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2024 May 25 László Oláh was awarded the Jánossy Lajos Prize of Roland Eötvös Physical Society for his significant contributions to the development and application Sakurajima Muography Observatory for volcano monitoring, specifically for measuring plug formation, quantifying tephra deposition and erosion, and explaining the link between eruption frequency and ground deformation.

2024 April 6 The "Magyar Geofizikusok Egyesületének Ifjúsági Bizottsága" and the "Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat Ifjúsági Bizottsága" organized the "Ifjú Szakemberek Ankétját" in Egerben on 5-6 April. Boglárka Abigél Stefán és Bence Rábóczki presented their muographic researches at this conference. Bence got a 2nd prize in the Applications Section with his talk entitled "Exploring the inner structure of the Esztramos Mountain using muographic measurements". Congratulations to both Young Researchers and their supervisors, namely Gergő Hamar, László Balázs and Gergely Surányi!

2024 April 2 From March 27 to March 29 two members of our research group installed an MWPC-based Muography Observation System (MMOS) at Unzen volcano, Japan. The muographic surveying will be conducted in collaboration with Sabo Frontier Foundation, Japan. The aim of the measurement is to charaterizing structural features of a lava deposit that is located on the peak of the volcanic edifice. This muographic surveying is expected to be contribute to the protection of surrounding area.

Upper: Track count map acquired during the first few days visualizes the ridge of Unzen volcano. Middle: A photograph of volcano from the direction of MMOS. Bottom: An MMOS of HUN-REN Wigner RCP has been installed at Unzen volcano, Japan.

2024 March 1 From February 22 to February 29 two members of our research group installed an MWPC-based Muography Observation System (MMOS) at the Samail Ophiolite at Wadi Fizh, Oman. The muographic surveying will be conducted in collaboration with the Kanazawa University, Japan and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM) of the Sultanate of Oman. The aim of the measurement is to study the Moho transition zone located between the crustal and mantle layers exist in this ophiolite. The scientific background of this project has been published in the conference proceedings entitled " Plans for Muography of Samail Ophiolite " in Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science.

Upper: Track count map acquired during the first few days visualizes the ridge of the ophiolite. Middle: A photograph about the ophiolite from the direction of MMOS. Bottom: An MMOS of HUN-REN Wigner RCP has been installed at Wadi Fizh, Oman.

2024 January 1 The High-Energy Geophysics Research Group has been launched with the support of HUN-REN Welcome Home and Foreign Researcher Recruitment Programme 2023 (KSZF-144/2023).