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

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TurkeyFaculty of Mines

and

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences

A SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION of the SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME [FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2]

Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and LimnologyOceanography and Limnology

EMCOL’s ObjectivesEMCOL’s 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

GeneralAssembly

SedimentologyLaboratory

GeochemistryLaboratory

AdvisoryCommittee

Field EquipmentStorage Facility &

Wet Core Laboratory

Core StorageFacility

ManagementCommittee

EMCOL CoordinatorNamik Cagatay

Core AnalysisLaboratory

EMCOL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities

Surveying EquipmentChirp-Type Sub-bottom Profiling System with Differential GPS

Field Work Capabilities

Mapping active faults using the sub-bottom (Chirp) profiler

Fault Zone

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)

Spring diatom bloom

Winter deposits


Sediment Sampling EquipmentSubmersible 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 EquipmentPlatform (4m x 3.5 m) & tripod

4-wheel drive field vehicle

Van equipped for in situ geophysical tests

Small boat and motor with trailer


EMCOL Laboratory FacilitiesEMCOL Laboratory Facilities

Itrax Core Scanner

Multi-Sensor Core Logger

Core Analysis Laboratory


CapabilitiesCapabilities

• Freeze-drying of samplesFreeze-drying of samples

• Sample homogenizationSample homogenization

• Resin embedding (for thin sections)Resin embedding (for thin sections)

• Particle-size analysis by laser Particle-size analysis by laser diffraction and standardized sievingdiffraction and standardized sieving

• High-speed centrifuge for clay and High-speed centrifuge for clay and microfossil separationsmicrofossil separations

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Particle-size Fraction (m)

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Sedimentology Laboratory

EMCOL Facilities

Geochemistry LaboratoryGeochemistry Laboratory

CapabilitiesCapabilities

• Total Organic Carbon and Inorganic Total Organic Carbon and Inorganic Carbon by coulometryCarbon by coulometry

• Stable isotope analyses pretreatmentsStable isotope analyses pretreatments

• Microfossil preparations such as for Microfossil preparations such as for foraminifera, biogenic silica, pollen, foraminifera, biogenic silica, pollen, diatoms and ostracodesdiatoms and ostracodes

MD-2430

Organic and inorganic (carbonate) carbon analyses from a Sea of Marmara core

Çağatay et al. (2004)

Diagenetic carb.

Sapropel layer


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

Core Storage FacilityCore Storage Facility

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

Gravity corer on MTA’s marine research vessel Sismik-1


Supporting Partnerships

Other ITU LaboratoriesPalaeontologyMicroscopyTree-ring AnalysisXRD, AAS, SEM-EDX & ICP-ESGIS, Remote sensing

Off-site FacilitiesMTA General Directorate (Geological Survey of Turkey)ship-time, gravity corers & multi-channel seismic equipment

Natural Hazards and Environmental Natural Hazards and Environmental ChangeChange

•Earthquake studies and risk evaluation

•Sub-aqueous landslides studies

•Tsunami studies

•Sea-level and coastline changes

•Climate studies

•Enviromental studies

EMCOL Facility Research Applications

Identifying and dating past earthquake events using grain-size analysis

McHugh, Çagatay et al. (2003)


Mapping ancient shorelines


Sapropel (suboxic/dysoxic bottom

water conditions)Freshwater period

Freshwater-marine transition layer

dated at 12 kyr BP

Identification of past hydrologic and climatic changes


Split core from the Sea of Marmara

Çağatay et al. (2000) Mar. Geol.

Vesuvius?

Identifying records of explosive volcanic activity


Çağatay et al. (2004)

EMCOL will have established state-of-the EMCOL will have established state-of-the art research facilities in art research facilities in natural hazards natural hazards and environmental change studiesand environmental change studies in in marine and lake basins. Researchers marine and lake basins. Researchers working in the Black Sea and Eastern working in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean regions are encouraged Mediterranean regions are encouraged to use these facilities in their Research to use these facilities in their Research ProjectsProjects

You can follow the progress on EMCOL You can follow the progress on EMCOL infrastucture, training, future projects infrastucture, training, future projects and scholarships at EMCOL web site:and scholarships at EMCOL web site:

http://www.mines.itu.edu.tr/emcolhttp://www.mines.itu.edu.tr/emcol

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