Scientific Advisor, Senior Research Fellow

CURRICULUM VITAE

Prof. MÁRTA POLGÁRI (Ph.D. C.Sc. Ds. C.) Scientific advisor, senior research fellow

Address: Pócsmegyer-Surány, Hungary

Date and place of birth: Budapest, 1956.

Tel: (36)-1-3092600/1258 (office) Telafax; (36)-1-3193137 (office) Cellular: 06-209-284650 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Citizenship: Hungarian

Languages: Hungarian, English

Profession: Geologist, Ph.D, C.Sc. of Earth Sciences

Academic training: Faculty of Natural Science, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest 1975-1980 graduated with distinction as research geologist in 1980

Diploma work: Comparative Petrographic and Mineralogical Study of the Alluvium of the Maros and Körös Rivers – Budapest, 1980

Post-graduate training: 1981-1983 Doctor's thesis: Geochemical Study of the Úrkút Manganese Carbonate Ores and the Related Formations – József Attila University, Szeged

1983-1992 Candidate of geosciences (Ph. D., H.A.S., 1992) Thesis: Manganese geochemistry reflected by black shale formation and diagenetic processes - Model of formation of the carbonatic manganese ore of Úrkút

2010 Doctor of Academy (DSc)

Name and address of employer: Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Budaörsi str. 45. H-1112 Hungary

Present position: scientific adviser, senior research fellow

Research experiences: during university years: - sedimentary petrology - laser spectroscopy of minerals - canning electron microscopy of minerals in the Institute for Geochemical Research: - electron microprobe studies on various ores (manganese ores, bauxites, etc.) - geochemistry of sedimentary manganese ore deoposits - black shales - natural zeolites - geomicrobiology - cathodoluminescence methods

Professional affiliation: - member of the Hungarian Geological Society (1980-) - secretary of the Hungarian National Committee of IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme) (1994-2000) - IAGOD member (International Association of Geology of Ore Deposits) 2005- - IAGC member (International Association of GeoChemistry) 2008- - secretary of Scientific Committee „Geonomy” of Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2008-

Awards: 1982 Prize of Youth given by the Hungarian Geological Society 1992 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation, 1st Award

Participation in international research programmes: IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme) Project No. 111. (Genesis of Manganese Ore Deposits) 1980-1985. IGCP Project No. 226. (Correlation of Manganese Sedimentation to Paleoenvironments) 1986-1991. IGCP Project No. 254. (Metalliferous Black Shales) l987-1992. as the leader of the Hungarian working group IGCP Project No. 318. (Genesis and Correlation of Marine Polymetallic Oxides) 1992-1996 as the leader of the Hungarian working group IGCP Project No. 357. (Organics and Mineral Deposits) 1993-1997. IGCP Project No. 429. (Organics in Major Environmental Issues) 1998-2002. as the leader of the Hungarian working group

Scientific grants: Hungarian Science Foundation OTKA 4067 (1991-1994) OTKA 032140 (2000-2003). OTKA M 045792 (2003) OMFB-01680/2006 OTKA-NKTH T K 68992 (2007-2012)

PUBLICATIONS

Total number of publications: 60 From that first author: 22 Books: 4 Book chapters: 5 English publication: 56 In SCI journal: 20 Citations: 350 From that SCI citation: 80 Cummulative impact factor: 24

