Postgraduate research students

Balcı, U., Sayit, K., 2020. Diabase dykes from Boğazkale (Çorum), Central Anatolia: Geochemical insights into the geodynamical evolution of the northern branch of Neotethys, Geochemistry, 80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2020.125602.

• Professor Fin Stuart
• Dr Antoniette Grima

The 10th call SAGES Small Grants Scheme - cost for O isotope analysis for NW Iceland basalts

VMSG Student Bursary - conference support grant (Goldschmidt 2023)

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Fitton, J.G., and Taylor, R.N. (2023, July 9-14). High resolution He isotopes from Reykjanes Ridge MORB support pulsing Iceland plume [Oral Presentation]. Goldschmidt 2023, Lyon, France.

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Barrat, J.-A., Grima, A.G., and van der Zwan, F. (2023, July 9-14). Origin and implications of He-depleted Afar mantle plume [Oral Presentation]. Goldschmidt 2023, Lyon, France.

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Martin-Roberts, E., Fitton, J.G., and Bindeman, I.N. (2023, Jan 4-6). The long-term evolution of the Iceland plume constrained by He-O isotope and trace element composition of Miocene basalts from NW Iceland [Oral Presentation]. VMSG 23, London, UK.

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Barrat, J.-A., and van der Zwan, F. (2022, July 11-15). Low He content of the high ³He/⁴He Afar mantle plume: Origin and implications of the He poor mantle [Poster Presentation]. Goldschmidt 2022, online.

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Barrat, J.-A., and van der Zwan, F. (2022, May 23-27). Low He content of the high ³He/⁴He Afar mantle plume: Origin and implications of the He poor mantle [Oral Presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2022, online.

Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Barrat, J.-A., and van der Zwan, F. (2022, January 10-12). Low He content of the high ³He/⁴He Afar mantle plume: Origin and implications [Oral Presentation]. vVMSG 22, online.

Stuart, F., Balci, U., and Barrat, J.-A. (2021, April 19-30). Defining the composition of the deep mantle and the primordial He inventory of the Afar plume [Oral Presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, EGU21-10891, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10891, 2021.

Balci, U., and Sayit, K. (2018, April 23-27). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the diabase dykes from the Boğazkale Region, Central Anatolia: Implications for the geodynamical evolution of the northern branch of Neotethys [Oral Presentation]. 72nd Geology Congress of Turkey with international participation, Ankara, Turkey.

Balci, U., and Sayit, K. (2017, April 23-28). Preliminary geochemical data for the diabase dykes from the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan Suture Belt, Central Anatolia [Poster Presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2017, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vienna, Austria.

2020-2021

Lab leader for Earth Science 1 (EARTH1001)

Lab demonstrator for Earth Science 1 (EARTH1002)

Memberships

Edinburgh Geological Society

Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) 

Education

MS in Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, February 2015-January 2018

Thesis: Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Diabase Dykes from the Boğazkale Region (Çorum, Central Anatolia)

BS in Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, September 2009-June 2014

Previous Teaching Experience

Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University, August 2015-September 2020

Student Assistant, Middle East Technical University, February 2015-July 2015

Assisted Courses

GEOE 207 – Principles of Mineralogy and Petrography,

GEOE 213 – Mineralogy,

GEOE 210 – Petrography,

GEOE 300/400 – Summer Practice,

GEOE 304 – Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology,

GEOE 326 – Field Geology,

GEOE 327 – Field Geology Mapping,

GEOE 417 – Metamorphic Petrography,

GEOE 516 – Geochronology,

GEOE 523 – Metamorphic Petrogenesis.