Workshop 2024

Digital supporting materials:
1) Information booklet on the presenters (PDF)
2) Field Excursion Guide (PDF)

Program for the TOPO-EUROPE Workshop – 14-17.10.2024 – SOPRON, Hungary


Day 0, 13 October

  • Arrival of participants
  • 16:00 – 18:00 Icebreaker at the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (HUN-REN EPSS)


Day 1, 14 October
Field trip with wine tasting and dinner, lead by Kristóf Porkoláb and Gábor Tari

  • 08:00 – meeting and departure from the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science with a bus (sandwich lunch will be provided)
  • 17:00 – wine tasting and dinner


Day 2, 15 October

  • 09:00 – 10:00 Registration
  • 10:00 – 10:05 Opening and welcome by István Kovács, HUN-REN EPSS Acting Director
  • Presentation10:05 – 10:20 Welcome address by Balázs Gulyás, HUN-REN President
  • Presentation10:20 – 10:30 Sierd Cloetingh: Quo vadis TOPO-EUROPE and announcements – Keynote speaker’s public lecture

  • 10:30 – 13:00 Session 1: Coupled Deep Earth – Surface processes and Biogeodynamics (Chair Pietro Sternai, Milan)

  • Presentation10:30 – 10:50 Pietro Sternai (Milan) interaction between surface and deep Earth processes
  • Presentation10:50 – 11:10 Liviu Matenco & Nadi Fader (Utrecht) Advances in quantifying tectonic-driven deformation and diagenesis in sedimentary basins

  • 11:10 – 11:40 Posters and coffee break

  • Presentation11:40 – 12:00 Alexander Koptev (GFZ): “Sleeping Beauty” LIP in the North Atlantic: Iceland plume and its magmatic manifestations
  • Presentation12:00 – 12:20 Márta Berkesi (Sopron/Budapest): carbon dioxide and other volatiles degassing of the Deep Earth in the Pannonian Basin
  • Presentation12:20 – 12:40 Taras Gerya (ETH Zurich): Frontier Science and networking in the EUROBIG COST Action
  • Presentation12:40 – 13:00 Benjamin Mills (Leeds) Predicting long-term climate and environmental change from tectonic and biotic evolution

  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and posters

  • 14:00 – 16:30 Session 2: Renewable Geoenergy and Geohazards (Chair Gabor Tari, Vienna)

  • Presentation14:00 – 14:20 Bernhard Novotny (Vienna) Geothermal energy in the Vienna Basin
  • Presentation14:20 – 14:40 Mark van der Meijde (Twente) Seismology and geothermal: Imaging from continental rifting to local geothermal fields
  • Presentation14:40 – 15:00 Nadia Malaspina (Milano) The role of serpentinites in Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation

  • 15:00 – 15:30 Posters and coffee break

  • Presentation15:30 – 15:50 Kristóf Porkoláb (Sopron): Antigorite dehydration and its relation to intermediate depth seismicity
  • Presentation15:50 – 16:10 Alessio Lavecchia (Bari), Fault (re)activation, fluid-induced seismic activity and seismogenic potential in the Val d’Agri (southern Italy)
  • Presentation16:10 – 16:30 Gábor Tari (Vienna) Natural hydrogen: a new frontier in harvesting renewable geoenergy

  • 16:30-18:30 Wrap-up, posters and drinks

  • 19:00 Conference dinner (Deák restaurant, Deák tér 27, Sopron)


Day 3, 16 October

Presentations of objectives for WG’s, followed by short presentations of individual members of WG members and open discussion

WG1: Tectonics, climate and biogeodynamics (chairs Pietro Sternai and Taras Gerya)

WG2: Renewable geo-energy (Chair: Gabor Tari and Nadia Malaspina)

  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break and poster session
  • 13:30 – 15:00 Synthesis: components for research proposals
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Break 
  • 15:30 – 17:00 reports to plenary for the two WG’s
  • 17:00 – 17:30 General discussion
  • 18:00  Closure of TOPO-EUROPE meeting and drinks 

Day 4, 17 October Back-to-back meetings: Topo-Transylvania and EUROBIG