MERVE GORGUNER, Ph.D. Student.
EDUCATION
2013 – present: Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering – Water Resources, University of California, Davis
2013: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2011: B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Minor Program in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (GIS/RS)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014 – present: Graduate Student Researcher, Hydrologic Research Laboratory, University of California, Davis
2011 – 2013: Full-time Research Assistant for the project of “Domestic/Urban Wastewater Sludge Management” funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
September 2010: Full-time summer intern in The General Directorate of Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning, Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, Ankara, Turkey
August 2009: Full-time summer intern in TUSAŞ Aerospace Industries Inc., Ankara, Turkey: worked in the drinking water treatment plant, the industrial waste pretreatment plant, and the domestic wastewater treatment plant
RESEARCH INTERESTS
– Climate change effects on hydrological processes
– Regional atmospheric modeling
– Watershed hydrology modeling
– Domestic/Urban wastewater sludge management
COMPUTER SKILLS
Regional Hydro-Climate Modeling Software: Watershed Environmental Hydrology (WEHY) model, The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
Engineering Software: AutoCAD, WaterCAD, SewerCAD, MapInfo, ArcGIS
Computer Language: MATLAB
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
AWARDS & HONORS
2013: Fulbright Ph.D. Student Scholar – U.S. Department of the State
2011: Honor Graduate, Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University
PUBLICATIONS
Master’s Thesis
Gorguner, M. (2013). A Transport Cost-Based Optimization for Arable Land Application of Municipal Sludge in Ankara (M.Sc Thesis). Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. F. Dilek Sanin, Co-advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aysegul Aksoy.
Journal Papers
Gorguner, M., Aksoy, A., & Sanin, F. D. (2014). A transport cost-based optimization for recycling of municipal sludge through application on arable lands. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, 94(1): 146-156.
International Conference Proceedings
Gorguner, M., Aksoy, A., & Sanin, F. (2014). GIS-Based Area Determination for Land Application of Municipal Sludge of A Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant. In 4th European Conference on Sludge Management. İzmir, Turkey.