Books: Polgári M, Bíró L, Szabó I. Az eplényi mangánérc (Manganese ores of Eplény) Szeged: SZTE TTIK Földrajzi és Földtani Tanszékcsoport, 2012. 143p. (GeoLitera) (ISBN:978-963-306-124-4) Bíró L., Polgári M., M. Tóth T., Kovács J., Kanuer J., Vigh T. (2009): Az úrkúti mangánérc archív adatainak reambulációja. Reambulation of Archive Data of the Úrkút Manganese Deposit. GeoLitera Publisher, Szeged, ISBN 978-963-482-918-8, pp. 106. Polgári, M., Szabó, Z., Szederkényi, T. (Eds.). (2000). Manganese Ores in Hungary – In commemoration of professor Gyula Grasselly - Mangánércek Magyarországon - Grasselly Gyula akadémikus emlékére. Published by: Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Juhász Publish House, Szeged, Hungary, pp.675. Polgári, M. (1993). Manganese geochemistry reflected by black shale formation and diagenetic processes - Model of formation of the carbonatic manganese ore of Úrkút - A Mn geokémiája a feketepala képződés és a diagenetikus folyamatok tükrében - Az úrkúti karbonátos mangánérc képződési modellje). Special series of Hungarian Geological Institute, Polgári, M. (ed.) and Fórizs, I. (technical ed.) Karpati Publish House, Uzsgorod, pp. 211.

Book chapters Müller A, Polgári M, Pál-Molnár E. (2011): 10. Biosignatures in agate/chalcedony and the role of microorganisms in the formation of silica. In: Johann Zenz; Jens Götze (Eds.) AGATES III, Agate - fascination between legend and science. Bode-Verlag, Berlin. 120-128. Polgári M, Arnold Gucsik, Bernadett Bajnóczi, Jens Götze, Kazue Tazaki, Hirouki Watanabe, Tamás Vigh (2009): Astrobiological aspect of chemolithoautotrophic bacterial activity in the role of black shale-hosted Mn mineralization and cathodoluminescence study of high Mn-bearing carbonates. In Gucsik A (ed) Cathodoluminescense and its aplication in the planetary sciences. Springer, 127- 157. Polgári M., Sajgó Cs., Tóth M., Bruknerné Wein A., Németh T., Sipos P., Szabó Z., Vigh T. (2006): A csinger-patak mederüledékének komplex ásványtani és geokémiai vizsgálata - Complex mineralogical and geochemical investigation of alluvial material of Csinger creek. Magyarország környezetgeokémiai állapota. 2006 Environmental geochemical state of Hungary Kiadja: MTA Földtudományok Osztálya, Környezetgeokémiai Albizottság. Felelős kiadó Nagy Béla osztálytitkár, Ed: Szendrei Géza. Innova Print Kft. Budapest, 139-149. Pantó, Gy., Polgári, M., Tomschey, O. (2003): Bioesszenciális elemek körforgalmának geokémiai alapjai. Anyagáramlások és hatásaik a természetben. Magyarország az ezredfordulón. Stratégiai tanulmányok a Magyar Tudományos Akadémián. Műhelytanulmányok. Szerk: Glatz Ferenc, MTA Társadalomkutató Központ, 113- 151. Polgári, M., Fórizs, I., Máthé, Z., Tóth, M., Pécsi-Donáth, É. (1997): Geoautoclave-type zeolitization in the Miocene rhyolite tuff, Mecsek Mts. SW Hungary - In: Natural Zeolites - Sofia, 95 - Kirov, G.L., Filizova and O. Petrov (eds.) p. 227-240.

List of papers published in English

Polgári M, Hein JR, Vigh T, Szabó-Drubina M, Fórizs I, Bíró L, Müller A, Tóth L Microbial processes and the origin of the Úrkút manganese deposit, Hungary ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 47 :pp. 87-109.(2012) Polgári M, Gutzmer J Manganese metallogenesis. Introduction to the special issue preface ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 47: pp. 1-4. (2012) Polgári M, Hein J R, Tóth A L, Pál-Molnár E, Vigh T, Bíró L, Fintor K Microbial action formed Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore deposit in only a few hundred years (Úrkút, Hungary) GEOLOGY 40:(10) pp. 903-906. (2012) Bíró L, Polgári M, Pál-Molnár E The revaluation of the drillings of the manganese mineralization in Eplény (Hungary) CARPATHIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 7:(3) pp. 109-117. (2012) Bíró L, Polgári M, M Tóth T, Vigh T Refinement of genetic and structural models of the Úrkút manganese ore deposit (W-Hungary, Europe) using statistical evaluation of archive data CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES 4:(3) pp. 478-494. (2012) Bíró L., Polgári M., M. Tóth T. (2011): Geochemical classification of oxidized Mn-ores form Úrkút (W Hungary) and its consequences to ore genetics, Central European Geology, 54, 3, 249– 260. Götze, J., Müller A, Polgári M, Pál-Molnár E. (2011): Biosignaturen in Achat/Chalcedon –

