Göksu Delta monitoring field trips for the nature conservation project and for our GHG project which is “Understanding the complex interaction of salinization and eutrophication on Green House Gas emissions of Anatolian inland waters” continues regularly.

We are so happy to be a part of this effort.

We made an expedition for SGD project successfully in last week. This project aims to understand catchment sea interactions in the East Mediterranean by focusing the role of Submarine Groundwater Discharges in the water and nutrient budget of East Mediterranean.

Our research project funded by TÜBİTAK 1001 programme. 

 

Burak was nominated for the Course Performance Award 2021 from our institute and he was selected for this award by the university depend on his academic success in the courses.

Congratulations Burak!

Mustafa gave an interview for National Press about Acıgöl which is located on the borders of Afyonkarahisar and Burdur, where there are nearly 200 bird species as well as endemic plant and animal species. Unfortunately, lake water levels has been detected very shallow and largely dried out, recently. We hope to contribute to protection of these sensitive ecosystems in our Saline Lakes project.

Click here for CNN Turk Interview.

Click here for Takvim Interview.

Korhan’s bird photos featured in the latest Europe’s birds published by Princeton University Press. It is a comprehensive guide covering more than 900 species.

You can buy it from here.

In last weeks, our team made great effort to start-up mesocosm facility for the first experiments of saline lakes research. This involved collect innoculum (all kinds of living material) from natural lakes and populate our experimental tanks with tem. We started experimetal treatment of different salt concentrations. We are looking forward to see exiting results soon!


Well done everyone!

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Korhan has attended IAS & TUBA Biodiversity Webinar as a speaker with his presentation titled Anatolian Aquatic Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change and Intensifying Anthropogenic Pressures. Thank you for this organization to IAS & TUBA.

You can watch the webinar on the Islamic World Academy of Sciences YouTube Channel:

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The latest article by the saline lakes team “Decadal changes in size, salinity, waterbirds, and fish in lakes of the Konya Closed Basin, Turkey, associated with climate change and increasing water abstraction for agriculture” is now available online and will be published in the “Temporary Ponds and Shallow Lakes under Global Change” special issue of The Inland Waters. The paper gives a comprehensive account of the dramatic changes, which are mainly driven by the land-use and climate change, the largest endorheic basin of Turkey has been undergoing since the last 40 years in terms of salinization and size reduction of the lakes, decline of groundwater level and changes in waterbird and fish fauna. The article also includes modelling projections using various climate and land use scenarios which predict serious additional reductions of the water level in the future due to climate change, leading to deterioration (or complete loss) of lake ecosystems.

Our team encountered an unprecedented loss of lakes in Anatolia during the expedition for the saline lakes project. Mustafa from our team gave interviews for national press about our fieldwork on saline lakes ecosytems and specifically on Acıgöl which was seriously affected by the drought.

Click here for the NTV interview. (In Turkish)

Click here for the TRT News interview. (In Turkish)

Click here for the Hurriyet interview. (In Turkish)

We are so happy to announce that a new book which is pioneer in the birds literature in Turkey has recently published and Korhan is one of the contributing authors. This book is the first bird identification guide for the birds of Turkey and hopefully, It would help amateur and professional birdwatchers. You can buy it from here.