Feb. 2008- Sep.2014           PhD Geophysics

Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

Sep. 1993- Jul. 1997        BSc (honours) in Geophysical Engineering

Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mines, Istanbul,Turkey

(graduated as the 3^rd best student of the department)

Subject of the Dissertation:  “Mid-Ocean Spreading Centres and Volcanic Earthquakes: Iceland (Supervisor :Prof. Tuncay Taymaz)

Sep. 1992 – Jun. 1993      Jan van Ruusbroek Kollege, Brussels, Belgium

Exchange Student sponsored by the American Field Service Intercultural Programs Turkish Culture Foundation, Istanbul,Turkey

Sep. 1985 – Jun. 1992     Cagaloglu Anatolian (bilingual Turkish/German) Highschool; Istanbul, Turkey

Aug. 2008 –                Geophysical Engineer

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

·         Member of the working group for the establishment of a National Tsunami Monitoring Center and contributor to the relevant Turkish Republic Prime Ministry State Planning Organization Project  

·         Work Package Leader (WP6: Operational detection and communication infrastructure) in FP7 Project ASTARTE: Assessment, STrategy And Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe (Grant Agreement No: 603839); 1/11/2013 – 31/10/2016);

·         Task Leader (Task 2.3 Tsunami Scenario Database for Sea of Marmara) and Researcher in the JAMSTEC/JST project “EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER MITIGATION IN THE MARMARA REGION AND DISASTER EDUCATION IN TURKEY (April 2013 – March 2018)

·         Project Coordinator Assistant for FP7 Project MARSite: New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite (Grant Agreement No: 308417); 1/11/2012 – 31/10/2015)

·         KOERI Key Personnel for Project TRIDEC - Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises (Grant agreement no: 258723 - IRM Global Risk Award 2013 in the category of ‘Managing Risks across Boundaries’); 1/9/2010 – 31/10/2013;

 

Feb. 2001 – Jan. 2008  Associate Analyst  (Seismic, Hydroacoustic and Infrasonic Analyst)

Waveform Analysis Unit 1, Monitoring and Data Analysis Section,

International Data Centre

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Vienna, Austria

 

 

Oct. 1997 – Feb. 2001   Field Geophysicist (Processing Geophysicist and Seismic Analyst)

Western Geophysical, Global Offshore Operations

 

 

2013/11-present          Member of the TOWS Inter-ICG Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations as nominated from NEAMTWS (2013-2017)

 

2013/09-present          Member of the IUGG Joint Tsunami Commission http://jisao.washington.edu/tsunamicommission/

 

2012/10-present          Included in the Reviewer Database for Research in Geophysics (http://www.pagepress.org/rg) given in experience particularly in tsunami warning systems.

 

2011/11-present          Member of ICG/NEAMTWS Steering Committee (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO; Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas)

 

2011/9-present           Task Leader on Performance Assessment – CTBTO/WGB ; assisting Mr. Hans Frese, Adviser, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

 

2011/1-2013/11             Co-Chair of the Task Team on the Communication Test and Tsunami Exercise;  Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO); Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) responsible for the planning, organization and evaluatin of the first Communication Test Exercise and first Tsunami Exercise (NEAMWave12) in the NEAM Region

 

2009-2011                     Member of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission      (UNESCO)/Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) Task Team on the Regional TWS Architecture

 

2009-2011                     Member of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO)/Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) Task Team on the Communication Test Exercises

 

Characterization of earthquake sources in the Eastern Mediterranean for tsunami modeling; Ocal Necmioglu and Nurcan Meral Ozel; International Tsunami Symposium, 25-27 September 2013, Gocek/Fethiye, Turkey

Tsunami Risk Mitigation infrastructure in Turkey; N. Meral Ozel, O. Necmioglu, A.C. Yalciner, D. Kalafat, M. Yilmazer, M. Comoglu, C. Ozer, C. Gurbuz, A. Pınar and M. Erdik; International Tsunami Symposium, 25-27 September 2013, Gocek/Fethiye, Turkey

An Evaluation of the Selected Tsunami Catalogs for the Eastern Mediterranean; Ocal Necmioglu and Nurcan Meral Ozel; International Tsunami Symposium, 25-27 September 2013, Gocek/Fethiye, Turkey

