Bikem Ekberzade
@bikem.bsky.social
Earth system scientist (PhD) and journalist with research interests in ecology; disturbance cycles; migration; climate change; biodiversity; natural hazards; resilience. Author of Standing Rock, Greed, Oil and Lakota's struggle for justice
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Bikem Ekberzade
@bikem.bsky.social
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Standing Rock
In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close t…
www.bloomsbury.com
7 years ago in September, #StandingRock was published. Later, I turned it into a radio show #DikilenKaya that ran for 5 years. The history of indigenous resistence in North America is one of the oldest stories of resilience. And maybe more pertinent now that ever 👇
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
📣 Call for abstracts #EGU2026: CL3.1.4 Mediterranean climate regions of the world – changes, risks and adaptation 🌍 🌎 🌏
🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/56363
Convened by: Annalisa Cherchi, Andrea Toreti @andreatoreti.bsky.social, Bikem Ekberzade @bikem.bsky.social, myself and Taís Carvalho
🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/56363
Convened by: Annalisa Cherchi, Andrea Toreti @andreatoreti.bsky.social, Bikem Ekberzade @bikem.bsky.social, myself and Taís Carvalho
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
📣 Call for abstracts #EGU2026: CL3.1.4 Mediterranean climate regions of the world – changes, risks and adaptation 🌍 🌎 🌏
🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/56363
Convened by: Annalisa Cherchi, Andrea Toreti @andreatoreti.bsky.social, Bikem Ekberzade @bikem.bsky.social, myself and Taís Carvalho
🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/56363
Convened by: Annalisa Cherchi, Andrea Toreti @andreatoreti.bsky.social, Bikem Ekberzade @bikem.bsky.social, myself and Taís Carvalho
First episode of our brand new podcast series with @egubg.bsky.social is now on air 😊🎧 @egu.eu
You can listen to #DeepPurple, a project which has been looking at the algal blooms and their effect on the #GreenlandIceSheet at our link below 👇
Don't forget to subscribe 🤗
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You can listen to #DeepPurple, a project which has been looking at the algal blooms and their effect on the #GreenlandIceSheet at our link below 👇
Don't forget to subscribe 🤗
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
On ice: algal blooms and the Greenland Ice Sheet
On the first episode of the EGU Biogeosciences Division’s podcast series, Bikem Ekberzade interviews Helen Feord on the algal blooms that contribute to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Together...
blogs.egu.eu
August 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
First episode of our brand new podcast series with @egubg.bsky.social is now on air 😊🎧 @egu.eu
You can listen to #DeepPurple, a project which has been looking at the algal blooms and their effect on the #GreenlandIceSheet at our link below 👇
Don't forget to subscribe 🤗
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
You can listen to #DeepPurple, a project which has been looking at the algal blooms and their effect on the #GreenlandIceSheet at our link below 👇
Don't forget to subscribe 🤗
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
#wildfires on the human-climate nexus. I wrote about our last paper published in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj natural hazards :
go.nature.com/4kSGy4D
go.nature.com/4kSGy4D
Mediterranean forests under pressure from mega-fires on the climate-human nexus
We modelled a mega-fire that burned 60,000 ha of forest, human settlements, agriculture and shrubland in a Mediterranean pyro-catchment in Türkiye in summer of 2021, with natural ignitions. Our simula...
go.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#wildfires on the human-climate nexus. I wrote about our last paper published in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj natural hazards :
go.nature.com/4kSGy4D
go.nature.com/4kSGy4D
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Our new NPJ Natural Hazards article reveals how human action, extreme weather, and complex terrain combined to fuel Türkiye’s largest wildfire for the last century. #wildfire #climatechange #anthropocene #Türkiye 🔥👇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@bikem.bsky.social @tolgagorum.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@bikem.bsky.social @tolgagorum.bsky.social
Up in flames: the human factor behind a megafire in Mediterranean Türkiye - npj Natural Hazards
npj Natural Hazards - Up in flames: the human factor behind a megafire in Mediterranean Türkiye
www.nature.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Our new NPJ Natural Hazards article reveals how human action, extreme weather, and complex terrain combined to fuel Türkiye’s largest wildfire for the last century. #wildfire #climatechange #anthropocene #Türkiye 🔥👇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@bikem.bsky.social @tolgagorum.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@bikem.bsky.social @tolgagorum.bsky.social
📣 New article alert 📣 (and a 🧵) During the 2021 fires that engulfed southern Europe, a renown pyro-catchment in Mediterranean Turkey recorded its largest burnt area (from contiguous and consecutive ignitions) for at least the last century. The Manavgat Fire burnt 60,000 ha of forest and agriculture+
July 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📣 New article alert 📣 (and a 🧵) During the 2021 fires that engulfed southern Europe, a renown pyro-catchment in Mediterranean Turkey recorded its largest burnt area (from contiguous and consecutive ignitions) for at least the last century. The Manavgat Fire burnt 60,000 ha of forest and agriculture+
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
The most extensive biodiversity survey yet of Nepal’s little-studied Madhesh province has revealed a wealth of wildlife facing threats from infrastructure development — and with virtually no protected areas to safeguard them.
Researchers call for multilevel conservation strategies.
Researchers call for multilevel conservation strategies.
Study reveals untold, and unprotected, wildlife wealth of Nepal’s Madhesh province
KATHMANDU — The most extensive biodiversity survey yet of Nepal’s little-studied Madhesh province has revealed a wealth of wildlife facing threats from infrastructure development — and with virtually…
news.mongabay.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The most extensive biodiversity survey yet of Nepal’s little-studied Madhesh province has revealed a wealth of wildlife facing threats from infrastructure development — and with virtually no protected areas to safeguard them.
Researchers call for multilevel conservation strategies.
Researchers call for multilevel conservation strategies.
And the poster session has been equally engaging with amazing 2min. pitches on all topics and a great round of audience. ITS3.7/BG0.6 Biodiversity, and animals in the earth system: A Geoscience Perspective is definitely coming back to #EGU2026 :) Thank you everyone who were present @egu.eu GA today!
April 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
And the poster session has been equally engaging with amazing 2min. pitches on all topics and a great round of audience. ITS3.7/BG0.6 Biodiversity, and animals in the earth system: A Geoscience Perspective is definitely coming back to #EGU2026 :) Thank you everyone who were present @egu.eu GA today!
As @egu.eu GA 2025 gets close, a heads up for two amazing (! :) sessions, 1 ITS/BG, the other CL :)
1. ITS3.7/BG0.6
Biodiversity, and Animals in the Earth System: A Geoscience Perspective
Orals: Monday 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.33
Posters: Same day, 14:00–18:00 (CEST) | Hall X1
2. 👇
1. ITS3.7/BG0.6
Biodiversity, and Animals in the Earth System: A Geoscience Perspective
Orals: Monday 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.33
Posters: Same day, 14:00–18:00 (CEST) | Hall X1
2. 👇
April 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
As @egu.eu GA 2025 gets close, a heads up for two amazing (! :) sessions, 1 ITS/BG, the other CL :)
1. ITS3.7/BG0.6
Biodiversity, and Animals in the Earth System: A Geoscience Perspective
Orals: Monday 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.33
Posters: Same day, 14:00–18:00 (CEST) | Hall X1
2. 👇
1. ITS3.7/BG0.6
Biodiversity, and Animals in the Earth System: A Geoscience Perspective
Orals: Monday 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.33
Posters: Same day, 14:00–18:00 (CEST) | Hall X1
2. 👇
#Entropi 1 saat sonra Apaçık Radyo'daki son bölümüyle başlıyor. Sevgili @nuzhet52.bsky.social ile #DireWolf meselesini masaya yatırdık. Bu bölümden sonra ~1 ay tatile giriyoruz. Yazın da yepyeni içerik ve yeni bir podcast serisi olarak sizinle buluşuyoruz 😉✌️ Gelişmeleri buradan takip edebilirsiniz!
April 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#Entropi 1 saat sonra Apaçık Radyo'daki son bölümüyle başlıyor. Sevgili @nuzhet52.bsky.social ile #DireWolf meselesini masaya yatırdık. Bu bölümden sonra ~1 ay tatile giriyoruz. Yazın da yepyeni içerik ve yeni bir podcast serisi olarak sizinle buluşuyoruz 😉✌️ Gelişmeleri buradan takip edebilirsiniz!
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
🧵🧪🌊 With a little more than 2 months to go to the winter solstice in #Antarctica, sea ice is generally recovering fairly well from a near record minimum earlier this year. Not in the Bellingshausen Sea though. Hardly any new ice has formed there yet.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
🧵🧪🌊 With a little more than 2 months to go to the winter solstice in #Antarctica, sea ice is generally recovering fairly well from a near record minimum earlier this year. Not in the Bellingshausen Sea though. Hardly any new ice has formed there yet.
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Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Our latest article on the impact of #AtmosphericRiver on the 2023 #Türkiye #Syria #earthquake disaster has been picked up by @eos.org 👇 #compoundisaster
eos.org/articles/an-...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/an-...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social
An Atmospheric River Exacerbated Türkiye’s 2023 Earthquake Crisis - Eos
A new study reveals how an atmospheric river led to more devastation after two earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, highlighting the need for better risk assessment models.
eos.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Our latest article on the impact of #AtmosphericRiver on the 2023 #Türkiye #Syria #earthquake disaster has been picked up by @eos.org 👇 #compoundisaster
eos.org/articles/an-...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social
eos.org/articles/an-...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
427.15 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 03-Apr-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
427.15 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 03-Apr-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Depremlerin ardından yaşanan sel riskine çözüm arayan projemiz NASA tarafından destek kazandı.
Haberin linkine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz👇
haberler.itu.edu.tr/haberdetay/2...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social #erkanistanbulluoğlu #geohazards #atmosphericriver #Turkey #earthquake #risk
Haberin linkine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz👇
haberler.itu.edu.tr/haberdetay/2...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social #erkanistanbulluoğlu #geohazards #atmosphericriver #Turkey #earthquake #risk
March 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Depremlerin ardından yaşanan sel riskine çözüm arayan projemiz NASA tarafından destek kazandı.
Haberin linkine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz👇
haberler.itu.edu.tr/haberdetay/2...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social #erkanistanbulluoğlu #geohazards #atmosphericriver #Turkey #earthquake #risk
Haberin linkine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz👇
haberler.itu.edu.tr/haberdetay/2...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social #erkanistanbulluoğlu #geohazards #atmosphericriver #Turkey #earthquake #risk
Instead of being shocked at #Trump administration gutting #USAID, I think it's about time we question how humanitarian aid became so dependent on a single country. Where's the UN in all of this?
And instead of being devastated to hear #US killing military aid to #Ukraine, aren't we too late to >>
And instead of being devastated to hear #US killing military aid to #Ukraine, aren't we too late to >>
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
The link for the original article: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake disaster was exacerbated by an atmospheric river - Communications Earth & Environment
The combination of topography, as a driver for extreme precipitation, and slope instability from seismicity contributed to the compound hazard of post-seismic rainfall-induced landslides, according to...
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The link for the original article: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Our latest article on the impact of #AtmosphericRiver on the 2023 #Türkiye #Syria #earthquake disaster published in @nature.com has been picked up by @meteored.com 👇 #compoundisaster
@tolgagorum.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social @commsearth.bsky.social
www.meteored.com.ar/noticias/cie...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social @commsearth.bsky.social
www.meteored.com.ar/noticias/cie...
La catástrofe del terremoto de 2023 en Turquía y Siria se vio agravada por un río atmosférico
Un nuevo estudio muestra que un río atmosférico pudo contribuir a la mayor magnitud de los daños causados por el terremoto de 2023 en Turquía y Siria.
www.meteored.com.ar
March 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Our latest article on the impact of #AtmosphericRiver on the 2023 #Türkiye #Syria #earthquake disaster published in @nature.com has been picked up by @meteored.com 👇 #compoundisaster
@tolgagorum.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social @commsearth.bsky.social
www.meteored.com.ar/noticias/cie...
@tolgagorum.bsky.social @naturecomms.bsky.social @commsearth.bsky.social
www.meteored.com.ar/noticias/cie...
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Strong earthquakes in mountain landscapes can trigger widespread slope failures, initiating chains of multiple hydro-geomorphic hazards. These chains can amplify the geohazards and last many years following strong earthquakes.
nature.com/articles/s43...
nature.com/articles/s43...
The 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake disaster was exacerbated by an atmospheric river - Communications Earth & Environment
The combination of topography, as a driver for extreme precipitation, and slope instability from seismicity contributed to the compound hazard of post-seismic rainfall-induced landslides, according to...
nature.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Strong earthquakes in mountain landscapes can trigger widespread slope failures, initiating chains of multiple hydro-geomorphic hazards. These chains can amplify the geohazards and last many years following strong earthquakes.
nature.com/articles/s43...
nature.com/articles/s43...
Reposted by Bikem Ekberzade
Two papers in Nature present the origins of the Yamna (also known as Yamnaya), the pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe into Europe 5,000 years ago.
https://go.nature.com/40MR4Cx
https://go.nature.com/411BUKV
🧪 🏺
https://go.nature.com/40MR4Cx
https://go.nature.com/411BUKV
🧪 🏺
February 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Two papers in Nature present the origins of the Yamna (also known as Yamnaya), the pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe into Europe 5,000 years ago.
https://go.nature.com/40MR4Cx
https://go.nature.com/411BUKV
🧪 🏺
https://go.nature.com/40MR4Cx
https://go.nature.com/411BUKV
🧪 🏺
I'm both humbled and proud to see @smithsonianmag.bsky.social include my last book #StandingRock in their archives. In these times, the history and resilience of the tribes of N. America can teach us a lot. So, thank you #SmithsonianLibrariesandArchives for safekeeping it🙏
www.si.edu/object/stand...
www.si.edu/object/stand...
