Research

Interests: transboundary water management, water policy, water security, environmental peacebuilding, conflict resolution, conflict-cooperation coexistence, climate change, border and sovereignty, international affairs

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

• July 2020 UDEL: $28,000 (Graduate school) University Dissertation Fellowship – 1 year-long stipend for writing dissertation
• October 2019 UDEL: $900 (Graduate school – $500 and Geography Department – $400) travel grant for presenting at the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
• Summer 2019 UDEL: $5,000 fellowship for dissertation data collection during summer
• Summer 2019 MMS at UDEL: $1000 fellowship for summer training
• July 2019 North Atlantic Treaty Organization: 500 Euros (~$600) travel grant for the Black Sea Summer University
• October 2018  Czech Science Foundation: 50,000 CZK (~$2250) payment for appointment as a visiting scholar in the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
• July 2018 Association for Borderlands Studies: 400 Euros (~$500) travel grant for presenting at the Association for Borderlands Studies Second World Conference 
• Summer 2018 GemHub at UDEL: $2,500 travel grant for attending international academic events and collecting preliminary data for dissertation
• April 2018 UDEL: $900 (Graduate school – $500 and Geography Department – $400) travel grant for presenting at American Association of Geographers 2018 Annual Meeting
• October 2017 UDEL: $500 award for second place – International Student Essay Contest at UDEL
• Summer 2017 GemHub at UDEL: $1,000 travel grant for data collection
• April 2017 World Bank: $2,500 award for the Arpacay Dam study
• 2013–2022  Republic of Turkiye Ministry of National Education: Study Abroad Fellowship.

1. Altingoz, M., Belinskij, A., Bréthaut, C., do Ó, A., Gevinian, S., Hearns, G., Keskinen, M., McCracken, M., Ni, V., Solninen, N. and Wolf, A.T. (2018). Promoting Development in Shared River Basins: Case Studies from International Experience. World Bank, Washington D.C. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29449
2. Altingoz M., Gevinian, S., McCracken M. and Wolf, A. T. (2018). Kura-Araks Basin: Water Quantity and Quality Management. In Promoting Development in Shared River Basins: Case Studies from International Experience (pp. 1-46). World Bank, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29449
3. Altingoz, M., & Ali, S. H. (2019). Environmental Cooperation in Conflict Zones: Riparian Infrastructure at the Armenian–Turkish Border. Journal of Environment & Development, 28(3), 309–335. https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496519859680
4. Altingoz, M., Smith, N., Duzgun, S., Syvrud P. and Ali, S. H. (2019). Color and Local Heritage in Gemstone Branding: A Comparative Study of Blue Zoisite (Tanzanite) and Color Change Diaspore (Zultanite/Csarite). Special Issue on ‘Gemstones: Perspectives and Trends in Mining, Processing and Trade of Precious Stones’. Extractive Industries and Society, 6(4), 1030-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.05.013
5. Altingoz, M. & Sahin S. (2019). Economic Consequences of Unsustainable Management of Transboundary Waters in South Asia: Lessons from the Indus Example. In G. Papanikos (Ed.), 7th Annual International Forum on Water. The Athens Institute for Education and Research. ISBN: 978-960-598-282-9.
6. Altingoz, M. (2020). How to Prevent Cross-Border Floods? International Flood Management   in the Maritsa Basin. Water Infrastructure Resilience Issue, Impact Magazine of AWRA, 22(1). https://online.flippingbook.com/view/219042/24/
7. Ali, S. H., Svobodova, K., Everingham, J. A., & Altingoz, M. (2020). Climate Policy Paralysis in Australia: Energy Security, Energy Poverty and Jobs. Energies, 13(18), 4894. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184894
8. Altingoz, M., & Ali, S. H. (2022). Hydropolitics in the Russian – Ukrainian Conflict. New Security Beat – Wilson Center. https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2022/03/hydropolitics-russian-ukrainian-conflict/#disqus_thread
9. Altingoz, M. (2022) Transboundary Water Management in Separatist Regions: Towards a Geography of Hydro-Political Tensions. A. Diener, J. Hagen (Eds.), In Invisible Borders in a Bordered World (pp.  62-81). Routledge.
10. Altingoz, M., Ali S. H. and Vladich H. (2022). Hydropolitics in the Black Sea: From Political Competition to Environmental Cooperation? Journal of Case Studies in the Environment. 6(1), 1713911. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2022.1713911
11. Altingoz, M., Saleem, Ali., & Vladich, H. (2024). Environmental Management in Emerging Borders: Examining Polycentricity Opportunity in Crimea. Geoconcept Journal Special, 5(1), 32-32.
12. Levia D., Batelaan O., Altingoz M., Germer S., Nano K., Okruszko T., Vladich H. and   Zumr D. (2025). History of precipitation partitioning: a multinational perspective from seven countries. Hydrological Sciences Journal. Manuscript accepted by journal.
13. Altingoz, M., Vladich, H. and Ali, S. H, (2025). Environmental Management in Emerging Borders: Examining Polycentricity Opportunity in Crimea. In N. Boyer (Ed.), Incentives for Peacemaking: the role of land and natural resources in the conflict to peace cycle. Anthem Press. Chapter submitted to book editor.
14. Altingoz, M. & Azlak, M. (2025). Bütüncül Su Kaynakları Yönetimi, Gündem ve Türkiye (Integrated Water Resources Management: Agenda and Turkiye). Sürdürülebilir Gelecek için Çevre Eğitimi Kongresi. Submitted to conference.
15. Altingoz, M. & Sahin S. (2025). Economic Consequences of Unsustainable Management of Transboundary Waters in South Asia: Lessons from the Indus Example. In preparation.
16. Altingoz, M. & Sahin S. (2025). Transboundary Water Management in South Asia: Lessons from the Indus. In preparation.

