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Aysegul Birand |
Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr., Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 Ph: 865-974-0346; Fax: 865-974-6042, <abirand at utk.edu>, Office: 403E Austin Peay |
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Photography I take photographs whenever I get the chance, however, the time I am investing in that is getting less and less. I was sponsored by a professional travel magazine ‘Atlas’ in Turkey (i.e. the biggest competitor of National Geographic in Turkey!) for three expeditions. I published three photo-articles after the expeditions in India’s tropical evergreen forests, and in Costa Rica’s rainforests. One of my photographs appeared in collection of “Hundred Photographs of Atlas”. I have also published two more articles (one with my photographs) in the joint journal Mobidik for young explorers.
The magazine also featured me as their photojournalist thrice: “Ten years of Atlas” – April 2003; 121: 42-66. “On assignment: Aysegul in the forest” – November 2002; 116: 179 (and also on editorial on page 8 of the same issue). “Two trousers, one t-shirt” - can’t remember the date!
Popular photo-articles: Birand, A (2005) Costa Rica – a tropical laboratory. Atlas 153: 76-100 (In Turkish). Birand, A (2002) Himalayan rainforests – the invisible things. Atlas 116: 102-131 (In Turkish). Birand, A (2002) Western Ghats – creatures of the rain. Atlas 117: 123-132 (In Turkish). Birand, A (2003) To walk on top of the trees. Mobidik 7:20-27 (For kids in Turkish) Birand, A (2003) Unbearable toothaches of the elephants. Mobidik 4:54-61 (For kids in Turkish).
Triathlons/Running This is a very recent affair, I have started doing these races in the last few years and hopefully will continue to do it for a while. Here are the results of the races I’ve done so far: · Second place in women’s 25-29, at the 10K Mesilla Valley Run – Las Cruces in March 2004. · First place in women’s 25-29, at the MVTC Triathlon – Las Cruces in April 2004; · 9th place in women’s 30-34 at the Socorro Chili Harvest Triathlon in August 2004; · 2428th (!) place out of 5000+ cyclists in the 111 mile (~180 Km!) El Tour de Tucson in November 2004; · Second place (again!) in women’s 30-34, at the 10K Mesilla Valley Run – Las Cruces in April 2005; · Some (?) place in women’s 30-34, at the MVTC Triathlon – Las Cruces in April 2005. · Third place in women’s 30-34, at the MVTC Triathlon – Las Cruces in April 2006. · Finished (!) the LA Marathon March 2007. · Second place in team relay, at the MVTC Triathlon – Las Cruces in April 2007.
Cave diving I am (now honorary) member of Subaqua Society, Middle East Technical University since 1992, and Underwater Research Society/Cave Diving Research Group since 1994. I was involved in deep sea diving and cave diving expeditions during 1992 to 1999, and I was also a diving instructor of the society during 1994 to 1999; trained open water, and advanced open water divers, and attended several cavern diving trainings as a dive master. I also worked as dive master in diving centers in Bodrum (summers of 1993 and 1996), and in Marmaris (summer of 1995).
Birand, A. (2007) Exploring the dark side: cave diving in Turkey. National Speleological Society – Cave Diving Section workshop: cave diving around the world, Live Oak, Florida.
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