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Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Institute of Ecology and Botany
Hungarian Danube Research Station
2131 Göd, Jávorka S. u. 14.
tel :(27)-336-610, tel/fax :(27)-345-023
Brief
history of the Station
In 1956 the
Helsinki conference of the International Society for Theoretical and Applied
Limnology (SIL) urged its European members to study one of the moderately
polluted large rivers because the study of running waters was well behind
the investigation of lakes due to methodological difficulties.On this
congress was suggested the establishment of an organisation devoted to
the scientific investigation of the River Danube.
In the same year has been instituted the International Working Association
for Danube Research (Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Donauforschung)
in Wienna. Members of the association were the countries along the Danube
as well as Switzerland through the River Inn, which is the biggest influent
of the upper Danube. First president was Prof. Reinhard LIEPOLT. The centre
of the organisation is ever since in Wienna.
The Hungarian Danube Research Station was established in1957 by the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences and the Eötvös Lóránd University
of Budapest according to the principles of IAD. Head of the Station was
Prof. Endre DUDICH, academician. The research station was established
in the willage Göd, 20 km north of Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
In 1977 the Station was joined to the Research Institute for Botany at
Vácrátót.
Within the frame of the IAD the Hungarian Danube Research Station has
taken part in research co-operation with the corresponding organisations
or institutes of the member countries of IAD since its foundation. The
research workers of the Station take regularly part on the Conferences
and contribute to the Conference Issues of the IAD.
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