismics, active and passive (i.e. magnetotellurics) electromagnetic methods, and integrated geophysical-petrological modelling together with Irish crustal geology and rock geochemistry.
Partner countries: Ireland
Project website: https://www.dias.ie/2020/02/12/a-major-research-project-on-geothermal-energy-has-started-at-dias-ucc/
Geophysical events and their bioindication using microorganisms
Duration: 1. 4. 2020 - 31. 3. 2022
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Buchholcerová Anna, PhD., prof. RNDr. Podhorský Dušan, DrSc., RNDr. Váczyová Magdaléna, PhD., Mgr. Valach Fridrich, PhD.
Annotation: Using the results and hypotheses obtained in the joint research during 2017-2019, the project team has decided to continue research activities within the frame of this project, that including the following steps:- monitoring fluctuations of geophysical phenomena such as low-frequency geomagnetic field fluctuations (Slovakia, Hurbanovo Geomagnetic Observatory), high time resolution measurements of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity ( in the regions of Ukraine and Slovakia) to perform the amplitude-frequency analysis of the obtained data;-development and modification of systems for automatized investigation of bioindicator parameters and an aspect of modelling of geophysical parameters;-determination of processes of interaction of fluctuations of geophysical factors with changes of bioluminescence of bacteria, metachromasia of voluminous granules of yeast and antioxidant properties of plants, those being as bioindicators;- development of algorithms and programs for the study of correlations between fluctuations of geophysical phenomena characteristics considered and bioindicators;- comparative analysis of the obtained data to determine the mechanisms of influence of chosen geophysical factors on biologically important processes.
Partner countries: Ukraine
Importance of raw materials in the economy of V4 countries
Duration: 1. 10. 2020 - 31. 1. 2022
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Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc.
Annotation: The aim of the project is to identify critical raw materials for individual economies and comparing them in the V4 Group. and such materials will be necessary for the development of new technologies in the next 10 years. The JSW in EU is the largest producer of coking coal, which is one of the 27 critical EU raw materials. Other V4 countries have other raw materials which are significant for the European economy. During the meetings all partners will demonstrate their activities and experience in identifying critical raw materials. During the last workshop, experts, scientists and business representatives from V4 countries will formulate common conclusions regarding these issues. The summary of this international cooperation will be the publication of a good practice report constituting a white paper in the area of critical raw materials. In addition, joint implementation of the project will strengthen the projects\' impact on its beneficiaries, i.e. entrepreneurs and academic centers from the V4 countries.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
Project website: https://www.jswinnowacje.pl/en/about-us/projects/importance-of-raw-materials-in-the-economy-of-v4-countries/?fbclid=IwAR1udQxYub_n-gVllRdcrD33UImoQAVvf5T0_zC4Ua9zPdumaI-6lwpB3xg
CAPABLE - CAPABLE – CArpathian PAnnonian Basin Lithosphere Enquiry
Duration: 1. 1. 2020 - 31. 12. 2021
Evidence number: Visegrad Grant No. 21930053
Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: Mgr. Fojtíková Lucia, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Csicsay Kristián, PhD., Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD., RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The main focus of the CAPABLE project is a detailed lithosphere study of the Carpathians-Pannonian Basin region, which is possible thanks to the dense network of newly installed temporary seismic stations in frame of the European AlpArray-PACASE complementary experiment. Only gross features of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary variations and the lithosphere structure are known up to now due to the insufficient data from only several seismic observatories in the region, which provide data for such studies. In spite of that, significant variations of the upper mantle structure were imaged, which calls for more detailed studies. The research needs to be carried out in cooperation of scientists from all four Visegrad countries, to retrieve the crustal and upper mantle structure down to about 600 km. The lithosphere in the Carpathians-Pannonian Basin is composed of several colliding microplates. Regional seismicity, with intensity up to VIII=IX, represents a danger for inhabitants in the region. The CAPABLE team, composed of the Visegrad institutions, will collect new data and process them jointly with different methods, interpret them along with nonseimological inferences, develop a 3D model of the upper mantle and the lithosphere structure. Moreover a foreseen seismo-tectonic model will allow more precise definition of seismically active areas and their active fault systems and thus help to understand the seismic evolution and the Neotectonic regime and recently active fault zones.
Partner countries: Hungary, Poland
Project website: https://www.ig.cas.cz/en/about/visegrad-capable/
Cretaceous – Paleogene boundary in Carpathians – multidisciplinary research
Duration: 1. 9. 2018 - 31. 12. 2021
Evidence number: 19-07516S
Program: Medziústavná dohoda
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Prof. P. Pruner, Dr. P. Schnabl,
Annotation: New project of Geological Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences is focused on the paleomagnetic research of the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary formations. Geophysical methodics is necessary to combine this project with biostratigraphic and sedimentologic research of selected sections through K/T boundary. Accordingly, Geological Institute CAS cooperates with Earth Science Institute of SAS and completes the research team by biostratigraphers and sedimentologists working in Carpathians.
CoLiBrI - Continental Lithosphere: a Broadscale Investigation
Duration: 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2021
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Program: European Science Foundation (ESF)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Godová Dominika, Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Prof. RNDr. Roman Pašteka (PriF UK Bratislava), PhD., Ing. Juraj Papčo, PhD. (STU Bratislava)
Annotation: Project “Continental Lithosphere: a Broadscale Investigation” is European initiative to advance our understanding of orogenesis, mantle dynamics, plate reorganizations, surface processes and seismic hazard in the Alps-Apennines-Carpathians-Dinarides orogenic system.
Partner countries: Australia, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Project website: https://wp.unil.ch/orog3ny/research/colibri/
Korelácia jursko - Correlation of Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary sequences in the Tethyan Mediterranean Belt and adjacent regions based on geodynamics (lithostratigraphy, sequence analysis, paleogeography), micro- and nannofossil record and global climate and sea-level change
Duration: 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2021
Evidence number: SAV-18-05
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Prof.Dr. Kristalina Stoykova, DrSc.
Annotation: Recent studies in both countries (Slovakia and Bulgaria – Michalik et al., 2016; Lakova & Petrova, 2013; Grabowski et al., 2016; Stoykova et al., submitted) have demonstrated the availability of suitable geological object for detailed study – well-exposed continuous sedimentary successions across the JKB interval. Our goal aims at complex investigation of two geological locations, comprising the JKB interval – one in Slovakia and one in Bulgaria. The direct integration of regional geology, lithofacies studies, calpionellid and nannofossil biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy would be of crucial importance to make a reliable correlation between the studied locations, as well as to promote the selected sections as auxiliary local stratotypes for the JKB. Background of cooperation and envisaged results and benefit:There are several important JKB sequences exposed on Bulgarian and Slovak territories (both belonging to different parts of the Tethyan Belt), which can contribute to the question of drawing of the Jurassic / Cretaceous boundary. Moreover, there are several Bulgarian and Slovak specialists participating in the project and deeply involved in the work of Berriasian Working Group (BWG) of the International Commission of Stratigraphy solving the question of the GSSP establishing of this important stratigraphical boundary since the end of the last millennium. As the drawing of universally valid Stratotype of the boundary is still matter of vivid discussions, the only possible way is constriction of a net of local, studied in details stratotypes, which can bring a remarkable progress.
Partner countries: Bulgaria, Poland
INTERMAGNET - International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network
Duration: 1. 1. 2020 - 31. 12. 2021
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Program: Iné
Project leader: RNDr. Váczyová Magdaléna, PhD.
Annotation: Registration, data processing and sending the minute elements of the geomagnetic field values in real-time (within 72 hours) to INTERMAGNET GINs
Project website: www.intermagnet.org
G-ET-SUMMIT - Gravimetric investigation of the structure of the Etna summit craters system
Duration: 1. 3. 2020 - 30. 11. 2021
Evidence number: EV-C2-004
Program: Horizont 2020
Project leader: RNDr. Vajda Peter, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Papčo Juraj (SvF STU Bratislava)
Annotation: The project aims at investigating the geological structure of the uppermost plumbing system of Etna, using gravimetry. New gravity observations will be carried out in the summit craters area on Etna. The survey area will be selected based on current eruptive activity and safety precautions. Complete Bouguer anomalies shall be compiled based on refined topographic/terrain correction using the Toposk software. Attention will be paid to the use of accurate and up-to-date DEM. The gravity data will be inverted as well as modelled using IGMAS+ software. The density models will be interpreted in geological and volcanological context.
