RIZA PEKTAS

  Birth Place / Year   Ankara / 1972  
  Academic Background
 1996 - 2000  Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Geophysics  Master of Science
 1996  Bogazici University, The School of Foreign Languages - English  Proficiency Skill
 1992 - 1996  Istanbul University Engineering Faculty, Geophysics Engineering  Bachelor of Science
 1990 - 1992

 Yildiz Technical University, Civil Engineering High School (not completed)

  Academic High School
 1986 - 1989  Istanbul Civil Enginnering Technics and Building College  College
  Courses
 2004  BU. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, "ABCD: Basic Disaster Consciousness Training Program"
 2004  BU. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, "YOTA: Mitigation of Non-structural Risks Training Program"
 2004  BU. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, "DKYB: Structural Consciousness That Resists Against Earthquake Training Program"
 1995  Unity of Turkish-American Universities Association, English
 1990 Gok-Dil Foreign Language Course - German (intermediate level)
 1988  Bil-Merk Computer Operation and Programming Course
  Foreign Language  English

 German

  Bogazici University The School of Foreign Languages - proficiency skill

  beginner~intermediate level
  Professional Working Areas    Solar Physics, Daily Sunspot observation, analysis and sharing them with international data centers, Ionosphere, Spaceweather, design & update of department's web site(s), earthquake prediction studies (Department of Geophysics)
  Professional Experiences
   Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Geophysics
 1996  Internship
 1998 - 2000  Research Assistant
 2000 - 2003  Geophysics Engineer, MSc.
 1998 - 2002  Multidisciplinary Research on Fault Activity in the Western Part of North Anatolian Fault Zone (IZINET), project member & researcher
 1999  Magnetotelluric Field Study, active participation & researcher
 2002 - 2003  CTBTO (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organisation)
   Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Astronomy Laboratory
 2003 -  Geophysics Enginner, MSc.
 2004 - 2006  March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse (project member & researcher)
 2005 - 2006  "International Heliophysical Year", local organization committee (LOC) member
 Participated Projects
 2006 - l Modernization of Horizontal Solar Coelostat  B.U. Res.Fund Project
 2006 - 2007 l Digitizing of the Photospheric Drawings of Kandilli Observatory  B.U. Res.Fund Project
 2005 - l Developing the Scientific Basis For Monitoring, Modelling and Predicting Space Weather  International Project
 2004 - 2006 l Observations of the Solar Atmosphere in Several Wavelengths and During the Solar Eclipses  B.U. Res.Fund Project
 2001 - 2005 l Marmara Bölgesi’nde MARNET ve IZINET Deprem Ağları Gelişimi  International Project
 2000 - 2006 l Gölcük Depremi Fay Zonu Üzerinde Sismik Tomografi Uygulaması  B.U. Res.Fund Project
 1999 - 2000 l PC Bazlı Uzun Periyotlu Üç Bileşen Sayısal Sismograf Sistemi  International Project
 1999 - 2003 l Doğu Marmara Bölgesinin Mikrodeprem Etkinliği  International Project
 1999 l Kuzey Anadolu Fayı’nın Doğu Marmara Bölgesindeki Yakın Dönem Etkinliği  International Project
  BSc. and MSc. Thesis Subjects  
l "Earthquake Prediction Studies"
  •     BSc. Thesis, Istanbul University Enginnering Faculty, Geophysics Engineering, 1996
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    l "Recent Earthquake Clusterings in the Eastern Part of Marmara Region and Related Problems"
    M.Sc.Thesis, Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Geophysics, 2000
     

      Scientific Papers and Presentations

    		  

    l "Ionospheric foF2 Data and Its Response to Solar Activity Cycles 21, 22 and 23"

    R.Pektaş, A.Özgüç and T.Ataç
    Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika / Russian J. Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 12.T.2. (2008) 246-247

    l "The Variability of foF2 in Different Phases of Solar Cycle 23"

    Ataç T., Özgüç A., Pektaş R.
    Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, February 2009 [PDF]

    l "Response of Ionospheric foF2 Data to Solar Activity Cycles 21, 22 and 23"

