ZOLTÁN KERN
PhD
head of research group
Contacts
  • +36 1 309 2600 / 1355
  • +36 1 319 3137
  • kern.zoltan at csfk.hun-ren.hu
  • 313. szoba
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Place and date of birth
    Budapest, 1977. július 14.
Qualifications
  • 2010 PhD degree, Earth Sciences-Physical Geography (Eötvös University); Title of the Dissertation: Climate and environmental changes reconstructed from tree rings and cave ice.
  • 2001 Certified teacher of geography and mathematics, MSc (Eötvös University); Title of the Thesis: Carpathian caves hiding perennial ice
Language knowledge
  • Angol B2, 2001
  • Orosz B1, 2008
Main fields of research
  • environment and climate change
  • biogeochemistry
  • environmental isotopes
  • dendroclimatology
  • quarterly research
Research projects
  • as PI or co-PI:
    • SNN 118205 (2016-2019) Spatial distribution of water isotopes in precipitation in Europe - with special focus on the transect from the Adriatic Coast to the Pannonian Plain
    • RO-2013-0014 (2013-2014) Román-Magyar TéT, Oxygen isotope signal transferred from precipitation to tree ring studied along a moisture gradient from Hungary to Romania
    • LP2012-27/2012 (2012-2017) (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) MTA CsFK Lendület 2ka Palæoclimate Research Group
  • as participate:
    • ISO-TREE project (Scientific Exchange Programe NMS-CH 10.255) Long-term signals in tree ring isotope records
    • OTKA K67583 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2007-2011) Environmental history with annual resolution.
    • CN-48/2007 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2009-2010) Rates of soil development and erosion – an annual resolution study
    • CRO-04/2006 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2007-2009) Investigation of environmental change on karstic sites – with special attention to recent processes.
    • RO-37/05 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation) (2006-2007) Investigation of spatial and temporal variability of environmental change of the Carpathian Region during the past five centuries.
    • SLO-13/05 (Hungarian Science and Technological Foundation, bilateral cooperation), (2006-2007) Quaternary events in the western part of Pannonian Basin (Slovenia, Hungary).
    • OTKA T43666 (Hungarian National Science Foundation) (2003-2006), Geological and paleoclimatological applications of dendrochronology.
Membership of scientific and professional organizations
Awards
Publications
Selected publications of the last 5 years
  • Kern, Z., Nagavciuc V., Hatvani I.G., Hegyi I., Loader, N., Popa, I. (2023) Evaluation of the non-climatic (age-related) trends of stable oxygen and carbon isotope in Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) tree-rings from the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Dendrochronologia 78: 126061 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126061
  • Kern,Z., Kimák, Á., Hatvani, I.G., Llanos Campana, D.M., Leuenberger, M. (2022) Cellulosein foliage and changes during seasonal leaf development of broadleaf and conifer species. Plants 11: 2412 https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11182412
  • Nagavciuc V., Ionita M, Kern, Z., McCarroll D., Popa, I. (2022) A ~700 years perspective on the 21st century drying in the eastern part of Europe. Communications Earth & Environment 3: 277 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00605-4
  • Kern,Z., Perşoiu A. (2022) Review of ice core drilling in cave environment – challenges, achievements and future directions. Front. Earth Sci. 9: 720038. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.720038
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs., Kern Z., Urdea P., Madarász B., Braucher R. and ASTER Team (2021) Limited glacial erosion during the last glaciation in mid-latitude cirques (Retezat Mts, Southern Carpathians, Romania). Geomorphology 384: 107719 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107719
