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Stefan Kropelin

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Stefan Kröpelin - Die Grüne Vergangenheit der Sahara am 24.11.2018


Stefan Kröpelin is a geologist and climate researcher at the University of Cologne who specializes in studying the eastern Sahara desert and its climatic history.

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Forschergestalten: Stefan Kröpelin


Research

Stefan Kröpelin Saudi Aramco World Last Lakes of the Green Sahara

The journal Nature described Kröpelin as "one of the most devoted Sahara explorers of our time." According to Siddiq Abd Algadir, president of the Sudanese Geologists' Union in Khartoum and a fellow student with Kröpelin in the 1980s, "Much of what we now know about the geology, the environments and even the people in some of the most remote parts of the Sahara, we really owe to [Stefan Kröpelin] and the expeditions he has led."

Stefan Kröpelin ADVENTUREmagazinde Die letzten weien Flecken auf unserer Weltkarte

Contrary to other evidence that the Sahara suddenly changed from a wet to dry climate 5,000 years ago, Kröpelin's core samples at Lake Yoa suggests the transition took longer, some 3,000 years from 5,600 to 2,700 BC.

Stefan Kröpelin Der Wstenforscher Substanz Substanz

Kröpelin was instrumental in fighting to have the Lakes of Ounianga in Chad listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. He was actively lobbying to have the Ennedi Plateau added as well that has been inscribed as Africa's 6th mixed Natural and Cultural World Heritage property in July 2016.

Stefan Kröpelin Geologist Stefan Kropelin The Sahara Desert Nine To Noon 1006

References

Stefan Kröpelin Wikipedia


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