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Institute of Maritime Sciences Management
The institute was founded in 1982 and the fields it covers are marine biology, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, coastal engineering, management of coastal areas, marine and coastal defence, and marine economics and policies. The institute carries out research projects on the seas surrounding Turkey and offers M.A. and doctorate programmes in the fields mentioned. |
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The institute pursues oceanographic field work on the Research vessel ARAR which is equipped with the necessary instruments. The chemistry, biology, sedimentology, distance sendetection and GIS laboratories affiliated to the institute carry out work on standard specimen production, data operating, and experiments. |
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Analytical equipments, Atomic Absorbtion Spectrophotometers (AAS), Gas Chromotography (GC), Gas Chromotography and Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS), FTIR and UV spectrophotometers, spectrofluorometers, autoanalyzers, filtering equipments, microscopes, and distance detectors and computer facilities for GIS applications are among the apparatus available. A large number of projects are under way at the institute. These include the effects on the Marmara and Black seas and the Bosphorus of the discharges from Istanbul, environmental problems resulting from accidents and oil pollution, shallow seismic studies, the follow up of pollution resulting in the Izmit bay as an aftermath of the August 17, 1999 earthquake, fish stocking work, studies in topography and sedimentology, and the application to marine sciences of distance detection. These studies have been very beneficial to maritime sciences in Turkey. |
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