Partner countries: Italy
Correlation of magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Rodopes and Western Carpathians
Duration: 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2020
Evidence number: SAV-18-06
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Assist.Prof.Dr. Kalin Naydenov
Partner countries: Bulgaria
AlpArray - AAGRG - AlpArray Gravity Research Group
Duration: 25. 5. 2018 - 25. 5. 2020
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Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Annotation: AlpArray is a large collaborative project with the aim of carrying out cutting edge research using seismological as well as associated Earth sciences data and geodynamic synthesis and modelling in order to better understand the geodynamics of the greater Alpine area and its seismic hazard. The main actions to realise this goal are: 1) collecting top-quality seismological data from a dense network of temporary seismic stations that complements the permanent stations to ensure homogeneous coverage of the greater Alpine area (“AlpArray Seismic Network”); 2) deploying specifically designed temporary geophysical arrays (“AlpArray Complementary Experiments”) along profiles, swaths or networks that are devoted to the resolution of specific structures and targeted questions; 3) acquiring associated Earth sciences data (such as gravity, electro-magnetics, geology, GPS, etc.); 4) analyzing and interpreting the collected dataset in multidisciplinary ways and developing new quantitative geodynamic models of the Alpine area in order to further our understanding of mountain building processes.
Partner countries: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland
Project website: http://www.alparray.ethz.ch/en/research/research-groups/gravity-rg/
AlpArray - AlpArray
Duration: 1. 1. 2013 - 31. 1. 2020
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Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Csicsay Kristián, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc., Mgr. Csicsay Kristián, PhD., Mgr. Fojtíková Lucia, PhD., Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD., Mgr. Zahorec Pavol, PhD.
Annotation: AlpArray is an initiative to study the greater Alpine area with high-quality broadband seismology experiments using temporary deployments. The main goal is to gather different national efforts and instrument pools into a trans-national collaboration including data acquisition, processing and imaging. The geodynamic interpretation will be based on joint Earth science discipline efforts (geology, seismology, gravimetry, magnetotellurics, GPS, numerical and analogue modelling).
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Project website: http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/research/groups/alrt/projects/alparray/ http://www.alparray.ethz.ch/home/
akcesórie - Accessory minerals as indicators of geological processes of Precambrian granitoids formation and their metalogenetic potential (Ukrainian Shield)
Duration: 1. 1. 2017 - 31. 12. 2019
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc., doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc., Mgr. Mikuš Tomáš, PhD., RNDr. Petrík Igor, DrSc., Mgr. Šurka Juraj
Other cosolvers: Bondarenko Sergej, Grinchenko Olexander, Skakun Leonid, young scientists: Kurylo Sergej and Gavriliv Liubomyr
Annotation: Ukrainian Shield as a unique Precambrian structures situated within European continent include two Proterozoic terraines (megablocks) – Volyn and Ingul megablocks. These megablocks mostly comprize granites formed in different geodynamic settings with wide range of ages and associated ore occurrence and deposits. Ingul megablock (IM) is treated to bee an orogenic region formed as the result of collision between Middle Dnieper granite-greenstone terrain situated on the West and Volyn microcontinent on the East. The merger of both plate and the formation of one-pies collision seam had occurred on the brink of AR3-PR1. The central part of Ingul megablock is treated as fragment of transregional shear zone (Kherson – Smolensk) all structures of which are formed during the the development of this zone. At about 2,1-2,0 billion years, granites of Kirovograd and Novoukrainka types were formed in collision setting. Kirovograd granites are distributed in Central-Wester part of Ingul megablock within regional scale structure known as Ingul sinclinorium. These granites are formed after supracrustal rocks of Ingul-Ingulets series and as a result of prograde ultra metamorphism, occurred in aweakened zone under the drop of pressure. Kirovograd granites are represented by porphyric, equigranular, aplito-pegmatoide, aplite and pegmatite varieties. Geochemical (trace ellement) patterns obtained for these granites indicate that these granites might be related to S-type. Uranium deposit associated with this type of granites can be classified into two genetic types: 1) deposits of potassic-uranium genetic type found in granitic pegmatites similar to that of Rössing type. Among economic ore occurences are Th-REE-U mineralization of Balka Korabelna deposit and three small Th-U deposits (Southern, Kalinovka, Lozovatka) which have been discovered in the south-western part of the Kirovograd continental block; 2) deposits of sodic-uranium genetic type (Novokonstantynivka, Michurinka, Central, Vatutinka, Severynka, Dokuchaevka, Aprelskoe) o are associated with sodic metasomatites (albitites) which are developed after different types of rocks – (gneisses and schists of the Ingul-Ingulets series and pegmatitic granites patially (and genetically?) associated with two-feldspar granites of the Novoukrainka and Kirovograd complexes. Deposits of Li and ore occurrences of Ta, Cs, Rb, Nb, Be, Sn (LCT-type pegmatites) (Polohivka deposit and Stankuvatka ore occurrence) are associated with Li-pegmatites and metasomatites that are considered to be formed at apical part of aplite-pegmatites and granite massifs of Kirovograd type. Volyn (terraine) megablock is the region of tectonic-magmatic activisation which is interpreted to be formedas result of collision between Fennoscandia and Sarmatian segment of West-Europian craton. Intrusive granitoids of Osnytsk types form rock series as a part of Osnytsk-Mikashevychi Vulcano-plutonic association. The Osnytsk-Mikashevychi belt (being the part of large scale Volyn belt) is extending to the North-East of the Central Russian volcanic belt up to the Timan region. This structure border Fennoscandia from Volga-Uralia and Sarmatia along which tectonic movement and magmatic activisation occurred in these crustal blocks. According to isotopic data availiable the granites are thought to be formed from primary melt of mantlle origin. The final stage of major orogenic events occurred within Volyn megablock were manifesyed by the intrusion of Korosten pluton in anorogenic setting. The intrusion was preceded by unstable subplatform regime in the peripheral part of the Osnytsk orogenic belt. It formation was finished at 1,8-1,74 billion years ago. Korosten pluton is complex polyphase intrusive of anorthosite-rapakivi-granite formation (ARGF). The intrusion of Korosten type is the oldest among widely known world occurrence of ARGF. In addition, it is the largest pluton ARGF of West-European craton as well as among all plutons found in Ukrainian Shield. About 75% of total area of Korosten pluton is comprized by rapakivi and rapakivi-like granites. Other 25 % is covered by the basic and hybrid type rocks. According to geochemical features these granites should be related to granites of A-type. This project is aimed at intensification of the scientific cooperation between scientists of the Geological institution of Slovakia Academy of Sciences and National academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Sharing the scientific experience can help to solve a scientific fundamental problem and to find general features of distribution mineralization and economic ore occurrences/deposits both within territories of Slovakia and Ukraine
Partner countries: Ukraine
Kriedové zmeny m - Climate-environmental deteriorations during Greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes
Duration: 25. 4. 2014 - 31. 12. 2019
Evidence number: IGCP 609
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Šimo Vladimír, PhD.