NEAMWave12: The First Tsunami Exercise in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas, Ocal Necmioglu, Luis Matias Matias, François Schindelé, Jörn Behrens, Stefano Tinti, Gerasimos Chouliaras, Nicos Melis, Fernando Carrilho, Francesca Santoro, Alexander Rudloff, Emilie Crochet, and Mauricio Gonzalez; EGU 2013, 7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

An Evaluation of the Selected Tsunami Catalogs for the Eastern Mediterranean and its Connected Seas, Ocal Necmioglu and Nurcan Meral Ozel; EGU 2013, 7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the MARmara SuperSITE, Nurcan Meral Ozel, Ocal Necmioglu, Paolo Favali, John Douglas, Pierre Philippe Mathieu, Louis Geli, Onur Tan, Semih Ergintav, A. Oguz Ozel, Cemil Gurbuz, and Mustafa Erdik; EGU 2013, 7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

An Earthquake Source Sensitivity Analysis for Tsunami Propagation in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ocal Necmioglu and Nurcan Meral Ozel; EGU 2013, 7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

Experiences with TRIDEC’s Crisis Management Demonstrator in the Turkish NEAMWave12 exercise tsunami scenario, Martin Hammitzsch, Ocal Necmioglu, Matthias Lendholt, Sven Reißland, Jana Schulz, Dogan Aksari, Aysegul Koseoglu, Ceren Ozer, Mustafa Comoglu, Nurcan Meral Ozel, and Joachim Wächter; EGU 2013, 7-12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

Field Survey on the Coastal Impacts of March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami; A. C. Yalciner, A. Zaytsev, A. Suppasri, E. Mas, O. Necmioglu, F. Imamura, C. Synolakis, N. M. Ozel, N. Kalligeris, 10th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, 17-19 October 2012 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Analysis and results of NDC Preparedness Exercise (NPE 2012) by Turkish NDC; K.U. Semin, C. Destici, O. Necmioglu, S. Kocak, N.M. Ozel; NDC Evaluation Workshop 2012, 1 October 2012, Asuncion-Paraguay

NEAMTWS Communication Test Exercises, NEAMWave12 Workshop, 10 September 2012, Southampton, UK

NEAMWave12: Exercise Goals, Structure and Evaluation, NEAMWave12 Workshop, 10 September 2012, Southampton, UK

Challenging Tsunami Hazard – A National Example from Turkey; N. Meral Ozel, O. Necmioglu, D. Kalafat, M. Yilmazer, M. Comoglu, C. Gurbuz, M. Erdik, A.C. Yalciner , U. Sanli , Symposium Proceedings of Fifth International Tsunami Symposium by Tsunami Society International, EC-JRC Ispra-Italy, 3-5 September 2012

Tsunami Early Warning in the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Sea; Nurcan Meral Ozel, Ocal Necmioglu, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner, Dogan Kalafat, Mehmet Yilmazer, Mustafa Comoglu, Ugur Sanli, Cemil Gurbuz, Mustafa Erdik; The Twenty-second (2012) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, June 17-22, Rhodes (Rodos), Greece

Communication Tests Exercises of NEAMTWS

9th PPRD South “prevention and preparedness” workshop for staff-level officials: “Tsunami emergency preparedness in Mediterranean coastal zones”; Stromboli (Messina) – Italy, 28 May -3 June 2012

NEAMWave12 – Exercise goals and scenarios

9th PPRD South “prevention and preparedness” workshop for staff-level officials: “Tsunami emergency preparedness in Mediterranean coastal zones”; Stromboli (Messina) – Italy, 28 May -3 June 2012

Tsunami Warning Center in Turkey : Status Update 2012, N. Meral Ozel (1), O. Necmioglu (1), A.C. Yalciner (2), D. Kalafat (1), M. Yilmazer (1), M. Comoglu (1), U. Sanli (3), C. Gurbuz (1), and M. Erdik (1); EGU2012-7346;  EGU 2012 General Assembly, Vienna-Austria, 22-27 April 2012

