The Turkish research team arrived at Istanbul airport on tuesday after completing a epic 46-day trip as part of of Sixth National Antarctic Scientific Expedition of Turkey.
Ozgun Oktar, who has been in load of The shipping logistics team said the project was transported out by a total of 20 researchers, including two foreigners, and that they carried out all the planned studies in 33 days.
Hasan Hakan Yavaşoğlu, the team member responsible for scientific studies, said their work has been in life, physical and earth sciences as well as astronomy.
“We have 86 publications,” he said, noting that this was a relatively high figure among countries who lead research on Antarctic.
He also says the trip was particularly productive for researchers who study the life sciences.
Since January 22, the 20 people science team had traveled 36,000 kilometers (22,370 miles) with 20 helicopter operations, 100 hours of boat operations and 18 hours of field studies.
Their studies included 14 projects examining marine and lake sediments, microorganism samples and cosmic particle studies, as well as insolation and albedometer (radiation reflection) studies.
The participants collected 400 lichens and 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of rock samples belonging to 120 species in 14 projects, samples of water, sediments and microorganisms from seas and lakes, cosmic particles research for atmospheric studies and other samples and data.
the team launched field studies on February 14th on Horseshoe Island, where a temporary Turkish science the base is located on the world’s coldest continent, and moved on at Dismal Island where there is a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) station operated by Turkey.
In April 2016, the first-always Turkish team of researchers who included 14 doctors, botanists, geologists and oceanographers from seven universities traveled to Antarctica to study the impact of climate change. Three years later, the expedition established Turkey first polar base. The expeditions also host visiting scholars from other countries.
Before Turkey established son temporary research based on Horseshoe Island in Antarctic in 2019, son scientist team was supported by Ukrainian station Vernadsky. Since 2016, Turkey has accelerated its scientific investigations on the south pole. It is believed that expeditions and further research will help scientific achievements of the country.
Currently holding observer status, Turkey acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in 1996. The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. by 12 countries in December 1959. In 2015, Turkey applied to become observer to the Arctic Council, which was created in 1996 to promote cooperation, coordination and interaction between the eight Arctic states, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
The Turkish research team arrived at Istanbul airport on tuesday after completing a epic 46-day trip as part of of Sixth National Antarctic Scientific Expedition of Turkey.
Ozgun Oktar, who has been in load of The shipping logistics team said the project was transported out by a total of 20 researchers, including two foreigners, and that they carried out all the planned studies in 33 days.
Hasan Hakan Yavaşoğlu, the team member responsible for scientific studies, said their work has been in life, physical and earth sciences as well as astronomy.
“We have 86 publications,” he said, noting that this was a relatively high figure among countries who lead research on Antarctic.
He also says the trip was particularly productive for researchers who study the life sciences.
Since January 22, the 20 people science team had traveled 36,000 kilometers (22,370 miles) with 20 helicopter operations, 100 hours of boat operations and 18 hours of field studies.
Their studies included 14 projects examining marine and lake sediments, microorganism samples and cosmic particle studies, as well as insolation and albedometer (radiation reflection) studies.
The participants collected 400 lichens and 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of rock samples belonging to 120 species in 14 projects, samples of water, sediments and microorganisms from seas and lakes, cosmic particles research for atmospheric studies and other samples and data.
the team launched field studies on February 14th on Horseshoe Island, where a temporary Turkish science the base is located on the world’s coldest continent, and moved on at Dismal Island where there is a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) station operated by Turkey.
In April 2016, the first-always Turkish team of researchers who included 14 doctors, botanists, geologists and oceanographers from seven universities traveled to Antarctica to study the impact of climate change. Three years later, the expedition established Turkey first polar base. The expeditions also host visiting scholars from other countries.
Before Turkey established son temporary research based on Horseshoe Island in Antarctic in 2019, son scientist team was supported by Ukrainian station Vernadsky. Since 2016, Turkey has accelerated its scientific investigations on the south pole. It is believed that expeditions and further research will help scientific achievements of the country.
Currently holding observer status, Turkey acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in 1996. The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. by 12 countries in December 1959. In 2015, Turkey applied to become observer to the Arctic Council, which was created in 1996 to promote cooperation, coordination and interaction between the eight Arctic states, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.