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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

CLIMSALTLAKES team is visiting 22 Lakes in 6 basin to understand the structure and functioning of different types of saline/brackish lake ecosystems and their response to key stressors (warming,...

Ponderful Field Season Started

Our wonderful Ponderful team is back to the fields of Gudul and Kazan towns of Ankara. Samplings of 30 ponds started on 9th of May to understand their status, biodiversty and greenhouse gas...

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,...