NEAMTWS-ECTE1: The First Enlarged Communication Test Exercise of the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas, O. Necmioglu, A. Rudloff, L.M. Matias, F. Schindele, M. Comoglu, and N. Meral Ozel; EGU2012-7213;  EGU 2012 General Assembly, Vienna-Austria, 22-27 April 2012

TRIDEC Natural Crisis Management Demonstrator for Tsunamis, M. Hammitzsch , O. Necmioglu, S. Reißland, M. Lendholt, M. Comoglu, N.M. Ozel , and J.Wächter ; EGU2012-7275; EGU 2012 General Assembly, Vienna-Austria, 22-27 April 2012

Field survey of the coastal impact of the March 11, 2011 great East Japan tsunami; A. Yalciner (1), F. Imamura (2), E. Mas (2), I. Necmioglu (3), C. Ozer (1), A. Zaytsev (4), S. Takahashi (5), T. Tomita (5), G. Yon (5), N. Kalligeris (6), H. Fritz (7), V. Skanavis (6), C. Synolakis (6,8,9), and N. Meral Ozel (4); Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-11588-1, 2012 EGU General Assembly 2012

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Technical Series 98

TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM IN THE NORTH-EASTERN ATLANTIC, THE MEDITERRANEAN AND CONNECTED SEAS

First Enlarged Communication Test Exercise (ECTE1) - Exercise Manual & Evaluation Report, Necmioglu, O., Rudloff, A. Meral Özel, Nurcan; Necmioğlu, Öcal; Yalçıner, Ahmet Cevdet; Erdik, Mustafa

Tsunami Threat to Anatolian Coasts: Establishing a Tsunami Warning System in Turkey, PEER Report 2011/07, January 2012.

11 Mart 2011 Büyük Doğu Japonya Tsunamisinin Ardından Hasar Görmüş Kıyı Bölgelerinde Alan Çalışması; Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner, Anawat Suppasri, Erick Mas, Nikos Kalligeris, Ocal Necmioglu, Fumihiko Imamura, Ceren Özer, Andrey Zaytsev, Nurcan M. Özel, Costas Synolakis; 7. Kıyı Mühendisliği Sempozyumu, TMMOB İnşaat Mühendisleri Odası Trabzon Şubesi; Trabzon – Türkiye,  21-23 Kasım 2011

NPE10 from the Perspective of Turkish NDC; O. Necmioglu, K.U. Semin, C. Destici, N. Meral Ozel, S. Kocak, U. Teoman; 2011 NDC Evaluation Workshop; 3-7 October 2011; Bucharest - Romania

IOC/NEAMTWS-First Enlarged Communication Test Exercise; Manual, Technical details, Requirements; UNESCO/IOC Tsunami and Civil Protection Workshop: “Tsunami hazard in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (NEAM region) – A challenge for Science and Civil protection”; 15-16 June 2011, JRC, Ispra, Italy

Amplifications of  Nearshore Tsunami Parameters during Great East Japan Tsunami; A.C. Yalciner, C. Ozer, A. Supprasri, E. Mas, N. Kalligeris,  O. Necmioglu, A. Zaytsev, F. Imamura, C. Synolakis; IASPEI JS01/JS01S7 Advances in Tsunami Science, Warning, and Mitigation; IUGG 2011-International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 2011 General Assembly; 28 June-7 July 2011, Melbourne-Australia

Meral Özel, Nurcan; Cevatoğlu, Melis; Yalçıner, Ahmet Cevdet; Kamer Yaver; Necmioğlu, Öcal; Erdik, Mustafa, X24 EUROPE: HOW CAN KOERI CONTRIBUTE AS A CANDIDATE RTWC, X24 Europe Virtual Online Natural Disasters Exercise, 2011.

