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Overview

Naki Akçar is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a substantial publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several key areas including atmospheric science, anthropology, environmental management and policy, oceanography, and earth-surface processes.

The scientist's work prominently covers topics such as geology and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, studies of Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, landslides and related hazards, marine and environmental studies, climate change and permafrost, and geological formations and processes.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Akçar include:

  • Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Nonuniform Late Pleistocene glacier fluctuations in tropical Eastern Africa (2021, Science Advances)
  • The Ticino-Toce glacier system (Swiss-Italian Alps) in the framework of the Alpine Last Glacial Maximum (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • The role of frost cracking in local denudation of steep Alpine rockwalls over millennia (Eiger, Switzerland) (2020, Earth Surface Dynamics)
  • Age of the Most Extensive Glaciation in the Alps (2022, Geosciences)

The frequent co-authors working with Akçar include Christof Vockenhuber, Marcus Christl, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Serdar Yeșilyurt, and Alexander Raphael Groos.

Among the preferred publication venues are:

  • Swiss Journal of Geosciences
  • Geosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Boreas
  • Earth Surface Dynamics

The distribution of their publications indicates a strong engagement with both foundational and applied aspects of earth sciences, addressing physical processes shaping geological and cryospheric environments as well as their historical variations and impacts.

Best Publications

  • Paleoglacial records from Kavron Valley, NE Turkey: Field and cosmogenic exposure dating evidence

    Naki Akçar;Vural Yavuz;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Peter Kubik

  • Dating the onset of LGM ice surface lowering in the High Alps

    Christian Wirsig;Jerzy Zasadni;Marcus Christl;Naki Akçar

  • A chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age glacier culminations of the Steingletscher, Central Alps, Switzerland, based on high-sensitivity beryllium-10 moraine dating

    Irene Schimmelpfennig;Irene Schimmelpfennig;Joerg M. Schaefer;Naki Akçar;Tobias Koffman;Tobias Koffman

  • The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

    Brent M. Goehring;Brent M. Goehring;Joerg M. Schaefer;Christian Schluechter;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    Götz Ossendorf;Alexander R. Groos;Tobias Bromm;Minassie Girma Tekelemariam

  • A case for a downwasting mountain glacier during Termination I, Verçenik valley, northeastern Turkey

    Naki Akçar;V. Yavuz;S. Ivy-Ochs;P.W. Kubik

  • Holocene glacier culminations in the Western Alps and their hemispheric relevance

    Irene Lois Schimmelpfennig;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;Naki Akcar;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • The AD 1717 rock avalanche deposits in the upper Ferret Valley (Italy): a dating approach with cosmogenic 10Be

    Naki Akçar;Philip Deline;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Vasily Alfimov

  • Quaternary uplift rates of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Insights from cosmogenic isochron-burial nuclide dating of the Kizilirmak River terraces

    Attila Çiner;Uğur Doğan;Cengiz Yıldırım;Naki Akçar

  • Paleoglaciations in Anatolia: A Schematic Review and First Results

    Naki Akçar;Christian Schlüchter

  • Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacier variations at the Uludağ Mountain, NW Turkey

    C. Zahno;Naki Akçar;V. Yavuz;P.W. Kubik

  • Surface exposure dating of Late Pleistocene glaciations at the Dedegöl Mountains (Lake Beyşehir, SW Turkey)

    Conradin Zahno;Naki Akçar;Vural Yavuz;Peter W. Kubik

  • Lateglacial and early Holocene dynamics of adjacent valley glaciers in the Western Swiss Alps

    Inga Schindelwig;Naki Akçar;Peter W. Kubik;Christian Schlüchter

  • Glacier response to the change in atmospheric circulation in the eastern Mediterranean during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Naki Akçar;Vural Yavuz;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Regina Reber

  • Paleo erosion rates and climate shifts recorded by Quaternary cut-and-fill sequences in the Pisco valley, central Peru

    Toufik Bekaddour;Fritz Schlunegger;Hendrik Vogel;Romain Delunel

  • Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps

    Romain Delunel;Fritz Schlunegger;Pierre G. Valla;Pierre G. Valla;Jean Dixon

  • Isochron-burial dating of glaciofluvial deposits: first results from the Swiss Alps

    Naki Akçar;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Vasily Alfimov;Fritz Schlunegger

  • Post-depositional impacts on 'Findlinge' (erratic boulders) and their implications for surface-exposure dating

    Naki Akçar;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Peter W. Kubik;Christian Schlüchter

  • Repeated Holocene rock avalanches onto the Brenva Glacier, Mont Blanc massif, Italy: A chronology

    Philip Deline;Naki Akçar;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Peter W. Kubik

  • The Ticino-Toce glacier system (Swiss-Italian Alps) in the framework of the Alpine Last Glacial Maximum

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  • Multiple cosmogenic nuclides document complex Pleistocene exposure history of glacial drifts in Terra Nova Bay (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

    Luigia Di Nicola;Luigia Di Nicola;Stefan Strasky;Christian Schlüchter;Maria Cristina Salvatore

  • A multi-dating approach applied to proglacial sediments attributed to the Most Extensive Glaciation of the Swiss Alps

    Andreas Dehnert;Frank Preusser;Jan D. Kramers;Naki Akçar

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Ivy-Ochs
Susan Ivy-Ochs ETH Zurich
Christian Schlüchter
Christian Schlüchter University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern
Rainer Wieler
Rainer Wieler ETH Zurich
Heinz Veit
Heinz Veit University of Bern
Hasan Sözbilir
Hasan Sözbilir Dokuz Eylül University
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Carlo Baroni
Carlo Baroni University of Pisa

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