LIMNOLOGY LABORATORY | A biref description of the department

WORKSHOP ON POND CREATION

PONDS AS NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS: WORKSHOP ON POND CREATION, RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE Hands-on pond creation activities were carried out at the National Botanical Garden on April 9–10, 2025.

Ponds as Nature-Based Solutions: Workshop on Pond Creation, Restoration, and Maintenance

Ponds as Nature-Based Solutions: Workshop on Pond Creation, Restoration, and Maintenance A workshop titled "Ponds as Nature-Based Solutions" was held on April 8, 2025, at the National Botanical...

ODTÜ EKOSAM & Limnology Laboratory Represented at ASLO 2025 Conference The International ASLO 2025 Conference was held between March 26–31 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, bringing together...

Dr. Umut Yıldız asks Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu about the growing salinization problem in lakes.

Last week, astrophysicist Dr. Umut Yıldız asked Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu, Head of EKOSAM and leader of the Limnology Laboratory, about the salinization problem in lakes. You can watch this brief...

Investigation into Fish Deaths at Eymir Lake/DHA, CNN Türk News

In Eymir Lake, one of the most popular areas for nature lovers in the capital, the mortality rate of pike fish, which are protected from fishing, has increased. Dead pike found among the reeds washed...

Alert at Eymir Lake! Investigation Launched into Fish Deaths/DHA, Milliyet Newspaper News

At Eymir Lake in Ankara, pike fish, which are under protection and prohibited from being fished, have begun to die due to pollution. Middle East Technical University (METU) has initiated a study to...

Investigation into Fish Deaths at Eymir Lake in Ankara/DHA News, Hürriyet Newspaper

In Eymir Lake, one of the most popular areas for nature lovers in the capital, the mortality rate of pike fish, which are protected from fishing, has increased. Dead pike found among the reeds washed...

A new roadmap has been prepared to address mass fish deaths in Eymir/AA news

A new roadmap has been prepared to address mass fish deaths in Eymir. METU Biological Sciences Department Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu stated, "We will sign a protocol with the Ministry...

Basında ODTÜ, Eymir

METU EKOSAM Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu stated that sudden heat waves caused by global warming lead to the rapid growth of phytoplankton in the lake, which in turn lowers the oxygen...

Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu Spoke to Anadolugazete.com.tr About Mogan Lake's Dredging-associated Nutrient Increase

Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu, head of the Ecosystem Implementation and Research Centre, recently spoke to Anadolugazete.com.tr about our 27-year long ecological monitoring program. During the interview...

Water is scarce, correct usage is essential...

Water is scarce, correct usage is essential... The Chairperson of the Board at METU-Ecosystem Implementation and Research Center (EKOSAM), Prof. Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu, joined "Gün Ortası" on Haber...

METU Research Park Opening Ceromony

METU Research Park Opening Ceromony, July 10, 2024 Vice President of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Cevdet Yılmaz; Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil; President of...

Collaboration Between DSİ 5th Regional Directorate and EKOSAM

Collaboration Between DSİ 5th Regional Directorate and EKOSAM: Eymir and Mogan Lakes Visited as Part of Monitoring Program In June, the DSİ 5th Regional Directorate and EKOSAM conducted a field study...

6th TÜRSAY event

6th TÜRSAY event! On May 26, 2024, within the scope of the 6th TÜRSAY event, METU met with over a hundred nature lovers.

SIL Vice President for Developing countries

SIL Vice President for Developing countries: Prof.Meryem Beklioğlu METU Limnology team congratulate Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu, the head of our laboratory, on her new position as the SIL Vice...

37th SIL congress

METU Limnology team joined 37th SIL Congress The Limnology team is at the international SIL Congress in Brazil, May 2024. Ciheli Amorim, Feride Avcı and Gültekin Yılmaz presented the results of the...

Announcement from Professor Meryem Beklioğlu

I am Professor Meryem Beklioğlu, and under my leadership, the Limnology Laboratory and Ecosystem Research and Implementation Centre (EKOSAM) at METU explore the ecological structure,...

Congratulations to Dr. Gülce Yalçın

Congratulations to Dr. Gülce Yalçın After a long, challenging, yet immensely rewarding journey through her PhD, Dr. Gülce Yalçın has rightfully earned the title of Doctor. The Limnology Laboratory...

25th Year of Lakes Mogan and Eymir

Post-Conference Announcement: Conference - the 25th Year of Lakes Mogan and Eymir Ecological Monitoring and Restoration Program We are thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of the "...

3rd PONDERFUL WORKSHOP

Post-Workshop Announcement: 3rd Ponderful Workshop On December 12, 2023, Ponderful's 3rd and last stakeholder workshop was held with the participation of guest professor Beat Oertli. Scenarios and...

3rd AQUACOSM Symposium took place in Antalya, Türkiye

Post-Event Announcement: AQUACOSM Project Symposium in Antalya, Turkey We are delighted to share that the AQUACOSM Project Symposium, hosted by METU Limnology Laboratory in Antalya, Turkey, was a...

