Márton Pál

GM Geomorphology

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Márton Pál for the poster/PICO entitled:

Citizen science in geoheritage: who participates in community geosite assessments? (Pál, M..; van Wyk de Vries, B.; Vereb, V.; Albert, G.)

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Márton Pál is an assistant professor at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics in Budapest, Hungary. He has finished his PhD studies in parallel with EGU 2024 and successfully defended his thesis supervised by Gáspár Albert from the same institute. His main research fields are connected to quantitative geodiversity and geosite assessment, the application of GIS and remote sensing in these fields, GIS modelling, and UAV-based remote sensing. He is the secretary of the Hungarian ProGEO within the Hungarian Geological Society, which deals with the scientific background of geoeducation and geoheritage management in the country.

At EGU 2024, Márton presented a poster that examined the difference between geotourists’ attitudes in a French and Hungarian sample area. For this, he used a quantitative geoheritage assessment model that applies visitor questionaries (321 fills in France and 1123 in Hungary) to measure the ‘satisfaction’ of tourists about the scientific, protection and infrastructural status of a certain site. Experts can develop individual development plans for sites following sustainable tourism management by investigating the differences between the two areas.