Dr. Okan Aygün

Education

PhD, 2021: Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.

MSc, 2015: Water Science and Engineering, specialization in Flood Risk Management, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands.

BSc, 2011: Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Experience

2021-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan, Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

2016-2017: Civil Engineer, CEC Marine, Istanbul, Turkey.

2012-2013: Researcher & Teaching Assistant, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.

2011-2012: Civil Engineer, AGM Engineering, Ankara, Turkey.

Short Bio

Okan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan in Canmore. His research interests include catchment hydrology from headwaters to regional scales, hydrological processes and water quality. He currently contributes to the GWF Core Modelling Team and the Planetary Water Prediction Initiative by focusing on predicting the water future of the Aral Sea Basin in Central Asia.

Publications

Okan Aygün, Christophe Kinnard, Stephane Campeau, 2021: Impacts of climate change on soil erosion in a cold agricultural catchment in Quebec. CATENA, doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105184

Okan Aygün, Christophe Kinnard, Stephane Campeau, Sebastian A. Krogh, 2020: Shifting Hydrological Processes in a Canadian Agroforested Catchment due to a Warmer and Wetter Climate. Water, doi: 10.3390/w12030739

Okan Aygün, Christophe Kinnard, Stephane Campeau, 2019: Impacts of climate change on the hydrology of northern midlatitude cold regions. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, doi: 10.1177/0309133319878123

Okan Aygün, Christophe Kinnard, Stephane Campeau, 2019: Salinity Control on Saigon River Downstream of Dautieng Reservoir Within Multi-Objective Simulation-Optimisation Framework for Reservoir Operation. Springer,Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22747-0_26

Dr. Okan Aygün

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Hydrology, Coldwater Laboratory

About

We seek to improve understanding and predictions of hydrological processes at scales from hillslopes to continents

Our Home

Coldwater Laboratory
1151 Sidney Street, unit 116
Canmore, Alberta, T1W 3G1, CANADA

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