CURRICULUM VITAE

In 1965, I was born in Küçükçekmece (İstanbul), where I was able to finish primary, secondary and high school. In 1987, I was accepted to the Department of Biology at Istanbul University. In 1991, I graduated from the same department with a diploma. Within the same year, very competitive exam for a scholarship to get advanced education in a foreign country was anounced from Turkish Ministry of Education. After having with a great succsess in this exam, in 1992, I was sent to United States of America to get MS and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Sciences. Then after, as a graduate student, I was accepted to the Environmenatal Sciences program at California State University, Fullerton in 1993. End of 1994, I graduated from this program. In 1995, in my knowledge, being the first foreing Ph.D. student, I was accepted to the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Program of University of Reno, Nevada. This program is one of the well known among the others where they only accept Ph.D. students. Inhere, I worked four years with Dr. Gary L. Vinyard (1949-1998). Altough sudden death of Dr. Vinyard, I was able to complete the program in May 1999 and came back to my native country. Since then, I work at Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Abant Izzet Baysal University.
I believe the importance of productive scientific education, which is not based on the education of memorizing and repeating the same things. Also, I support all kinds of scientific activity, work and ideas which are directed to protect all kinds of living and nonliving natural sources and their conservation for the posterity without disruption. Under this perspective, starting from 1987, I have been working on invertebrate organisms called Ostracoda (Crustacea) that live in almost all kinds of aquatic habitats. The production of my works have been published in both national and international journals. Among the contributions of these works to the science, in 1998, I first introduce the model called Ostracoda Watch Model which can be used to understand seasonal occurrence of ostracods (as well as other taxonomic groups) in different habitats. This model is now used in the literature. Most recently, in the year 2004, I also introduced a new hypothesis called Pseudorichness to compare the ratio of generalist (e.g., cosmopolitan) to specialist (e.g., noncosmopolitan) species. Accordingly, not only quantity but also quality of the areas can be estimated based on the ratio. In the attached files, a list of my works and the awards gained from these works are provided. 
Yours truly,
Dr. Okan Külköylüoğlu