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Annual Geohazards Conference - June 17-19, 2015 - Dunaújváros, Hungary

Patron:

DR. Tibor Tollár,National Inspector General for Civil Protection, National Directorate General for Disaster Management - Hungary

Scientific board:

Peter Scharek, Retired senior research associate
Ferenc Schweitzer, Emeritus Professor, Science Academy of Hungary
Ákos Török, Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, Budapest University of Technical and Economical

June 17, 2015 (Wednesday)

12 am – 5.30 pm	Registration: Hotel Kerpely
1.30 – 2.00 pm	Tamás Szél: Huge Landslide in Dunaújvaros
2.00 – 5.00 pm	First excursion: Dunaújváros, complex bluff control and management (details)
6.00 pm	Participants reception – Campus Restaurant

June 18, 2015 (Thursdays)

8.00 am-	Registration: Hotel Kerpely
9.00 – 9.20 am	Opening speech – by Mr. Vitor Correira, director of the European Federaton of Geologist Welcome speech – by Ferenc Tóth, PhD Civil Defence Superintendent, National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior
9.20 – 9.40 am	Tamás Oszvald: How are we thinking about the geological hazards
9.40 – 10.00 am	Attila Madaras (BM): Hazard Averting (Elimination of hazards) of Mass Movements between 2013 and 2014
10.00 – 10.20 am	Vitor Correia – Tamás Miklovitz: The voice of European Geologists
10.20 – 10.40 am	Coffee break
Chairman:	Attila Madaras
10.40 – 11.00 am	Antal Papp (BM KOK): Planning public information and warning systems
11.00 – 11.20 am	László Papanek (KDVVIZIG): Present the link between the bluff disaster and spacial hydrometeorology situation
11.20 – 11.40 am	Péter Durda (Miskolc Mayor’s Office): Vis maijor cases in Miskolc between 2010 and 2014
11.40 – 12.00 am	János Balogh, Gergely Jakab, Tímea Prodán, Éva Kis, Zoltán Szalai, József Szeberényi, István Viczián (MTA CsFK): Geomorphological investigations of riverbank restitution endangered by landslides and bluffs (monitoring and soil protection on artificial escarpments)
12.00 – 1.30 pm	Lunch
1.30 – 1.50 pm	Poster presentations: Andrea Raveloson: Remote sensing of an active landslide - lessons learned in Doren (Vorarlberg, Austria) János Balogh, István Viczián, Éva Kis, József Szeberényi, Timea Prodán, László Tóth (MTA CsFK): Riverbank protection and geomorphological studies at Kulcs and Rácalmás villages, Hungary Éva Kis, Dénes Lóczy, János Balogh, József Szeberényi, István Viczián, Timea Prodán (MTA CsFK): Controls on bank erosion along the lower Tisza section in Hungary
Chairman:	János Balogh
1.50 – 2.10 pm	Zoltán Tompai – Balázs Vásárhelyi (Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics Budapest University of Technology and Economics: Landslides and rockfalls of the Fonyód Várhegy, design of the rehabilitation
2.10 – 2.30 pm	Zsofia Pasztor (filtrexx®): The filtrexx® technologies
2.30 – 3.20 pm	Mark Woolbright (filtrexx®) via webex: Living walls with filtrexx®
3.20 – 3.50 pm	Coffee break
Chairman:	Péter Prakfalvi
3.40 – 4.00 pm	Andrea Raveloson (Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences, Eötvös University) : Gully erosion: A worldwide threat with many forms of appearance
4.00 – 4.20 pm	Tamás Varga, Sz. Á. Fábián, G. Varga (PTE), Ferenc Schweitzer (MTA CsFK): The relation between the Danube˙s streamline and the mass movements occurring on the high bluffs – the necessities of a new river regulation
4.20 – 4.40 pm	Anita Andó – Péter Scharek (MFGI): Contains and Results of Urban Geological Researches in Budapest City and Region
4.40 – 5.00 pm	Zsanett Kopecskó (PTE) – Ferenc Schweitzer (MTA CsFK): Aspects of engineering geomorphology in the Ajka – Kolontár region with particular emphasis on water management and dewatering possibilities for the safety of the red sludge reservoir
5.00 – 6.00 pm	Q&A
6.30 pm	Reception Campus Restaurant

June 19, 2015 (Friday)

Chairman:	Tamás Oszvald
08.40 – 09.20 am	Lóránd Andaházy (Maccaferri)
09.20 – 09.40 am	Gyula Mentes, László Bányai, Gábor Újvári (MTA CSFK GGI): Kinetic processes of the high bank at Dunaszekcső between 2007 and 2015
09.40 – 10.00 am	Ákos Török (Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics Budapest University of Technology and Economics): Complex engineering geological and geodetic survey of cliff faces with potential rock-fall hazards
10.00 – 10.20 am	Péter Prakfalvi (MFGI): Activity of the Experts’ Committee for the Elimination of Hazards caused by Cellars and River Walls through a geologist’s eyes in the past 2 years
10.20 – 10.40 am	Coffee break
Chairman:	Ákos Török
10.40 – 11.00 am	Tamás Horváth: Alberding GmbH): GNSS surface deformation monitoring - an affordable solution
11.00 – 11.20 am	Tamás Oszvald (Dotax Bt.): Landslides in Kulcs
11.20 – 11.40 am	Beatrix Udvardi (MFGI): Mineralogy and geochemistry of sediments from Kulcs landslide (Hungary)
11.35 - 11.50 am	Gyula Jobb (Kulcs, Mayor’s Office): Local goverments who endure the catastrophes
11.50 – 12.00 am	Q&A
12.00 – 1.30 pm	Lunch
2.00 – 5.30 pm	Excursion: Kulcs - active, under remediation, and stabilized landslides (details)