Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography
and Limnology

• Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Faculty of Mines
• and
• Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences

A SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION of the SIXTH
FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2
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EMCOLs Objectives

• To establish state-of-the-art laboratory and
  field facilities that will be used extensively in
  marine and lake studies, including natural
  hazards and environmental changes, so that the
  output will be comparable with that from
  European, American, and other worldwide centres
  of excellence.
• To develop highly qualified first- and
  second-generation researchers in
  interdisciplinary marine and lake studies at
  ITU, covering a wide range the fields such as
  underwater earthquake geology, submarine land
  slides, tsunamis, floods, climate change and
  environmental pollution.
• To enhance interactions in projects and idea
  exchanges between ITU researchers and those in
  the EU countries

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EMCOL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
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EMCOL Facilities
Field Work Capabilities

• Surveying Equipment
• Chirp-Type Sub-bottom Profiling System with
  Differential GPS

Mapping active faults using the sub-bottom
(Chirp) profiler
Fault Zone
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EMCOL Facilities
Field Work Capabilities

• Water Column Sampling Equipment
• sediment traps (20) for lake studies
• CTD with oxygen sensor

XRD results from a sediment trap in Bear Lake,
Utah, USA showing different forms of calcium
carbonate being deposited (Dean et al., 2000)
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EMCOL Facilities
Field Work Capabilities
Sediment Sampling Equipment Submersible
Vibracorer (Rossfelder Corp.) Gravity corer with
5 m penetration capability Kajak corer for
collecting surface sediments Livingstone piston
corer with 30 m of rods Grab sampler (Ekmann
dredge) Drilling equipment (up to 25 m
depth) Support Equipment Platform (4m x 3.5 m)
tripod 4-wheel drive field vehicle Van equipped
for in situ geophysical tests Small boat and
motor with trailer
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EMCOL Laboratory Facilities
Core Analysis Laboratory
Itrax Core Scanner
Multi-Sensor Core Logger
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EMCOL Facilities
Sedimentology Laboratory

• Capabilities
• Freeze-drying of samples
• Sample homogenization
• Resin embedding (for thin sections)
• Particle-size analysis by laser diffraction and
  standardized sieving
• High-speed centrifuge for clay and microfossil
  separations

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EMCOL FacilitiesGeochemistry Laboratory
Organic and inorganic (carbonate) carbon
analyses from a Sea of Marmara core Çagatay et
al. (2004)

• Capabilities
• Total Organic Carbon and Inorganic Carbon by
  coulometry
• Stable isotope analyses pretreatments
• Microfossil preparations such as for
  foraminifera, biogenic silica, pollen, diatoms
  and ostracodes

MD-2430

Sapropel layer
Diagenetic carb.
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EMCOL Facilities

• Core Storage Facility
• Horizontal storage for 210 one-meter core
  sections
• Vertical storage racks for 2 m cores
• Temperature data logger and temperature alarm

Wet Core Laboratory

• Core splitting
• Photography and description
• Geotechnical tests
• Sub-sampling
• Wet sieving

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EMCOL Facilities
Supporting Partnerships
Other ITU Laboratories Palaeontology Microscopy Tr
ee-ring Analysis XRD, AAS, SEM-EDX ICP-ES GIS,
Remote sensing Off-site Facilities MTA General
Directorate (Geological Survey of
Turkey) ship-time, gravity corers multi-channel
seismic equipment
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Natural Hazards and Environmental Change
EMCOL Facility Research Applications

• Earthquake studies and risk evaluation
• Sub-aqueous landslides studies
• Tsunami studies
• Sea-level and coastline changes
• Climate studies
• Enviromental studies

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EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Identifying and dating past earthquake events
using grain-size analysis
McHugh, Çagatay et al. (2003)
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Mapping ancient shorelines
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
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Sapropel (suboxic/dysoxic bottom water
conditions)
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Identification of past hydrologic and climatic
changes
Split core from the Sea of Marmara
Freshwater-marine transition layer dated at 12
kyr BP
Freshwater period
Çagatay et al. (2000) Mar. Geol.
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EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Identifying records of explosive volcanic
activity
Vesuvius?
Çagatay et al. (2004)
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EMCOL will have established state-of-the art
research facilities in natural hazards and
environmental change studies in marine and lake
basins. Researchers working in the Black Sea and
Eastern Mediterranean regions are encouraged to
use these facilities in their Research Projects
You can follow the progress on EMCOL
infrastucture, training, future projects and
scholarships at EMCOL web site http//www.mines.i
tu.edu.tr/emcol