Other cosolvers: 37 štátov
Annotation: The recent rise in sea-level in response to increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the associated global warming is a primary concern for society. Evidence from Earth’s history indicate that glacial-interglacial and some more ancient sea-level changes occurred at rates an order of magnitude or more higher than that observed at present. To predict future sea-levels we need a better understanding of the record of past sea-level change.In contrast to glacial eustasy controlled mainly by waxing and waning of continental ice sheets, short-time sea-level changes during major greenhouse episodes of the earth history are known but still poorly understood. The global versus regional correlation and extend, their causes, and consequences of these sea-level changes are strongly debated.The proposed project addresses correlation, causes and consequences of significant short-term, i.e. kyr to 100s of kyr, sea-level changes during the last major greenhouse episode of earth history, the Cretaceous. The long-term sea-level record, i.e. 1st to 2nd order cycles occurring over millions to tens of millions of years, is controlled by the internal dynamic history of the Earth. The changing rates of ocean crust production led first to long-term sea-level rise, high stands, and then decline during Cretaceous times. However, superposed shorter-term, 3rd to 4th order (kyr to 100s of kyr), sea level changes are recorded in Cretaceous sedimentary sequences. The mechanisms for these are controversial and include brief glacial episodes, storage and release of groundwater, regional tectonism and mantle-induced processes.Recent refinements of the geological time scale using new radiometric dates and numerical calibration of bio-zonations, carbon and strontium isotope curves, paleomagnetic reversals, and astronomically calibrated time scales have made major advances for the Cretaceous. Major international efforts such as EARTHTIME, EARTHTIME-EU and GTSnext programs are improving the Cretaceous time scale to yield a resolution comparable to that of younger Earth history. It is now for the first time possible to correlate and date short-term Cretaceous sea-level records with a resolution appropriate for their detailed analysis.This project will investigate mid- to Late Cretaceous (120 Ma – 66 Ma) sea-level cycles in detail in order to differentiate and quantify both short- and long-term records within the new high-resolution absolute time scale based on orbital cyclicity. The time interval for study begins with the first major oceanic anoxic event (OAE 1a) and terminates at the end of the Cretaceous. It includes the time of super-greenhouse conditions, the major oceanic anoxic events, the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum and the subsequent cooling to ordinary greenhouse conditions.The first major goal is to correlate high-resolution sea-level records from globally distributed sedimentary archives to the new, high-resolution absolute time scale, using sea-water isotope curves and orbital (405, 100 kyr eccentricity) cycles. This will resolve the question whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determine their possible relation to climate cycles.The second goal will be the calculation of rates of sea-level change during the Cretaceous greenhouse episode. Rates of geologically short-term sea-level change on a warm Earth will help to better evaluate recent global change and to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.e. thermal expansion/contraction of seawater, subsidence due to loading by water, changing vegetation of the Earth System.The third goal will be to investigate the relation of sea-level highs and lows to ocean anoxia and oxidation events, represented by black shales and oceanic red beds, and to evaluate the evidence for ephemeral glacial episodes or other climate events. Multi-record and multi-proxy studies will provide a high-resolution scenario for entire sea-level cycles and allow development of quantitative models for sea-level changes in greenhouse episodes
Low-frequency fluctuations of the geomagnetic field and their bioresponse effects in case of water characteristics, luminescent bacteria and yeast granules
Duration: 6. 4. 2017 - 31. 12. 2019
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Váczyová Magdaléna, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Podhorský Dušan, DrSc., Mgr. Valach Fridrich, PhD.
Annotation: The main goal of the project is to study relationships between the geomagnetic field low-fequency variations,presented as an environmental factor, and dynamics of water characteristic,luminescent bacteria and yeast granules,that being a signature of the bioresponse investigated
Partner countries: Ukraine
Application of a new automated software system (GMT-Auto) for interpretation of the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin lithosphere
Duration: 6. 4. 2017 - 5. 4. 2019
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bilčík Dušan, RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc., Mgr. Dérerová Jana, PhD., RNDr. Majcin Dušan, CSc.
Other cosolvers: B.Šimonová - doktorandka
Annotation: The main motivation for new project is to create an original 3D complex model of the lithosphere in the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin region. It will be based mainly on the results obtained by 3D interpretation of gravity field of the Earth. In the frame of interpretation the modern, world-wide accepted software 3-D GMT-AUTO will be applied. It allows building a 3D model of the Earth’s fields with continuous distribution of the physical parameters. The resultant 3D integrated lithospheric model will represent the utilization of all recent knowledge on the deep-seated structure of the Carpathian-Pannonian lithosphere. The model will be also a basis for tectonic reconstruction of the space distribution of the different tectonic units in the Carpathian-Pannonian region.
Partner countries: Ukraine
AMBA - Global evolutionary patterns and envoronmental change indicated by the fossil record of cockroaches, termites and mantises (AMBA framework)
Duration: 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2018
Evidence number: NA
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: Mgr. Vršanský Peter, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: doc. RNDr. Vidlička Ľubomír, CSc.
Annotation: Aim of the AMBA are evolutionary studies implemented to environmental protection of large scale primeval forests and fulfilling the aims of UNESCO (MAB, WH). Aim of the subproject is the analysis of the group and its evolutionary pattern as fine as possible in the world scale a derivation of origin of social life in animals (based on 100.000 fossil samples, dinosaur-age amber inclusive).
Partner countries: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, China, Lebanon, Mexico, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Continental Cris - Continental crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems
Duration: 1. 1. 2014 - 31. 12. 2018
Evidence number: UNESCO/IGCP No. 632
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Golej Marián, PhD., doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Šimo Vladimír, PhD., Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Jingeng SHA -China, Vivi VAJDA - Sweden, Paul OLSEN - USA, Emma Sammel MSAKY - Tanzania, Mohammed ET-TOUHAMI - Morocco, Olena SHEVCHUK - Ukraine, Hamish CAMPBELL - New Zealand, Wolfram M. Kürschner - Norway,
Annotation: This IGCP project will more specifically focus on the Jurassic Period, starting with the mass extinction event that occurred 202 million years ago just prior to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, through the Toarican anoxic event 183 million year ago and finally covering the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary at 145 million years ago where major lake systems expanded over continents. The Jurassic and Cretaceous constitute the ‘age of the dinosaurs’, a time interval with green house conditions when perennially warm vegetation types extended into the high-latitudes of Scandinavia, Greenland, China and in fact to the poles. The research focuses on major events and their relation to climatic and environmental changes within these ancient lacustrine ecosystems, and the correlation with the marine realm. Additionally, our project has a strong component of applied Earth sciences because these sediments host significant fossil fuel resources, including coal, gas and petroleum that are stored in the sub-surface. Organic-rich shales and limestones are a prominent feature of most of our target areas. Future developments prosperous society depends on access to energy resources, the negative effects of burned fossil fuels can be mitigated by CO2 sequestration, where carbon dioxide is removed from the flue gas and stored in underground reservoirs.
Partner countries: China, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Tanzania, Ukraine, United States
FRESCO - Foraminiferal research consortium
Duration: 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2018
Evidence number: UMR CNRS 6112 LPG
Program: Iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: FRESCO "Foraminiferal Research Consortium" is an international project oriented to research on coastal benthic foraminifera. It is an international consortium of researchers from 4 laboratories of the Pays de la Loire Region and 15 international partners. The topic of the FRESCO project is intended in microbiology, test mineralogy, geochemistry, vital functions of foraminifera and their ecology in recent and fossil coastal ecosystems.
Partner countries: Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Magura Piggy-back Basin at the font of the PKB: lito and biostratigraphy, provenance analysis and paleogeographic interpretations (Western Outer Carpathians, Poland and Slovakia).
Duration: 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2018
Evidence number: National Science Centre of Poland
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Prof. Nestor Oszczypko, Dr. Dorota Salata,
Annotation: The objective of the project is intended in age revision of the flysch formations of the Magura Unit based on the study of calcareous nannoplankton and planktonic foraminifera. Stratigraphical and sedimentological informations will be interpreted from viewpoint of basinal history, geodynamics and paleogeography of the Magura Unit, as well. Proper age data will be used to unification of lithostratigraphic units of the Magura Unit at the territory of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Romania. Stratigraphical and sedimentological informations will be interpreted from viewpoint of basinal history, geodynamics and paleogeography of the Magura Unit, as well.
Partner countries: Poland
Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal mariNe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems
Duration: 1. 10. 2015 - 31. 12. 2018
Evidence number: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014; REA Grant Agreement No. 643084
Program: Horizont 2020
Project leader: Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Annotation: BASE-LiNE Earth is an international training, research and career development network for highly motivated young scientists, who are exposed to state-of-the-art research on one hand and to a comprehensive training programme on the other. Data on seawater composition are essential for understanding long-term chemical processes of socio-economic dimension like the evolution of life, land-ocean interaction, atmospheric chemistry, ecosystem adaptation to climate change, oceanic trace metal cycling, and for applied geological processes like the formation of submarine energy resources. BASE-LiNE Earth offers societally important deliverables like time series of past trace element and isotope cycling and models about ocean material fluxes in and out of the Phanerozoic Ocean through 15 graduate projects. 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will contribute to extend the knowledge on the complex and long-term Phanerozoic seawater history by the determination of original proxy information preserved in reliable ancient geological archives using cutting edge technologies and experimental approaches.