METU Papers Video: "Freshwater Salinisation" - Meryem Beklioğlu & Erik Jeppesen

How does climate change make lakes disappear? In the new episode of METU Papers, you will discover the concept of "freshwater salinisation" through a research conducted by an international team...

News Release: Fish Deaths in Eymir

Here is the news release by Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu on the recent fish deaths seen in Eymir Lake: Hürriyet news release The news summarizes the findings 25 years of Lake Eymir ecological...

Conference: Celebration of the 25th year of Lakes Mogan and Eymir Ecological Monitoring and Restoration Program

Within the frame of METU celebrations for the 100th year of Republic of Türkiye, we are organizing "Conference for the Celebration of the 25th year of Lakes Mogan and Eymir Ecological Monitoring and...

Our Team is part of Wetzel's Limnology Book

We are very proud that both of our team leaders, Meryem Beklioğlu and Erik Jeppesen, contributed as authors to the sections (i) Shallow Lakes and Ponds and (ii)Fish in the last edition of...

DEADLINE EXTENDED: AQUACOSM Symposium

Dear participants, We have received valuable feedback from many of you expressing concerns about meeting the previous deadlines due to busy schedules and holiday commitments. To ensure that as many...

Metu Limnology Team participated in ASLO 2023! METU Limnology team had 3 oral presentations ( by Dr.Korhan Özkan, Dilvin Yıldız, Dr.Sarah Hasnain) in "SS046 Mesocosm Based Experimental Studies to...

3rd International Symposium on Aquatic Meocosm Based Research

Dear Colleagues, AQUACOSM-plus is organizing the 3rd International Symposium on Aquatic Mesocosm-Based Research (https://meetinghand.com/e/aquacosm/), to be held in Antalya, Türkiye from November 7...

TA call for METU Mesocosm System-II is still open!!!

Understanding how salinization and warming impact shallow lake ecosystems through synchronized mesocosm experiments in Türkiye Access Start Date: Aug 27, 2023 Access End Date: Oct 29, 2023...

PONDERFUL Exploring the importance of ponds

Why are ponds important? What threats do they face? And how can PONDERFUL help? These are some of the questions addressed in this animation video. Ponds have been largely overlooked but they are...

2.PONDERFUL WORKSHOP

Ponderful is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Union under the call "SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials". The project aims to...

TUBİTAK 2232 CLIM-SALTLAKES POJECT WORKSHOP COMPLETED AT MERSİN, TÜRKİYE

Within the scope of the project, "Climate change effects on trophic structure and dynamics in saline and brackish water based on a space-for-time field sampling, controlled mesocosm experiments,...

Konya Kapalı Havzasında Yaşanan Kuraklık Sorununu Prof.Dr. Meryem Beklioğlu CNN'de açıklıyor

Ülkemizde özellkile Konya Kapalı Havzasında tarım amaçlı aşırı yer altı suyu tüketimi ve iklim değişikliğine bağlı azalan yağışlar sebebiyle Türkiye'de yaşanan kuraklık sorununu Prof.Dr. Meryem...

Erik Jeppesen selected as the highly cited researcher

Our Erik is selected as the highly cited researcher by the Clarivate. These highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for a field or fields and publication year in the Web of Science™....

Our Team Participated in SIL 100!

International Society of Limnology performed SIL100 Conference between 7-10 August 2022. Members of Limnology Lab joined this great event with 10 oral presentations (see below)...

Aquacosm-plus Fall School for Early Career Scientists took place in Romania

3rd AQUACOSM-plus General Assembly performed in Cluj, Romania in 17-21 Oct '22 and a week following that a fall school for Early Career Scientist (ECS) performed. ECS offered a unique training...

Our Post-Doc Cihelio is awarded the best Life Sciences PhD Thesis in Brazil

A postdoc from METU Limnology Lab is awarded the best Life Sciences PhD Thesis in Brazil Cihelio Alves Amorim, a Postdoc at Limnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East...

Post-DOC position in AQUACOSM-Plus Project

Post-doc position available on Phytoplankton community ecology in Saline lakes We are seeking a post-doc for 2 years, to start in September 2022. Applications are being accepted for EU- H2020,...

Aquacosm-Plus TA application is open

If you are interested in the impact of salinity and heatwaves on shallow lakes, we are organizing a new mesocosm experiment at METU Mesocosm System II starting this August. The experiment will...

CLIM-SALTLAKES Team visits 22 Lakes in 6 Basin for salinization

Ponderful Field Season Started

New publication: "Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world"

Members of our team published new research article identifying the main gaps of recent freshwater salinisation research. Here is the link of the article proposing a research agenda for future...

