Nur Filiz

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Biology, GPA = 3.42, 2012-

Middle East Technical University

Minor: Limnology, Phytoplankton

Thesis Title: Impacts of climate induced extreme events on phytoplankton community in shallow lakes.

Relevant Coursework: Hydroclimatology, Ecology of Shallow Lakes, Global Biogeochemistry, GIS for Earth Sciences,  Climate Change and Modelling, Sustainable Development, Statistical Methods for Informatics

Master of Science, Biology, GPA = 3.29, 2009-2012

Middle East Technical University

Minor: Limnology, Periphyton

Thesis Title: Impacts of nutrients on periphyton growth in Shallow Lakes: A Mesocosm Experiment

Relevant Coursework: Field Ecology, Paleoecology, Eutrophication and Restoration of Lake Ecosystem, Freshwater Ecology, Applied Ecology, Remote Sensing, Advanced Ecology, Special Topics in Evolutionary Biology: Adaptation and Speciation

Bachelor of Science, Biology, GPA = 3.29, 2004-2009

Hacettepe University

Relevant Coursework: General Biology, Ecological Biology, Molecular Biology, Animal Histology, General Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Antibiotics, Entomology, Physiology, Embriology, Evolution, Biochemistry, Experimental Biochemistry, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biology of Invertebrates, Biology of Vertebrates, Cell Biology, Genetic, Molecular Genetic, Virology, Parasitology, Experimental Animals, Plant Physiology, Systematic Botany, Plant Ecology and Geography, Vegetation Cover of Turkey, Ecology, Statistics, Presentation Skills.

 

EXPERIENCE                      

Project Asistant, April-July 2018

EU H2020-INFRAIA: AQUACOSM (Project No 731065) - Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean

-          Work Package 5: Dissemination and stakeholder engagement

-          Participated preparing lectures sharing information about mesocosms and Aquacosm project.

-          Mesocosm field studies

-          Laboratory analyses

Project Asistat, October – December 2017

TÜBİTAK (Project No: 114Y415): Research on change of lake metabolism and phytoplankton biovolume according to extreme events and ecological parameters with a high-frequency automated monitoring station.

-          High-frequency automated monitoring station field trips in Lake Eymir

-          Laboratory analyses

Research Scholar, May – August 2015

Ecoology and Hydrology Center (CEH), Lancaster and Edinburgh, United Kingdom

-          Mesocosm field studies

-          Laboratory analyses

-          Phytoplankton identification, counting and biovolume calculations

Project Asistant, 2014-2018

EU-FP7: MARS (Project No 603378) – Managing Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Resources under Multiple Stress

-          Work Package 4: Effects of climate induced extreme events on phytoplankton community.

-          Phytoplankton identification, counting and biovolume calculations

Research Scholar, June – September 2014

Aarhus University, Bioscience Departmant, Silkeborg, Denmark.

-          Mesocosm field studies

-          Phytoplankton identification, counting and biovolume calculations

-          Laboratory analyses

 

Project Asistant, 2011-2013

EU-FP6: REFRESH (Project No: 244121) - Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems.

-          Work Package 3: Grazer and nutrient effect on periphyton community in mesocosm experiment in Dam Yalıncak, METU Ankara.

-          Water chemistry analysis

-          Phytoplankton identication

-          Macroinvertebrates identification

-          Chrinomide identification

Project assistant, 2010-2014

TUBITAK (Project No: 105Y125): Determination of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies by Determining the Role and Factors Affecting the Development of Submerged Macrophytes in the Past, Present and Future Warmer Conditions in Shallow Lakes in the Mediterranean Climatic Region

-          Participation of field studies & laboratory analysis

 

Volunteer, July – September 2008

Ecological Research Society – Research and Protection of Sea Turtles Project.

-          Field Studies

-          Data Management

LANGUAGE SKILLS          English (advance)

                                               Germany (basic)

COMPUTER SKILLS          R, TNTgis, Microsoft Office

HONOUR AWARDS        

TUBITAK (The Scientic and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Scholarship

for PhD Education, (2012-2016, 67000 $)

TUBITAK (The Scientic and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Scholarship

for MSc Education, (2010-2011, 18500 $)

Erasmus Exchange Programme Scholarship, (June-September 2014, 7000$)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS                

Evanthia Mantzouki et al., Data Descriptor: A European Multi Lake Survey dataset of environmental variables, phytoplankton pigments and cyanotoxins, 2018, Scientific Data, 5:180226.

Evanthia Mantzouki et al., Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins, 2018, Toxins, 10:156.

