Demirel's Hydrology and Remote Sensing LAB

Education:

PostDoc: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland - GEUS.dk (8.2015-10.2017)
PostDoc: Portland State University, USA (12.2013-7.2015)
PhD: University of Twente, the Netherlands, Water Engineering and Management (8.2008-2.2014)
Erasmus Mundus: Universidad de Cádiz, Spain, Water and Coastal Management - WACOMA (8.2005-3.2007)
MSc: İstanbul Technical University, Water Engineering (2004)
BSc: Selçuk University, Civil Engineering (2001)

PhD Students:

Master Students:

Alumni:

Harun Alp (now in Ege University)
Mücahit Oruç
Alparslan Özen (Chalmers University of Technology - Erasmus 2021)
Emirhan Özsoy (now in ARUP)
Abdullah Kılıç (now in İSKİ)
Mehmet Eray Yılmaz (now in İSKİ)
Hakan Tongal (UT-Erasmus-2009)
Ahmet Bilal Sağ (now in İSKİ)
Süleyman Furkan Kırkıl (now in Rönesans)
Ibrahim Olayode Busari (alumni MSc, Uni. of Bologna 2021, now PhD candidate in Clemson Uni.)
Maysoun Hameed (PSU-2015)
Pieter Bouwma (UT-2011)
Jasper Bisterbosch (UT-2010)

Research Topics:

Hydrology

Hydrologic modeling
Spatial calibration of distributed models (e.g. mHM and MIKE-SHE)
Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analysis
Conceptual and data-driven models
Climate change impacts on extreme events (floods and droughts) using CMIP5 data
Monte Carlo simulations, Latin Hybercube Sampling
Ensemble ECMWF products and their effects on short range and seasonal flow forecasts
Optimization, time series analysis, source apportionment, circular statistics
Urban Hydrology
Stormwater Management
Smart Flood Measures

Remote Sensing

Hydraulics

Products:
mesoscale Hydrologic Model

SPAtial EFficiency (SPAEF) – a new metric for pattern comparison

Research Projects:

Project Title	Funder	Budget	Period
The effect of different uncertainty sources on flood and drought prediction performance of hydrologic models	TÜBITAK 2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Programme (Grant 118C020)	89.500 ₺	01/05/2018 - 02/12/2019
SPAtial Calibration and Evaluation in distributed hydrological modeling using satellite remote sensing data (SPACE)	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (Grant VKR023443)	930.000 €	01/08/2015 - 30/09/2017
Comprehensive Assessment of Climate Change over the Columbia River Basin with Characterizing and Reducing the Uncertainties on Hydrologic Projections	Department of Energy, USA (Grant 00063182)	400.000 $	13/12/2013 - 01/07/2015
Seasonal and Long-term Prediction of Low flows in the Rhine Basin	Dr. Ir. Cornelis Lely Stichting (Grant 20957310)	160.000 €	01/08/2008 - 20/02/2014

Teaching:

INS354E - Hydrology (BSc) - New code INS354E
INS407E - Design of Water Supply and Sewer Systems (BSc) - Previously named as CEV451E - Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation
INS499E - Hydrologic Modeling (BSc)
HSK531E - Hydrologic Modeling with Remote Sensing (MSc)
HSK619E - Advanced Land Surface Models (PhD)
INS4901/2E - Civil Eng. Design Project #34 Details)

Editorial Board & COST Membership:

Associate Editor - Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Link)
Larhyss Journal - ISSN 1112-3680 (Link)
SI Guest Editor - Water (Switzerland) (Link)
SI Guest Editor - Remote Sensing (Link)
SI Guest Editor - Hydrology (Link)
Associate Editor - Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ) (Link)
MC Substitute for CA17109 - Understanding and modeling compound climate and weather events (Link)

Awards:

2021: Publons Top Editor (Link)
2019: Publons Top Peer Reviewer (Link)
2019: Türkiye 1. Su Yönetimi Ödülü (Üniversite Kategorisinde Birincilik) (Link)
2016: AGU travel award - San Francisco (3000$) by GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
2006: EU A3 Mundus travel award - Miami University (4200€) by Universidade do Algarve

Summer schools:

4-11 July 2021: Hydrologic Modeling Training Workshop (2000$+VAT per person) organized by ITUNOVA-TTO

workshop

PhD candidate Mr. Faisal Baig from UAEU

workshop

Künye-Kütük: 1980 Konya - Taşkent (Pirlerkondu - Garallar/Vahaplar/Körpeler): Mustafa oğlu Ahmed (1892)

Publications:

Videos:

TEZ SUNUMU	EGU - 2016 SUNUMU	AYBE
PROQUEST YAYIN YAPMAK SUNUMU	İTÜ KARİYER ZİRVESİ - 2008	TAF-NETWORK Röportaj
SPAEF METRİĞİ	HSK531E - MAKALE YAZARLARI (İTÜ HABER Linki )	HSK531E - MAKALE YAZARLARI (İTÜ HABER Linki )
HSK531E - MAKALE YAZARLARI (İTÜ HABER Linki )	HSK531E - MAKALE YAZARLARI (İTÜ HABER Linki )	HSK531E - MAKALE YAZARLARI (İTÜ HABER Linki )