die Rolle von Mikroorganismen bei der Bildung von SiO2. Mineralien Welt, 22, 1, 90-96. Müller A, Polgári M, Pál-Molnár E 10. Biosignatures in agate/chalcedony and the role of microorganisms in the formation of silica In: Zens J, Götz J (szerk.) AGATES III: Agate - fascination between legend and science Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2011. pp. 120-128.(ISBN:978-3942588-065) Polgári M, Hein J R, Tóth M, Brukner-Wein A, Vigh T, Bíró L, Cserháti C Genesis of a regionally widespread celadonitic chert ironstone bed overlying upper Lias manganese deposits, Hungary JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 167:(2) pp. 313-328. (2010) Polgári M, Prochaska W, Beran A Alpine carbonate minig sites: Aspects of carbonate mineralizations related to the manganese mine of Úrkút, Hungary, the magnesite deposit of Veitsch and the siderite mine "Steirischer Erzberg", Austria ACTA MINERALOGICA PETROGRAPHICA Field guide series 4: pp. 1-16. (2010) Müller A., Polgári M., Gucsik A., Nagy Sz., Veres M., Pál-Molnár E., Götze J., Cserháti C., Németh T., Hámor-Vidó M. (2009): Cathodoluminescent Features and Raman Spectroscopy of Miocene Hydrothermal Biomineralization embedded in Cryptocrystalline Silica Varieties, Central Europe, Hungary. Abstract volume, Conference on Micro Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2-4 April, AIP Proceedings, 1163, CP1163, Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences (Gucsik A. (ed)., 2009, Mainz, 207-218. Vigh T., Polgári M., Hein JR., Gucsik A., Koós M., Veres M., Tóth S., Tóth AL., Bíró L. (2009): Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy of Jurassic Fe-Mn Oxide Rocks Forming Chimney System, Hungary. AIP Proceedings, 1163, CP1163, Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences (Gucsik A. (ed)., 219-230. Polgári M, B. Bajnóczi, V. Kovács Kis , J. Götze, G. Dobosi, M. Tóth, T. Vigh (2007): Mineralogical and cathodoluminescence characteristics of Ca-rich kutnohorite from the Úrkút Mn-carbonate mineralization, Hungary. Mineralogical Magazine, 71, 5, 493–508 Polgári M, Tazaki K, Watanabe H, Vigh T, Gucsik A. (2006): Geochemical aspect of chemolithoautotrophic bacterial activity in the role of black shale hosted Mn mineralization, Jurassic age, Hungary, Europe. Clay Science, 12, suppl. 2, 233- 239. Polgári M., Szabó-Drubina M., Abonyi Tóth Zs. (2006). Role of hydrothermal supply and bacterial metal enrichment effects in black shale hosted Mn-carbonate mineralization, Úrkút, Hungary, Europe. 12. IAGOD Congress, Moscow, August 20- 25, Russia, Abstract vol. 82-85. Polgári M, Philippe M, Szabó-Drubina M, Tóth M. (2005): Manganese-impregnated wood from a Toarcian manganese ore deposit, Eplény Mine, Bakony Mts, Transdanubia, Hungary Neues Jahrbuch Geol. Paläont. Mh., 175-192. Polgári M, Szabó Z, Szabó-Drubina M, Hein R.J, Yeh H-W. (2005): A porous silica rock („Tripoli”) in the footwall of the Jurassic Úrkút manganese deposit, Hungary: composition, and origin through carbonate dissolution. Sedimentary Geology, 177, 87-96. Polgári M., Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z. (2004): Theoretical model for the Mid-European Jurassic Mn-carbonate mineralization Úrkút, Hungary. Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey, 79, 1, 53-61. Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina, M., Hein, J. R., Szabó, Z. (2003): Analysis of an archive sample from the carbonatic manganese ore sequence, Eplény, Hungary. Bull. Hung. Geol. Soc., 133, 1, 21-35. Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina, M., Hein, J. R. (2003): Phosphogenesis in Jurassic black shale-hosted Mn-carbonate deposits, Úrkút and Eplény, Hungary: Investigations on archive sample drillcore Úrkút-136. Bull. Hung. Geol. Soc., 133, 1, 37-48. Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina, M., Tóth, M., Szabó, Z., Abonyi Tóth, Zs. (2003): Submarine primary Sr-rich Mn-oxide mineralization in the Jurassic Transdanubian Range (Hungary), Proc. of the 7th Biennial SGA Meet. Athens/Greece/ 24-28 Aug. Eds.: Demetrios G. Eliopoulos et al., Millpress Rotterdam, Netherlands 1233-1236. Polgári, M., Szabó-Drubina, M., Hein, J. R., Szabó, Z. (2002): Stable isotope evidence for the origin of the Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore of Eplény, Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary. Geologica Carpathica, 53, 100-102. Polgári, M. (2001): Contribution of volcanic material?– A new aspect of the genesis of the black shale-hosted Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore formation, Úrkút Basin, Hungary. Acta Geologica Hungarica, 44, 4, 419-438. Farkas, J., Szabó, Z., Polgári, M. (1999): Environmental effects of Toarcian manganese ores, Úrkút, Hungary. Proceedings of the 5th biennal SGA Meeting and the 10th Quadrennial IAGOD Meeting (London) United Kingdom, 22-25 August 1999, Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing, Stanley et al. (eds), Balkeema, Rotterdam, 227-230. Máthé, Z., Fórizs, I., Tóth, M., Polgári, M. (1997): Contributions to the Clay Mineralization and Zeolitization of the Miocene Tuffs in the Mecsek Mts., Hungary. Geologica Carpathica - Series Clays, 6, 1, 47-55. Pantó, Gy., Demény, A., Polgári M. (1996): Genesis of secondary Mn-oxide ores in the Úrkút deposit, Hungary: An oxygen isotope study. Mineralium Deposita, 31, 238- 241. Polgári, M., Fórizs, I. (1996): Distribution of Mn in Carbonates from the Uppony Mts., NE- Hungary. Geologica Carpathica, 47, 4, 215-225 Grasselly, Gy., Balogh, Kad., Tóth, M., Polgári M. (1994): K/Ar age of manganese oxide ore of Úrkút, Hungary: Ar retention in K-bearing Mn-minerals. Geologica Carpathica, 45, 6, 365-373. Polgári, M. (1993): Manganese geochemistry reflected by black shale formation and diagenetic processes - Model of formation of the carbonatic manganese ore of Úrkút. A MÁFI alkalmi kiadványa, Polgári, M. (ed.) Kárpáti Kiadó, Ungvár, 106- 211. Polgári, M., Molák, B., Surova, É. (1992): An organic geochemical study to compare Jurassic black shale hosted manganese-carbonate deposits: Úrkút, Hungary, and Branisko Mountains, East Slovakia. Explor. Mining Geol., l, l, 63-67. Polgári, M., Okita, P.M., Hein, J.R. (1991): Stable Isotope Evidence for the Origin of the Úrkút Manganese Ore Deposit, Hungary. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 61, 3, 384-393. Cronan, D. S., Galácz, A., Mindszenty, A., Moorby, S.A., Polgári, M. (1991): Tethyan Ferromanganese Oxide Deposits from the Hungarian Jurassic. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 655-668. Miszlivecz, E., Polgári, M. (1987): Fe-P-bearing calcareous concretions from Zirc "Marble Quarry", Annales, 27-30. Grasselly, Gy., Szentandrássyné-Polgári, M. (1985): Manganese nodules from the Bakony Mts., Hungary, pp. 159-166. In: V.A. Kuznecov (ed.), Endogennoe rudoobrazovanie, Nauka, Moscow.