AQUACOSM-plus Project as a Success Story

AQUACOSM-plus project is published as a Success Story by TÜBİTAK Horizon Europe: AQUACOSM-plus success story

TRT interviews our AQUACOSM-Plus and CLIM-SALTLAKES Team Regarding the experiment

Turkish Radio Television (TRT) had an interview with our AQUACOSM-Plus and CLIM-SALTLAKES team at the METU Biology Mesocosm System regarding the project objectives. Here is the video of the...

Salinization experiment started (CLİM-SALTLAKES project)

CLIM-SALTLAKES experiment started at the METU Biology Mesocosm System on 9th of September. Experiment aims to address the effect of climate change and salinization on biodiversity and lake...

Our team was guest of Haberturk Teke Tek programme to discuss the extreme drought in Turkey

Our team leaders Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu and Prof. Erik Jeppesen discussed both local and global-scale water crisis at the recent "Teke Tek" programme hosted by Fatih altaylı on 22th August. During...

AQUACOSM PROJECT 2021 EXPERIMENT is completed

AQUACOSM PROJECT 2021 EXPERIMENT focusing on "Determining the effects of high DOC and warming on the microbial and planktonic food web structure and efficiency" is completed. Here are the details of...

Recent Cyanobacteria Bloom at Lake Eymir

Cyanobacteria bloom (Microcystis aeruginosa) has observed yesterday at Lake Eymir during the biweekly monitoring programme performed by METU EKOSAM. Prof Meryem Beklioğlu spoke to Anadolu Ajansı...

Almost 40% of salty lakes were found to be dried:TUBİTAK 2232 CLIM-SALTLAKES project Konya and Burdur basin field surveys

The local field surveys of our TUBITAK 2232 project named CLIM-SALTLAKES where we investigate the impacts of climate change in salty and brakish waters are completed....

PONDERFUL Launch

On June 10th, we are pleased to invite you to the launch of the new EU funded 'PONDERFUL' project which is the largest European research project so far tackling the conservation and ecology of ponds...

New Publication from our team: Determinants of phytoplankton size structure in warm, shallow lakes

New publication from Erdoğan et al. focusing on phytoplankton size structure is published in Journal of Plankton Search. Several SEM models employed showed that both bottom-up and top-...

Tür Say! Event at METU Campus

Ecosystem Implementation and Research Center (EKOSAM) and Nature Conservation Centre (DKM) organizing 3rd Tür Say! event at METU Campus with the support of EKOSAM Student Club. Tür Say!...

Climate Change and Ecosystems Panel

"Climate Change and Ecosystems" discussion panel by ITU Climate Change Implementation and Research Center will take place virtually at 13:00 o'clock on 6th of May. Panel brings 4 climate change...

Prof Meryem Beklioğlu at SIL News

International Society of Limnology News Vol.77 published a short story about Prof Meryem Beklioğlu as an SIL member:

PONDERFUL Kickoff Meeting

Kick Off meeting of our PONDERFUL project performed online this week. We are all very inspired to start this European funded H2020 research project which aims to develop better methods for...

Assistant Professorship in Ecology position in METU Biology Department

The Department of Biological Sciences is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor position in terrestrial ECOLOGY, primarily working on steppe or forest ecology. For more information, please...

New Publication from our team: Phytoplankton Community Response to Nutrients, Temperatures, and a Heat Wave in Shallow Lakes: An Experimental Approach

Congrats to Nur Filiz et al. for their recent publication (December 2020) on the effects of nutrient, temperature and a heat wave on phytoplankton community structure. Mesocosm experiment performed...

TUBA Awards from our TEAM

Congratulations to our member Dr. Korhan Ozkan for winning the 2020 TÜBA-GEBIP young scientist award and our affiliated faculty Prof Erik Jeppesen for the TUBA International Academy Award. TUBA...

PhD position available on Ecosystem Processes and Services of Pondscapes

We are seeking a PhD student (3 years duration), to start in January 2021. Applications are being accepted for EU- H2020, INFRIA funded AQUACOSM-plus Project together with an EU-H2020-funded...

PhD position available on Ecology of Saline lakes

We are seeking a PhD student (3 years duration), to start in January 2021. Applications are being accepted for EU- H2020, INFRIA funded AQUACOSM-PLUS Project as well as a nationally funded (...

NOBEL LAUREATE TO STUDY SALINIZATION IN TURKEY'S LAKES

Hürriyet Daily News - 18.07.2020

Our Nature Ecology & Evolution paper reviewed in Nature News & Views

Our Nature Ecology & Evolution Paper on the impacts of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems revieved by Peter R. Leavitt in Nature News and Views (Review link). The review is...

Article in the Freshwater Blog about our 2020 Nature Paper

Together with Daniel Hering, lead author of our 2020 Nature Ecology & Evolution paper Sebastian Birk summarizes the major findings in the Freshwater Blog with an article named "...

Our new paper, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Years of collaborative work of scientists from MARS project published in Nature Ecology & Evolution in June 2020 (open access pdf link: Birk et al. 2020). From METU Limnology Laboratory Team,...