Partner countries: Germany
Project website: www.baseline-earth.eu
Harmosnow - A European network for a harmonized monitoring of snow for the benefit of climate change scenarios, hydrology and numerical weather prediction
Duration: 10. 11. 2014 - 9. 11. 2018
Evidence number: COSTES1404
Program: COST
Project leader: RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Holko Ladislav, CSc., RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
Other cosolvers: SHMÚ , ,
Annotation: Snow cover is an essential climate variable directly affecting the Earth energy balance. Its monitoring involves a challenging problems of bridging information from micro-structural scales of the snowpack up to the grid resolution in models. Different snow measurement practices, instrumentation, algorithms and data assimilation techniques lack harmonised approaches, validation and methodologies. The COST Action will co-ordinate efforts to address these issues, through establishing harmonized monitoring practices, enhancing the use of observations. The main objective of the Action is to enhance the capability of the research community and operational services for provide and exploit quality-assured regional and global observationbased data on the variability of the state and extent of snow cover.
Partner countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
Project website: http://www.harmosnow.eu
TIDES - Time Dependent Seismology
Duration: 3. 11. 2014 - 2. 11. 2018
Evidence number: ES1401
Program: COST
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Moczo Peter, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: doc. Mgr. Kristek Jozef, DrSc., prof. RNDr. Moczo Peter, DrSc.
Annotation: Seismology is learning to use the full-length records of seismic events and background ambient noise to go beyond still-life snapshots of the interior of the Earth, and look into time-dependent changes of its properties.Data availability has grown dramatically with the expansion of seismographic networks and data centers, and new efforts are bringing in highly promising, unconventional records of earth vibrations, so as to build prospects of more detailed and accurate analyses.New modelling techniques hold promise for deeper exploitation of information contained in the data.COST Action TIDES (TIme DEpendent Seismology) aims at structuring the EU seismological community to enable development of data-intensive, time-dependent techniques for monitoring Earth active processes (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, glacial earthquakes) as well as oil/gas reservoirs.TIDES will network European laboratories in Academia and Industry with complementary skills and will organise a series of workshops and advanced schools to train the next generation of scientists.TIDES will facilitate the exploitation of massive data sets collected by European observational infrastructures - coordinated through the ESFRI EPOS - through the use of high-performance computing facilities. TIDES will strengthen Europe\'s role in a critical field for natural hazards and natural resource management.
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Project website: http://www.tides-cost.eu/
Distribution patterns of diatoms and ostracods in the Slovakian and Bulgarian Neogene lake systems
Duration: 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Nadja Ognjanova Rumenova
Partner countries: Bulgaria
Electrical conductivity and geological structure in the West Carpathians and its transition to the Bohemian Massif
Duration: 1. 1. 2015 - 31. 12. 2017
Evidence number: MAD 15-13, SAV-AV ČR 15-13
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Bezák Vladimír, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bezák Vladimír, CSc., Mgr. Bučová Jana, PhD., RNDr. Majcin Dušan, CSc., RNDr. Vozár Ján, PhD.
Annotation: The aim of the project is to interpret the structure of the Earth’s crust of the West Carpathians in the area of southern and south-eastern Slovakia by jointly modelling geophysical and tectonic data in the region. Available seismic, magnetic and gravity data will be modelled jointly with broad-band magnetotelluric data, which have been either made available from previous experiments or will be partly collected by targeted experiments within this project. Owing to its sensitivity to spatially localized accumulations of highly conductive fractions, either fluids or electronic conductors related to tectonic disturbances in the crust, the electrical conductivity effectively complements geophysical images of the Earth’s crust by providing estimates on the spatial distribution of significant tectonic zones at great depths. The obtained synthetic physical models will be utilized for the interpretation of deep tectonic zones and of the deep geological structure of the Earth’s crust within the frame of the General geological map of the Slovak Republic 1:200.000.
Partner countries: Czech Republic
CRETACEOUS SEA-L - Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes
Duration: 1. 1. 2013 - 31. 12. 2017
Evidence number: UNESCO/IGCP No. 609
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Antolíková Silvia, PhD., doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Šimo Vladimír, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Prof. Dr. Michael Wagreich - Austria, Prof. Dr. Xiumian Hu - China, Prof. Dr. M. Julleh Jalalur Rahman - Bangladesh, Prof. Dr. Silke Voigt Germany, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Ömer Yılmaz - Turkey, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Svetlana Zorina - Russia
Annotation: This project investigates mid- to Late Cretaceous (120 Ma – 66 Ma) sea-level cycles in detail in order to differentiate and quantify both short- and long-term records within the new high-resolution absolute time scale based on orbital cyclicity. The time interval for study begins with the first major oceanic anoxic event (OAE 1a) and terminates at the end of the Cretaceous. It includes the time of super-greenhouse conditions, the major oceanic anoxic events, the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum and the subsequent cooling. The first major goal is to correlate high-resolution sea-level records from globally distributed sedimentary archives to the new, high-resolution absolute time scale, using sea-water isotope curves and orbital (405, 100 kyr eccentricity) cycles. This will resolve the question whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determine their possible relation to climate cycles. The second goal is the calculation of rates of sea-level change during the Cretaceous greenhouse episode. Rates of geologically short-term sea-level change on a warm Earth will help to better evaluate recent global change and to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.e. thermal expansion / contraction of seawater, subsidence due to loading by water, changing vegetation on the Earth. The third goal investigates the relation of sea-level highs and lows to ocean anoxia and oxidation events, represented by black shales and oceanic red beds, and to evaluate the evidence for ephemeral glacial episodes or other climate events. Multi-record and multi-proxy studies should provide a high-resolution scenario for entire sea-level cycles and allow development of quantitative models for sea-level changes in greenhouse episodes.
Partner countries: Austria, Bangladesh, Germany, China, Russia, Turkey
Integrated 3D geophysical interpretation of the lithosphere in the junction of the Carpathians and European platform
Duration: 1. 1. 2014 - 31. 12. 2016
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc., RNDr. Bilčík Dušan, RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc., Mgr. Dérerová Jana, PhD., RNDr. Majcin Dušan, CSc.
Other cosolvers: Mgr. Petra Hlavňová
Annotation: The main goal of the new project is to study of the geophysical and geological structure and tectonics of the lithosphere in the Carpathian orogen in tectonic position with the surrounding tectonic units as the Eastern European platform, Pannonian Basin System, Bohemian Massif and Eastern Alps. The geophysical study will be based mainly on the interpretation of the gravity field and the surface heat flow data. The interpretation of the gravity and geothermal data will come from the other geophysical, geological and geodetic constrains (e.g., seismic, magnetotelluric, geological and GPS measurements). The project will also deal with the determination and calculations of the density, thermal conductivity and heat production distributions within the regions under study. The modern and very effective software for the 2-D and 3-D interpretation of the observed gravity and geothermal fields will be applied. The collaborative institutions are the owners of these modern software and programs. The GMT-AUTO software is capable to calculate the 3-D gravitational, magnetic and thermal effects of the arbitrary anomalous bodies with the changing of the physical parameters both in horizontal and vertical directions. The geothermal modelling approaches are based on analytical and numerical solutions of heat transport equation in steady state and transient form with own software support.
Partner countries: Ukraine
Revealing of genetic and age relations between magmatism and epithermal ore formation in volcanic structures of eastern-Slovakian and Western-Ukrainian regions of the neogene volcanism
Duration: 25. 9. 2014 - 31. 12. 2016
Evidence number: 7
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Broska Igor, DrSc., Mgr. Mikuš Tomáš, PhD., RNDr. Siman Pavol, PhD., Mgr. Šurka Juraj
Other cosolvers: Jaroslav Pršek, Štefan Ferenc, Ponomarenko O.M., Grinchenko O.V., Bondarenko S.M., Skakun L. Z., young scientists: Kurylo S.V.
Annotation: New methods of mineralogical and geochemical researches allow to receive essentially new results on classical deposits and ore manifestations of the Central and East Slovakia (Banská Štiavnica, Kremnica, Zlatá Baňa and Brehov ore fields) and Western Ukraine (Beregovo and Vyshkovo ore areas of Transcarpathian region). Comparison of petrological and geochemical characteristics of zones of Sarmatian andesite-rhyolitic volcanism accompanied by intensive hydrothermal activity and Pannonian andesite-basaltic volcanism with ore manifestations of bismuth-telluride type will allow to specify genetic models of formation of gold-base-metal ores in long-living hydrothermal systems of Banská Štiavnica or Baia-Mare type. It is thus planned to pay special attention to roles of magmatic and metasomatic processes in ore-formation of epithermal deposits situated in regions of Eastern Slovakia and Western Ukraine (Muzhyevo, Beregovo ore deposits as well as various ore manifestations) that will allow to give answers on many questions about genesis of mineralization as well as to solve general problems of gold, silver, bismuth and base-metal metallogeny.
