Prof. Dr. Carole Nehme will analyze the results of the limestone archives project supported by the French National Scientific Research Center, of which she is a member researcher, and will discuss the climate changes that Cyprus lived through in the last thousand years at the seminar to be held at the Near East University.

Limestones (karst), which are carbonate rocks that are exposed to physical and chemical erosion and show certain characteristics on the surface, provide important clues about the geological changes in the region they are located. The karstic structures, which almost form a memory of the earth, record the erosion and hydrological (flood, precipitation) processes in the past, allowing scientific predictions to be made about many features of the region, from the climate to the social resilience.

The climate changes that the island of Cyprus lived through in the last 1000 years will come to light
One of the important pillars of the karst archives project (UMR IDEES 6266 CNRS) supported by the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) is to carry out paleoclimate reconstruction studies in the Eastern Mediterranean (Lebanon and Cyprus) from the cave records. One of the researchers of the project, which traces the potential climate changes experienced in Cyprus during this period by rewinding the history 1000 years, Prof. Dr. Carole Nehme will discuss the climate changes that Cyprus lived through in the last thousand years at a face-to-face seminar to be organized by the Near East University Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture.

The seminar, which will start on Wednesday, November 2 at 10.30 am in the Near East University Hospital Amphitheater 101, will be open to anyone interested in the subject.

Prof. Dr. Özge Özden: “To embody the effects of past climate changes is extremely valuable in terms of making projections for the future.”
Emphasizing that climate changes are one of the most important factors that change agricultural and animal production in a region, and therefore life, Near East University Faculty of Agriculture Dean Prof. Dr. Özge Özden said, “It is extremely valuable to embody the effects of climate changes in the past and to make projections for the future.”

Stating that the karst archives project supported by the French National Scientific Research Center has revealed important findings on landscape evolution and climate changes in Normandy, Chile and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus and Lebanon), Prof. Dr. Özden said, “In our seminar, one of the researchers of the project, Prof. Dr. Carole Nehme will share their scientific findings on Cyprus’ millennial climate change, based on the karst archives.”