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Contact Info e-mail : ozacar@metu.edu.tr tel : +90-312-2102679 Information I have been a faculty member of Middle East Technical University (METU) since 2007 and currently working as an instructor in the Department of Geological Engineering. I received my BS (1999) and M.Sc. (2001) degrees in geological engineering at METU and Ph.D (2007) in seismology and geophysics at University of Arizona. My research mainly focused on broadband seismology to investigate earthquake source mechanisms and Earth structure with applications to tectonics. In the past, I have analyzed large strike-slip earthquakes that show complex rupture mechanisms. Also, I am currently working on receiver function analysis and anisotropic waveform modelling using broadband data collected in Tibet, California, Eastern Turkey and across North Anatolian Fault. Publication Info Ozacar, A. A., H. J. Gilbert, and G. Zandt (2008). Upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath East Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) from receiver functions (in press). Ozacar, A. A., and G. Zandt (2008). Crustal structure and seismic anisotropy near the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, California (under review). Ozacar, A. A., G. Zandt, H. J. Gilbert and S. L. Beck (2008). Seismic Images of crustal variations beneath East Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) from teleseismic receiver functions (under review). Ozacar, A. A., and G. Zandt (2004). Crustal seismic anisotropy in central Tibet: Implications for deformational style and flow in the crust, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L23601, doi:10.1029/ 2004GL021096. Ozacar, A. A., and S. L. Beck (2004). The 2002 Denali fault and 2001 Kunlun fault earthquakes: Complex rupture processes of two large strike-slip events, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 94, No. 6B, pp. S278-292. Ozacar, A. A., S. L. Beck, and D. H. Christensen (2003). Source process of the 3 November 2002 Denali fault earthquake (central Alaska) from teleseismic observations, Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(12), 1638, doi:10.1029/2003GL017272. Kocyigit, A., and A. A. Ozacar (2003). Extensional neotectonic regime through the NE edge of the outer Isparta Angle, SW Turkey: New field and seismic data, Turkish Journal of Earth Science 12, 67-90. Kocyigit, A., B. Rojay, M. Cihan, and A. A. Ozacar (2001). The June 6, 2000, Orta (Cankiri, Turkey) earthquake; sourced from a new antithetic sinistral strike-slip structure of the North Anatolian fault system, the Dodurga fault zone, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 10(2), 69-82. Ozacar, A. A., and A. Kocyigit (2000). Dombayova grabeninin neotektonik ozellikleri [Neotectonic characteristics of Dombayova graben], Symposium on the Seismicity of Western Turkey (BADSEM) 2000 Abstracts and Proceeding, 175-183 [in Turkish with English abstract]. Kocyigit, A., E. Bozkurt, M. Cihan, A. A. Ozacar, and B. Teksoz (2000). Neotectonic frame of Turkey: a special emphasis on the Golcuk-Arifiye earthquake (NE Marmara, Turkey). Proceedings of International Conference on Earthquake Hazard and Risk in the Mediterranean Area, Near East University, Cyprus, 1-11.