The Goldschmidt International Conference (https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldsch.../2023/meetingapp.cgi), organised by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society, took place for the 33rd time on 9-14 July 2023 in Lyon, France. Hungary was represented by a large number of students and staff from several universities and research institutes, some of whom were keynote speakers, invited speakers or section chairs. Several members of our research group and of the other Lendület research group of the ELKH Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, MTA FI Lendület Pannon LitH2Oscope Research Group and of the ELTE TTK Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab participated in the scientific event.
The most significant moment for the research group was the realisation of a scientific session that dedicated to the scientific work of Csaba Szabó, who has been teaching and researching at ELTE for decades and is currently a staff member of the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science. The session was prepared and organised by former students (from all over the world) and collaborating researchers (Prof. Bernardo Cesare, Professor at the University of Padua), without Csaba's knowledge, of course.
The session, which included 17 papers and 15 poster presentations, was entitled: Geochemical and geodynamical processes of the lithosphere based on fluid, silicate, carbonatite, and sulfide melt inclusions of the upper mantle and crust (session in honour of Dr. Csaba Szabó). As the keynote speaker of this special session, Robert John Bodnar (Virginia Tech, USA) - a renowned expert on fluid and melt inclusions and former mentor of Csaba Szabó in the USA - praised Csaba Szabó's exemplary professional and pedagogical excellence, based on his major scientific achievements, successes and collaborations, which are marked by the generations of researchers he has appointed, both in Hungary and abroad. Other invited speakers included Enikő Bali (University of Iceland, Iceland), Costanza Bonadiman (Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy) and Gregory M. Yaxley (Australian National University, Australia).
The head of our research group, Márta Berkesi, participated as one of the section chairs and main organizers, in addition to her poster presentation. Tamás Spránitz, a young researcher from our group, gave a presentation in the section, while Justine Myovela, a PhD student who joined our project, gave a poster presentation.
The session and its positive reception is a great tribute to Csaba Szabó and, through him, to the Hungarian geosciences.