    R.Pektaş, A.Özgüç and T.Ataç
    The Fourth UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science, "First Results from the International Heliophysical Year 2007", 02-06 June 2008, Sozopol / Bulgaria

     l "The Variability of foF2 In Different Phases of Solar Cycle 23"

    Ataç T., Özgüç A., Pektaş R.
    The Fourth UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science, "First Results from the International Heliophysical Year 2007",     02-06 June 2008, Sozopol / Bulgaria

     l "Ionospheric foF2 Data and Its Response to Solar Activity Cycles 21, 22 and 23"

    R.Pektaş, A.Özgüç and T.Ataç
    First Middle East-Africa, Regional IAU Meeting, April 05-10 2008, Cairo / Egypt

     l "Examination of the solar cycle variation of foF2 for cycles 22 and 23"

    Özgüç, T. Ataç, and R. Pektaş
    First Middle East-Africa, Regional IAU Meeting, April 05-10 2008, Cairo / Egypt

     l "Ionospheric foF2 Data and Its Response to Solar Activity Cycles 21, 22 and 23"

    R.Pektaş, A.Özgüç and T.Ataç
    "International Heliophysical Year 2007 : New insights into Solar-terrestrial physics" Symposium
    November 05-11, 2007, Zvenigorod - Moscow / Russia (poster)

     l "International Heliophysical Year 2007 Turkish National Activities"

    A.Özgüç, T.Ataç, R.Pektaş, Y.Tulunay, E.Tulunay, Z.Kocabaş, E.Altuntaş, T.Yapıcı, E.T.Şenalp
    International Heliophysical Year (IHY) Science Kick-Off Meeting
    February 19-20, 2007 Vienna / Austria

     l "IHY Year 2007 National Activities in Turkey"

    Y.Tulunay, E.Tulunay, Z.Kocabaş, E.Altuntaş, T.Yapıcı, E.T.Şenalp, A.Özgüç, T.Ataç, R.Pektaş
    International Heliophysical Year (IHY) Science Kick-Off Meeting
    February 19-20, 2007 Vienna / Austria

     l "Investigation of the Solar Cycle Variation of foF2 by Using Solar Flare Index and MgII Core-to-Wing Index For the Cycles 22 and 23"

    Atila Özgüç, Tamer Ataç and Rıza Pektaş
    International Symposium on Recent Observations of the Sun-Earth System (ISROSES)
    September 17-22, 2006 Bulgaria (poster)

     l "23. Güneş Çevriminde Kısa Süreli Dönemli Değişimler"

    Tamer Ataç, Atila Özgüç, Jan Rybak, Hülya Yeşilyaprak, Rıza Pektaş
    XV. Ulusal Astronomi Kongresi
    28 Ağustos - 1 Eylül 2006, İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi (poster)

     l "P-wave Velocity Structure of the Crust and Its Relationship to the Occurrence of the 1999 İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake and Aftershocks"

    Ayako Nakamura, Akira Hasegawa, Akihiko Ito, Balamir Üçer, Şerif Barış, Yoshimori Honkura, Toshio Kono, Shuichiro Hori, Rıza Pektaş, Tolga Komut, Cengiz Çelik, A.Mete Işıkara
    Bullettin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA), vol.92, no.1 [Dedicated Issue İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake of 17 August 1999], pp.330-338 , February 2002 abstract

     l "Seismoelectromagnetic Effect Associated with the İzmit Earthquake and Its Aftershocks"

    M. Matsushima, Y. Honkura, N. Oshiman, Ş. Barış, M.K. Tunçer, S.B. Tank, C. Çelik, F. Takahashi, M. Nakanishi, R. Yoshimura, R. Pektaş, T. Komut, E. Tolak, A. Ito, Y. Iio, A.M. Işıkara
    Bullettin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA), vol.92, no.1 [Dedicated Issue İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake of 17 August 1999], pp.350-360 , February 2002 abstract

     l "Microearthquake Activity Before the İzmit Earthquake in the Eastern Marmara Region, Turkey (1 January 1993-17 August 1999)"

