Tibor Novák

TIBOR JÓZSEF NOVÁK PhD

senior lecturer

University of Debrecen

Department for Landscape Protection and Environmental Geography

H-4010, Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1. P.Box 9.

novak.tibor@science.unideb.hu

I graduated as geography and biology teacher, later specialized in geography, and wrote my PhD thesis (2005) in soil and vegetation interactions and their changes following landscape transformations in Hortobágy. I held lectures in Geography and Earth Sciences BSc, Geographer, Nature Conservationist MSc, and in Geographer Teachers Education Program as well. My lectures are in Geoecology, Nature conservation, Soil preservation, Landscape conservation, Landscape history and Cultural landscapes. My mean research topics are soil and vegetation transformations in post agricultural landscapes, land use changes. I participated and organized several international curses and field practices for students in the mentioned topics in Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia. I am member of the Hungarian Society of Soil Sciences, Hungarian Society of Geography, and Hungarian Society of Geology as well.

Participating in Research Programs

Quantifying Geomorphologic Changes in Cultural Landscapes (2012-2016) - participant

Landscape Protection in Tokaj-Hegyalja from Landscape Ecological Point of View (2003-2006) – participant

Particpating in International Education Programs

LiFES – Lingua Franca of European Soils – Erasmus Intensive Program (2012-2014) – project partner

OMAA (Found Action Austria-Hungary) – landscape transformations of riverine landscapes (2010 – project owner, organizer)

OMAA (Found Action Austria-Hungary) – landscape maintenance and management of riverine landscapes in urban space (2006 – project owner, organizer)

Landscapes under the European Transformation – Erasmus Intensive Seminar (2002 – project owner, organizer)

Selected publications:

2015

Balla, D. – Zichar, M. – Boda, J. - Novák, T. J. (2015): Control grouped pedagogical experiment to test the performance of second-generation web maps and the traditional maps at the University of Debrecen. IAFOR Journal of Education 3(1): 31-42.

Tóth, Cs., Novák, T., Rakonczai, J., (2015): Hortobágy Puszta: Microtopography of Alkali Flats. In: Lóczy, D. (ed.) 2015. Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-319-08996-6; pp. 237-247.

2014

Sütő, L. - Dobány, Z. - Novák T. J. - Incze J. - Rózsa P. (2014): Typifying human disturbed landscapes in NE Hungary for landscape planning, IGU Regional Conference, Kraków, Poland, 18-22. August 2014.

Novák T. J. – Incze J. (2014): A tokaji Nagy-hegy felhagyott szőlőteraszainak támfalai - Retaining walls of abandoned vineyard terraces on Tokaj Nagy Hill. 4D Tájépítészeti és kertművészeti folyóirat – Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art 35. 20-35.

Novák, T. J. – Négyesi, G. – Andrási, B. – Buró, B. (2014): Alluvial plain with wind-blown sand dunes in South-Nyírség, Eastern Hungary. In: Świtoniak, M. – Charzyński P. (eds.)(2014): Soil sequences atlas. Nicholaus Copernicus University Press, Torun. pp. 181-197.

Świtoniak, M. – Charzyński, P. – Novák, T. J. – Zalewska, K. – Bednarek, R. (2014): Forested hilly landscape of Bükkalja Foothill (Hungary). In: Świtoniak, M. – Charzyński P. (eds.)(2014): Soil sequences atlas. Nicholaus Copernicus University Press, Torun. pp. 169-181.

Novák T. J. – Incze, J. –Spohn, M. - Glina, B. – Giani, L. (2014): Soil and vegetation transformation in abandoned vineyards of the Tokaj Nagy-Hill. Catena 123: 88-89. (DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2014.07.017)

Vysloužilová, B., Ertlen, D., Šefrna, L., Novák, T., Virágh, K., Rué, M., Campaner, A., Dreslerová, D., Schwartz, D. (2014): Investigation of vegetation history of buried chernozem soils using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) Quaternary International (DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.035)

2013

Sándor, G. – Szabó, Gy. – Charzyński, P. – Szynkowska, E. – Novák, T.J. – Świtoniak, M. (2013): Technogenic soils in Debrecen. In: Charzyński, P. – Markiewicz, M. – Świtoniak, M. (eds.)(2013): Technogenic Soils Atlas, Polish Society of Soil Science. Toruń. 35-74.

Novák T. J. - Incze J. - Rózsa P. (2013) Quantifying anthropogeomorphological transformation by using the concept of “hemeromorphy” a case study from Hungary, In: 8th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology Abstract Book, Paris 2013 p. 466.

Incze J. - Novák T. J. (2013): Geomorphological characteristic and significance of dry constructed terrace stone walls on abandoned vine-plantations in Tokaj Big-Hill, Geomorphologia Slovaca et Bohemica,ISSN 1337 - 6799, Association of Slovak Geomorphologists on the SAS, Czech Association of Geomorphologists, Institute of Geography - Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 13 (1): 33 p.