Partner countries: Ukraine
Assessment of the peak ground horizontal acceleration generated by paleo-earthquakes from failure tensile stress of speleotherms. Study of seismicity of the remote past with the use of engineering seismology
Duration: 1. 10. 2011 - 31. 12. 2016
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Ing. Bednárik Martin, PhD., RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc.
Partner countries: Hungary
EURO-AGRIWAT - ASSESSMENT OF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE WATER USE AND TRADE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
Duration: 18. 4. 2012 - 17. 4. 2016
Evidence number: COSTES1106
Program: COST
Project leader: RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Nejedlík Pavol, CSc.
Other cosolvers: , , ,
Partner countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Project website: http://www.cost-es1106.eu/
INTERMAGNET - International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network
Duration: 6. 9. 1998 - 31. 12. 2015
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Váczyová Magdaléna, PhD.
Annotation: The INTERMAGNET programme exists to establish a global network of cooperating digital magnetic observatories, adopting modern standard specifications for measuring and recording equipment, in order to facilitate data exchanges and the production of geomagnetic products in close to real time.
Partner countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, China, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam
Project website: www.intermagnet.org
Neotectonics of eastern segment of Mur-Orava Basin Fault Zone
Duration: 1. 8. 2013 - 31. 12. 2015
Evidence number: 2
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Mgr. Starek Dušan, PhD.
Other cosolvers: F.Marko, R. Vojtko, J. Hók, S. Králiková, A. Świerczewska, M. Solecki, M. Waliczek, A. Konon
Annotation: The aim of the project is reconstruction of neotectonic activity within the eastern segment of the Mür-Orava Basin Fault Zone. Field work will focus on fill of basins and on faults which compose the zone. Field studies will comprise studies of: (1) fault-planes, (2) joints, (3) deformation bands and, (4) fractured clasts. Field work will be supplemented by laboratory studies of: (1) vitrinite reflectance, (2) clay minerals and, (3) microscopic analysis. The goal of field and laboratory studies is construction of model of tectonic development of study object during Neogene and Quaternary times.
Partner countries: Poland, Slovakia
RESPIRE - Responce of global ocean oxygenation to Early Cenozoic climate extremes
Duration: 1. 1. 2013 - 31. 12. 2015
Evidence number: NE/K005529/1
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: The project is focused on the oxygene crises of word\'s oceans in the geoglogical history of the Earth. Geological record of anoxic conditions in the oceanic sediments is analysed by using of high-quality analytical procedures at level of biomarker studies, heavy metal isotopes (Mo, V, Ru, U), trace elements, etc. Geochemical methods are completed by biostratigraphic research, study of environmental proxies of marine microfauna, models of oceanographic circulation for particular geological periods, etc.
Investigation of the influence of the geological inhomogeneities on the microseismical measurements
Duration: 1. 10. 2007 - 31. 12. 2015
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc.
Partner countries: Russia
Fossil subcellular structures in giant sperm cells of Miocene ostracods: expanding the record to specimens preserved in amber
Duration: 19. 6. 2015 - 23. 6. 2015
Evidence number: LS-2288
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Dr. Libor Morkovský, Mgr. Fischer Jessica
Annotation: A project follows an experiment from the year 2014. Organisms preserved in an amber show a detail view on the soft body parts, which rarely preserve in fossil record. Fossil ostracod fauna from Mexico contain the males of Cyprididae known for giant spermatozoids. This offers an opportunity to see more details of sexual organs composition for better phylogenetic and taxonomic information and to detect organelles like two large mitochondria of ostracod giant sperm for better understanding of the evolution of giant sperm.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Genetical and time relations between magmatic processes and gold mineralization in porphyry epithermal oreforming systems in volcanic structures of Central Slovakian neovolcanites
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Lexa Jaroslav, CSc., Mgr. Milovský Rastislav, PhD.
Other cosolvers: RNDr. Konečný Vlastimil,CSc., Mgr. Koděra Peter, PhD., Černyšev Igor V., DrSc., Kovalenker Vladimir A., DrSc., Dr., Lebedev V.A., Dr. Prokofjev V.Ju., Dr. Čugaev, A.V.
Annotation: The main task of this joint project is to establish genesis of epithermal precious metals and porphyry mineralization in volcanic areas. This will involve: refined mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of the ore mineralization, spatial-temporal relations of porphyry and epithermal mineralization to igneous events in Štiavnica skarn-porphyry-epithermal ore system, identifying sources of ore components by using high precision Pb-Pb isotope systematics, further clarification of temporal characteristics of the main types of mineralization and its relationship to the development of Štiavnica stratovolcano, the study of the chronology of the formation of Javorie and Poľana stratovolcanoes and comparative study of petrogeochemical peculiarities of Banská Štiavnica, Javorie and Polana stratovolcanoes based on the studies of melt and fluid inclusions in magmatic minerals.
Partner countries: Russia, Slovakia
Monitoring and analysis of earthquakes with respect to oherský rift in Czech Republic and area of Male Karpaty in Slovak Republic
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD.
Partner countries: Czech Republic
Ostracod-Diatomaceae paleoecologic and isotopic inference model for the fossil freshwater and brackish lakes
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2014
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Annotation: The Central and South-Eastern European freshwater systems of the Neogene are characterized by outstanding endemism. The roots of that biodiversity are firmly planted on the geological origins of the Balcan Peninsula and Central Europe, being products of continental plate tectonics and the evolution of the large marine basins (Paratethys, Tethys), followed by a major Alpine phase in Miocene.The ostracods, small crustaceans with calcified carapace, and Diatomacea, algae with siliceous test, are the most often and abundant mikrofossils in the Paratethys limnic deposits, but their usage in paleolimnological research and for biostratigraphic purpose requires a taxonomic investigation and re-examination of the original material by new microscopical methods. As the isotopes composition of the diatom and ostracod tests is a function of the lake water isotopic composition, they are used as proxies for lake isotopic evolution and for quantification of the paleoecological data. Because measured data can be influenced by a vital effect, the project will compare the data of two fossil groups.
Temporal resolution in benthic assemblages: assessing and modeling the roles of burial dynamics, seafloor type, and intrinsic factors using (un)natural experiments
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 1. 12. 2014
Evidence number: National Science Foundation - NSF-EAR 1124318
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Annotation: This project tests for the first time the extent to which skeletal assemblages retain their temporal resolution as they undergo progressive burial into deeper, more permanent layers of the Holocene sedimentary record, where the assemblage is no longer refreshed by new shell input and is subject to different chemical regimes. We will leverage extensive prior knowledge of seafloor animals and environmental conditions on the southern California continental shelf to conduct a series of observational experiments on the key factors thought to control skeletal accumulation, namely (1) the intrinsic durability of shell material (focus on six key genera of bivalves, differing in shell mineralogy and microstructure), (2) rates and types of sediment accumulation (land-derived mud and sand, plus shell-rich seabeds deprived of sediment), and (3) rates and depths of sediment mixing by storms and burrowing animals, with factors 2 and 3 quantified using radioisotopic methods.
Project website: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124318
Fossil subcellular structures in giant sperm cells of Miocene ostracods: expanding the record to specimens preserved in amber
Duration: 3. 4. 2014 - 10. 4. 2014
Evidence number: LS-2288
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD., Mgr. Šurka Juraj
Other cosolvers: Dr. Libor Morkovský
Annotation: Organisms preserved in an amber show a detail view on the soft body parts, which rarely preserve in fossil record. Fossil ostracod fauna from Mexico contain the males of Cyprididae known for giant spermatozoids. This offers an opportunity to see more details of sexual organs composition for better phylogenetic and taxonomic information and to detect organelles like two large mitochondria of ostracod giant sperm for better understanding of the evolution of giant sperm.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Geology and evolution of Au-Ag-Bi-Te-Se of associations of deposits and ore manifestations of Ukraine and Slovakia
Duration: 1. 1. 2011 - 31. 12. 2013
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Andráš Peter, CSc., RNDr. Biroň Adrián, CSc., Mgr. Luptáková Jarmila, PhD., Mgr. Mikuš Tomáš, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Mgr. Jaroslav Pršek PhD.