Bucak, T; Trolle, D; Andersen, HE; Thodsen, H; Erdogan, S; Levi, EE; Filiz, N; Jeppesen, E; Beklioglu, M. Future water availability in the largest freshwater Mediterranean lake is at great risk as evidenced from simulations with the SWAT model, 2017, Science of The Total Environment, 581, p. 413-425.

Beklioglu, M; Bucak, T; Coppens, J; Bezirci, G; Tavsanoglu, UN; Cakiroglu, AI; Levi, EE; Erdogan, Ş; Filiz, N; Ozkan, K; Ozen, A. Restoration of Eutrophic Lakes with Fluctuating Water Levels: A 20-Year Monitoring Study of Two Inter-Connected Lakes, 2017, Water, 9:2, Paper No: 127.

Yu, Cao; Érika M. Neif; Wei Li; Jan Coppens; Nur Filiz; Torben L. Lauridsen; Thomas A. Davidson; Martin Søndergaard; Erik Jeppesen. Heat wave effects on biomass and vegetative growth of macrophytes after long-term adaptation to different temperatures: a mesocosm study, 2015, Climate Research, 66, p.265-274.

Aldoushy Mahdy, Sabine Hilt, Nur Filiz, Meryem Beklioğlu, Josef Hejzlar, Deniz Özkundakci, Eva Papastergiadou, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Michal Šorf, Kostas Stefanidis, Lea Tuvikene, Priit Zingel, Martin Søndergaard, Erik Jeppesen, Rita Adrian. Effects of water temperature on summer periphyton biomass in shallow lakes: a pan-European mesocosm experiment, 2015, Aquatic Sciences, 77:3, 499-510.

Cakiroglu, AI; Levi, EE; Tavşanoğlu, UN; Bezirci, G; Erdogan, S; Filiz, N; Andersen, TJ; Davidson, TA; Jeppesen, E; Beklioglu, M. Inferring past environmental changes in three Turkish lakes from sub-fossil Cladocera, 2015, Hydrobiologia, 778:1, p.295-312.

 

PRESENTATIONS             

Nur Filiz, Uğur Işkın, Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Erik Jeppesen, Jan Coppens, Tom A. Davidson, Martin Søndergard, Torben L. Lauridsen ve Meryem Beklioğlu (speaker). Response of phytoplankton and zooplankton communities to extreme temperature and nutrient stressors: a mesocosm experiment. Oral presentation, 10. SEFS Congress. Abstract Book, p.408, 2 – 7 July, 2017.

Nur Filiz (speaker), Erik Jeppesen, Yu Cao, Erika M. Neif, Jan Coppens, Tom A. Davidson, Martin Søndergard, Torben L. Lauridsen, Meryem Beklioğlu. How the phytoplankton community in shallow lakes with contrasting temperatures and nutrient level respond to a heatwave: a mesocosm experiment. Oral Presentation, 33. SIL Congress, 31 July-5 August 2016, Torino, Italy. Abstract Book, s.280.

Meryem Beklioğlu (speaker), Şeyda Erdoğan, Arda Özen, Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Jan Coppens, Eti Levi, Tuba Bucak, Gizem Bezirci, İdil Çakiroğlu, Nur Filiz. Restoration of eutrophication in drought stricken lakes in mediterranean climatic region: a system of heavily eutrophic and relatively control lakes. Oral Presentation, 33. SIL Congress, 31 July-5 August 2016, Torino, Italy. Abstract Book, s.199.

Uğur Işkın (speaker), U.Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Nur Filiz, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu, Yu Cao,Erika M. Neif, Torben L. Lauridsen, Thomas A. Davidson, Martin Søndergaard. Impact of heat waves along with nutrient enrichment on zooplankton community structure: mesocosms approach. Oral Presentation, 33. SIL Congress, 31 July-5 August 2016, Torino, Italy. Abstract Book, s.198-199.

Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu (speaker), Eti E. Levi, Gizem Bezirci, A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Tuba Bucak, Arda Özen, Nur Filiz, Erik Jeppesen & Meryem Beklioğlu. Factors that Control Zooplankton Community Structure and Diversity in Turkish Shallow Lakes. Oral Presentation, 8. International Shallow Lakes Conference, 12-17 October 2014, Antalya, Turkey. Abstrakt kitabı, p. 147.

