Research Interests
During the 1980's, Dr. Oguz's main interests were coastal processes and the Eastern Mediterranean oceanography. His research then shifted to dynamics of two-layer exchange flows with particular applications to the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits in the late 80's and early 90's.
At the beginning of 1990s, he was amongst the first group of scientists involved with the collaborative research with the oceanographic institutions from the former Soviet Block countries. The hydrographic data collected by multi-ship field campaigns in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 with ~20 miles horizontal resolution provided new conception and understanding to the Black Sea circulation. During his one year visit during 1993-94 to MIT, he implemented the Princeton Ocean Model to the Black Sea. The circulation modeling efforts were then integrated with the Black Sea ecosystem modeling studies within the framework of collaboration with Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and Hugh Ducklow.
Major Current Research Topics:
1) Black Sea ecosystem dynamics and modeling vertical biogeochemical pump,
2) Black Sea circulation dynamics,
3) Climatic regulation of the Black Sea,
4) Regime shift events in the Black Sea ecosystem,
5) Observations and modeling of the Emiliania huxleyi blooms in the Black Sea,
6) Internal hydraulic adjustments of the Bosphorus Strait two layer exchange flow,
7) Mineral aerosol dust characteristics over the Mediterranean Sea.