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This weekend has been in Jumilla three scientists to begin research on climate and environmental changes over thousands of years in the Altiplano area of ​​Jumilla, Yecla.
This project was initiated in 2010 by agreement between teachers at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences of Jumilla, who proposed the project to the City of Jumilla, accepting and supporting this, the said project and facilitating the development of research work in the Municipal District of Jumilla.
This same project is being developed at the site of Atapuerca in Burgos, by the same specialists who have come to Jumilla, hence the importance for Jumilla, being part of this project.
Therefore we have started work for the research project of the National Plan of R + D + i "New approaches in the calibration of paleoclimatic records and the reconstruction of climate variability in Spain", as published in the BOE 31, December 2009.
The project is led by Javier Martin Chivelet, Professor, School of Geological Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid.
This project focused on the study of climate in recent millennia, is based on the analysis of karst caves and speleothems (such as stalagmites and stalactites), which are excellent geological record of conditions in the past.
The study aims to advance the understanding of climatic and environmental changes of the past and thus also in the understanding of current change and its potential impacts.
The team, which has achieved excellent results in this area in northern Spain, has selected Plateau area of ​​Jumilla-Yecla to develop their research in the next three years.
Work has begun in the Cave of Acebuche (Jumilla), which measured environmental parameters inside the cave, and have taken the first samples of rock, water and air leakage.
Besides the mentioned researcher, participated in this campaign Ana Isabel Ortega, a researcher at the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH, Burgos) and Maria Jesus Turrero, Department of the Environment researcher of the Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT, Madrid), and have collaborated Cayetano Herrero, Director of the Museum "Jerónimo Molina" Natural History and Ethnography of Jumilla, Hinneni Caving Group and Professor Emilio Herrero geologist.
The project has the support of the Municipality, through Ms.
Maria Dolores Fernandez, head of the Department of Culture, which will better understand the history of our region, and their vulnerability to changes in critical climate parameters such as rainfall and temperatures.
Upon completion of the work has been visited museums "Jerónimo Molina" Archaeology and Natural Science.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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