With the environment and climate change top of the current international agenda, Turkey and its surrounding regions have rich, under-explored natural archives: lake sediments, tree-rings, peat deposits and much more. All have important stories to tell about human interaction with – and use of – the landscape and the world humans inhabit. 

	Climate, Vegetation and Landscape change in Northern Turkey Dr Warren Eastwood (University of Birmingham) This project attempts to increase our knowledge and understanding of climate-human-vegetation-landscape interactions in northeastern Turkey and adjoining regions.
	Early Pleistocene environments in the Gediz river valley Professor Darrel Maddy (Newcastle University) The identification of a perfectly preserved Early Pleistocene river terrace record presents a unique opportunity to study this time period in the eastern Mediterranean. The investigation will examine outcrops for biostratigraphical/ palaeoecological and other climate-proxy data.