Academic Staff
Hakan AKSU
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD, Hacettepe University (2012)
Research Areas: Hydrometeorology, climate change, extreme precipitation, drought, remote sensing
Selected Studies: He is the coordinator of the TUBITAK project, the effect of climate change and variability on the Black Sea extreme precipitation. He has academic publications on the detection or accuracy assessment of various hydrometeorological parameters (evapotranspiration and precipitation) from satellite images. He continues to study on projects, publications and academic studies on drought.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, D125
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2124
Office Hours: Everyday 11:00-12:00
Meral DEMİRTAŞ
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Head of Department, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., 1997, University of Reading, England
Research Areas:Atmospheric dynamics and modelling; weather forecasting models and multiple forecasting systems; severe weather events; climate variability and change; atmospheric blocking; dynamics and diagnosis of cold and heat waves
Selected Scientific Studies: At University of Reading (England), Department of Meteorology; She wrote her master’s thesis on “Frontal Cyclones”. At the end of her doctoral studies at the same university, she wrote her doctoral thesis on “Sensitivity of Short-Range Forecasts to Local Potential Vorticity Modifications”.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 127
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2123
Office Hours: Wednesday 13.00-14.00
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Bihter DURNA
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., 2019. Istanbul Technical University
Research Areas: Energy, Renewable Energy Resources
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 128
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 |
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-13:00 (Zoom)
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Sema ARIMAN
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., Ondokuz Mayıs University (2019)
Research Areas: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Sedimentology, Water Pollution, Remote Sensing, Artificial Neural Networks, Effects of Climate Change and Climate Variability
Selected Studies: Some of her articles are titled “Determination of inactive water quality variables by MODIS data: A case study in the Kızılırmak Delta-Balik Lake, Turkey”, (2021), “Chlorophyll-a Retrieval From Sentinel-2 Images Using Convolutional Neural Network Regression” (2021), “Hierarchical Spatial-Spectral Features for the Chlorophyll-a Estimation of Lake Balik, Turkey”, (2020). “Monitoring Sensitive Areas for Water Pollution: Kızılırmak Delta-Balık Lake”, (2019). She is the researcher on behalf of Samsun University in the Horizon 2020 project called “Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE)” with a budget of 10 million Euros.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, D-126
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2122
Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00
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Neslihan BEDEN
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: PhD., Ondokuz Mayıs University (2019)
Research Areas: Flood Modeling, Hydrological/Hydraulic Modeling, Flood Damage/Risk Analysis, Trend Analysis, Climate Change and Adaptation
Selected Studies: She wrote her doctoral thesis named “Flood analysis and flood damage assessment of the Cevizdere Basin based on numerical modeling systems” (2019). ”Estimation of the local financial costs of flood damage with different methodologies in Unye (Ordu), Turkey “ (2021), “Flood map production and evaluation of flood risks in situations of insufficient flow data”(2021), “Flood hazard assessment of a flood-prone intensively urbanized area – A case study from Samsun Province, Turkey”(2020), “Trend Analysis of SPI and PNI Drought Indexes in Samsun Province”(2020), “Analysis of Annual, Seasonal, and Monthly Trends of Climatic Data: A Case Study of Samsun“(2018) are some of her articles. She is the coordinator on behalf of Samsun University in the Horizon 2020 project called “Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE)” with a budget of 10 million Euros.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 137
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 |
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday 11:00-12:00 (Zoom)
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Veli YAVUZ
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph. D., Istanbul Technical University(2022)
Research Areas: Synoptic meteorology, aviation meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, severe weather events, atmosphere-ocean interactions
Selected Studies: Yavuz, V., Lupo, A.R., Fox, N.I. & Deniz, A. (2022) “Statistical characteristics of the sea-effect snow events over the western Black Sea”, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 150, 955-968.
Yavuz, V., Lupo, A.R., Fox, N.I. & Deniz, A. (2022) “A long-term analysis of thundersnow events over the Marmara Region, Turkey”, Natural Hazards, 114, 367-387.
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 129
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 |-
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Mehmet Seren KORKMAZ
Assist. Prof., Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: M.Sc. 2015 Istanbul Technical University, PhD., 2017. Istanbul Technical University (Cont’d)
Research Areas: Hydrometeorological Modeling, Geographic Information Systems, Data Analysis
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room No:124
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2133
Office Hours: Everyday 12:00 – 13:00
Şule HALİLOĞLU
Research Assistant, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: Ph.D, Istanbul Technical University (Cont’d)
Research Areas: Climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, severe weather events
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 55
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 |
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Yiğitalp KARA
Research Assistant, Department of Meteorological Engineering
Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Education: M.Sc., Istanbul Technical University (Cont’d)
Research Areas: Atmospheric sciences, numerical weather prediction, air pollution, data analysis, machine learning, wind energy, renewable energy applications
Selected Studies: “Kara, Y., Akalin, I.A., Deniz, N.G. et al. Utilizing ANN for improving the WRF wind forecasts in Türkiye. Earth Sci Inform (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-01003-w”
Office: Özdemir Bayraktar Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 55
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Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 2143
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