Nilgün Okay
Vitae
born
in 1958 (Istanbul / Turkey)
FAMILY
married
Aral I. Okay
two
daughters (Nilüfer, Yasemin)
EDUCATION
B.Sc. Istanbul Technical
University (ITU), 1981
(Geophysical Engineering)
M.A.
City University of New York
(Brooklyn College), USA, 1991
(Geology)
M.Phil. City University of New York (Graduate
School),
USA, 1993
(Earth&Environmental
Sciences)
Ph.D. City University of New York (Graduate School),
USA, 1995
(Earth&Environmental
Sciences)
PROFESSIONAL
CAREER
Assistant
Reaseach
City
University of New York, Hunter College, 1991 - 1994
Postdoctoral Asistant
Research
Istanbul Technical
University, 1995 - 1996
Assistant
Professor, 1996 - 2006
Associated
Professor, Istanbul Technical University, 2006 to present.
Visiting
Schoolar, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, Oct.
2006-June 2007
AWARDS
GRANDS
Turkish
Ministry of Education Graduate Scholarship, 1984-1990
H.
Rubinstein Foundation Tuition Grant, 1990-1992
New
York State Funded University Fellowship, 1990-1991/1986-1987
Joint
Oceanographic Institutions/USSAC, Ocean Drilling Shipboard and Shorebased Scientist
Support Program, 1993-1994
SEA-GOING
R/V
Hakon Mosby,
SEAMARC II side-scan sonar mapping
on the Yermak Plateau and Svalbard
along the eastern Norwegian Greenland Sea passive margins, 27 Sept.-23 Oct.
1990
R/V
Joides Resolution, ODP Leg-152, East Greenland Margin, 29
Sept.-24 Nov. 1993
R/V
Urania,
Submarine
Earthquake Geology in the Marmara Sea Seismic Gap near İstanbul, 29
May-7 June 2001
R/V
Meteor, Biogeochemical cycles and Holocene paleoclimate in the western Black Sea and Marmara
Sea, Leg 51/4 , 13-28 Dec. 2001
for field photos click here