Novák, T. J. - Incze J. - Czene T. (2013): Predictability of erosion gully-development based on relief, geomorphology and land use data. Geomorphologia Slovaca et Bohemica,ISSN 1337 - 6799, Association of Slovak Geomorphologists on the SAS, Czech Association of Geomorphologists, Institute of Geography - Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 13 (1): 58 p.

Novák T. J. - Incze, J. - Rózsa, P. (2013): Quantifying anthropogeomorphological transformation by using the concept of 'hemeromorphy' - a case study from Hungary, the Tokaj Big Hill. Geomorphologia Slovaca et Bohemica,ISSN 1337 - 6799, Association of Slovak Geomorphologists on the SAS, Czech Association of Geomorphologists, Institute of Geography - Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 13 (1): 59.

2012

Novák T. J. – Tóth Cs. A. – Incze J. (2012): Szolonyec szikfok társulások (Puccinellion limosae Soó 1933) élőhelyi viszonyainak és területi kiterjedésének változásai dél-hortobágyi területeken kis és közepes tér-idő léptékben (Changes in habitat conditions and extension of halophitic plant communities (Puccinellion limosae Soó 1933) on micro- and mezo time-space scale in Southern Hortobágy), Kitaibelia 17 (1): 129 p.(in Hungarian)

Szabó, Sz. – Novák, T - Elek, Z. (2012): Distance models in ecological network management: A case study of patch connectivity in a grassland network, Journal for Nature Conservation 20 (5): pp. 293-300.

2011

Rózsa, P. – Novák, T. (2011): Mapping anthropic geomorphological sensitivity on a global scale (with 4 figures and 3 tables) Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgart, 55 (1): 109–117.

Sütö L.– Szepesi J.– Novák T. – Dávid L. (2011): Touristic hiking programs as a possibility of involving the public into earth scientific education, Acta Geoturistica 2 (1): 23-28.

Czifra L. – Novák T. J. (2011): Spontán rekultiválódó meddőhányók talajának és növényzetének fejlődési sajátosságai a Bán-patak völgyében (Development of Soil and Vegetation on Spontaneously Revegetated Spoil Banks in the Bán-valley - in hungarian with english abstract) In: Wanek F. (ed.)(2011) XIII. Bányászati, Kohászati és Földtani Konferencia absztraktkötete, Erdélyi Magyar Műszaki Tudományos Társaság, Kolozsvár, 292-293.

Novák T. (2011): Spatial Patterns and Dynamics of some Halophythic plants in the Hortobágy Region (eastern Hungary), Ecological Questions, ISSN 1644-7298, The Nicolaus Copernicus University Scientific Publishing House, Torun, 14 (2011): 9-10.

Rózsa P. – Novák T. (2011): Anthropogeomorphological Landscape Transformation of the Tokaj Nagy-Hill – a case study for quantifying the process, In: Hradecký, J. – Šilhán, K. (eds.)(2011): Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Conference on Geomorphology, Book of Abstracts, ISBN 978-80-7368-444-0, Ostravice (Czech Republic), 51-52.

2010

Tóth, Cs. – Novák, T. J. – Nyilas, I. (2010): Investigation of island biogeography of Zsolca Mounds, In Rahmonov, O. (ed.)(2010): Anthropogenic aspects of landscape transformations 6, ISSN 1895-6777, ISBN 978-83-61644-11-8, Sciences, University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth – Landscape Parks Complex of Silesian Voivodeship – Polish Geographical Society, - Hall city office Sosnowiec –Będzin, 102-108.

Kátai, J. – Novák T. J. (2010): A Hortobágy talajai (Soils of Hortobágy – in hungarian), Acta Biologica Debrecina Supplementum Oecologica Hungarica 24/1: 43-54.

Novák T. J. (2010): A Hortobágy tájföldrajzi jellemzése (Landscape geography of Hortobágy - in hungarian), Acta Biologica Debrecina Supplementum Oecologica Hungarica 24/1: 11-19.

Tóth Cs. – Novák T. (2010): Nagyfelbontású tájváltozás-vizsgálatok hortobágyi mintaterületen (Investigating landscape transformation in micro-scale, case study- hortobágy - in hungarian), In: Lóki J (2010)(szerk.): Interdiszciplinaritás a természet- és társadalomtudományokban, Tiszteletkötet Szabó József geográfus professzor 70. születésnapjára, DE Természetföldrajzi és Geoniformatikai Tanszék, Debrecen, 329-336.

Demeter G. – Szalai K. – Kerényi A. – Novák T. (2010): Relevance of gully erosion in the development of hungarian cultural landscapes, In: Wojciech Zglobicki (ed)(2010): Human Impact on Gully Erosion, 5th International Symposium on Gully Erosion, Book of Abstracts, Lublin, 26-28.