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obligations of the agreements and protocols to which Türkiye is a party are fulfilled. With early
warning and remote triggering systems, access to control and monitoring activities that cannot
be achieved even by assigning personnel to each facility is provided, and environmental le-
gislation violations are detected instantly with 24/7 technological control. Mobile applications
enable our citizens to access environmental data instantly wherever and whenever they are.

MoEUCC is working diligently to diagnose environmental problems with high-quality and re-
liable findings today and in the future, to share them with the public, and to determine envi-
ronmental policies based on science and data using new generation information processing
technologies.

H.12.8. Marmara Sea Integrated Modelling System (MARMOD PHASE II PROJECT)

Within the scope of the protocol signed with METU Institute of Marine Sciences on 02.04.2021,
MARMOD PHASE II Project activities have been initiated. This project aims to transform the
one-dimensional model developed in the first
phase into a three-dimensional model with new
data and observations and to set gradual redu-
ction targets in land-based nutrient loads that
will enable the good quality marine ecosystem
to develop again in Marmara.

This three-dimensional hydrodynamic circu-
lation-ecosystem model, which will analyze
the entire Marmara Sea, will include the Straits
and the Gulf of Izmit as open borders, and will
be combined with a biogeochemistry model si-
mulating primary production, oxygen consump-
tion, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, and then
the sediment oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus MARMOD Digital Twin
model will be integrated into the water column
model and combined with the upper trophic level. In addition, a first version of the Marmara Sea
Digital Twin was created in this context, including data, model results and scenarios. The project
was completed by the end of 2023, and the project results were shared with stakeholders at the
Project Closing Workshop held on December 13, 2023 at the METU Ankara Campus.

Studies have been initiated for MARMOD PHASE-III, which will cover the years 2024 and 2025,
for the continuity of Digital Twin studies, which will be a decision support tool for different user
groups.

H.12.9 Zero Waste Information System

Zero waste information system has been created to enter data, create inventory, monitor ongo-
ing work, reduce paper waste, prepare reports, and carry out the zero waste document process.
The users of the Zero Waste Information System are local governments, public institutions, edu-
cational institutions, health institutions, tourism facilities, ports, terminals, airports, fuel stations,
chain markets, business centres and industrialists.

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