Annotation: The main task of the project is the determination of formation conditions of minerals of Au-Ag-Bi-Te-Se geochemical association that are genetically associated with neovolcanites of the West and East parts of Carpathian mountains (mainly Vyhorlat-Huta zone with Ilkovtsy, Podulki a Smerekiv Kamin localities, Ukraine and wider vicinity of Poruba pod Vihorlatom, Slovakia). The important results of the project execution will be reconstruction of physical and chemical conditions of the formation of bismuth tellurides and selenides as well as other minerals crystallochemically related to them; revealing of relation existed between Bi-Te-Se mineralization and silver - gold mineralization.
Partner countries: Ukraine
CBEP - Climate and biota of the Early Paleogene
Duration: 1. 1. 2011 - 31. 12. 2013
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Antolíková Silvia, PhD.
Annotation: The research of the CBEP working group is focused to the conditions of instability of the Earth climatic systems since the Cretaceous time. The research work of this group is attended by numerous specialists in biostratigraphy, environmental micropaleontology, litogechemistry, sedimentology, etc. This year meeting of the CBEP group was taking place in Salzburg (5. – 8. 6. 2011).
Structure and dynamics of the Carpathian lithosphere based on gravimetry and geothermics
Duration: 1. 1. 2011 - 31. 12. 2013
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Bilčík Dušan, RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc., Mgr. Dérerová Jana, PhD., RNDr. Majcin Dušan, CSc., Mgr. Pánisová Jaroslava, PhD.
Annotation: The main goal of the project is to study of the geophysical and geological structure and tectonics of the lithosphere in the Carpathian orogen in tectonic position with the surrounding tectonic units as the Eastern European platform, Pannonian Basin System, Bohemian Massif and Eastern Alps. The geophysical study will be based mainly on the interpretation of the gravity field and the surface heat flow data. The interpretation of the gravity and geothermal data will come from the other geophysical, geological and geodetic constrains (e.g., seismic, magnetotelluric, geological and GPS measurements). The project will also deal with the determination and calculations of the density, thermal conductivity and heat production distributions within the regions under study. The modern and very effective software for the 2-D and 3-D interpretation of the observed gravity and geothermal fields will be applied. The collaborative institutions are the owners of these modern software and programs. The GMT-AUTO software is capable to calculate the 3-D gravitational, magnetic and thermal effects of the arbitrary anomalous bodies with the changing of the physical parameters both in horizontal and vertical directions. The geothermal modeling approaches are based on analytical and numerical solutions of heat transport equation in steady state and transient form with own software support.
Partner countries: Ukraine
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Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2013
Evidence number: JSPS 2012-2013
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Siman Pavol, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Janák Marian, DrSc.
Partner countries: Bulgaria, Japan, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden
AIM - Advanced Industrial Microseismic Monitoring
Duration: 1. 10. 2009 - 30. 9. 2013
Evidence number: FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2009-230669
Program: 7RP
Project leader: Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Fojtíková Lucia, PhD., doc. Mgr. Gális Martin, PhD.
Annotation: The aim of the project is to stimulate and advance research in microseismic monitoring in areas of prominent social and industrial significance. The project will foster the cooperation between academic researchers in theoretical and observationalearthquake seismology and private research teams monitoring a natural or induced microseismic activity for industrial purposes. The involved academics have a reputation in moment tensor inversions, interpretations of non-double-couple focal mechanisms, seismic anisotropy, ray tracing, seismic tomography and seismic hazard assessment. The industrial partners are SMEs with high-tech equipments, long-lasting experience in monitoring microseismicity and with adequate research capacities. They can offer datasets with a potential for further fundamental research. The results of the project will contribute to seismic hazard assessment of the Bohunice nuclear power plant in Slovakia, stability of rock slopes in Norway, deep-level gold mines in South Africa and open-pit mines in Canada.
Partner countries: Canada, Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia, South Africa
Harmonization of determining the radiation dose of the population originating from radon, in V4 countries
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2012
Evidence number: 21120293
Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: Ing., RNDr. Smetanová Iveta, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Ing., RNDr. Smetanová Iveta, PhD.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Ostracod-Diatomaceae paleoecologic and isotopic inference model for the fossil freshwater and brackish lakes
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2012
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Annotation: The Central and South-Eastern European freshwater systems of the Neogene are characterized by outstanding endemism. The roots of that biodiversity are firmly planted on the geological origins of the Balcan Peninsula and Central Europe, being products of continental plate tectonics and the evolution of the large marine basins (Paratethys, Tethys), followed by a major Alpine phase in Miocene.The ostracods, small crustaceans with calcified carapace, and Diatomacea, algae with siliceous test, are the most often and abundant mikrofossils in the Paratethys limnic deposits, but their usage in paleolimnological research and for biostratigraphic purpose requires a taxonomic investigation and re-examination of the original material by new microscopical methods. As the isotopes composition of the diatom and ostracod tests is a function of the lake water isotopic composition, they are used as proxies for lake isotopic evolution and for quantification of the paleoecological data. Because measured data can be influenced by a vital effect, the project will compare the data of two fossil groups.
ryolitové vulkan - Paleovolcanic reconstruction and evolution of silicic volcanic formations in Carpathian-Pannonian region
Duration: 1. 1. 2010 - 31. 12. 2012
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Lexa Jaroslav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Gregorová Katarína
Annotation: Rhyolite magmatism and related hydrothermal systems are sources of precious metal ores as well as a wide range of industrial minerals (perlite, clays, alunite, zeolite). A detailed knowledge on relevant magmatic systems, structure and evolution of volcanic formations and hydrothermal systems as well as alteration of host rocks is a prerequisite of rational exploration and exploitation of potential resources. The main objective of the project is to integrate methods of paleovolcanic reconstruction and K/Ar radiometric dating to improve our understanding of silicic volcanic formations and their evolution. Primary objects of studies will be silicic volcanic formations of central Slovakia and Tokaj mountain range, however, extension of studies to silicic volcanic formations of Transcarpathia - Ukraine and northern Romania is probable. A large effort will be devoted also to methodological aspects of K/Ar dating of silicic rocks based on precise petrological/mineralogical analyses of dated rocks.
Partner countries: Hungary, Slovakia
Miocene to Recent tectonic activity of Orava-Nowy Targ Basin
Duration: 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2012
Evidence number: 31
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Mgr. Starek Dušan, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: doc. RNDr. Hurai Vratislav, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Anna Swierczewska (PL), František Marko (PriF UK, SK), Rastislav Vojtko(PriF UK, SK)
Annotation: The principal aim of the project is understanding the reason of the seismicity within the Orava-Nowy Targ Intramontane Basin. Our studies focus on Neogene to Quaternary fill of the basin. Structural analysis of small-scale tectonic features provide information on temporal and spatial reconstruction of tectonic activity in the basin. These results are verified by sedimentological analysis focused on synsedimentary deformation. The project represents a continuation of joint Polish-Slovak tectonic studies realized since 1996.
Partner countries: Poland, Slovakia
LADATSHA - Prevention of Landslide Dam Disasters in the Tien Shan, Kyrgyz Republic
Duration: 1. 1. 2009 - 30. 9. 2012
Evidence number: ESP.EAP.SFPP 983289
Program: NATO
Project leader: Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Bystrický Erik, RNDr. Cipciar Andrej
Partner countries: Belgium, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Switzerland
BITS - Bivalves in Time and Space: Testing the accuracy of methods to reconstruct ancestral morphology, dates, geography, and diversification patterns
Duration: 1. 1. 2010 - 31. 12. 2011
Evidence number: DEB-0919451
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Annotation: Explaining the origin and maintenance of general biogeographic (marine and terrestrial) patterns such as the latitudinal gradient in diversity and in range size is one of the most highly depated topics in present-day biogeography and macroecology. This BITS project has several working groups - our working group was focused (1) on analyses of empirical geographic distribution and spatial patterning of body size and diversification patterns in Holocene bivalves, using an extensive global database of spatially-explicit occurrence data, and (2) on modeling the relationship between climatic gradients and geographic range sizes of bivalves. Bivalves have very high fossilization potential and are thus suitable for testing evolutionary and ecological models.
