Current Position:

• Associate Professor

  Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Experience:

• Visiting Scholar (2013)

Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Research Associate (2008-2009)

  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center &

  Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), Univ. of Maryland

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist (2007-2008)

  Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Education:

1. Ph.D., Hydrology and Water Resources, (2001-2007)
   
   
   • Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
     Dissertation:"Towards improved modeling for hydrologic predictions in poorly gauged basins" Advisor: Prof. Hoshin Gupta
     
     
2. M.Sc., Hydrogeology, (1996-1999): GPA:3.45/4.0
   
   
   • Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
     Thesis Title: "Characterization of the Kucuk Menderes River Basin aquifer system" Advisor: Prof. Hasan Yazicigil
     
     
3. B.Sc., Geological Engineering, (1992-1996): GPA:3.17/4.0, 3rd rank out of 68 graduates
   
   
   • Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
     

Service:

• Vice President, IAHS International Commission on the Coupled Land Atmosphere Systems (ICCLAS).

• Reviewer:

• Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrol. & Earth Sys. Sci. (HESS), Journal of Hydrologic Eng., Geoscience & Remote Sens. Letters, J.of Hydrometeorology

• Editor:

• IAHS Red Book, New approaches to hydrological prediction in data sparse regions, IAHS Publ. 333 (2009), ISBN 978-1-907161-04-9.

•  IAHS Red Book, Hydro-climatology: Variability and Change, IAHS Publ. 344 (2011), ISBN 978-1-907161-19-3.
• Boegh, E., Blyth, E., Hannah, D.M., Hisdal, H., Kunstmann, H., Su, B., Yilmaz, K.K., (2013) Climate and Land Surface Changes in Hydrology, IAHS Publ. 359, ISBN  978-1-907161-37-7.

• Symposium Convener:

• New approaches to hydrological prediction in data sparse regions, 8th IAHS Scientific Assembly, Hyderabad, India, 7-12 September 2009.

• Hydro-climatology: Variability and change, XXV IUGG General Assembly, Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet, 28 June - 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia (with Stewart Franks (lead), Eleanor Blyth, Eva Boegh & David Hannah.
• Symposium on Climate and Land Surface Changes in Hydrology, IAHS Scientific Assembly, 22-26 July 2013, Goteborg, Sweden (with Eva Boegh (lead), Eleanor Blyth, David Hannah, Hege Hisdal, Harald Kunstmann and Bob Su)

• Session Convener:

• Session H04 - Distributed Hydrologic Modeling for Operational Forecasting, American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 27-30 May 2008. (with Michael Smith, National Weather Service, NOAA)

• Session HS4.2 - Improving process understanding, classification, model development and evaluation in hydrology using comparative assessment techniques, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010. (with Fabrizio Fenicia, Jim Freer and Tobias Krueger)

• Session H99: Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 5-9 December 2011

Awards:

1. HWR Research Assistantships in Surface Water Hydrology (2001-2007)
2. Salt River Project Fellowship, Doctoral Fellow in Surface Water Hydrology (2005-2007)
3. The World Laboratory Doctoral Fellowship (2001-2003)
4. Honorary Citizen of Tucson, awarded by Tucson Mayor Robert Walkup, 2006
5. First Prize award in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Poster Context, U. of Arizona, 2006
6. Travel Grant awarded by Graduate & Professional Student Council to attend 7th IAHS General Assembly in Perugia, Italy, 2007
7. Travel Grant awarded by Graduate & Professional Student Council to attend AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, USA, 2007
8. PUB Workshop Registration Fee Grant awarded by Workshop Organizing Committee to attend PUB Workshop in Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Oregon, 2006
9. College Registration Fee Scholarship awarded by Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, U. of Arizona, 2005&2006
10. Travel Grant awarded by Institute for the Study of Planet Earth to attend 8th IAHS General Assembly in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, 2005
11. Travel Grant awarded by University of Copenhagen to attend Ph.D. course in Remote Sensing in vegetation and land surface process modeling, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2005.
12. Travel Grant awarded by the Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey to attend IAHS Meeting on Regional Management of Water Resources, UC Davis, Davis, CA, 2000
13. Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Fellowship for outstanding college students (1993-1996)