08/2005  Ph.D., Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, USA.
07/1998  M.Sc., Physical Oceanography; Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Icel, Turkey 07/1996  B.S., Natural Gas and Petroleum Engineering; Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Thesis :

Salihoglu, B. (1998) Three-layer model of plankton productivity in the Black Sea basin. M.Sc. Thesis. Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 92 pp.
Salihoglu, B. (2005) Modelling the effects of physical and biogeochemical processes on phytoplankton species and carbon production in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Ph.D. Thesis. Old Dominion University, USA, 210 pp.

Experience :

05/2009-current Assistant Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
03/2007-04/2009 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
01/2005-02/2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire d'Etudies en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS)-CNRS, Toulouse, France
09/1998 – 12/2004 Research Assistant, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, VA, USA 09/1996 - 07/1998 Research Assistant, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Icel, Turkey

Research Interests :

Dr. Salihoglu’s research interests cover a variety of topics, which range from mathematical modeling of marine ecosystems to descriptive physical oceanography. His main research focus is on exploring marine ecosystems and biogeochemical dynamics via the combination of modeling and data analyses. He uses numerical models to better understand how and why primary production, and the associated export of carbon, varies among diverse marine environments. His research involves the application of a number of different types of marine ecosystem models in combination with observations to study a variety of interdisciplinary oceanographic questions of direct relevance to marine biogeochemistry. Currently he is working on population dynamics modeling   to assess nonlinear controls on anchovy and gelatinous biomass in the Black Sea.