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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
EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities
Field Work Capabilities
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
EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities
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
Field Work Capabilities
EMCOL Laboratory FacilitiesEMCOL Laboratory Facilities
Itrax Core Scanner
Multi-Sensor Core Logger
Core Analysis Laboratory
EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities
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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16-17 17-18
18-19
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24-25 25-26
26-27
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0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
33-34
34-3535-36
Vatnsdalsvatn Particle-size Distributions
Particle-size Fraction (m)
Depths (cm):
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
EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities
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
EMCOL FacilitiesEMCOL Facilities
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)
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Mapping ancient shorelines
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Sapropel (suboxic/dysoxic bottom
water conditions)Freshwater period
Freshwater-marine transition layer
dated at 12 kyr BP
Identification of past hydrologic and climatic changes
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
Split core from the Sea of Marmara
Çağatay et al. (2000) Mar. Geol.
Vesuvius?
Identifying records of explosive volcanic activity
EMCOL Facility Research Applications
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