ABOUT US
Geophysics is a discipline investigating the structure of the Earth, its
temporal variations and related forces. Its area of interest covers
innermost part of the Earth reaching thousands of degree Celcius of
temperature and 1.500.000 atm pressure, with the irregularities of the
upper crust, oceanic basins, and finally uppermost layers of the
atmosphere. The aim of geophysical research is to make observations on
the Earth, and determine the laws explaining the physical and chemical
relations based on these observations using numerical solutions and
approximations in order to be able to derive the extremely complex
structure of the Earth. In this sense, Geophysics is a interdisciplinary
science.
Geophysics department at Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and
Earthquake Research Institute gives the highest priority to original
research with the aim of promoting young researchers and scientists
reflecting the mobility of the modern science and the fast progress in
technology within their research, together with the essential human
qualities such as environmental awareness and preservation of the nature,
while identifying and providing solutions in the part of the world we
are living.
The core elements of the MSc and PhD curriculum at our department
provides necessary mathematics and physics background and aiming at
educating young researchers in the field seismology with a wide range of
topics, such as elastic wave propagation, earthquake source mechanisms,
signal processing, strong ground motion and instrumentation.
Investigation of earth’s crust using seismic, electrical, magnetic and
electromagnetic methods, engineering seismology, geo-magnetism, paleo-magnetism
and archeomagnetism applications are among the main fields of study in
our department.
Identification of active faults and understanding related lithosperic
forces, seismicity, seismic hazard and risk; landslide and avalanche
studies; industrial raw material; mine, underground water, oil and
natural gas prospection studies; soil investigations for various sizes
of engineering structures; the composition of the Earth’s interior and
crust and their physical properties are among the department’s fields
of interest.
