Emin Özsoy Professor and head, Physical Oceanography Professional: 1977-1978: Staff Engineer, Tetra Tech Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA 1978-1983: Assistant Professor, IMS-METU 1983-1989: Associate Professor, IMS-METU 1989-present: Professor, Physical Oceanography Section, Institute of Marine Sciences, METU, Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey 1989: Visiting scientist, IMGA-CNR, Modena, Italy 1989-1990: Visiting Professor, UNESCO and Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 2014-2015: Visiting Scientist, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2015-2016: Visiting Scientist, EIES-ITU   Research Interests and Contributions: • Ocean modeling / Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Turkish Straits System • Shelf seas – circulation, cascading flows / Cilician Basin, Black Sea shelf • Sea straits – dynamics, transport, modeling / Turkish Straits System • Seas with islands /quasi-geostrophic dynamics • Ecosystems /coupled hydrodynamics-ecosystem modeling • Double diffusive convection / Black Sea boundary and interior mixing • Operational oceanography /observing systems, forecasting • Atmospheric science / air-sea fluxes, dust transport, meteorological forecasting • Oceanographic use of tracers / deep water renewal, transport • Tidal inlets / tidal jet flows, sediment transport, morphology • Tsunamis / modeling Eastern Mediterranean tsunamis • Climate variability and climate change / in the Seas of the Old World (e.g. Black Sea, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas) • History of oceanography / 17th century work of Marsili in the Bosphorus Projects: - POEM Consortium - Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean - CoMSBlack Consortium – Black Sea - Ventilation of the Black Sea – EU Copernicus Project - ARAL-KUM – EU Copernicus Project - MFSTEP, MERSEA, ECOOP, IASON, SESAME, MyOcean, PERSEUS - MyOcean2, MyOcean FO - European Integrated Projects (Mediterranean and Black Seas, Turkish Straits System) - TU-Fisheries, TU-Black Sea, TU-Black Sea ODBMS - NATO Projects (Black Sea) - MACE - NATO SfP Project (Caspian Sea) IAEA - Environmental Pollution of the Black Sea Coordinated Research Project (Black Sea) MOMA - TÜBİTAK Public Research Group Project (observing and forecasting systems) TÜBİTAK research projects (Mediterranean and Black Seas, Turkish Straits System) Other local research projects (Akkuyu NPP Tsunami, Shelf projects, SEKA, İskenderun, İSKİ - Turkish Straits System, İTÜVSAM / TURBO)