‘Advances in Karst Research’ Scientific Programme

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Friday, 8-Oct-2021
TR Time
11:00-11:20 Opening Talks (English and Turkish)
11:20-12:05 Holocene and Pleistocene climate variability in Turkey recorded in speleothems – Challenges, Paradigms and Opportunities
Dominik Fleitmann (University of Basel, Switzerland)

12:05-12:25 Dim (Alanya, Turkey) and Sırtlanini (Aydın, Turkey) Cave records
Ezgi Ünal İmer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

12:25-12:45 Holocene climate reconstruction in the Eastern Mediterranean region from Dim Cave (Southern Turkey) stalagmite record
M. Oruç Baykara (Pamukkale University, Turkey)

Lunch Break
13:30-13:50 Geoarchaeological Implication of Speleothems: Human Imprints within stalagmites from Chalcolithic to Medieval Period
Koray Koç (Akdeniz University, Turkey)

13:50-14:10 Microclimatic and geochemical properties of karstic caves from Anatolia: The evaluation of environmental parameters from the microbiological perspective
Ezgi Tok (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

14:10-14:30 Calcareous tufas, archives of past interglacial environments and climates: recent multidisciplinary investigations on Pleistocene and Holocene European sequences
Julie Dabkowski (Chargée de recherche CNRS, France)

14:30-14:50 Climatic evaluations of speleothem-driven proxies
Kaan Gürbüz (Ankara University, Turkey)

Saturday, 9-Oct-2021
11:00-11:45 Extracting seasonal climate information from stalagmites
James Baldini (Durham University, UK)

11:45-12:30 Coupled trace elements and stable isotopes in Iranian stalagmites suggest orbital-scale and millennial-scale climate variability in the Middle East
Stacy Carolin (Cambridge University, UK)

12:30-12:50 The hydroclimate variability in the coastal levant from speleothem records: a synthetic review on the LIG & PIG and new perspectives
Carole Nehme (Rouen University, France)

Lunch Break
13:30-13:50 Speleothem records of explosive volcanism: current applications & future prospects
Alice Paine (University of Oxford, UK)

13:50-14:10 Karst of Bolkar Mountains (Central Taurus, Turkey)
Koray Törk (General Directorate of Mineral Exploration and Research, Turkey)

14:10-14:30 State-funded speleology studies in Turkey
Ertuğrul Kulaksızoğlu (Cave Research Association of Turkey)

Closing Discussions