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Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and Limnology :

Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and Limnology :. M. NAMIK ÇAĞATAY. Natural Hazards and Environmental Change. EMCOL Research Fields. Earthquakes and earthquake risk assesment Submarine landslides Records of past tsunamis and tsunami risk assesment Sea -level changes

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Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and Limnology :

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  1. EasternMediterraneanCentreforOceanographyandLimnology: M. NAMIK ÇAĞATAY

  2. NaturalHazardsandEnvironmentalChange EMCOL Research Fields • Earthquakes and earthquake risk assesment • Submarine landslides • Records of past tsunamis and tsunami risk assesment • Sea -level changes • Climate change - paleoclimatology • Ecological changes

  3. EMCOL Fieldwork Sub-bottom (Chirp)profilerandDifferential GPS CTD probe ( withdissolvedoxygen sensor) Figure 1. Mappingof activefaultswithsub-bottom (Chirp) profiler Fault line

  4. EMCOL Fieldwork Sediment sampling Vibracorer Gravity corer (5 m) Kajak corer Livingstone piston corer (30 m rod) Ekmann dredge Drilling equipment for coastline (20 m ) Supporting Equipment Platform (4m x 3.5 m) & tripod Small boat and engine

  5. EMCOL’sFacilities Core Analysis Laboratory Itrax (XRF) Core Scanner Multi-Sensor Core Logger Figure 2

  6. EMCOL’sFacilities SedimentologyLaboratory • Freeze-drier • LaserFritschParticleSizerAnalysette • Centrifugeforclayandfossilseperation • Samplepounding

  7. EMCOL’sFacilitiesGeochemistry • Total OrganicandinorganiccarbonanalysiswithShimadzu TOC Analyzer Figure 3. Total organicandinorganiccarbonanalysis in Marmara Seasedimentcore (Çağatay et al., 2004) MD-2430 Sapropel layer Diagenetic carb.

  8. EMCOL • ColdCoreRepository • 210 horizontalshelvesfor 1 m cores • Constanttemperaturemonitoringand alarm system WetCoreLaboratory • Core slicing • Photography and lithological description • Sampling • Wet sieving

  9. EMCOL Research Applications Paleoshorelines and Sea-level changes Figure 4.

  10. EMCOL Research Applications Recognition of past earthquakes with the grain size analysis and dating with Cs-137 method Figure 5. McHugh, Çagatay et al. (2003)

  11. Sapropel (period of oxygen depletion) EMCOL Research Applications Research of past hydrology and climate change records Figure 6. A coresectionfrom Marmara Sea Freshwater-marine water transition, 12 kyr BP 14C age Freshwater period Çağatay et al. (2000) Mar. Geol.

  12. Research in EMCOL Records of past volcanic activities Vezüv? Figure 7. Çağatay et al. (2004)

  13. Projects

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