Long Term – Real time Background Noise monitoring Around BR235; Nurcan Meral Ozel, Serdar Kocak, Korhan U. Semin, Ocal Necmioglu, T. Cem Destici, Ugur Teoman, Robert Kemerait; CTBT: Science and Technology 2011 (S&T 2011), 8-10 June 2011, Vienna-Austria

Establishing a Tsunami Warning Center in Turkey; Nurcan Meral Özel, Öcal Necmioğlu, Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner, Doğan Kalafat, Uğur Şanlı, Mehmet Yılmazer, Mustafa Çomoğlu, Cemil Gürbüz, and Mustafa Erdik; EGU 2011 General Assembly, Vienna-Austria, 7 April 2011

Establishing a Tsunami Warning System for Eastern Mediterranean and its Connected Seas: KOERI Contribution; Meral Özel, N., Necmioğlu, Ö., Yalçıner, A. C., Kalafat, D., Yılmazer, M., Çomoglu, M., Şanlı, U., Erdik, M.; Oral presentation at the International Workshop on Seismicity and Earthquake Engineering in the Extended Mediterranean Region (RELEMR 2011); Nicosia, Cyprus 28 February – 3 March 2011

Scientific Activities of Turkish National Data Center (CTBTO); oral presentation at the International Workshop on Seismicity and Earthquake Engineering in the Extended Mediterranean Region (RELEMR 2011); Nicosia, Cyprus 28 February – 3 March 2011

Tsunami hazard in the Eastern Mediterranean and its connected seas: Toward a Tsunami warning center in Turkey; Meral Ozel, N., Necmioglu, O., Yalciner, A.C., Kalafat, D., Mustafa, E.; Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Volume 31, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 598-610

Detection and Identification of Low-magnitude Seismic Events near Bala, Central Turkey,Using Array-based Waveform Correlation; Semin, K.U., Meral Ozel, N., Necmioglu, O., Seismological Research Letters Volume 82, Number 1, January/February 2011

15^th General Assembly of Wegener; Oral Presentation: Establishing a Tsunami Warning System in Turkey; Ocal Necmioglu, Nurcan Meral Ozel, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner, Dogan Kalafat, Mustafa Erdik; Bogazici University; 14-17 September 2010; Istanbul-Turkey

ESC 2010; Oral Presentation: Towards a Tsunami Warning Center in Turkey; O. Necmioglu, N. Meral Ozel, A. Cevdet Yalciner, M. Erdik; 6-10 September 2010; Montpellier-France

ESC 2010; Poster Presentation: Bala, Turkey Earthquake and its Aftershocks Analysis Using Array-based Waveform Correlation and Standard Array Processing (STA/LTA) Methods; K. Semin, N. ÖZEL, O. Necmioglu; 6-10 September 2010; Montpellier-France

Geophysics, Geodesy and Tectonics of the North Africa Plate Boundary for Better Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Assessments; The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); Oral Presentation: Towards a Tsunami Warning Center in Turkey; 15-21 May 2010; Algiers - Algeria

Development of Tsunami Simulation Structure for TsunamiWarning System in Turkey (Poster); Mustafa Erdik, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner, Nurcan Meral Ozel, Dogan Kalafat, Ocal Necmioglu, Mehmet Yilmazer,  Utku Kanoglu, Ceren Ozer, Andrey Zaytsev, Anton Chernov; Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-10717-3, 2010, EGU General Assembly 2010

 AGU Fall 2009 Meeting, An Evaluation of North Korea’s Nuclear Test by Belbasi Nuclear Tests Monitoring Center-KOERI (Poster Presentation S31C-1734); San Fransisco – USA; 14-18 December 2009

An Evaluation of North Korea’s Nuclear Test by Belbaşı Nuclear Tests Monitoring Center-KOERI (Poster), Necmioğlu, O., Meral Ozel, N., Semin, K., Kocak, S., Destici, C., Teoman, U.

International Earthquake Symposium Kocaeli 2009, 17-19 August 2009, Kocaeli - Turkey

 Seismic Monitoring of the Quarry Activities and Earthquake Data Analysis Using BRTR-PS43 Seismic Array (Poster); Meral Ozel, N., Semin K., Necmioğlu, O., Kocak, S., Destici, C., Teoman, U.; NDC Evaluation Workshop 2009 18-23 May 2009, Beijing, P. R. China

Observation and Evaluation of Turkish NDC (BRTR-PS43) for Further Development (Poster); Semin, K., Meral Ozel, N., Kocak, S., Destici, C., Teoman, U., Necmioğlu, O.; (CTBTO) NDC Evaluation workshop 2008 5-8 May 2008, Baden, Austria