Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique

Membre associée au LAMPEA & Honorary Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

Au LAMPEA depuis février 2018.

Contact : suzleroy@hotmail.com

Topics

– 1.Palynology (pollen and dinocysts), palaeoclimates, past environmental changes, past natural hazards and disasters
– 2. Caspian Sea, SW Asia, Mediterranean region, N. Africa
– 3. From Pliocene to present

Training : Doctorat en Sciences, 1990, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique

Membre du Programme P1 de l’unité

PI/Participation International projects

– Marmara Sea with P. Henry (CEREGE, France)
– Gorgan Wall with E. Sauer (U of Edinburgh, UK)
– Caspian Sea, Turkey, Issyk-Kul with S. Giralt (CSIC, Spain) and R. Ricketts (U of Minnesota, USA), Dead Sea
– Lateglacial and Holocene of Lake Constance : pollen and DNA with E. Marinova and L. Epp (University of Constanz)

Recent publications

– Haghani S., Leroy S.A.G., 2020. Recent avulsion history of Sefidrud, south west of the Caspian Sea. Quat Int 540 : 97-110.
– Arpe K., Molavi-Arabshahi M., Leroy S.A.G., 2020. Wind variability over the Caspian Sea, its impact on Caspian Sea level and the link with ENSO. International Journal of Climatology 40 : 6039–6054.
– Hoyle TM, Leroy SAG, Lόpez-Merino L., Miggins D., Koppers A., 2020. Vegetation succession and climate change across the Plio-Pleistocene transition in Eastern Azerbaijan, central Eurasia (2.77–2.45 Ma). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 538
– Leroy S.A.G., Lahijani H., Crétaux J.-F., Aladin N., Plotnikov I., 2020. Past and current changes in the largest lake of the world : The Caspian Sea. In : Mischke S. (ed.) Large Asian lakes in a changing world. Springer 65-107.
– Leroy S.A.G., Arpe K., Mikolajewicz U., Wu J., 2020. Climate simulations and pollen data reveal the distribution and connectivity of temperate tree populations in eastern Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum. CP 16, 2039–2054. doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2039-2020
– Davis B., Chevalier M., Sommer P., Carter V., et al. 2020. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data 12, 2423–2445. 10.5194/essd-2020-14
– Hamdan M.A., Flower R., Hassan F.A., Leroy S.A.G., 2020. Geochemical and palynological analysis of Faiyum Lake sediments, Egypt : implications for Holocene paleoclimate. J. African Earth Sciences 167 : xx-xx. 103864
10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103864
– Sala-Pérez M., Lattuada M., Flecker R., Anesio A., Leroy S.A.G., 2020. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as indicators of environmental conditions and shipping activities in coastal areas of the Black and Caspian Seas. Regional Studies in Marine Science 38, 101472.
– Leroy SAG, Giralt SR, 2021. Humid and cold periods in the last 5600 years in Arid Central Asia revealed by palynology of Picea schrenkiana from Issyk-Kul. The Holocene 31, 3 : 380-391.
– Gürbüz A., Kazancı N., Hakyemez H. Y., Leroy S.A.G., Roberts N., Saraç G., Ergun Z., Boyraz-Arslan S., Gürbüz E., Koç K., Yedek Ö, Yücel T.O. 2021. Geological evolution of a tectonic and climatic transition zone : the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, lake district of Turkey. International Journal of Earth Sciences 110, 3 : 1077-1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02007-x
– Leroy S.A.G., Ricketts R.D. and Rasmussen K.A., 2021. Vegetation, limnology and climatic change 12,750 to 3600 years ago in the Issyk-Kul catchment, Tien Shan. QSR 259, 106897
– Sala-Pérez, M., Lockyer, A.E., Anesio, A., & Leroy, S.A.G. 2021. Effect of temperature and salinity on the growth and morphology of the first cultures of Gymnodinium aureolum from the Black Sea. Botanica Marina, online
– Cleal, Pardoe, …. Leroy, … 2021. Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time : I : How well can we distinguish past plant diversity in the fossil record ? PPP 110481
– Koriche S.A., Nandini-Weiss S.D., Prange M., Singarayer J.S., Arpe K., Cloke H.L., Schulz M., Bakker P., Leroy S.A.G., and Coe M., 2021. Impacts of variations in Caspian Sea surface area on catchment-scale and large-scale climate. JGR-Atmosphere, 126 (18), e2020JD034251 17 pages. 10.1029/2020JD034251
– Pardoe H., Cleal C., …. Leroy S.A.G., … 2021. Plant diversity in deep time : experiences from the fossil record. II : How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity ?. PPP 580, 110618https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110618.
– Hoyle T., Leroy S.A.G., López-Merino L., van Baak C., Martinez Cortizas A., Richards K, and Aghayeva V., 2021. Biological turnovers in response to marine incursion into the Caspian Sea at the Plio-Pleistocene transition. GPC 206, 103623, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103623
– Leroy S.A.G., Reimer P.J., Lahijani H.K., Naderi Beni A., Sauer E., Chalié F., Arpe K., Demory F., Mertens K., Belkacem D., Kakroodi A.A., Omrani Rekavandi H., Nokandeh J., Amini A., 2022. Caspian Sea levels over the last 2200 years, with new data from the S-E corner. Geomorphology 403, 15 April 2022, 108136
– Tudryn A., Gibert-Brunet E., Tucholka P., Lavrushin Y.A., Antipov M.P., Leroy S.A.G., 2022. Chronology of the Late Pleistocene Caspian Sea hydrologic changes : a review of dating and proposed climate induced driving mechanisms. Quat. Sc. Rev. 293, 107772. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107672
– Leroy SAG and Gracheva R, online 9 Aug. 2022. Natural hazards and disasters around the Caspian Sea. Natural Hazards https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05522-5
– Leroy S.A.G., 2022. Natural Hazards, Landscapes, and Civilizations. In : Shroder J.F. (Editor-in-chief), James, L.A., Harden, C.P., and Clague, J.J. (Volume Editors). Treatise on Geomorphology, 2ndedition. San Diego : Academic Press. Vol. 9.26 : 620-634. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00003-1
– Leroy S.A.G., Demory F., Chalié F., Bates R., Bates M., Omrani Rekavandi H., Sauer E., 2022. Palaeoenvironments at the Caspian terminals of the Gorgan and Tammisheh walls. 13 : 425-441. In Sauer et al. “Ancient arms race, Antiquity’s Largest Fortresses And Sasanian Military Networks Of Northern Iran”. The British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monographs Series VII, Oxbow book. ISBN : 9781789254624

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