  • Hatvani IG, Szatmári G., Kern Z, Erdélyi D, Vreča P., Kanduč T, Czuppon, Gy., Lojen, S., Kohán B. (2021) Geostatistical evaluation of the precipitation stable isotope monitoring network design for Slovenia and Hungary. Environment International 146: 106263
  • Topál D., Hatvani I.G., Kern Z. (2020) Refining projected multidecadal hydroclimate uncertainty in East-Central Europe using CMIP5 and single-model large ensemble simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 142: 1147–1167 DOI: 10.1007/s00704-020-03361-7
  • Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova (Sidorova), O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., DeLong, K. L., Falster, G. M., Fischer, M. J., Jones, M. D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D. S., Leduc, G., Managave, S. R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J. W., Sayani, H. R., Thomas, E. K., Thompson, D. M., Tyler, J. J., Abram, N. J., Atwood, A. R., Cartapanis, O., Conroy, J. L., Curran, M. A., Dee, S. G., Deininger, M., Divine, D. V., Kern, Z., Porter, T. J., Stevenson, S. L., von Gunten, L., and the Iso2k Project Members: (2020) The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ²H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12: 2261–2288, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2261-2020
  • Kern Z, Hatvani IG, Czuppon, Gy., Fórizs I, Erdélyi D, Kanduč T, Palcsu L, Vreča P. (2020) Isotopic ‘altitude’ effect and ‘continental’ effect in modern precipitation across the Adriatic-Pannonian region. Water 12, 1797; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061797
  • Kern Z, Erdélyi D, Vreča P., Krajcar Bronić I, Fórizs I, Kanduč T, Štrok M, Palcsu L, Süveges M., Czuppon, Gy., Kohán B, Hatvani IG, (2020) Isoscape of amount-weighted annual mean precipitation tritium (3H) activity from 1976 to 2017 for the Adriatic-Pannonian region - AP3H_v1 database. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12: 2061–2073 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2061-2020
  • Garamszegi, B., Kázmér, M., Kolozs, L., Kern, Z. (2020) Changing climatic sensitivity and effects of drought frequency on the radial growth of Fagus sylvatica at the xeric frontiers of Central Europe. Időjárás 124: 227-251. DOI:10.28974/idojaras.2020.2.5
  • Hatvani I.G., Erdélyi D., Vreča P., Kern Z. (2020) Analysis of the spatial distribution of stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in precipitation across the Iberian Peninsula. Water 12: 481; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020481
  • Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs., Kern Z, Temovski M, Madarász B, Milevski I, Braucher R, ASTER Team (2020) Last deglaciation in the central Balkan Peninsula: Geochronological evidence from Jablanica Mt (North Macedonia). Geomorphology 351: 106985, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106985
  • Pinke, Z, Kern Z., Pow, S. (2019) Volcanic mega-eruptions may trigger massive cholera outbreaks. Climate Research 79: 151–162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01587
  • Kern Z., Demény A., Perşoiu A., Hatvani IG. (2019) Speleothem records from the Eastern part of Europe and Turkey - discussion on stable oxygen- and carbon isotopes. Quaternary 2: 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2030031
  • Németh A., Kern Z. (2018) Sclerochronological study of a Glycymeris vangentsumi population from the Madeira Islands. Front. Earth Sci. 6: 76. doi:10.3389/feart.2018.00076 (Németh A, Kern Z (2019) Corrigendum: Sclerochronological study of a Glycymeris vanhengstumi population from the Madeira Islands. Front. Earth Sci. 7:34. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00034)
  • Kern, Z. Bočić, N., Sipos, Gy. (2018) Radiocarbon dated vegetal remains from the cave ice deposits of Velebit Mt., Croatia. RADIOCARBON 60: 1391-1402. DOI:10.1017/RDC.2018.108
  • Kern Z., Molnár, M., Palcsu, L., Pavuza R. (2018) Age estimates on the deposition of the cave ice block in the Saarhalle Dachstein-Mammoth Cave (Mammuthöhle, Austria) based on 3H and 14C. RADIOCARBON 60: 1379-1389. DOI:10.1017/RDC.2018.96
  • Kern, Z. (2018) Dating cave ice deposits. In: Perşoiu, A. and Lauritzen, SE (eds) Ice Caves, Elsevier pp.109-122.
Last update 28.11.2023.