Cagan H Sekercioglu

Photography Organisations Association of Turkey

Elsevier

Scopus

Essential Science Indicators

Media magazine of Turkey

Turkey Photography Artists Association

Turkey Ministry of Forestry

Turkey Ministry of Forestry

Turkey Photography Artists Association (TFSF)

University of Utah

"Media" magazine of Turkey

University of Utah

American Ornithological Society

Career & Professional Development Center

Career Development Center, University of Utah

American Ornithological Society

Rolex

Ashoka

Sabanci Foundation

I work extensively with the traditional and social media to communicate ecology, environmental issues and conservation science to the public. I am the host and cameraman of Turkey’s only wildlife documentary series, Yok Olmadan Kesfet, with 61 episodes so far having aired on Turkey’s national documentary channel: www.trtbelgesel.com.tr/macera/yok-olmadan-kesfet Al Jazeera, BBC and National Geographic’s first wildlife and environmental documentaries in Turkey were filmed on my bird and brown bear research. e.g. www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animals-cameras-observing-brown-bears-daily-routine-cagan-sekercioglu/16063, www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL077761A20BF1B088, bozayininizinde.com, http://songbirdsos.com/portfolio/dr-cagan-hakki-sekercioglu/. My bird and mammal research has been the subject of 84 documentaries, mostly in Turkey, but also in the USA (National Geographic), UK (BBC), and Canada (The Messenger). Since 1996, various interviews and news pieces on my research have appeared in at least 540 media outlets in over 60 countries, including in BBC, CNN, National Geographic, Nature, Science, New York Times, The New Yorker, ABC, Associated Press, CBS, Conservation in Practice, American Scientist, Atlas, Audubon, Bloomberg, California Wild, Cameroon Times, Chicago Tribune, China View, Conservation, Christian Science Monitor, Der Spiegel, Discover, Guardian, LA Times, Le Figaro, MSNBC, New York Post, New Zealand Herald, NPR, Reuters, Salt Lake Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Science News, Telegraph, Terra Mexico, The Australian, The Hindu, The Malaysia Star, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Times of London, UPI, USA Today, Voice of America, Washington Post, Wired, and Yahoo News. In the past 20 years, there have been over 6000 newspaper, TV and radio stories on my ecology and conservation research (see: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LRykrpFA117r59ZLzbDXUE56zickAJab?usp=sharing). My lab, my environmental organization KuzeyDoğa and I regularly share our documentaries, photos, scientific and popular articles on our research and other environmental science issues with over 133,000 followers on various social media platforms. We also provide environmental and scientific education to the public through the extensive involvement of hundreds of citizen scientist volunteers in our research. Inspired by my public outreach and citizen science efforts, the former dean of the University of Utah College of Science created the University of Utah Citizen Science Award. I was the inaugural recipient in 2014.

University of Utah

President of Turkey

Whitley Fund

Goldman Environmental Prize

Government of Turkey