    Şerif Barış, Akihiko Ito, S. Balamir Üçer, Yoshimori Honkura, Nafiz Kafadar, Rıza Pektaş, Tolga Komut, Ahmet Mete Işıkara
    Bullettin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA), vol.92, no.1 [Dedicated Issue İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake of 17 August 1999], pp.394-405 , February 2002 abstract

     l "Aftershock Activity of the 1999 İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake Revealed From Microearthquake Observations"

    Akihiko Ito, Balamir Üçer, Şerif Barış, Ayako Nakamura, Yoshimori Honkura, Toshio Kono, Shuichiro Hori, Akira Hasegawa, Rıza Pektaş, Ahmet Mete Işıkara
    Bullettin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA), vol.92, no.1 [Dedicated Issue İzmit, Turkey, Earthquake of 17 August 1999], pp.418-427 , February 2002 abstract

     l "Preliminary Results of Multidisciplinary Observations Before, During and After the Kocaeli (İzmit) Earthquake in the Western Part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone"

    Y. Honkura, A.M. Işıkara, N. Oshiman, A. Ito, B. Üçer, Ş. Barış, M.K. Tunçer, M. Matsushima, R. Pektaş, C. Çelik, S.B. Tank, F. Takahashi, M. Nakanishi, R. Yoshimura, Y. Ikeda, T. Komut,
    Earth Planets Space, 52, no.4, 293-298, 2000. abstract , full paper (PDF)

     l "Precise Distribution of Aftershocks of the Izmit Earthquake of August 17, 1999, Turkey"

    A. Ito, B. Üçer, Ş. Barış, Y. Honkura, T. Kono, A. Nakamura, R. Pektaş, Y. Ishikawa, A.Işıkara
    AGU (American Geophysical Union) 1999 Fall Meeting Program, December 13-17, 1999, San Francisco, California abstract

     l "Temporary Observation of Aftershocks of the 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey Earthquake"

    Ayako Nakamura, Toshio Kono, Akihiko Ito, Yukiko Ishikawa, Şerif Barış, Rıza Pektaş, S.Balamir Üçer, A.Mete Işıkara, Yoshimori Honkura, Akira Hasegawa
    Printed Report in Japan

     l "Preliminary Report on the Aftershocks of 1999 İzmit Earthquake, Turkey, Revealed From Microearthquake Observations"

    Akihiko Ito, Balamir Üçer, Şerif Barış, Yoshimori Honkura, Ayako Nakamura, Toshio Kono, Rıza Pektaş, Tolga Komut, Akira Hasegawa, A.Mete Işıkara
      Memberships    American Geophysical Union (AGU), Association of Bogazici University Graduates (BUMED), The Turkish Chamber of Geophysical Engineers
      Computer Skill    Microsoft products (Windows operating systems, Office, etc), web-mastering, Corel Draw, PaintShop, Network and Internet based applications, 2-D and 3-D graphical and analysing softwares (Grapher, Surfer), GMT (Generic Mapping Tools), multimedia applications, computer systems and hardware skill
      Hobbies    Science & technology, astronomy, graphical applications on PCs, web designing, music (80s, soul and blues), oud, tennis, amateur photography
     
      Photos

    Photosphere Observation
    March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
    Colakli - Antalya / TURKEY
    March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
    Colakli - Antalya / TURKEY
    March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
    Colakli - Antalya / TURKEY
    March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
    Colakli - Antalya / TURKEY

    		 
    XV. National Astronomy Congree, Poster presentation
    Istanbul Kultur University, September 2006
    "International Heliophysical Year" Meeting
    (as LOC member)
    Colakli - Antalya / TURKEY April 2006
    August 17, 1999 Big Golcuk Earthquake Field Research
    Izmit, August 17, 1999
    With my professors : Prof.Dr. Omer Alptekin, Prof.Dr. S. Balamir Ucer and Prof.Dr. Atila Ozguc
    B.U. K.O.E.R.I., 2006
    		  
      Contact

     
     B.U. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Astronomy Laboratory, Cengelkoy 34684 / ISTANBUL - TURKEY

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    latest update : 25.03.2009