Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and Limnology (EMCOL): Research Focus and Facilities

EMCOL, led by M. Namik A. Atay, focuses on natural hazards, environmental changes, and earthquake risk assessment. Their research fields include earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis, sea-level changes, climate change, and paleoclimatology. The center conducts fieldwork using various equipment for sediment sampling, core analysis, sedimentology, and geochemistry. EMCOL's facilities include core analysis laboratories, sedimentology laboratories, and a cold core repository. Research applications involve studying paleoshorelines, sea-level changes, and past earthquake recognition.

• EMCOL
• Oceanography
• Research
• Natural Hazards
• Earthquakes

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1. Eastern Mediterranean Centre for Oceanography and Limnology: M. NAMIK A ATAY

2. EMCOL Research Fields Natural Hazards and Environmental Change Earthquakes and earthquake risk assesment Submarine landslides Records of past tsunamis and tsunami risk assesment Sea -level changes Climate change - paleoclimatology Ecological changes

3. EMCOL Fieldwork Sub-bottom (Chirp) profiler and Differential GPS CTD probe ( with dissolved oxygen sensor) Figure 1. Mapping of active faults with sub-bottom (Chirp) profiler Fault line

4. EMCOL Fieldwork Sediment sampling Vibracorer Gravity corer (5 m) Kajak corer Livingstone piston corer (30 m rod) Ekmann dredge Drilling equipment for coastline (20 m ) Supporting Equipment Platform (4m x 3.5 m) & tripod Small boat and engine

5. EMCOLs Facilities Core Analysis Laboratory Itrax (XRF) Core Scanner Multi-Sensor Core Logger Figure 2

6. EMCOLs Facilities Sedimentology Laboratory Freeze-drier Laser Fritsch Particle Sizer Analysette Centrifuge for clay and fossil seperation Sample pounding

7. EMCOLs Facilities Geochemistry Figure 3. Total organic and inorganic carbon analysis in Marmara Sea sediment core ( a atay et al., 2004) Total Organic and inorganic carbon analysis with Shimadzu TOC Analyzer MD-2430 Sapropel layer Diagenetic carb.

8. EMCOL Cold Core Repository 210 horizontal shelves for 1 m cores Constant temperature monitoring and alarm system Wet Core Laboratory Core slicing Photography and lithological description Sampling Wet sieving

9. EMCOL Research Applications Paleoshorelines and Sea-level changes Figure 4.

10. EMCOL Research Applications Recognition of past earthquakes with the grain size analysis and dating with Cs-137 method Figure 5. McHugh, agatay et al. (2003)

11. EMCOL Research Applications Research of past hydrology and climate change records Figure 6. A core section from Marmara Sea Sapropel Freshwater-marine water transition, 12 kyr BP 14C age Freshwater period (period of oxygen depletion) a atay et al. (2000) Mar. Geol.

12. Research in EMCOL Records of past volcanic activities Vez v? Figure 7. a atay et al. (2004)

13. Projects