The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB cordially invites you to the fifth event of its program dubbed ‘The Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World’. The event, titled ‘Are Changes in Insect Patterns in the Lebanese Mountains Evidence of Climate Change?’ is scheduled on April 8, 2008, from 4-6pm Auditorium B, West Hall, AUB.

The key Speaker will be Dr. Nabil Nemer, a Research Associate at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB
Nabil Nemer, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB. Nemer holds a PhD in Forest Entomology and Chemical Ecology from the Université Paris- Sud 11 and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, France). His research focuses on chemical ecology of new insect pests attacking forests in Lebanon and the region.

He is currently working on national and international projects related to insect biodiversity in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems. Nemer is also member of several international entomological societies; he is appointed since 1999 as member of the Tannourine Cedar Forest Nature Reserve Committee and serves as national advisor on forest insect problems.