Project website: www.bivatol.org/BiTS
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
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2011
Evidence number: Projekt P20018-N10
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: Project is focused to stratigraphic study of the Puez section in the Austrian Dolomites, which is considered as stratotype for definition of the Cretaceous stages of the Northern Tethys. Therefore, the research team consists of superior scientists in paleontology, microbiostratigraphy and paleomagnetostratigraphy, which provide a high-resolution analysis of various fossil groups and physical methods.
Investigation of genetic and tempoval relationships of magmatism and epithermal mineralizations in the Central Slovakia volcanics field.
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2011
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Lexa Jaroslav, CSc.
Partner countries: Russia
Understanding of genetical and time relations between magmatism and epithermal oregenesis in volcanic structures of Central Slovakian neovolcanites.
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2011
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Lexa Jaroslav, CSc.
Other cosolvers: RNDr. Konečný Vlastimil,CSc., Černyšev Igor V., DrSc., Kovalenker Vladimir A., DrSc.
Annotation: The main tasks of project are (a) specification of mineralogical-geochemical and isotopic-geochemical characteristic and as well as spatio-temporal relations of different types of ores, (b) study of space relation of distribution of magmatic rocks, metasomatic alteration and ores at base of research of profile of new water adit (NOŠ), (c) precising of age characteristic of formation of basic complexes of volcanic rocks of Štiavnica stratovolcano and (d) geochronological study of formation of Vtačnik, Kremnica, Javorie and Polana stratovolcanoes.
Partner countries: Russia, Slovakia
From source to sink: integrated natural hazard assessment through the quatification of mass trasfer from mountains ranges to active sedimentary basins
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2011
Evidence number: EUROCORES 2007 ESF-EC-0006-07
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
Partner countries: Slovakia
DETERMINE - Development of Earthquake Monitoring Infrastructure for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 1. 11. 2009 - 28. 2. 2011
Evidence number: SAMRS/ 2009/04/24
Program: Medzivládna dohoda
Project leader: Mgr. Kristeková Miriam, PhD.
Partner countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina
3D interpretation of the gravity field for studying the structure, dynamics, and tectonics of the West- Carpathian litosphere
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
Partner countries: Ukraine
ATBI+M - ATBI+M (All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory & Monitoring)
Duration: 1. 3. 2006 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: 6RP
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Annotation: Workpackage (WP) 7 of the \'European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy\' (EDIT) organises \'All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories\' (ATBIs). In EDIT\'s ATBIs, scientists from up to 27 mainly EU-based, scientific institutions cooperate to work on a \'baseline biodiversity assessment\'.Despite the fact that the European Union aims at a total halt of biodiversity loss by 2010 (www.countdown2010.net), our knowledge on biodiversity is very limited, even in European habitats.Results of EDIT\'s ATBIs will be published here and through the \'Global Biodiversity Information Facility\' (GBIF), with user-friendly search and mapping interfaces. Our results will further be used in web-based tools for species descriptions and identification (\'cybertaxonomy\' EDIT WP5) to accelerate European biodiversity assessments.Importantly, ATBI results support ecologists, conservationists and environmental politics and will thus contribute to the 2010 goals of the European Union, with a strong and fast-acting community of taxonomic scientists.
Partner countries: France, Germany, Slovakia
Project website: http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/node/109 ;http://zoology.fns.uniba.sk/atbi/
Marine and Non-m - Marine and Non-marine Jurassic: Global correlation and major geological events
Duration: 1. 1. 2005 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number: IGCP 506
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Golej Marián, PhD.
Other cosolvers: RNDr. Ján Schlőgl, PhD. - koordinátor za SR -
Annotation: The project integrates multidisciplinary methods, including palaeontological, lithostratigraphical, biostratigraphical, sequence stratigraphical, lithological including volcanic, sedimentary and sedimentological, geochemical, isotopic dating and geophysical, to solve the interrelated problems of correlation between marine and non-marine Jurassic, including the boundary intervals.
Partner countries: Argentina, Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam
Project website: www.nigpas.ac.cn/igcp506/index.asp
Rapid environmental/climate change in the Cretaceous Greenhouse World.
Duration: 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number: IGCP 555
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Antolíková Silvia, PhD., doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Other cosolvers: Prírodovedecká fakulta Univerz
Annotation: The goal of the project is to investigate the causes, processes, and consequences of rapid environmental changes in the Cretaceous greenhouse world. In contrast to the oscillating glacial-interglacial climates of the past few million years, the Cretaceous was a time of long term climate stability with warm equable climates resulting from a higher atmospheric greenhouse gas content. However, the stable climate was periodically disturbed by short-term episodes of warming and cooling related to rapidly changing greenhouse gas concentrations. The project intends to understand the implications of these perturbations of the otherwise stable system. The results of this investigation will be relevant to understanding potential variations in the Earth’s near-term future climate.
Project website: www.cretaceousworld.com
Contribution to the Euro-Mediterranean archive of historical macroseismic data
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Labák Peter, PhD.
Partner countries: Italy
Functional response peculiarities of biological objects attributed to atmosfpheric pressure and geomagnetic field lowfrequency fluctuations
Duration: 1. 1. 2008 - 31. 12. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Váczyová Magdaléna, PhD.
Partner countries: Ukraine
Comparative mineralogical-geochemical analysis of Au-Ag-Bi-Te-Se mineralization of neovulcanites and crystalline complexes of Ukraine and Slovakia (Carpathian region)
Duration: 27. 9. 2007 - 27. 9. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: prof. RNDr. Andráš Peter, CSc., Mgr. Luptáková Jarmila, PhD., Mgr. Mikuš Tomáš, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Prof. RNDr. Martin Chovan CSc., Mgr. Jaroslav Pršek PhD., Mgr. Daniel Ozdín, PhD., Mgr. Timea Bálintová, RNDr. Pavel Bačo, PhD.
Annotation: The main task of the project is the determination of formation conditions of minerals of Au-Ag-Bi-Te-Se geochemical association that are genetically associated with neovolcanites of the West and East parts of Carpathian mountains (mainly Vyhorlat-Huta zone with Ilkovtsy, Podulki a Smerekiv Kamin localities, Ukraine and wider vicinity of Poruba pod Vihorlatom, Slovakia). The important results of the project execution will be reconstruction of physical and chemical conditions of the formation of bismuth tellurides and selenides as well as other minerals crystallochemically related to them; revealing of relation existed between Bi-Te-Se mineralization and silver - gold mineralization.
Partner countries: Slovakia, Ukraine
SISMOS - -
Duration: 1. 2. 2010 - 30. 6. 2010
Evidence number:
Program: 6RP
Project leader: Ing. Srbecký Miroslav
SAS cosolvers: Ing. Srbecký Miroslav
Partner countries: Italy
Project website: http://sismos.rm.ingv.it/
Long term changes and climatology of UV radiation over Europe
Duration: 1. 3. 2004 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number: COST 726
Program: COST
Project leader: Mgr. Pribullová Anna, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Slovenský Hydrometeorologický ústav
Annotation: The density and length of time series of UV radiation measurements with controlled quality are not sufficient for estimation of long-term variability of UV radiation; model GPI created under the COST-726 action was used for determination of typical distribution of erythemal UV radiation over Slovakia (estimation of the UV- climate). Analysis of measurements performed at meteorological station GPI Stará Lesná and Skalnaté Pleso was used for parameterization of altitude and snow effect on the total and the UV radiation. Measurements of the Slovak Hydro meteorological Institute and of the GPI from decade 1995 – 2004 were utilised as proxy parameters of the UV radiation. Map set of erythemal UV radiation daily doses distribution over Slovakia is result of the modelling. The maps corresponded to cloudless sky, to conditions with typical distribution of the cloud effect, to average total ozone (O3 AVG) and its upper and lower limits expressed by standard deviation form average (O3 ± STDEV) and to two possibilities of snow cover distribution over Slovakia (snow pressence assummed from altitudes with snow probability P=50% and P=70%) were created separately. The map-set can be considered as an Atlas of the UV radiation climate over Slovakia. The maps can be used for the future studies on UV radiation impact on man and biosphere.http://www.ta3.sk/gfu/atlas.htm
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Project website: http://www.cost726.org/
Exploration of the Jurassic Vertebrate Fauna in the Xianjing Province of China: Sino-American Junggar Basin Expedition
Duration: 1. 8. 2008 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number:
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Kundrát Martin, PhD.
