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Ömer Lütfi Şen
Ömer Lütfi Şen
2012/13 Mercator-IPC Fellow

Ömer Lütfi Şen is a climate scientist. In 2004, he joined the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul Technical University, where he has since been teaching graduate level courses and conducting research on anthropogenic climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean–Black Sea region, including Turkey.

Şen specializes in land surface–atmosphere interactions, their modeling, and the optimization of the land surface parameterizations. Ömer Lütfi Şen’s ’s research project for his Mercator-IPC Fellowship is titled “A Holistic View of Climate Change Impact in Turkey.” During his fellowship, he reviewed all studies on the impact of climate change in Turkey, collected the necessary data including climate change and demographic and sectoral data, transfered them to a geographic information system, and illustrated and analyzed them in such a way that the results could be easily and efficiently communicated to the public as well as to politicians and decision makers.

Ömer Lütfi Şen holds a PhD degree from the Hydrology & Water Resources Department of the University of Arizona.

For more information: http://turkiyeiklim.wordpress.com

A Holistic View of Climate Change and Its Impacts in Turkey

2012/13 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ömer Lütfi Şen’s report A Holistic View of Climate Change and Its Impacts in Turkey  was published in December 2013.

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Contemporary Developments in Climate Change: IPCC 2013 Report

Climate Change Cluster Coordinator and Senior Scholar Ümit Şahin, Middle East Technical University Faculty Member Murat Türkeş, 2012/13 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ömer Lütfi Şen, 2013/14 Mercator-IPC Fellow Levent Kurnaz's report Contemporary Developments in Climate Change: IPCC 2013 Report (İklim Değişikliğinde Son Gelişmeler: IPCC 2013 Raporu) was published in December 2013.

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Media Coverage of Climate Change in Turkey: The World Versus Turkey

2012/13 Mercator–IPC Fellow Ömer Lütfi Şen's policy brief "Media Coverage of Climate Change in Turkey: The World Versus Turkey" was published in June 2013.

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Welcoming Event for the 2012/13 Mercator – IPC Fellows

On September 25, 2012 the welcoming event for the first Mercator-IPC Fellows took place in Istanbul. The event opened with the warm welcoming remarks of Nihat Berker, President of Sabanci University, Bernhard Lorentz, President of Stifung Mercator, and Fuat Keyman, IPC Director. Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow Cem Özdemir, Co-Chairman of the German green party “Alliance 90/The Greens”, gave a keynote speech entitled “Europe at the Crossroads: Why Turkey Matters”. Subsequently, the 2012/13 Mercator – IPC Fellows were introduced through short video clips.

The ensuing panel discussion, entitled “A Silver Lining: German – Turkish Cooperation in Turbulent Times,” offered an intellectually stimulating debate between Kemal Dervis, Member of the IPC Executive Board and Vice President of the Brookings Institution, Ömer Madra, Mercator – IPC Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of Acik Radyo, Secil Pacaci Elitok, Mercator – IPC Fellow, and Ambassador Klaus Scharioth (ret.), Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs and Member of the IPC’s International Advisory Council. The discussion was chaired by Ayse Kadioglu, Senior Scholar at IPC and Professor at Sabanci University.