Thomas Boll (speaker), Nur Filiz, Gizem Bezirci, Eti E. Levi, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Sandra Brucet, Erik Jeppesen & Meryem Beklioğlu. Fish Community Structure and Diversity of Turkish Shallow Lakes. Oral Presentation, 8. International Shallow Lakes Conference, 12-17 October 2014, Antalya, Turkey. Abstract Book, p. 87

Aldhousy Mahdy, Sabine Hilt, Nur Filiz (Presenter), Meryem Beklioğlu, Josef Hejzlar, Deniz Özkundakçı, Eva Papastergiadou, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Michal Šorf, Kostas Stefanidis, Lea Tuvikene, Priit Zingel, Martin Søndergaard, Erik Jeppesen, Rita Adrian. Effects of Water Temperature on Summer Periphyton Biomass in Shallow Lakes: A Pan-European Mesocosm Experiment. Poster Presentation, 8. International Shallow Lakes Conference, 12-17 October 2014, Antalya, Turkey. Abstract Book, p. 268

Şeyda Erdoğan (presenter), Nur Filiz (presenter), Gizem Bezirci, Ali Serhan Çağan, Jan Coppens, A. Nilsun Demir & Meryem Beklioğlu. Role of temperature for phytoplankton community structure and diversity in Turkish shallow lakes. Poster presentation, 17^th International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy & Ecology (IAP), 14-21 September 2014, Kastoria, Greece.

Nur Filiz (speaker), A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Tuba Bucak, E. Ester Levi, Arda Özen, Gizem Bezirci, Meryem Beklioğlu. Effects of grazing under different nutrient concentrations on periphyton: Mesocosm experiment. Oral presentation, 3. National Wetland Congress, 23-25 October 2013, Samsun, Turkey.

Zeynep Ersoy (speaker), Meryem Beklioğlu, Nur Filiz, Kersti Kangro, Tõnu Feldmann, Josef Hejzlar, Michal Šorf, Eva Papastergiadou, Konstantinos Stefandis, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Aldoushy Mahdy, David G. Angeler, Didier Ludovic Baho, Martin Søndergaard, Erik Jeppesen. Effects of climate change, eutrophication and water level fluctuations on macrophyte growth: a pan-european mesocosm experiment from Sweeden to Turkey. Oral presentation, 3. National Wetland Congress, 23-25 October 2013, Samsun, Turkey.

Meryem Beklioğlu (speaker), Eti E. Levi, Gizem Bezirci, A.İdil Çakıroğlu, Nihan Yazgan, Arda Özen, Şeyda Erdoğan, Tuba Bucak, Nur Filiz, Korhan Özkan. Effects of climate change and anthropogenic eutrophication on wetlands of Turkey and Protection strategies. Oral presentation, 3. National Wetland Congress, 23-25 October 2013, Samsun, Turkey.

Nur Filiz (Speaker), A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Tuba Bucak, E. Ester Levi, Arda Özen, Gizem Bezirci, Meryem Beklioğlu. Effects of water level changes and different nutrient concentrations on periphyton – macroinvertebrates interactions: Mesocosm experiment. Oral Presentation, 5. National Limnology Congress, 26-29 August 2012, Isparta, Turkey.

Tuba Bucak (speaker), A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Eti Ester Levi, Gizem Bezirci, Nur Filiz, Şeyda Erdoğan, Arda Özen, Jan Coppens & Meryem Beklioğlu. Ecological Monitoring of Lake Beyşehir on Catchment Scale. Oral Presentation, 5. National Limnology Congress, 26-29 August 2012, Isparta, Turkey.

Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu (speaker), A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Tuba Bucak, Nur Filiz, E.Ester Levi, Arda Özen, Gizem Bezirci, Meryem Beklioğlu. Effects of Global Climate Change interaction with Eutrophication and Hydrology on Lake Ecosystem and Dynamics: Mesocosm Experiment. Oral Presentation, 5. National Limnology Congress, 26-29 August 2012, Isparta, Turkey.

 

TRAININGS ATTENDED

R workshop by Robert Ptacnik, 16 – 17 July 2018, İzmir, Turkey.

Freshwater Bio-asessment Training Course, by Laurence Carvalho and Nigel Willby, 31 August – 4 September 2015, Stirling, United Kingdom.

Phytoplankton Identification Workshops by Laurence Carvalho, June 2015, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Determination Course of Freshwater and Terrestrial Cyanobacteria, by Jiří Komárek (main lecturer), Jan Kaštovský, Tomáš Hauer, 28 July – 1 August 2014, České Budějovice, Czechia.

Size diversity as a measure of Biological Community Structure, Workshop by Dr. Sandra Brucet, Ankara Turkey, 28 – 29 Jan 2013, Ankara, Turkey.

Chironomidae identification training by Expert Gürçay Kıvanç Akyıldız, 29 May – 9 Jun 2012, Denizli, Turkey.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

METU Scuba Diving Society member (Advance)

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Kuraldışı Training and Consultancy, Life School Certification

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