Research interests:

I am a physical scientist mainly interested in continental deformation, tsunamis, fluid mechanics and earth’s recent climate. I do both kinematic and dynamic modelling using GPS other space-geodetic data and I tried to incorporate faulting and earthquake information in these models. My interest on Tsunamis and water waves are, in general, in the field of mathematical modelling (both analytical and numerical). But I try to incorporate as much geological and marine geophysical in informations as possible to be able to reconstruct realistic scenarios. I and my colleague Nazmi Postacioglu recently constructed a modal model for Tsunami edge waves that could eventually find applications on storm surges. I recently started to work on holocene climatic records from a statistical and information-theoretic perspective.

Biography:
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2013-, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, ITU
2004, Mechanical Engineering, Salerno University, Italy 
2002, PhD., Cambridge University, Applied Math.
1971, Born in Istanbul

Most important 5 publications:

M.N. Çağatay, N. Öğretmen, E. Damcı, M. Stockhecke, Ü. Sancar, K.K. Eriş, S. Özeren,  2014, Lake level and climate records of the last 90 ka from the Northern Basin of Lake Van, eastern Turkey, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 104, 15 November 2014, Pages 97–116

Nesibe Köse, Ünal Akkemik,H. Tuncay Güner,  H. Nüzhet Dalfes,  Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, M. Sinan Özeren, Tayfun Kındap,  2012, An improved reconstruction of May–June precipitation using tree-ring data from western Turkey and its links to volcanic eruptions,International Journal of Biometeorology September 2013, Volume 57, Issue 5, pp 691-701

M. Sinan Özeren, 2012, Crust-mantle mechanical coupling in Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Turkey,PNAS, vol. 109 no. 22,   8429–8433, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1201826109

M Sinan Özeren, Nazmi Postacioglu, 2012, Nonlinear Tsunami Runup, Journal of Fluid mech., Volume 691, pp 440- 460

P. Burnard, S. Bourlange,  P. Henry, L. Geli, M.D. Tryon, B. Natal'in, A.M.C. Sengör, M.S. Özeren, M.N. Çagatay, 2012, Constraints on fluid origins and migration velocities along the Marmara Main Fault (Sea of Marmara, Turkey) using helium isotopes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volumes 341–344, August 2012, Pages 68–78