Uğur Balcı
Email: u.balci.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Address:
SUERC,
Rankine Avenue,
Scottish Enterprise Technology Park,
East Kilbride,
G75 0QF
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3029-7450
Research title: Deciphering the deep Earth and the origin of volatiles using Tertiary Iceland plume-derived basalts
Publications
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.
Supervisors
Conference
Balci, U., Stuart, F.M., Barrat, J.-A., and van der Zwan, F.: Low He content of the high 3He/4He Afar mantle plume: Origin and implications, vVMSG 22, online, 10-12 Jan 2022.
Stuart, F., Balci, U., and Barrat, J.-A.: Defining the composition of the deep mantle and the primordial He inventory of the Afar plume, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10891, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10891, 2021.
Balci, U., and Sayit, K., 2018. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the diabase dykes from the Boğazkale Region, Central Anatolia: Implications for the geodynamical evolution of the northern branch of Neotethys. In: 72nd Geology Congress of Turkey with international participation, Abstracts, Ankara, Turkey.
Balci, U., and Sayit, K., 2017. Preliminary geochemical data for the diabase dykes from the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan Suture Belt, Central Anatolia. In: EGU General Assembly 2017, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vienna, Austria.
Teaching
2020-2021
Lab Leader for Earth Science 1 (EARTH1001)
Lab demonstrator for Earth Science 1 (EARTH1002)
Additional Information
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.