Ömer Lütfi Şen

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.

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