Forray Ferenc

Cadru didactic la Univ. Babeş-Bolyai, la Departamentul de Geologie. Practic speologia începând din 1984 (explorare, fotografiere). În anii de studenţie am practicat speologia cu Politehnica Cluj şi CSA Cluj. Actual sunt neafiliat la cluburi şi interesat în special de partea ştiinţifică (paleoclimă, geochimie, mineralogie etc.) a peşterilor.

Publicații legate de peşteri:

Forray, F.L., Dumitru, O.A., Atlas, Z.D., & Onac, B.P. 2024, Past anthropogenic impacts revealed by trace elements in cave guano. Chemosphere, 360: 142447. 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142447

Faur, L., Dragușin, V., Dimofte, D., Forray, F.L., Ilie, M., Marin, C., Mirea, I.-C., Panaiotu, C., Manailescu, C., Soare, B., Timar-Gabor, A., & Tirla, L. 2021, Multi-proxy study of a Holocene soil profile from Romania and its importance for speleothem based paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Minerals, 11 (8): 873. 10.3390/min11080873

Florea, L.J., Forray, F.L., & Banks, S.M. 2020, Water isotopes, carbon exports, and landscape evolution in the Vadu Crişului karst basin of Transylvania, Romania. In: Eurokarst 2018, Besançon. Advances in the hydrogeology of karst and carbonate reservoirs (Bertrand, C., Denimal, S., Steinmann, M., & Renard, P., Eds.), Springer: p. 31-46.

Forray, F.L. 2019, Pădurea Craiului Mountains: Izbândiş Cave System. In: Cave and Karst Systems of Romania (Ponta, G.M., & Onac, B.P., Eds.), Springer: p. 399-404.

Forray, F.L. 2019, Metaliferi Mountains: Zidită Cave. In: Cave and Karst Systems of Romania (Ponta, G.M., & Onac, B.P., Eds.), Springer, Cave and Karst Systems of the World: p. 271-275.

Florea, L.J., Banks, S.M., & Forray, F.L. 2019, Importance of suspended sediments and dissolved organic carbon to carbon exports in karst – The Vadu Crişului karst basin in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains, Romania. Chemical Geology, 527: 118735. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.015

Cleary, D.M., Feurdean, A., Tanţau, I., & Forray, F.L. 2019, Pollen, δ15N and δ13C guano-derived record of late Holocene vegetation and climate in the southern Carpathians, Romania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 265: 62-75. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.03.002

Sarbu, S., Aerts, J., Flot, J.-F., Van Spanning, R., Baciu, C., Ionescu, A., Kis, B., Incze, R., Sikó-Barabási, S., Para, Z., Hegyeli, B., Atudorei, N.-V., Barr, C., Nealson, K., Forray, F.L., Lascu, C., Fleming, E., Bitter, W., & Popa, R. 2018, Sulfur Cave (Romania), an extreme environment with microbial mats in a CO2-H2S/O2 gas chemocline dominated by mycobacteria. International Journal of Speleology, 47 (2): 173-187. 10.5038/1827-806x.47.2.2164

Cleary, D.M., Onac, B.P., Tantau, I., Forray, F.L., Wynn, J.G., Ionita, M., & Tămaș, T. 2018, A guano-derived δ13C and δ15N record of climate since the Medieval Warm Period in NW Romania. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33 (6): 677-688. 10.1002/jqs.3044

Cleary, D.M., Wynn, J.G., Ionita, M., Forray, F.L., Onac, B.P., 2017. Evidence of long-term NAO influence on East-Central Europe winter precipitation from a guano-derived δ15N record. Scientific Reports 7(1), 14095. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14488-5

Drăgușin, V., Balan, S., Blamart, D., Forray, F.L., Marin, C., Mirea, I., Nagavciuc, V., Perșoiu, A., Tîrlă, L., Tudorache, A., Vlaicu, M., 2017. Transfer of environmental signals from surface to the underground at Ascunsă Cave, Romania. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21(10), 5357-5373. doi:10.5194/hess-21-5357-2017

Dumitru, O.A., Forray, F.L., Fornós, J.J., Ersek, V., Onac, B.P., 2017. Water isotopic variability in Mallorca: a path to understanding past changes in hydroclimate. Hydrological Processes. doi: 10.1002/hyp.10978.

Cleary, D.M., Onac, B.P., Forray, F.L., Wynn, J.G., 2016. Effect of diet, anthropogenic activity, and climate on δ15N values of cave bat guano. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 461, 87-97. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.012.

Forray, F.L., Onac, B.P., Tanţău, I., Wynn, J.G., Tămaş, T., Coroiu, I., Giurgiu, A., 2015. A Late Holocene environmental history of a bat guano deposit from Romania: an isotopic, pollen and microcharcoal study. Quaternary Science Reviews 127, 141-154. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.022.

Onac, B.P., Hutchinson, S.M., Geantă, A., Forray, F.L., Wynn, J.G., Giurgiu, A.M., Coroiu, I., 2015. A 2500-year Late Holocene multi-proxy record of vegetation and hydrologic changes from a cave guano-clay sequence in SW Romania. Quaternary Research 83, 437-448. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2015.01.007.

Ponta, G.M., Nam, N.X., Forray, F.L., 2015. A comparative study between the karst of Hoa Quang, Cao Bang province, Vietnam and Tuscumbia Alabama, U.S.A. NCKRI SYMPOSIUM 5, 1-13.

Onac, B.P., Forray, F.L., Wynn, J.G., Giurgiu, A.M., 2014. Guano-derived δ13C-based paleo-hydroclimate record from Gaura cu Musca Cave, SW Romania. Environmental Earth Sciences 71, 4061-4069. doi: 10.1007/s12665-013-2789-x.

Onac, B.P., Forray, F.L., 2000. Camiro 1.0 - The Romanian cave minerals database program. Romanian Journal of Mineralogy 80, 1, 57-62.

Ghergari, L., Tămaş, T., Damm, P., Forray, F., 1997. Hydrothermal paleokarst in Pestera din Valea Rea (Bihor Mountains, Romania). Theoretical and Applied Karstology 10, 115-125.