15 Hungarian papers

60 abstracts in abstract volumes

Study trips and field work in foreign countries: 1981. Sept. - Rumania, South Carpathian Mountains (one week) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies) 1982. Sept. - Czechoslovakia, Jurassic manganese indications (one week) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies) 1983. 10, Jun. – 10, Sept. - Canada, Quebec, Labrador Through, Schefferville, Sokoman Iron Formation, manganese project 1987. Imini, Morocco (one week) field trip Imini manganese formation (sponsored by IGCP project No. 226. and the Soros Foundation) 1988. Jun. – North Corea (two weeks) (in the frame of bilateral cooperation of Academies) 1988. Jul. - China, Beijing, ISOSRMD Symposium and field trip to Wafangzi Mn-formation (two weeks) (sponsored by IGCP project No. 254. and the Soros Foundation) 1989. Jul.- Aug. - U.S.A., Washington D.C. 28. International Geological Congress, and study trip (one month) at the USGS and at the Universities of Cincinatti and Arizona and in Canada (Gold Valley) (sponsored by IGCP project No. 254., the Soros Foundation, and the Hungarian Geological Society) 1990. Sept. - Japan, Sapporo (three weeks), Cretaceous and recent Fe-Mn mineralization on the Hokkaido Island, field trip (as the guest of Univ. of Hokkaido) 1998. Aug. one week long study trip (USGS) Menlo Park, California 2001. Jun-Jul. 5 weeks long study trip (USGS) Menlo Park, California, and fields of recent volcanic activity (Yellowstone National Park, Mono Lake, Sunset Crater) 2001. Oct. Greece, hydrothermal karst formations, Thassos 2005. 11-26, June, Russia, S-Ural, volcanogenic-hydrothermal sedimentary, Mn mineralizations, filed expedition (as guest of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2006. 2 hét TU Bergakademie - Freiberg study trip, cathodoluminescence methods (Prof. Jens Götze) 2007. July 5 weeks study trip at USGS, Menlo Park, California, Kaliforniában, and round trip on young volcanic fields 2008. 1 week Triest Chemostratigraphy short course (Prof. Dr. Hugh R. Jenkyns, Oxford) (OTKA-NKTH T K 68992) 2008. 2 weeks in S-Norway (33th IGC, OTKA-NKTH T K 68992)

