Associate Professor Çetin ŞENKUL

Director Anatolia Quaternary Research Center

Süleyman Demirel University

Department of Geography

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: cetinsenkul@gmail.com

Çetin Şenkul is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. He is a Quaternary paleoecologist and a biogeographer with a primary scientific interest in exploring microscopic biological remains (especially pollen) in all kinds of sediments all over Anatolia for the reconstruction of environmental settings, natural versus human-induced vegetation changes, and climate dynamics in the past. His research interests also include endemic plants and biogeographical modeling, enjoying establishing connections between extant and fossil taxa and discovering their values as paleoecological indicators. In Quaternary paleoecology, he focuses on the Holocene dynamic of the forest-steppe ecotone working in Turkey in an archaeological and historical perspective.

Research Assistant Mustafa DOĞAN

Assistant Director of Anatolia Quaternary Research Center and PhD Student

Süleyman Demirel University

Department of Geography

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: mustafadogan@sdu.edu.tr

Mustafa Doğan concluded his Masters degree with a study of Mucur Obruk Lake, Central Anatolia (Kırşehir-Mucur), aiming to explain paleo-vegetational changes through the use of pollen analysis. His PhD research follows similarly lines but plans to develop palynological and paleoecological approaches with a specific focus on charcoal and μ-XRF analysis. He is particularly interested in Quaternary Paleoecological changes including  vegetation, paleoclimate, and land-use and aims to understand the long-term paleoecological changes in Anatolia over the last 20,000 years.

Lecturer Ahmet KÖSE

PhD Student

Isparta University of Applied Sciences

Geographic Information Systems Program

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: ahmetkose1992@gmail.com

Ahmet Köse is a Lecturer in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program at Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Turkey. He is a PhD student at Süleyman Demirel University and synthesizes the current environmental layers of Turkey by using multivariate and quantitative methods in his GIS and statistics-based work. In his study, he reveals the ecological regions and detailed characters of Turkey. It deals with Turkey's ecological regions and other current and paleoecological variables from the perspective of nature and human interaction.

Seda KAYA KÖSE

PhD Student

Süleyman Demirel University

Department of Geography

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: sedakaya1990@gmail.com

Seda Kaya Köse is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta/Turkey. She is researching plant endemism geographies in Turkey. She is a biogeography researcher who holistically examines the distribution of endemic plant species (Turkey at macro-scale, Sultan Mountains at micro-scale), environmental variables (under the basic headings of topography, climate-water, geology-soil, plant-animal, and human). In addition, she focuses on plant species diversity, richness, ecology, models, and their relation with humans.

Yasemin ÜNLÜ

PhD Student

Süleyman Demirel University

Department of Geography

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: unluyasemin64@gmail.com

I am a PhD student studying climate changes during the Quaternary Period and the possible effects of these oscillations on the palaeoenvironment. Pollen (fossil and current) and geochemical (µ-XRF) analysis are my areas of expertise. My areas of interest are the palaeoclimate of Anatolia, palaeovegetation change, palaeo-land use, palaeoenvironmental conditions, current vegetation pattern. The pollen data preserved in the lacustrine/marsh areas and the change of element ratios in the sediment due to the changes in the ambient conditions make it possible to reconstruct the Anatolian palaeoecology. The current location and conditions of Anatolia made it possible to be inhabited by people from prehistoric times to the present. In my research, I examine the Anatolian Holocene palaeoecology, and especially focus on data that provide information on human-environment interaction from an archaeological and historical perspective. I like to associate the palaeoecological data I have obtained with archaeological data.

Yunus BOZKURT

PhD Student

Süleyman Demirel University

Department of Geography

Isparta, Turkey

E-mail: yunusbozkurt8032@gmail.com

I am a PhD student and researcher doing research in Quaternary palaeoecology. In Anatolia, lacustrine/wetlands are important geo-bio archives in order to obtain data sets on palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental changes that occurred especially in the time period covering the Holocene period. My field of interest is to make sense of how palaeovegetation, paleo land use, and palaeoclimatic changes occur with palaeoenvironment reconstruction by making fossil pollen analysis and at the same time associating the changes in today's vegetation pattern with current pollen analyzes and making a connection with the past. In addition to these, geochemical (q-XRF) analyzes are among my areas of interest. I associate my research with archaeological and historical data sets, especially the changes in the Holocene palaeoecology of Anatolia during the Quaternary period.