NEWS & EVENTS

PI Mustafa Yücel has started leading 3 H2020 projects, Black Sea CONNECT and BRIDGE-BS as co-coordinator and ARSINOE as the METU PI.
PI Mustafa Yücel gave a talk "From expanding anoxia to recent sea snot events: Biogeochemical transformation of the connected Black Sea - Marmara Sea System in response to multiple stressors" as an invited speaker at University of Leeds, UK.
PI Mustafa Yucel published a paper "High He-3/He-4 in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galapagos plume" in PNAS!
Deep Sea Redox Research Group members published a book chapter "Anaerobic and chemosynthetic ecosystems of Turkish deep-seas" in "Extreme Marine Environments of Turkey" book of Turkish Marine Research Foundation.
PI Mustafa Yücel and Serhat Sevgen's paper "Soluble, Colloidal, and Particulate Iron Across the Hydrothermal Vent Mixing Zones in Broken Spur and Rainbow, Mid-Atlantic Ridge" was published in Frontiers in Microbiology!
PI Mustafa Yücel published a paper "Fe-catalyzed sulfide oxidation in hydrothermal plumes is a source of reactive oxygen species to the ocean" in PNAS!
PI Mustafa Yücel and İsmail Akçay published a book chapter "The Sea Snot Outbreak in the Sea of Marmara: Biogeochemical Transformations of the Sea, Modern-Day Pressures and a Roadmap for the Way Forward" in "Ecology of the Marmara Sea: Formation and Interactions of Marine Mucilage, and Recommendations for Solutions" book of Turkish Academy of Sciences.
PI Mustafa Yucel published a paper "Effect of tectonic processes on biosphere-geosphere feedbacks across a convergent margin" in Nature Geoscience!
İsmail Akçay and PI Mustafa Yücel's paper "Benthic Nutrient Fluxes Across a Productive Shelf Adjacent to an Oligotrophic Basin: Case of the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea" is now available in EarthArXiv!
İsmail Akçay attended Goldschmidt 2021 in Lyon, France between 4-9 July 2021.
Research cruises for DEEPREDOX project were conducted by R/V Bilim-2 in the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea in November 2020 and June 2021.

New PhD position is available in our research group! For further details, please check here!
New TUBITAK project, DEEPREDOX, launched 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.

NEWS & EVENTS

PI Mustafa Yücel has started leading 3 H2020 projects, Black Sea CONNECT and BRIDGE-BS as co-coordinator and ARSINOE as the METU PI.

PI Mustafa Yücel gave a talk "From expanding anoxia to recent sea snot events: Biogeochemical transformation of the connected Black Sea - Marmara Sea System in response to multiple stressors" as an invited speaker at University of Leeds, UK.

PI Mustafa Yucel published a paper "High He-3/He-4 in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galapagos plume" in PNAS!

Deep Sea Redox Research Group members published a book chapter "Anaerobic and chemosynthetic ecosystems of Turkish deep-seas" in "Extreme Marine Environments of Turkey" book of Turkish Marine Research Foundation.

PI Mustafa Yücel and Serhat Sevgen's paper "Soluble, Colloidal, and Particulate Iron Across the Hydrothermal Vent Mixing Zones in Broken Spur and Rainbow, Mid-Atlantic Ridge" was published in Frontiers in Microbiology!

PI Mustafa Yücel published a paper "Fe-catalyzed sulfide oxidation in hydrothermal plumes is a source of reactive oxygen species to the ocean" in PNAS!

PI Mustafa Yucel published a paper "Effect of tectonic processes on biosphere-geosphere feedbacks across a convergent margin" in Nature Geoscience!

İsmail Akçay and PI Mustafa Yücel's paper "Benthic Nutrient Fluxes Across a Productive Shelf Adjacent to an Oligotrophic Basin: Case of the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea" is now available in EarthArXiv!

İsmail Akçay attended Goldschmidt 2021 in Lyon, France between 4-9 July 2021.

Research cruises for DEEPREDOX project were conducted by R/V Bilim-2 in the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea in November 2020 and June 2021.

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

New TUBITAK project, DEEPREDOX, launched 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.