The Director of the Czech Geological Surveys and recent President of the EuroGeoSurveys Dr. Zdenek Venera presented the recent mission of the Geological Surveys in the European Parliament in Strasbourgh.
Current events
Czech Geological Survey organized a workshop on the promotion of geology in the Czech Republic within the 3rd Congress of the Czech Geological Society which took place on September 19-22, 2007, in Volary, the Šumava Mts.
The research and survey of geomorfological and hydrogeological condition in the lower part of the Piura river aimed to lower environmental factor limiting social and economical development of the region is the main project concept.
The CGS Publishing House brought out the Geoscience Research Report in 2006 informing in thematic blocks about the recent results of research in different areas of geosciences.
To the order of the Ministry of Environment, the Czech Geological Survey started managing a new, three-year project of foreign development aid of the Czech Republic in June 2007.
As a result of the greatest historic changes in its long history the Bulletin of Geosciences had conceded at the beginning of 2006, the quarterly has been available as a ISI database on the Web of Science since the first number of 2007, its impact...
has been published and long-expected because the previous work of this kind appeared forty years ago. The public may get acquainted with the most objective contemporary mapping of the whole of of the territory of the Czech Republic.
The Conference of the Geoscience Information Consortium (GIC) was held in Bern in June 4–8, 2007, under the patronage of the Swiss Geological Survey – part of the Federal Office of Topography (Swisstopo).
The Czech Republic foreign development aid project concerning mapping of the Altai Mts. in Mongolia at a scale of 1:50,000 (Zamtyn Nuruu-50), which had been managed and realized by the Czech Geological Survey from the year 2003, was completed at the...
On May 5, 2007, the winners of the first year of the art competition called “My Piece of the Planet Earth”, organized by the Czech Geology Survey Publishers, were announced at the event’s concluding ceremony of the Bookworld Fair Prague 2007.
The aim of the art competition for schools proclaimed by the Czech Geological Survey in the framework of activities of the International Year of Planet Earth, is to popularize geology among broad public, namely children.
The research team constituted of Jakub Haloda (CGS), Patricie Týcová (CGS), Pavel Gabzdyl (FS MU Brno), Vera A. Fernandes (University of Manchester), Randy L.
The Division of Geochemistry and Laboratories gained a research project called “Evaluation of the effects of the Göteborg Protocol on acidified and eutrophicased waters and soils – a proposal of another act of reduction” from the Norwegian...
This is the translated headline (in Czech Že padaly stromy, nezavinil jen vítr) of the required article written by RNDr. Jakub Hruška and published in the Hospodářské noviny daily newspaper.
Apart from the Bulletin, the CGS Information Portal provides access to the Geoscience Research Reports, enabling free downloading articles of the hitherto latest, edition of the year 2005.
On December 4–8, 2006, the Conference on Geology of Iraq was organized by the DOLIN Co. Ltd in cooperation with the Czech Geological Survey and under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At the end of the year 2006, the project called “The execution of geological and other activities at the testing site of Melechov Massive – Stage 2” finished.The task was realized to the order of the Authorities of Radioactive Waste Disposal...
On 1 October 2006, the international CO2NET EAST project has been started, a Co-ordination Action funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme for research and technology development.
Ten trainees of the Iraqi Geological Survey – geologists, programmers and specialists of the GIS – worked as guests at the Czech Geological Survey on October 9–20.
It was written and prepared by the Czech authors Jiří Babůrek, Jaroslava Pertoldová, Kryštof Verner, and Josef Jiřička, in 2006.