Expertise: Prof. Dr. Mahmut CETIN graduate of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation Department, Cukurova University, Turkey. His career started as Drainage and Soil Survey Engineer at the Planning Section of the Sixth Regional Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI), Adana, Turkey in 1987. His career is as follows;
1989-1993: Drainage and Weed Control Engineer at the Department of Chief Engineering for Maintenance and Operation of Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project Division (ASO) of the Sixth Regional Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI), Adana, Turkey. In charge of Maintenance and Operation of Irrigation and Drainage Systems of the Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project (ASO).
1993-1997: Drainage and Soil Survey Engineer at the Planning Section of the Sixth Regional Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI), Adana, Turkey. In charge of drainage and land survey for preparing Drainage, and Irrigated Land Classification Projects at the Planning Stage for the development of the soil and water resources in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of Turkey.
Dr. CETIN joined University of Cukurova in 1997 as a research assistant and has been an active researcher and lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation, Faculty of Agriculture. His main research interest areas are Agricultural Hydrology and Water Resources, Drainage Engineering, Geostatistical Applications on Soil and Water Resources, and Applied Time Series Analysis and Probabilistic approaches in Hydrology and Hydro-Meteorology. He has participated in many research projects related to soil and water salinity, groundwater, flood control and saving irrigation water without reducing yield in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. He is currently coordinating an EU funded project entiteled Diagnosis and Control of Salinity and Nitrate Pollution in Mediterranean Irrigated Agriculture: QUALIWATER (EEC/FP6, Contract # 015031). Additionally, he is the coordinating a joint reasearch project of the MedSaline (Analysis and optimization of irrigation efficiencies in order to reduce salinization impacts in intensively used agricultural landscapes of the semiarid Mediterranean Turkey) financed by International Bureau of the BMBF in Germany and TUBITAK in Turkey (http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/home.do?ot=5&rt=3&sid=0&cid=11942) in the framework of Intensified Cooperation (IntenC): Promotion of German-Turkish Higher Education Research

Facility: - Soil and water analysis laboratories,
- Fertiliser analysis laboratories and related equipment
- Remote sensing and GIS laboratories including all kind of software
- Surface and subsurface hydrological observations equipment,
- Soil salinity determination equipment
- Hydrologically well-defined agricultural catchment including hydro-meteorological observation equipment with shallow groundwater wells to test hydrological models and to conduct water, salt and nitrogen mass balance studies.

Priority: - Hydrological model testing
- Climate change and its impact on water resources and agricultural production systems
- Water resources system analysis
- Drought assessment and monitoring
- Salinisation of soil and water resources
- Mass balance studies (water, salt and nitrogen)
- Remote sensing and GIS in water resources