Scientific presentations on international conferences: 1981 Miskolc, 24th Hungarian Conferenrence on Spectrography, "Laser Microspecroscopical Investigation of Garnets from the Alluvium of the Maros and Körös Rivers", Proceedings 1985 Cracow, Poland, XIII. Congress of the Carpatho-Balkan Geological Association, "Manganese Nodules from the Bakony Mts. Hungary" 1986 Lulea, Sweden, 7th IAGOD Meeting, "Comparative Investigation on Ferromanganese Oxide Deposits from the Hungarian Jurassic" (co-authors: D.S.Cronan, A.Mindszenty, I.Dódony, A.Galácz), Abst: Terra Cognita, 1986, 6. 3. (sponsored by the Soros Foundation) 1987 Imini, Morocco, IGCP Project No. 226. Workshop, "The Influence of the Toarcian Oceanic Ánoxic Event in the Úrkút Basin, Bakony Mts., Hungary - a preliminary report" (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 226) 1987 Praha, Czechoslovakia, Jesenik, IGCP Project No. 254. Inaugular Meeting, " Hungarian Black Shale Formations - a preliminary report (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254) 1988 Pezinska Baba, Czechoslovakia, IGCP Project No. 254. Meeting, "The relationship between the Jurassic Manganese Carbonate Mineralization and the Associated Black Shales, Úrkút Basin, Hungary" (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254) 1988 Beijing, China, IAS, ISOSRMD Symposium,"Geology and Geochemical Characteristics of the Oligocene Manganese Carbonate Indication, Hungary" (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 254) 1989 Pribram, Czechoslovakia, IGCP Project No. 254. Meeting, "Contribution to the Organo-Geochemical Study of the Black-Shale - Mn-Carbonate Sequence Úrkút, Hungary and Comparison to the Mn-Carbonate Occurrences in Branisko Mts. E. Slovakia" (co-authors: B. Molak, É. Surova.) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 254) 1989 Washington, U.S.A., 28th International Geological Congress, "Stable Isotope Evidence for the Origin of the Úrkút Manganese Ore Deposit, Hungary" (co- authors: P.M. Okita, J.R. Hein) (sponsored by the Soros Foundation and the IGCP project No. 254 and the Hungarian Geological Society) 1989 Úrkút, Magyarország, IGCP Project No. 226. Workshop, "Formation Mechanisms of the Úrkút Mn-Carbonate Ores - a possible hypothesis" (co-author: Z. Szabó) 1990 Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido University, "Geochemical features of Hungarian Mn ores and indications" (guest of Univ. of Hokkaido) 1994 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 10th International Zeolite Conference, "Geoautoclave-type zeolitization in the Mecsek Mts., SW-Hungary" (co -authors: I. Fórizs, M. Tóth, Z. Máthé) (sponsored by the Hungarian Science Foundation -OTKA) 1998 Praha, Czech Republic, IGCP Project No. 429 Inaugural Meeting, „Preliminary report on the summary research of Jurassic black shale hosted Mn-mineralization, Úrkút Basin, Hungary - The role of manganese in microbial life” (co-author: Kecskés M.) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 429) 1999 London, 5th biennal SGA Meeting and the 10th Quadrennial IAGOD Meeting (London) United Kingdom, 22-25 August 1999, „Environmental effects of Toarcian manganese ores, Úrkút, Hungary” (co-authors: Farkas J. Szabó Z) (sponsored by the IGCP project No. 429 and the „Mecenatura” project of the OMFB) 1999 Vienna, Austria, MinWien99 Conference, „Contribution of Volcanic Vitreous (tuff) Material? New Aspect of Genesis of the Black Shale Hosted Jurassic Mn-carbonate Ore Formation, Úrkút Basin, Hungary” 2002 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, CBGA XVII. Conference, 1-4, September, „Stable isotope evidence for the origin of the Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore of Eplény, Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary” (co-authors: J.R. Hein, Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z.) 2003 Miskolc, Hungary, 2nd”Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians” International Conference, Miskolc, March 6-7, 