Morteza DJAMALI

Personal details:

Date of birth: 04/02/1977

Place of birth: Tehran, IRAN

Nationality: Iranian

Marital status: Married, no children

Current address: Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (UMR CNRS 6116),

Europôle Méditerranéen de l’Arbois,

Pavillon Villemin, BP 80,

13545 Aix-en Provence cedex 04,

France

E-mail: morteza_djamali@yahoo.com

Phone: +33-4-42 90 84 86

Fax: +33-4-42 90 84 48

Education:

2004: DEA of Environmental Biosciences, Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III)

2002: MSc of Sedimentology and Sedimentary Petrology, University of Tehran

1999: BSc of Geology, University of Tehran

Previous Research Works:

MSc research 1999-2002: Depositional environment and palaeoecological characteristics of late Quaternary lacustrine-palustrine deposits in central Iran

Supervisors: Drs R. OKHRAVI and A. AMINI

DEA research 2003-2004: Modern pollen rain-vegetation relationships and pollen morphological study in Golestan National Park, NE Iran

Supervisor: Dr Jacques-Louis de BEAULIEU

Current research 2005-2007 (PhD thesis): Pollen analysis of long cores from Lake Urmia, NW Iran and Holocene sequences of Lake Maharlou (SW Iran) and Lake Almalu (NW Iran).

Supervisors: Jacques-Louis de BEAULIEU and Hossein Akhani

Research interests:

Quaternary palynology of lakes and peat bogs, pollen rain-vegetation relationships, millennial/centennial-scale vegetation dynamics and history of human impact on vegetation and landscapes, Quaternary climate change in Iranian Plateau

Current projects:

I. Multi-proxy palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological investigation on long cores from Lake Maharlou, SW Iran (Joint project between IMEP, Geological Survey of Iran (Drs R. Lak and H. Sadeddin), University of Barcelona (Drs S. Giralt and J.J. Pueyo) and University of California (Dr Lora Stevens))

II. Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Lake Urmia region, NW Iran (Joint project between IMEP, University of Tehran (Dr A. Amini) and Iranian National Center for Oceanography (Dr H. Alizadeh, M. Shah-hosseini) partly financed within the framework of the Franco-Iranian Gundishapour project)

III. Palynological investigations in NE Iran including the Golestan National Park (Joint project between IMEP, CEREGE (Drs N. Thouveny and C. Paillès), University of Tehran (Dr H. Akhani) and Iranian National Center for Oceanography (Dr H. Alizadeh, M. Shah-hosseini) partly financed within the framework of the Franco-Iranian Gundishapour project)

Publications:

Djamali, M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Lak, R., Sadeddin, M., Akhani, H., Fazeli, H., in preparation. Vegetation history of the SE section of Zagros Mountains during the last five millennia; a pollen record from the Maharlou Lake, Fars Province, Iran.

Djamali, M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Shah-hosseini, M., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Amini, A., Akhani, H. Leroy, S.A.G. , Stevens, L., Alizadeh, H., Ponel, P., Brewer, S., submitted. An Upper Pleistocene long pollen record from the Near East, the 100 m-long sequence of Lake Urmia, NW Iran.

Djamali, M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Campagne, P., Akhani, H., Ajani, Y., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Ponel, P., Cheikh Albassatneh, M., submitted. Pollen rain-vegetation relationships over a forest-steppe transect in Golestan National Park, NE Iran.

Djamali, M., Esu, D., Gliozzi, E., Okhravi, R., and Soulié-Marsche, I., 2005. Palaeoenvironment of a lacustrine-palustrine carbonate complex: Zarand Basin, Saveh, Central Iran. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 237: 315-334.

Djamali, M., 2004. La relation pluie-pollinique/végétation sur un transect forêt steppe dans le Parc National du Golestan, NE de l’Iran. Mémoire de DEA, Université Paul Cézanne – Aix-Marseille III.

Okhravi, R. and Djamali, M., 2003. The missing ancient Lake of Saveh; a historical review. Iranica Antiqua, 38: 327-344.

Djamali, M., 1998. A close relationship between tides and Persian earthquakes. The Orrey, Models of astronomical systems, east Orleans, MA, USA.