International research projects

International scientific projects

CGS geologists, geochemists, and other specialists have received several important scholarships for participating in research abroad. Many have also conducted research within international projects financed by foreign grant agencies, such as:

• the RECOVER 2010 grant from the EU, for assessing the impact of current and future anthropogenic pressure on sensitive European freshwater ecosystems
• the joint project on "The Dynamics of the Biogeochemistry of Beryllium" (NSF Washington & AS CR)
• the International Cooperative Program on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes (ICP Waters)
• work on the Geochemical Atlas of Europe (FOREGS)
• participation in the DACH International Group (concerning Rn problems in the EU); in the RAPHAILE project proposal; and in co-founding the "Centrum Radonowe" in Poland
• the TEM experimental study of the behaviour of experimentally shock-loaded dolomite (V-X/2002 NATO-CNR), and a TEM & EELS spectroscopic study of shock-loaded quartz
• NATO Linkage Grant DISRM.LG 931421, dealing with ¹³⁵Cs immobilization in micas
• the project for researching and describing new minerals, conducted by CGS in co-operation with the Universities of Siena, Italy, and Adelaide, Australia
• the projects "The Changing Role of Organic Acids in Surface Water Acidification" and "Prediction Episodic Acidification in the Future" at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• participation in the Swedish MISTRA project, entitled "New Concepts and Methods For Effect-based Strategies on Transboundary Air Pollution"
• the EU CANIF project, concerning carbon and nitrogen cycling in forest ecosystems
• the EU FORCAST project, concerning forest carbonnitrogen trajectories, for studying the differences in the soil chemistry and isotopic profiles of organic carbon and nitrogen
• the EU project LIMPIT (Lead isotopes and heavy metal pollution), which is an integrated study of the threat to groundwater resources

CGS participation in the IGCP Projects:

• IGCP 373 – Correlation, anatomy, and magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of ore-bearing felsic igneous systems in Eurasia
• IGCP 408 – Rocks and minerals at great depth and on the surface
• IGCP 421 – North Gondwanan  Mid-Paleozoic bioevent/biogeography
• IGCP 429 – Organics in major environmental issues (headed by CGS)
• IGCP 449 – Global correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences
• IGCP 463 – Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds: Response to Ocean/Climate Global Change
• IGCP 469 – Late Variscan Terrestrial Biota and Palaeoenvironments
• IGCP 486 – Au-Ag-telluride deposits
• IGCP 502 – Global comparison of the volcanic-hosted massive sulphide districts: the controls on distribution and timing of VMS deposits
• IGCP 503 – Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate