Bikem Ekberzade
@bikem.bsky.social
Earth system scientist (PhD) and journalist with research interests in ecology; disturbance cycles (wildfires); migration; climate change; biodiversity; natural hazards; resilience. Author of Standing Rock, Greed, Oil and Lakota's struggle for justice
Tired of wrestling with ad-hoc scripts to compare #wildfire models with #satellite data?🔥🛰️ I wrote an open-source #RStats workflow to solve this! It harmonizes rem. sensing data w/ model grids for reproducible, seamless validation☺️👇 ttps://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2026/egusphere-2026-4188/
🔥 The western #Mediterranean is burning. But predicting future wildfire isn't just about how much land burns. It's also about where fire returns. New #NHESS preprint explores how #wildfireregimes across #EasternMediterranean may reorganize by 2100. ☺️👇 tinyurl.com/ForecastFire #FireScience #Climate
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Ülkenin gündemi bu kadar farklı konularda yoğunlaşmışken, kuraklık da neyin nesi diyebilirsiniz. Ancak kuraklık uzun süreli bir sinyaldir. Yangın sezonuna da girdiğimiz bugünlerde #İklimMasası için kaleme aldım:
İklim Haber@iklimhaber.org · 3mo ago
🏔️⚠️ Landslides are not just natural #disasters, human activity plays a major role. New research shows land-use change (#deforestation, infrastructure, agriculture) in #OurChangingMountains drives fatalities – especially in lower-income countries. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/5iUpLaB
A new paper Fidan et al. (2026) demonstrates that wealth and the rate of land-cover change play a key role in determining the occurrence of fatal landslides in mountain areas. These factors are statistically more significant that precipitation and topography. eos.org/thelandslide...
The application deadline for the biannual Mary Anning Conference Series is still open until 15th of May! In our new podcast episode 🎙️ @bikem.bsky.social sat down with Lisa Wingate,Tristan Quaife and Catherine Morfopoulos to hear about the Conference that took place last year tinyurl.com/bgmaryanning
On the Mary Anning Conference Series
In this episode of the Biogeosciences podcast series Bikem Ekberzade sat down with the co-organizers of the 2025 Mary Anning Conference, Tristan Quaife and Lisa Wingate, as well as conference participant Catherine Morfopoulos. The conference titled Novel constraints on the coupling between the water and carbon cycles was held in Bordeaux, France. For details on the conference and its presentations, our listeners can visit the event’s website. Also, listeners may find useful tips in the podcast as the guests talk about their journey to hosting this conference as well as their individual experiences. You can listen to the podcast here: Mary Anning Conference Series On the conference series EGU’s Mary Anning Conferences are held every two years and promote novel and innovative research related to biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system. The conferences bring together experienced and early career scientists for an interdisciplinary discussion on all aspects of chemical, physical, and biological processes and their interactions in the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. The Mary Anning conference was a great way of helping to build community, especially amongst early career scientists. I’d encourage anyone thinking of running a meeting with a specific focus to consider applying for this funding. (Tristan Quaife, former organizer) The Call for Proposals for the Mary Anning conference 2027 is open until May 15 and you can find information on how to apply here.
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Anthropogenic land-cover change correlates with landslide fatalities, thereby amplifying the disadvantage of the world's poor. Built on ~60 years of data across 46 countries, this work highlights the urgent need for better planning to reduce risk. Read more here: doi.org/hbwd99
👇@mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @icimod.bsky.social @mrdjournal.bsky.social @geomountains.bsky.social #OurChangingMountains
Bikem Ekberzade@bikem.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur latest study led by @seckinfidan.bsky.social and published in @science.org highlights the correlation between anthropogenic land-cover change and landslide fatalities in world's mountainous regions, amplifying the disadvantage of the world's poor. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our latest study led by @seckinfidan.bsky.social and published in @science.org highlights the correlation between anthropogenic land-cover change and landslide fatalities in world's mountainous regions, amplifying the disadvantage of the world's poor. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Listen to our new BG Podcast episode, with @bikem.bsky.social interviews Santiago Botía about the story behind a recent study that was published in AGU Advances about the loss of sink capacity of the Amazon forest. bgegu.podbean.com/e/why-did-th...
Why did the Amazon forest become a CO2 source in 2023? | BG EGU Podcast
When simulations help highlight an anomaly, scientists who are curious commit to dig deeper, and of course when resources but most importantly data is available, you get good science. In the third epi...
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📣 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
Went out for the #perseids but there are more satellites than meteors 🥺🌠
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...
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...
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#wildfires on the human-climate nexus. I wrote about our last paper published in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj natural hazards : 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...
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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
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
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📣 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+
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.
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…
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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. 👇
#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!
🧵🧪🌊 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. 1/2
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
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.
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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.
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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
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...
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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...
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.
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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...
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
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 🧪 🏺
