CLIMATE CHANGE

Funding Scheme:

T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Strateji ve Bütçe Başkanlığı

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU-IMS

Contact Point:

Prof. Dr. Barış Salihoğlu

Duration:

12 Years

Start-End Date:

2012-2024

Aim:

DEKOSIM is a research infrastructure project. DEKOSİM will provide information and technical infrastructure support to all Turkish marine related institutions and organizations and has been designed at a level to compete scientifically with European countries in the fields of marine ecosystem and climate research. Within the scope of DEKOSIM, observation systems that can undertake long-term, continuous measurements in Turkish seas are being established. Such systems include time series, passive measuring devices drifting with currents (ARGO floats) and float systems.

Website:

dekosim.ims.metu.edu.tr

Funding Scheme:

DEKOSİM

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU-IMS

Contact Point:

Lecturer Dr. Hasan Örek

Duration:

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Start-End Date:

2017 - ongoing

Aim:

The Eastern Mediterranean is the region of the world where climate change effects are first expected to be noticed. With this project, it is aimed to monitor and understand the consequence and long-term effects on changes in the physical environment and the marine ecosystem.

Website:

dekosim.ims.metu.edu.tr/dekosim/Erdemli-Zaman-Serisi

Funding Scheme:

EC H2020 – Green Deal

Type:

International

Coordinator Organisation:

UTH

Contact Point:

Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Yücel

Duration:

48 Months

Start-End Date:

2021-2025

Aim:

With ARSINOE, Turkey's first Green Deal project, a three-tier methodological framework will be developed by including the System Innovation Approach (SIA), which addresses the developing complexity, interdependencies and interconnectedness of contemporary societies and economies by covering the functions of the cross-sectoral systems as a whole and the variety of stakeholders, in addition to the Climate Innovation Window (CIW) which refers to the European Union’s innovations marketplace for climate change adaptation technologies.

Website:

arsinoe-project.eu/

Funding Scheme:

EC Horizon Europe

Type:

International

Coordinator Organisation:

NIOZ

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Ekin Akoğlu

Duration:

36 Months

Start-End Date:

2023-2026

Aim:

Project addresses this challenge by advancing the state‐of‐the‐art in understanding and predicting how multiple stressors and cumulative human impacts influence marine biodiversity. And in addition, the direct and indirect consequences on ecosystem functions and contributions vital for human wellbeing.

Website:

www.nioz.nl/en/news/eu-horizon-europe-funding-for-actnow-project

Funding Scheme:

TÜBİTAK

Type:

International

Coordinator Organisation:

IRD-IFREMER

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Ekin Akoğlu

Duration:

48 Months

Start-End Date:

2019-2023

Aim:

SOMBEE addresses the role of eco-evolutionary dynamics and their consequences for the exploitation of fish resources in the future. The key open question addressed is whether exploited fish populations have the capacity of adapting swiftly enough to global change to ensure their persistence and their sustainable exploitation.

Website:

sombee.org/

Funding Scheme:

TÜBİTAK

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU-IMS

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Korhan Özkan

Duration:

36 Months

Start-End Date:

2021-2024

Aim:

The project aims to use biogeochemical and primary producer markers found in lake sediments to understand the responses of alpine lakes to climate change and human impact (e.g. eutrophication) in the Bolkar Mountains. In this way, the scope and extent of the responses of these ecosystems to climate and human impact will be understood for the first time, and the climate change experienced in Anatolia in the recent period, for which we still need more information, will be better understood by using alpine lake sediments.

Website:

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Funding Scheme:

TÜBİTAK 2232

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Korhan Özkan (Res.)

Duration:

36 Months

Start-End Date:

2020-2023

Aim:

In this project, we aim at providing novel understanding of the structure and functioning of different types of saline/brackish lake ecosystems and their response to key stressors (warming, abstraction and external nutrient loading).

Website:

ekosam.metu.edu.tr/en/tubitak-2232

Funding Scheme:

TÜBİTAK 2247-A

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Korhan Özkan 

Duration:

36 Months

Start-End Date:

2022-2025

Aim:

With these innovative experimental studies to be carried out, the changes in the structure and function of the Eastern Mediterranean coastal aquatic ecosystems under the effects of climate change and especially the extreme environmental conditions that are expected to increase will be revealed for the first time with an ecological experiment of this size. The findings will create outputs for effective ecosystem management, which is of increasing importance.

Website:

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Funding Scheme:

TÜBİTAK 3501

Type:

National

Coordinator Organisation:

METU

Contact Point:

Asst. Prof. Koray Özhan

Duration:

36 Months

Start-End Date:

2022-2025

Aim:

With this project, it is aimed to reveal regional differences by determining the buffering capacity of our seas for the first time. At this point, the Mediterranean and Marmara Seas, which are two different seas with completely different characteristics, will be researched with a holistic sampling plan, and high-resolution buffering capacity maps of these seas will be drawn by applying the most suitable ones among the existing indices.

Website:

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