Oceanography METU Middle East Technical University

Overview

Key Features

The Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) is a leading interdisciplinary centre supporting diverse research and activities in marine science with the objectives of; having strategic priorities to benefit from marine resources in a country surrounded by  seas on three sides, sustainable management of human activities related to the sea and the environment, research in the fields of marine science,projects, to cultivate notable scientists through top quality marine science education.

The Graduate School of Marine Sciences with the branches of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Marine Biology and Fisheries and Oceanography, offering postgraduate doctoral and post-doctoral research opportunities, was first  established at Ankara Central Campus in 1975. Because of the importance of the research and the need for its  scientists to be closer to the sea, it was decided to establish a separate campus and in 1977 the construction of the Erdemli Campus was both completed and  education and scientific research began.

Within the Oceanography program at METU Middle East Technical University various researchers carried out to determination of physical structure of our seas; sea-atmosphere interactions and their effects on the climate system; studies on the concentration, distribution and affects on water quality of substances transported via the atmosphere and sediments; interaction of chemical / biological / physical processes; the relationship between the climate and carbon cycle; genetic biodiversity, species diversity and ecosystem processes; how gas cycles interact with atmospheric and marine particles; how atmospheric nutrient inputs can affect marine production and determination of how these processes affect climate; research on ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions with the  Antarctic and Arctic ecosystems.