SOIL GASES 2026

08:00 - 08:55 - Registration

09:00 - 09:15 - Opening Ceremony

Zoltán Szalai

09:15 - 09:45 - Revealing Hidden Information by Punctual and Diffuse Soil Gas Chemistry

Keynote: Orlando Vaselli

09:45 - 09:58 - Geological CO2 Emissions in Intraplate Regions: What Do We Know and What Remains Uncertain?

István János Kovács et al.

09:58 - 10:11 - The Challenges of CO2 Flux Measurements in Inhabited Areas

Boglárka Mercédesz Kis et al.

10:11 - 10:24 - Soil CO2 Degassing and Its Source Discrimination in the Bakony–Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, Hungary: Insights from the Eger Creek and Zádor-spring Areas

Mona Maghsoudlou et al.

10:27 - 10:30 - From Field to Flux: Soil CO2 Efflux Measurements at Ciomadul Volcano (PICO)

Botond Bodor et al.

10:30 - 10:33 - Advanced Soil Gas Monitoring: Integrated Geodynamic Station in the Bakony-Balaton Highland (Pannonian Basin) (PICO)

Dániel Kovács et al.

10:55 - 11:08 - Soil CO2 Emission and its Relationships with Soil Properties and Vegetation Indices in Grassland Ecosystems

Ágota Horel et al.

11:08 - 11:21 - Components and Drivers of Soil CO2 Efflux in Hungarian Croplands and Grasslands

János Balogh et al.

11:21 - 11:34 - Biochar and Plant Presence Regulate CO2Emissions and Microbial Resource Acquisition in Metal(loid)s Contaminated Soil

Niluka Wickramasinghe et al.

11:34 - 11:47 - Seasonal Variation in Microbial Carbonsource Utilization and Heterotrophic

Ilham Nahal et al.

11:47 - 12:00 - The Effects of Soil Isolated Different Microalgae Inoculants on Soil Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Spring Barely

Agampodi Gihan Shyamal Dharmendra De Silva et al

12:00 - 12:13 - Soil Carbon Dioxide Emissions under Stress Conditions: Maize and Tomato

Antonnella D'Ciofalo et al.

12:30 - 12:43 - Exploration and Monitoring of Natural Hydrogen Seepages with Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry and Backscatter Analysis

Eszter Békési et al.

12:43 - 12:56 - Preliminary Soil Gas Results from the Gyód Serpentinite Body: a Natural Hydrogen Case Study

Laura Horváth et al.

12:56 - 12:59 - Fairy Circles as Indicators of Natural Hydrogen Seepage and a Potential Example From SW Hungary (PICO)

Mihály Petrás et al.

12:59 - 13:02 - Preliminary Results on the Effects of Natural Hydrogen on Photosynthesis in Herbaceous Plants (PICO)

Ildikó Kéri-Schmidthoffer et al.

13:02 - 13:05 - Initial Results of Natural Hydrogen Seepage in Western Hungary in Thick Overlying Sedimentary Layers and Along a Distributed Fault System (PICO)

Gábor Kovács et al.

13:50 - 14:03 - CO2 Monitoring at CCS Project Danube Removals

James Cogan

14:03 - 14:16 - Continuous FT-IR Monitoring of Soil Gases for Geological and Environmental Applications

Dániel Jurdi

14:16 - 14:29 - Is Soil Gas the Last Line of Defence? Lessons from Three Decades of Monitoring at BGS

Helen Taylor et al.

14:29 - 14:42 - Geochemical Modeling Approaches for Soil Gas Studies

Zsuzsanna Szabó-Krausz et al.

14:42 - 14:55 - Soil Gas Monitoring - a Key to Safe Energy Transition

György Falus et al.

14:55 - 15:08 - Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells: Evaluation Using UAV-based TDLAS and In Situ Measurements

Polina Iakunina et al.

15:25 - 15:38 - Successful Indoor Radon Mitigation in the Velence Mountains - a Case Study

Dániel Breitner & Bence Molnár

15:38 - 15:51 - Radon and Thoron Emanation from SoilBased Building Materials: Revisiting the Angola Case Study

Judith Salupeto-Dembo et al.

15:51 - 16:03 - Radon Gas Observations for Multidisciplinary Climate Research: the NuClim Project

Susana Barbosa et al.

16:03 - 16:16 - Radon Activity Concentration in Hungarian Soils

Péter Rell

16:16 - 16:29 - Radon, as a Groundwater Discharge Phenomenon

Anita Erőss et al.

16:30 - 17:00 - From Research to Application: The Future of Soil Gas Studies - Final Discussion and Award Ceremony

Moderator: Anita Erőss