Invited Talks

• October 2024  8th Conference on Continental Climate and Environmental Dynamics: Climate Change in Europe: Impact, Risks and Mitigation. “Environmental Management in Emerging Borders: Examining Polycentricity Opportunity in Crimea.” Special Guest.
• May 2023 Hydrophiles Alumni in the Workplace Event. Oregon State University, Geography Department. Speaker.
• August 2018 LEAD Pakistan “Lessons for Pakistan and India from the Cooperative Management of the Arpacay/Akhuryan Dam between Conflicting Armenia and Turkey”. Speaker.
• Sept. 2016 International Visitor Leadership Program, Transboundary Water Issues – A Program for Afghanistan Delegation, “Management of the Tigris and Euphrates Basin During the Armed Conflicts in Syria and Iraq and Turkey’s Approach Towards the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses”. Oregon State University, Corvallis OR. Presenter.

Online Highlights/Appearances

• Resolving Water Conflicts. Article by Adam Thomas in UDaily. (January 9, 2020). https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/january/resolving-international-water-conflicts-ukraine-russia/
• Sharing Cross-Border Water Resources: Cooperation or Conflict? Article by Ruby Russell in Deutsch Welle. (April 5, 2022). https://www.dw.com/en/sharing-cross-border-water-resources-cooperation-or-conflict/a-61280677

Ongoing Projects

• Bucovina/Bukowina Peace Park: Romania-Ukraine. Collaborating with Professor Marcel Mindrescu and his Ph.D. advisee Diana Rotariu on multiple publications and grants.

Organized Conferences

• Spring 2019 UDEL, the Water Science and Policy Program (Newark, DE, USA).
• Member of the planning committee of the “Human & Climate Series III – Water Management and Policy: Local and Global Perspectives”.

Training/Workshop/Field Trips (in-person)

• Sep 2023 Summer University in Prague – “Europe in Crisis: the position of Central Europe” – A week-long Geopolitics course in Prague, Czech Republic (NATO & European Institute) 
• August 2019 Stockholm International Water Institute (Stockholm, Sweden). World Water Week (1-week-long symposium).
• July 2019 Black Sea Summer University – “Georgia in the Enlarged Black Sea Region” – A week-long Geopolitics course in Tbilisi, Georgia (NATO & European Institute)
• June 2019 Field trip for dissertation data collection. Athens, Greece, Kyiv, Ukraine, Istanbul, Turkiye.
• June 2018 Black Sea Universities Network (Thessaloniki, Greece). BSUN 2018 Congress – UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the Black Sea Region: from Science to Implementation.
• Nov 2017 The New Eurasia Energy Landscape. The Foreign Policy Research Institute. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Workshop.
• Oct 2017 Series on Economics & Diplomacy. The ‘Enemies or Frenemies? The Economics and Diplomacy of U.S.-Russian Relations., Wilmington, DE, U.S.A. Workshop.
• July 2017 Field trip for data collection in Mugla, Turkiye. Article (#4 on table). 
• August 2016 OSU, the Water Resources Graduate Program (OR, USA). field trip, led by Dr. Todd Jarvis, to an eco-friendly bottled water plant in Central Oregon.
• June 2016 Natural Resources Leadership Academy (OR, USA). Two-day field trip to Central Oregon with a focus on ecological restoration.
• Sept. 2015 OSU, the Geography Graduate Program (Corvallis, OR, USA). One-week field trip, led by Dr. Aaron Wolf, throughout Oregon with a focus on geography and water management.
• May 2012 Aksaray University, Environmental Engineering Program (Aksaray, Turkiye). One-week field trip for senior environmental engineering students to water treatment, recycling, renewable energy, waste disposal, and hazardous waste treatment plants in multiple cities in Northwest Turkiye.

Oral Presentations

• March 2020 5thAnnual DENIN Environmental Symposium. “Black Sea: As a Peacebuilder for the Region”. Newark, DE, U.S.A. 
• July 2019 6th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society. “Black Sea: As a Peacebuilder for the Region”. Lisbon, Portugal.
• July 2019 7thAnnual International Forum on Water. “Economic consequences of Unsustainable Management of Transboundary Waters in South Asia: Lessons from the Indus Example”. Athens, Greece.
• April 2018 UDEL Graduate Forum. “Black Sea: As a Peacebuilder for the Region”. Newark, DE, U.S.A.
• July 2018 Association for Borderlands Studies 2nd World Conference 2018. “Cooperative Management of the Arpacay/Akhuryan Dam between Conflicting Armenia and Turkey” – Vienna, Austria & Budapest, Hungary.
• April 2018 American Association of Geographers 2018 Annual Meeting. “Investigating Transboundary Water Management of Separatist Regions”. New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
• October 2017 Middle States Division American Association of Geographers 2017 Annual Meeting – “Can Conflicting Parties Cooperate over Their Shared Waters – Management of the Arpacay/Akhuryan Dam between Armenia and Turkey”. Geneseo, NY, U.S.A.
• Sept. 2017 UDEL 2017 Water Symposium, the Annual Water Symposium hosted by the Water Science and Policy program at the University of Delaware, Newark DE, “Cooperation over Shared Waters Among Conflicting Parties”. Newark, DE, U.S.A.

Poster Presentations

• March 2021 6thAnnual DENIN Environmental Symposium. “On the Verge of Environmental Disaster: Geopolitical Failure on the North Crimean Canal”. Newark, DE, U.S.A.
• October 2019 First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. “Black Sea: As a peacebuilder for the region”.