Geophysics Research Group

Dr. Suleyman S. Nalbant, Lecturer in Geophysics

Suleyman is originally from Ankara, Turkey. After completing high school in his hometown, he moved to Istanbul for university education. If his three years spent for a masters' degree in the United States are disregarded, he spent quite a long time in Istanbul between 1982 and 2000. He came to Northern Ireland in 2001 and he has been living there since then. It seems that he has nicely adjusted to the whether conditions here!

His main research area in seismology is to understand earthquake stress interactions in both co-seismic and post-seismic periods, and their importance in terms of assessing seismic hazard in a given region. Currently he has started to use GPS data to understand post-seismic deformation and its importance for controlling the aftershock seismic activity. Recently (in 2005) he had a project funded by NERC related to this subject together with John and Sandy.

Education

Ph.D., 1996, Earth Physics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

M.Sc., 1991, Geophysics, The University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA

B.Sc., 1987, Geophysical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Experience

Lecturer in Geophysics, University of Ulster, 2005 - Present

Assoc. Prof., Turkish Inter-universities Committee, 2003 - Present

Research Fellow, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 2002 - Present

Research Associate, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 2001 - 2002

Visiting Researcher, LDEO, Columbia University, U.S.A., 1998 - 1999

Research Officer, Istanbul University, Turkey, 1997 - 1999

Research Assistant, Istanbul University, Turkey, 1992 - 1996

Visiting Student, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, 1996

Research Assistant, Istanbul University, Turkey, 1987 - 1988

Community Service

Reviewer for J. Seis., Geophys. J.Int., Geophys. Res. Lett., and J. Geodynamics.

Awards

Successful Researcher Certificate from Istanbul University Research Fund, 1998.

Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)-NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship (B-2) for a research in Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA (3 months, 1998)

Successful Researcher Certificate from Istanbul University Research Fund, 1996.

AGU student travel scholarship for the 1996 AGU Fall Meeting, held in San Francisco, USA

TÜBİTAK-NATO Science Fellowship (A-2) for a research in IPGP, France (4.5 months, 1996)

American WAAIME, Della & Mildred Mudd Memorial Fellowship (1991-1992)

The Fellowship of Ministry of Education of Turkey for a graduate study in the USA (1989-1991)

Turkish Educational Foundation Scholarship (1985-1986)

Publications

N.B. - for articles published in American Geophysical Union Journals copyright resides with the American Geophysical Union. Further reproduction or electronic distribution of .pdf files is not permitted.

Nalbant, S.S., S. Steacy, and J. McCloskey, Stress Transfer Relations Among the Earthquakes

that Occurred in Kerman Province, Southern Iran Since 1981, Geophysical Journal

International, in press, 2006. ( pdf )

McCloskey, J., S.S. Nalbant, and S. Steacy, Earthquake risk from co-seismic stress, Nature,

434, 291, 2005. (pdf)

Steacy, S., S.S. Nalbant, J. McCloskey, C. Nostro, O. Scotti, and D. Baumont, Onto what

planes should Coulomb stress perturbations be resolved?, Journal of Geophysical Research,

110, B05S15, doi:10.1029/2004JB003356, 2005. (pdf)

Steacy, S., J. Gomberg, and M. Cocco, Introduction to Special Section: Stress transfer,

earthquake triggering, and time-dependent seismic hazard, Journal of Geophysical

Research, 110, B05S01, doi:10.1029/2005JB003692, 2005. (pdf)

Nalbant, S.S., Steacy, S., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D., and J. McCloskey, Updated earthquake

hazard in Sumatra, Nature, 435, 756-757, 2005. (pdf)

Nalbant, S.S., J. McCloskey, and S. Steacy, Lessons on the calculation of static stress loading

from the 2003 Bingol, Turkey earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 235, 632-

640, 2005. (pdf)

Steacy, S., J. McCloskey, D. Marsan, and S.S. Nalbant, The dependence of static stress

calculations on the details of the earthquake slip distribution, Journal of Geophysical

Research, 109, B04303, doi:10.1029/2002JB002365, 2004. (pdf)

Utkucu, M., S. Nalbant, J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and O. Alptchin, Slip Distribution and stress

changes associated with the November 12, 1999, Düzce (Turkey) Earthquake (Mw=7.1),

Geophysical Journal International, 153, 229-241, 2003. (pdf)

McCloskey, J., S.S. Nalbant, S. Steacy, O. Scotti, C. Nostro, and D. Baumont, Structural

constraints on the spatial distribution of aftershocks, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (12),

1610-1614, 2003. (pdf)

Nalbant, S.S., J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and A.A. Barka, Stress accumulation and increased seismic risk in Eastern Turkey, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 195, 291-298, 2002.

Bayrak, M. and S.S. Nalbant, Conductive crust imaged in western Turkey by MT, Geophys. R. Lett., >28, 3521-3524, 2001.

King, G.C.P., A. Hubert-Ferrari,S.S. Nalbant, B. Meyer, R. Armijo, and D. Bowman, Coulomb interactions and the 17 August 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planets,.

Hubert-Ferrari, A., A. Barka, E. Jacques,S.S. Nalbant, B. Meyer, R. Armijo, P. Tapponnier & G.C.P. King, Seismic Hazard in the Sea of Marmara following the 17 August 1999 Earthquake, Nature,404, 269-272, 2000.

Eyidogan, H., S.S. Nalbant, A. Barka and G.C.P. King, Static stress change induced by the 1924 Pasinler, M=6.8, and 1983 Horasan-Narman, M=6.8 earthquakes, north eastern Turkey, Terra Nova,11,38-45, 1999.

Research Grants

Natural Environment Research Council: Urgent assessment of the location and orientation of

the Bingöl rupture by mapping surface breaks, J. McCloskey, S. Steacy, and S.S. Nalbant, 2003

- 2003.

Natural Environment Research Council: The influence of viscoelastic relaxation on the effective

duration of Coulomb stress perturbations, S. S. Nalbant, J. McClosky, and S. Steacy, 2005 -

2007.