Welcome to the website of METU Deep Sea Resarch Group. We are a multidisciplinary research group located in Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University in Turkey, pursuing science in deep marine environments. Our research group mainly aims to investigate biogeochemical cycles in the ocean, geochemical drivers of seafloor ecosystems (vents, seeps, reducing sediments) and development of novel chemical sensors to study the dynamic environmental processes in situ under the supervision of Dr. Mustafa Yücel. For further details, you can check our research page, latest publications and our interactive field map showing where we are working in world's oceans. Also, you can meet with group members and find related videos from past events.

News & Events

New PhD position is available in our research group! For further details, please check here!
New TUBITAK project, DEEPREDOX, will launch on June 01 2020. DEEPREDOX will run for 2 years and investigate for the first time deep-sea redox processes in the Marmara and Black Seas.
Serhat Sevgen was accepted to Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Young Scientist Program and will be working on computational modeling of serpentinization and its astrobiological implications in summer 2020.
PI Mustafa Yucel attended the annual SCOR Working Group 151 meeting (FeMIP), as a part of the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA, USA.
Mertcan Esti attended to 5th Evolutionary Genomics Winter School in Ege University, İzmir, Turkey between 13-17 January 2020.
Serhat Sevgen attended ELSI Winter School, School on Evolution of Earth and Life in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan between 1-7 December 2019.
Nimet Alımlı, Serhat Sevgen, and Mertcan Esti attended 3rd Astrobiology Conference of Turkey at METU, Ankara, Turkey, and Nimet presented our recent work in Black Sea in 30 November 2019.
Mertcan Esti attended AnkaPy Event, Winter School on Python in Bioinformatics, in Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey between 25-29 November 2019.
PI Mustafa Yucel participated in the InterRidge Theoretical Institute Workshop in 18-21 November 2019, in Banyul-sur-mer, France.
PI Mustafa Yücel attended OceanObs19 in Hawaii and made a presentation about DEKOSIM, an observing infrastructure, functioning in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Marmara, connecting blue economy and policy at national and European level between 16-20 September 2019.
Mustafa Yücel, İsmail Akçay and Serhat Sevgen attended Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain between 18-23 August 2019.

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Funding Agencies

We would like to thank to our past and present funding agencies: TÜBİTAK, Turkish Academy of Science, the Science Academy, European Commission, DEKOSİM, Deep Carbon Observatory, and National Science Foundation.

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New PhD position is available in our research group! For further details, please check here!

New TUBITAK project, DEEPREDOX, will launch on June 01 2020. DEEPREDOX will run for 2 years and investigate for the first time deep-sea redox processes in the Marmara and Black Seas.

Serhat Sevgen was accepted to Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Young Scientist Program and will be working on computational modeling of serpentinization and its astrobiological implications in summer 2020.

PI Mustafa Yucel attended the annual SCOR Working Group 151 meeting (FeMIP), as a part of the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA, USA.

Mertcan Esti attended to 5th Evolutionary Genomics Winter School in Ege University, İzmir, Turkey between 13-17 January 2020.

Serhat Sevgen attended ELSI Winter School, School on Evolution of Earth and Life in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan between 1-7 December 2019.

Nimet Alımlı, Serhat Sevgen, and Mertcan Esti attended 3rd Astrobiology Conference of Turkey at METU, Ankara, Turkey, and Nimet presented our recent work in Black Sea in 30 November 2019.

Mertcan Esti attended AnkaPy Event, Winter School on Python in Bioinformatics, in Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey between 25-29 November 2019.

PI Mustafa Yucel participated in the InterRidge Theoretical Institute Workshop in 18-21 November 2019, in Banyul-sur-mer, France.

PI Mustafa Yücel attended OceanObs19 in Hawaii and made a presentation about DEKOSIM, an observing infrastructure, functioning in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Marmara, connecting blue economy and policy at national and European level between 16-20 September 2019.

Mustafa Yücel, İsmail Akçay and Serhat Sevgen attended Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain between 18-23 August 2019.

Follow Mustafa on Twitter

We would like to thank to our past and present funding agencies: TÜBİTAK, Turkish Academy of Science, the Science Academy, European Commission, DEKOSİM, Deep Carbon Observatory, and National Science Foundation.