Title: Associate Prof. Dr.Department: Civil Engineering DepartmentPosition: Academic StaffEmail: gulten.polat@yeditepe.edu.trTelephone: 216-5780000/3061-3091Office: Engineering Faculty A-103, A-912Time: Full TimeAkademikResumePh.D.: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Ph.D.: University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland M.Sc.: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey B.Sc.: Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Dr. Polat has been working on seismic anisotropy for many years before and after her doctorate and conducts scientific research on this subject. Particularly the study area is the Marmara region. She worked as a researcher in various research projects supported by TUBITAK and EU. Projects Development of a New Seismic Intensity Calculation Formula Based on Seismic Records and Structural Damage in the Strong Motion Zone of the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake and Elucidation of the Intensity in the Damage Concentration Zone Based on Microtremor Measurements and Shaking Questionnaire Survey TÜBİTAK 1002-Short Term R&D Funding Program, Project No: 123Y085, Project Executive: Prof. Dr. Nurcan Meral Ozel, Researchers: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gulten Polat, Dr. Yasemin Korkmaz Öztürk, (August 2023- ) An Investigation into Seismicity, Geothermal Systems and Dynamic Behavior of the North Gate of Hieropolis Ancient City in Western Anatolia Region. Researchers: Asst. Prof. Dr. Özden Saygılı, Lect. Dr. Gülten Polat, Ş. Efe Ölgün, Ph.D. Position: Principle Investigator, Yeditepe University Research Projects PublicationsVisitor Scientist Visitor at Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie Observatoire Midi Pyrénées 31400 Toulouse 2008 Visitor at Colombia Missouri University-The USA 2005 Journal papers Altinoğlu, F.F., Polat, G. Structure and seismo-tectonic investigation of the Sarıgöl- Buldan region, Western Anatolia, by using gravity and seismicity data. J. Mt. Sci. 19, 2758–2775 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7452-0 Ö. Saygılı, G. Polat (2022) Seismic Hazard’s Influences for Cultural Heritage Sites: Roman city of Hierapolis, An Acad Bras Cienc (2022) 94(2): e20210487 DOI 10.1590/0001-3765202220210487 Baftipour, M., Jarahi, H., Polat, G. & Seifilaleh, S. (2022). Damavand Earthquake of 2020 the Mainshock or an Alarm for Disaster for the Capital of Iran. American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 15(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2022.51.58 Polat, G. (2022). Spatial analysis of b-value variability in Elazig city and the surrounding area (Eastern Turkey). Acta Geophysica, 70(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-021-00694-3 Özden Saygılı and Gulten Polat. Analysis of seismic parameters for the Earthquake vulnerability assessment of Nusretiye (Tophane) Clock Tower, Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures: Vol. 18 No.4 (2021). Medved, Irina; Polat, Gulten; Koulakov, Ivan. 2021. "Crustal Structure of the Eastern Anatolia Region (Turkey) Based on Seismic Tomography" Geosciences 11, no. 2: 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020091 Crampin S., Polat G., Gao Y., Taylor D.B., Ozel N.M. (2018) Shear-Wave Splitting Indicates Non-Linear Dynamic Deformation in the Crust and Upper Mantle. In: Tsonis A. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences. Springer (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-58895-7_2). Polat, G., Ozel, N. M. and Koulakov, I.; Investigating P- and S-wave velocity structure beneath the whole Marmara region (Turkey) and surrounding from local earthquake tomography, Earth Planet Space (2016) 68: 132. doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0503-4 . Marian Ivan, Daniela Veronica Ghica, Andrej Gosar, Panagiotis Hatzidimitriou, Rami Hofstetter, Gulten Polat and Rongjiang Wang, 2014 Lowermost mantle velocity estimations beneath Central North Atlantic area from Pdif observed at Balkan, East Mediterranean and American, PAGEOPH.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s0024-014-0859-y. Polat, G., S. Lebedev, P. W. Readman, B. M. O’Reilly, and F. Hauser (2012), Anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography of Ireland’s crust: Implications for crustal accretion and evolution within the Caledonian Orogen, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL051014. Polat, G., Ozel, N. M., Crampin, S., Ergintav, S., and Tan, O.: Shear wave splitting as a proxy for stress forecast of the case of the 2006 Manyas-Kus Golu (Mb = 5.3) earthquake, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1073-1084, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-1073-2012. Journal papers (national) Polat, G , Saygılı, Ö . (2020). Istanbul’da eski bir Mısır dikilitaşının koruma amaçlı yapısal değerlendirilmesi . Yerbilimleri , 41 (2) , 169-182 . DOI: 10.17824/yerbilimleri.630560 Polat, G . (2019). Statistical analysis of the earthquake swarms in crustal anisotropic investigation . Yerbilimleri , 40 (3) , 234-252 . DOI: 10.17824/yerbilimleri.579538 Polat, G., Ozel, N. M. and Crampin, S..: Preliminary Investigating results from Azimuthal Seismic Anisotropy beneath Western Anatolia and the Hellenic Subduction Zone, o Bulletin for Earth science, Hacettepe University, 2018. Conference publications Hitomi Murakami, Maki Koyama, Shinichiro Mori, Nurcan Meral Özel, Saki Yotsui, Dilek Kepekçi, Mayumi Sakamoto, Gulten Polat, Yasemin Korkusuz Öztürk. Preliminary Field Survey on Seismic Intensity by Interview and Structural Damage by Observation in the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkey Earthquakes. The 16th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium (16JEES), November 23–25, 2023.