Standing Rock : greed, oil and the Lakota's struggle for justice / Bikem Ekberzade | Smithsonian Institution
www.si.edu
February 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I'm both humbled and proud to see @smithsonianmag.bsky.social include my last book #StandingRock in their archives. In these times, the history and resilience of the tribes of N. America can teach us a lot. So, thank you #SmithsonianLibrariesandArchives for safekeeping it🙏
www.si.edu/object/stand...
www.si.edu/object/stand...
7 years ago in September, #StandingRock was published. Later, I turned it into a radio show #DikilenKaya that ran for 5 years. The history of indigenous resistence in North America is one of the oldest stories of resilience. And maybe more pertinent now that ever 👇
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
Standing Rock
In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close t…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
7 years ago in September, #StandingRock was published. Later, I turned it into a radio show #DikilenKaya that ran for 5 years. The history of indigenous resistence in North America is one of the oldest stories of resilience. And maybe more pertinent now that ever 👇
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/standing-...
In Turkish, #podcast 📢
#Entropi'den herkese merhaba! Pazartesi saat tam 14'te sevgili @Hizamrc'yla depremden 2 yıl sonra, #6subat2023'den bu yana, #Defne'de neler ol(ma)dı konuşuyoruz. Bir de kampanya duyurumuz var! Canlı dinlemek isteyenler 👇ve tabii podcastimiz baki 😉✌️
apacikradyo.com.tr
#Entropi'den herkese merhaba! Pazartesi saat tam 14'te sevgili @Hizamrc'yla depremden 2 yıl sonra, #6subat2023'den bu yana, #Defne'de neler ol(ma)dı konuşuyoruz. Bir de kampanya duyurumuz var! Canlı dinlemek isteyenler 👇ve tabii podcastimiz baki 😉✌️
apacikradyo.com.tr
February 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In Turkish, #podcast 📢
#Entropi'den herkese merhaba! Pazartesi saat tam 14'te sevgili @Hizamrc'yla depremden 2 yıl sonra, #6subat2023'den bu yana, #Defne'de neler ol(ma)dı konuşuyoruz. Bir de kampanya duyurumuz var! Canlı dinlemek isteyenler 👇ve tabii podcastimiz baki 😉✌️
apacikradyo.com.tr
#Entropi'den herkese merhaba! Pazartesi saat tam 14'te sevgili @Hizamrc'yla depremden 2 yıl sonra, #6subat2023'den bu yana, #Defne'de neler ol(ma)dı konuşuyoruz. Bir de kampanya duyurumuz var! Canlı dinlemek isteyenler 👇ve tabii podcastimiz baki 😉✌️
apacikradyo.com.tr
From the archives: between 2008-2010 we undertook an extensive biodiversity monitoring project in Gulluk Korfezi, in southwest Turkey and formulated a white paper that echoed our concerns of potential desertification within the gulf - now a widespread phenomenon. 👇
zenodo.org/records/1462...
zenodo.org/records/1462...
Biodiversity within Güllük Gulf, threats the ecosystem faces due to high eutrophication rates and pollution: Recommendations to stop and reverse the current state of degradation
This technical report (white paper) details the results of a 3-year monitoring project in Güllük Gulf, in southwestern Türkiye, between 2007-2010, during which sensitive and endangered taxa were ident...
zenodo.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
From the archives: between 2008-2010 we undertook an extensive biodiversity monitoring project in Gulluk Korfezi, in southwest Turkey and formulated a white paper that echoed our concerns of potential desertification within the gulf - now a widespread phenomenon. 👇
zenodo.org/records/1462...
zenodo.org/records/1462...
Writing about a fire while watching another live. 3,5 years & continents apart. #Palisades, #Hurst and #EatonFire are burning out-of-calendar in a Mediterranean ecosystem same as in #SouthernEurope in 2021. 2021 was coined an anomaly, but seeing LA now, that anomaly may well be the new normal.
January 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Writing about a fire while watching another live. 3,5 years & continents apart. #Palisades, #Hurst and #EatonFire are burning out-of-calendar in a Mediterranean ecosystem same as in #SouthernEurope in 2021. 2021 was coined an anomaly, but seeing LA now, that anomaly may well be the new normal.