Geodiversity Workshop 5 – Celebrating the International Geodiversity Day
ACE took part in a global workshop series marking UNESCO’s International Geodiversity Day.
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Geodiversity Workshop 5 – Celebrating the International Geodiversity Day
To celebrate UNESCO’s International Geodiversity Day, ACE joined a global series of workshops organised by the Association for Geoconservation, Hong Kong (AGHK).
- A worldwide geodiversity workshop series
- A talk on Lebanon’s geodiversity
- Focus on the geology of the Middle East
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To mark UNESCO’s International Geodiversity Day, the Association for Geoconservation, Hong Kong (AGHK) organised a series of workshops built around the geodiversity of every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Soumaya Ayadi, president of ACE and a teacher of geology, hydrology, and the environment at USJ’s Faculties of Sciences and Engineering, was one of the speakers, presenting Lebanon’s geodiversity as a resource for sustainable development and stressing the need for geo-education.
Her session focused on the geodiversity of the Middle East, a region of unique geology and landforms set against an extraordinarily diverse culture and long history. Because of the region’s political complications in recent decades, its geodiversity has rarely been publicised and remains little known to many people around the world — a gap the workshop set out to help close.