2003, Micromineralogical and clay mineralogical study of the Eplény Limestone Formation, Úrkút, Hungary (co-authors: Pekker P, Weiszbrg T.) 2003 Athens, Greece, 7th Biennial SGA Conference, 24-28, August, „Submarine primary Sr-rich Mn-oxide mineralization in the Jurassic Transdanubian Range (Hungary) (co-authors: Szabó-Drubina M., Tóth, M., Szabó Z., Abonyi Tóth Zs.,) 2004 Firenze, Italy, 32nd IGC, 20-28, August, Bacterial-hydrothermal formation of black- shale hosted manganese mineralizations of Jurassic age, Central Europe, Hungary (co-authors: Szabó-Drubina M., Szabó Z.) 2004 Miskolc, 2nd Mid-European Clay Conference MECC, (2004. September, 20-24., Miskolc, Magyarország), Clay Minerals in the Jurassic (Toarcian/Aalenian) Eplény Limestone Formation, Úrkút, Hungary (Pekker Péter, Weiszburg Tamás, Földvári Mária, Polgári Márta) Acta Miner. Petr. Abstract Series, In: Abstract series of Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica (Eds.) Németh T, Terbócs A, 2nd Mid-European Clay Conference (2004. szeptember 20-24., Miskolc, Magyarország), 4: 81 2004 (poszter) 2004 Budapest, Earth Sciences for Society, 4, November, Bacterial-hydrothermal formation of black-shale hosted manganese mineralizations of Jurassic age, Central Europe, Hungary OTKA T032140 (Polgári Márta, Szabóné Drubina Magda, Szabó Zoltán) (OTKA) 2006 Tokyo, Japan, 13. International Clay Conference. 22-28, August. Polgári M, Tazaki K, Watanabe H, Vigh T, Gucsik A. (2005): Geochemical aspect of chemolithoautotrophic bacterial activity in the role of black shale hosted Mn mineralization, Jurassic age, Hungary, Europe 2006 11-13, April, ERA ENW EU partnership, Bucarest, Romania 2006 24, April, SEG invited lecture, Manganese mineralization of the Úrkút area. TU Bergakademie, Freiberg. 2006 Moscowa, Russia, 12. IAGOD Conference, 20-25, August. Role of hydrothermal supply and bacterial metal enrichment effects in black shale hosted Mn-carbonate mineralization, Úrkút, Hungary, Europe (Márta Polgári, Magda Szabó-Drubina, Abonyi Tóth Zsolt) (NKTH) 2006 Beograd, XVIII. CBGA Conference, 3-6, September, Serbia. Poster. Cherty iron ore mineralization, Transdanubian Range, Hungary (Márta Polgári, Magda Szabó- Drubina, Mária Tóth) (NKTH). 2007 19-25, August, Cologne, Germany 17th Goldschmidt 2007 Conference Did hydrothermal fluids contribute to the Huge Úrkút Carbonate ore Body? (M. Polgári, J.R. Hein, M. Tóth, T. Vigh, L. Bíró) and Cathodoluminescence behaviour of Mn- rich carbonates (M. Polgári, B. Bajnóczi, J. Götze, T. Vigh) 2008 6-14, August, 33. IGC, Oslo, Norway, Fossile Fe-Mn-oxide chimneys? (M. Polgári1, A. Tóth2, M. Tóth1, T. Németh1, T. Vigh3, L. Bíró4) (OTKA-NKTH No. K 68992) 2009 2-5, April. Mining, Metallurgical and Geological Conference Máramarossziget, Romania, Bíró L, Polgári M, M. Tóth T, Kovács J. Reappraisal of chemical data of oxidized manganese ore, Csárda Hill, Hungary. 2009 2-4, April, Conference on Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mainz, Németország. A. Müller, M. Polgári, A. Gucsik, Sz. Nagy, M. Veres, E, Pál-Molnár, J. Götze, C. Cserháti, T. Németh, M. Hámor-Vidó. (2009) Cathodoluminescent features and raman spectroscopy of miocene hydrothermal biomineralization embedded in cryptocrystalline silica varieties, Central Europe, Hungary. (OTKA-NKTH No. K 68992) and T. Vigh, M. Polgári, J.R. Hein, A. Gucsik, M. Koós, M. Veres, S. Tóth, A.L. Tóth, L. Bíró. Photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy of Jurassic Fe-Mn oxide chimney system, Central Europe, Hungary. 2010 21-27, August, Budapest, Hungary, IMA Conference (OTKA-NKTH No. K 68992) 2011 13-20, August, Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. Polgári, M., J.R. Hein, T. Németh, J. Gutzmer, T. HahN; A. Müller, T. Vigh, L. Bíró: Microbial communities as palaeoenvironmental indicators during black shale-hosted manganese ore formation (OTKA-NKTH No. K 68992) Hungarian and international meetings on Manganese Research: 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012