Hacettepe University Geological Engineering

Research

PRIORITY RESEARCH AREAS

Natural Disasters
Raw Materials and Energy
Water Resources
Basic Geological Research

Sub-Study Topics
- Determination of Land Stresses
- Production of Acidosis Preventing and Milk Production Increasing Animal Feeds Using Local Underground
- Our Resources
- Briquetting
- Avalanche
- Earthquake Formation Mechanism, Earthquake for Engineering Applications
- Production and Estimation of Parameters
- Advanced Materials (e.g. (Advanced Ceramics and Composites)
- Production of Rock Fibers for Use)
- Advanced (Advanced) Materials (e.g. Advanced Ceramics and Composites)
- Synthesis of Minerals with Limited Reserves in Our Country for Use by Economical Ways with Domestic
- Raw Materials
- Fracture Development in Rock Materials Under Stress
- Use in Plastic Packaging Industry, Primarily Food Packaging
- Production of Functional Minerals (Providing Transparency and/or Antibacterial and/or
- Blocking Prevention) from Our Underground Resources
- Trench Studies
- Landslide
- Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources
- Geomorphology
- Karstification-Related Collapses
- Coal geology
- Non-energy use of coal and other fossil fuels
- Underground gasification of coal
- Development of Exploration Methods for Determining Critical Metal Deposits
- Mantle Flow
- Geochemistry of the Mantle
- River Basin Management
- Paleoseismology
- Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Operation
- Flood and Inundation
- Slope Problems
- Shale gas
- Critical Metals Used in Strategic Energy Sector (Dysprosium; Neodymium; Tellurium; Gallium; Indium; Niobium; Vanadium; Tin; Selenium; Silver; Molybdenum; Hafnium; Nickel; Cadmium)
- Strategic Energy Technologies (Hydrogen Energy; Geothermal Energy; Solar
- Energy; Wind Energy; Nuclear Fission Energy; Fusion Energy)
- Global Warming Effects on Water Resources
- Water-Resourced Human and Environmental Effects
- Sustainable Groundwater Resource Management
- Will Provide Calcium and Silica Sources for Use in the Agricultural Sector
- Production of Soil Regulatory and Plant Nutritional Mineral Aggregates
- Tectonics
- Medical Geological Hazards
- Tsunami
- Tunnel Geology and Geotechnics
- Evaluation of Water Potentials of Lakes in Turkey
- Chemical and Isotope Contents of Rainfall in Turkey
- Volcanology
- Underground Dams
- Investigation of Suitability of Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas
- Underground gas storage
- Groundwater Recharge Alternatives
- Groundwater Quality Modeling
- Groundwater Use Modeling