• 8:00 - 9:00 Registration

  • 9:00 - 9:15 Opening – METU Rector’s Office - Emin Özsoy, Piero Lionello

  • 9:15 - 10:45 Session 1 (Chair: Giovanni Zanchetta)

    • 9:15 - 09:45 Andrey Tchepalyga [Abstract]
      The Holocene Black Sea level oscillations: connections with the Mediterranean Sea and ancient societies (Invited talk)

    • 9:45 - 10:00 Eleonora Regattieri, Giovanni Zanchetta, Russell Neil Drysdale, Biagio Giaccio, Ilaria Isola, John C Hellstrom, Sebastien Nomade, Chiara Boschi [Abstract]
      MIS5 hydrological varibility from D18O composition of speleothms and lakes carbonates from Apennine sites (Italy)

    • 10:00 - 10:15 Sena Akcer-Ön, Kadir Eriş, Tuğce Nagihan Arslan, Zeki Bora Ön, Dursun Acar [Abstract]
      Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate variability from Lale Hazar (SE Turkey) sedimentary records

    • 10:30 - 10:45 Elena Ivanova, Maria Zenina, Fabienne Marret, Ivar Murdmaa, Andrey Tchepalyga, Lee Bradley, Maria Zyryanova [Abstract]
      The Early Holocene Black Sea reconnection with the Mediterranean: implications for biotic and ecological changes on the northeastern shelf

  • 10:45-11:00 Short coffee break

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Session 1 (Chair: Elena Ivanova)

    • 11:00 - 11:15 Zeki Bora Ön, Mehmet Sinan Özeren, Mehmet Namık Çağatay, Kürşad Kadir Eriş [Abstract]
      Late Pleistocene-Holocene climatic cycles from eastern Turkey: Lake Van and Lake Hazar sediment records

    • 11:15 - 11:30 Ana Perez-Sanz, Penélope González-Sampériz, Blas Valero-Garcés, Ana Moreno, Mario Morellón, Graciela Gil-Romera, María Rieradevall, Pol Tarrats [Abstract]
      Holocene vegetation dynamics in the central Pyrenees (Spain) (Invited talk)

    • 11:30 - 11:45 Amy L. Prendergast, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Graeme Barker, Tamsin C. O'connell [Abstract]
      A Late Pleistocene refugium in North Africa? Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotopes analyses of terrestrail Gastropods (Haua Fteah Libya)

    • 11:45 - 12:00 Giovanni Zanchetta, Mira Bar-Matthews, Russell Drysdale, Piero Lionello, Avner Ayalon, John Hellstrom, Ilaria Isola, Eleonora Regattieri [Abstract]
      Coeval dry events in the central and eastern Mediterranean basin at 5.2 and 5.6 ka recorded in Corchia (Italy) and Soreq Cave (Israel) speleothems

  • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and poster viewing (includes 4 min presentations in front of poster)