Partner countries: China, United States
Geophysical interpretation of the lithosphere in the CELEBRATION 2000 region
Duration: 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number: 29
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Bielik Miroslav, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Poland
MagNetE
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Valach Fridrich, PhD.
Measurement and monitoring of atmospheric icing
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number: COST 727
Program: COST
Project leader: RNDr. Ostrožlík Marian, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Ing. Varšová (Bičárová) Svetlana, PhD.
Partner countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Project website: www.cost727.org
Sepkoski Grants - Species-level microevolutionary changes at the transition from marine to lacustrin environments
Duration: 1. 1. 2009 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number:
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Partner countries: United States
Study of soil contamination caused by power plants and petrochemical factories by means of magnetic methods
Duration: 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Túnyi Igor, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Poland
Tectonic control on the Triassic evolution of the carbonate platforms of the Alp-Carpathian-Dinarid region
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2009
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Austria, Germany, Hungary
10. Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Palaeontologists
Duration: 1. 9. 2009 - 12. 9. 2009
Evidence number: 10910093
Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: RNDr. Kundrát Martin, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Halašiová Nataša, Ing. Kötelešová Sidónia, PhD., Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD., Ing. Paľová Henrieta , doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: The present project is proposed to support Euro-regional scientific event of the paleontological community from the Visegrad and other Central European countries.Organization of the event, exchange of current knowledge, and publication of proceedings on prehistoric changes in biodiversity of life on the Earth are among major objectives of the project. The event will commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Darwin´s birth and celebrate 150 years since publication of On the Origin of Species.Geological Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences (GI SAS) and Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica will host the tenth anniversary conference of the Czech, Slovak and Polish Paleontologists. (Paleontology studies the forms of life existing in prehistoric times.)The conference will be held in October 13–15, 2009 in the Šachtičky tourist centre nearby Banská Bystrica. Due the anniversary character of this event, essential spirit of the event will be innovated by making the conference open for the first time to our colleagues from Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries. We find this activity as a key to functional cooperation between four Visegrad paleontological subjects and their partners from neighboring countries. To find overlapping areas of interests, we will offer more diversified scientific program than was the case previously. We welcome specialists in all paleo-disciplines, as well as experts in ecology, biology, and virtual imaging. We would like to boost interest for integration of paleontology and other scientific fields to contribute to multinational solution of current global climate and biodiversity issues through learning from the prehistoric biotic crises.
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Quantifying sedimentary capture of biological information
Duration: 1. 11. 2006 - 30. 6. 2009
Evidence number: NSF-EAR 0345897
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Partner countries: United States
Estimating impacts of past natural and anthropogenic disturbances on shelf macrobenthic communities using dead-shell assemblages
Duration: 1. 6. 2008 - 31. 5. 2009
Evidence number: NA070AR4170008
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc.
Annotation: Analyses of impacts of past natural and anthropogenic disturbances on shelf macrobenthic communities using dead-shell molluscan assemblages from the southern California Bight. This project compares composition of present-day communities (since 1960) with communities that inhabited this region during the last hundreds to thousands of years.
Partner countries: Slovakia, United States
Correlation of neurocranial morphology and postcranial parameters to assess upon specific locomotory adaptations in birds
Duration: 20. 4. 2009 - 15. 5. 2009
Evidence number: DE-TAF-5552
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Kundrát Martin, PhD.
Annotation: The present project will analyze neurocranial morphologies of avian specimens from the DE-TAF collection and correlate interspecific variability of these with major locomotory adaptations referred to postcranial skeleton of corresponding species. This study has been designed as a complementary project to my current research program in order to provide further data towards understaning co-evolution of neurocranial and postcranial characters in modern birds. It has been also expected that the study is to have a bearing on interpretation of endoneurocranial and postcranial refinements during the evolution of ancient birds and theropods. Although birds have been primarily adapted to aerial environment, their flying capabilities are widely diversified (escape-stimulated flying; ?flying? under water; passive flying; highly manuverable flying), or reduced due to reversal adaptations for terrestrial locomotion. It is hypothesized here that diversification or loss of flying capabilities have been associated with adaptation of the skeletal elements combined with endoneurocranial modifications towards adjusting sensual requirements for new type of locomotion. Available endoneurocranial (including some cerebral) data are considered to be further analyzed include weights of fixed brains, geometrical quantifications calculated from 2D high resolution perspectives and 3D surface models, and qualitative features expressed by external and internal morphology of the avian braincase. Endoneurocranial metric data will be evaluated using linear regression performed on the log transformed data. Residual plots for cranial-postcranial or cerebral-postcranial parameters will be calculated from regressions for avian groups with different locomotory capabilities. Plastic characters will be analyzed within current molecular and morphological phylogenetic frameworks to assess convergencies of cerebral and skeletal phenotypes in birds evolving similar locomotory adaptations.
Partner countries: Germany
Experimental monitoring of the deformations of the Earth´s crust in the wide frequency diapason
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008
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Program: Medziústavná dohoda
Project leader: RNDr. Brimich Ladislav, CSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Russia
Current research in Planktonic Foraminifera
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2008
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Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Paleomagnetic and stratigraphic research of the Mesozoic formations
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Poland
Pre-tertiary basement map of inner Western Carpathians – Gemer-Bükk and Vepor-Mátra area
Duration: 1. 1. 2007 - 31. 12. 2008
Evidence number: 4
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Hungary
Tectonic activity at the northern margin of the Malé Karpaty Mts
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 12. 2008
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Czech Republic
Transformation of solar energy in forest stands, the tool for the bio-accumulation of the atmospheric carbon
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2008
Evidence number:
Program: Medziústavná dohoda
Project leader: RNDr. Hurtalová Taťjana, CSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Czech Republic
Evalutionary patterns and global environmental changes as indicated by cockroaches, mantids and termites
Duration: 1. 1. 2006 - 31. 1. 2008
Evidence number: MVTS
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: Mgr. Vršanský Peter, PhD.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Germany, China, Lebanon, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
Diversity of living subterranean and fossil Paratethyan Ostracoda
Duration: 1. 1. 2005 - 31. 12. 2007
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Dr. Kyška-Pipík Radovan, PhD.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Austria
Magneto-, bio-, and carbon isotope stratigraphy of Valanginian and Hauterivian sequence in the Fatric of the Western Tatra Mts and Strazov Mts
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2007
Evidence number: 529
Program: Medzivládna dohoda
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Czech Republic
Comparison of the Slovak and Portuguese Sb deposits
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2007
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Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: prof. RNDr. Andráš Peter, CSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Portugal
Circum Pannonian Terrane maps
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2007
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Austria, Hungary, Serbia
Genetic and age correlation of magmatism and epithermal ore genesis in Central Slovak neovulcanic structures
Duration: 1. 1. 2005 - 31. 12. 2007
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Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Jeleň Stanislav, CSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Russia
CELEBRATION 2000
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Canada, Poland, United States
Geochemical study of basal cataclasites of the Carpathian nappes
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: Medziakademická dohoda (MAD)
Project leader: Mgr. Milovský Rastislav, PhD.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Germany
PROPER - Marie Curie Actions – Research Training Networks Proxies in Paleoclimatology: Education and Research
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: 6RP
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: France, Germany, Netherlands
SUDETES 2004
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Vozár Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Poland, United States
Triassic/Jurassic boundary events
Duration: 1. 1. 2003 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number: IGCP No 0458
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: RNDr. Biroň Adrián, CSc., Mgr. Golej Marián, PhD., doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc., Mgr. Tomašových Adam, DrSc., Mgr. Vršanský Peter, PhD.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Austria, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom
Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of eclogites in Pohorie
Duration: 1. 1. 2004 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: RNDr. Janák Marian, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Slovenia
CORB - Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds: response to Ocean/Climate Global Changes
Duration: 1. 1. 2002 - 31. 12. 2006
Evidence number: IGCP No. 463
Program: UNESCO
Project leader: doc. RNDr. Soták Ján, DrSc.
SAS cosolvers: doc. RNDr. Michalík Jozef, DrSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Canada, China, Italy