COVID-19 pandemisinin küresel boyutta olmak üzere ekonomik, sosyal, halk sağlığı ve toplumsal bir... more COVID-19 pandemisinin küresel boyutta olmak üzere ekonomik, sosyal, halk sağlığı ve toplumsal birçok açıdan olumsuz sonuçları bulunmaktadır. Etkileri bu denli geniş olan pandeminin yalnızca sağlık boyutu ile ele alınması yetersizdir. Pandemi bir biyolojik kaynaklı afettir ve günümüz afet risk yönetimi sürecinin tüm aşamaları ile dirençlilik perspektifinden değerlendirilmelidir. Bu çalışma, pandemi ve afet ilişkisini ortaya koyarak pandemi sürecinde ülkemizdeki durumun afet yönetimi sürecine özgü değerlendirilmesini ve pandemi süreçlerinde afet risk azaltma ve dirençlilik kapsamında ele alınabilecek uygulamaları afet yönetiminin süreçlerine göre planlamayı ve tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Olay komuta yönetimi ve operasyon servisi Sağlık Bakanlığı olmak üzere, kurumsal düzenlemeler noktasında biyolojik afetlerde özellikle AFAD’ın da dahil olduğu koordinasyon düzeninde dirençlilik yaklaşımı benimsenmesi önerilmektedir. Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın mevcut pandemi planları dirençlilik bakış açısı i...
In this study, we examine and evaluate local knowledge to develop an integrated participatory mod... more In this study, we examine and evaluate local knowledge to develop an integrated participatory model for spatial planning. We used participatory approaches in Düzce province to enhance risk communication, and to obtain the local point of view related to natural hazards and vulnerabilities through collaborative workshop techniques. We integrated multi-knowledge sources including geoecological research data and local expert knowledge, and including the results of questionnaire surveys’ analyses from workshops and town-watch exercise. This paper presents integrated information that can be useful in risk communication, and valuable analyses in terms of stakeholders’ responsibilities and sources in disaster risk reduction towards resilience.
Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications
This study aims to explore the use of Twitter by Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFA... more This study aims to explore the use of Twitter by Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) in 2021, which is determined as the year of disaster education. Within the scope of this study, the tweets of the AFAD Presidency in the media section between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, were examined. The tweets were categorized considering hazard types (geological, hydrological and climatological, biological, technological accidents and Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN), forest fires, migration, and other) and phases of the disaster management cycle (pre-disaster (mitigation, and preparedness), response, and post-disaster recovery). Five hundred and eighty tweets related to disasters were identified including the number of 88 disaster irrelevant tweets. Most of the tweets were related to hydrological and meteorological hazards. Regarding the biological disaster-induced COVID-19, only two tweets specific to the response process were identified. This study pr...
Logging data are measurements of physical properties of the formation surrounding a borehole, acq... more Logging data are measurements of physical properties of the formation surrounding a borehole, acquired in situ after completion of coring (wireline logging) or during drilling (Logging-While-Drilling, LWD). The range of data (resistivity, gamma radiation, velocity, density, borehole images,…) in any hole depends on the scientific objectives and operational constraints.
This study aims to develop an integrated spatial planning methodology with a participatory planni... more This study aims to develop an integrated spatial planning methodology with a participatory planning approach for building resilient settlements against complex ecological risk factors. Düzce Province is selected as a case study because of its complex ecological characteristics as witnessed many times in past. The methodology consists of four phases. (1) The first phase of the methodology joins the ecological planning aims. In the (2) second phase, ecosystem services (ES) integrated land suitability maps was produced by combining natural hazard risks and landscape vulnerabilities with the risk of degradation of valuable ES. The (3) third phase, is participatory risk governance approach, which consists of three components namely, (a) risk communication, (b) risk assessment, (c) risk management that conducted between the local and regional stakeholders within the multi-scale approach. In the (4) fourth phase, comprehensive outputs for spatial risk mitigation was provided by the integra...
ABSTRACT Keywords: women faculty, women in science, gender equity, earth sciences, scientific pro... more ABSTRACT Keywords: women faculty, women in science, gender equity, earth sciences, scientific productivity patterns. Many studies have been conducted on the status of women in earth sciences at all levels (Crawford et al. 1987; Wolfe 1999; Loder 1999; Schiebinger 2002; Holmes and O'Connell 2005; Bell et al. 2003). In general, the representation of women in senior scientific positions remains low. In the European countries, women constitute less than 10 percentages of full-time professors. In US the proportion of women in earth science departments has risen up to 14% (Holmes and O'Connell 2005). From 1990 to 2000, the representation of women in natural sciences rose from 8% to 12%, while the percentage of women in the graduate student population has increased to 33% (DeWett et al. 2002). In this study, the data show that greater amount of women (28%) is represented in the Turkish universities. Last 20 years the number of female students in the earth sciences and related engineering departments has significantly increased in Turkey (up to 48%, ÖSYM 2008), as well as in Europe and US (ETAN 2000; NSF 2004; WIS 2005). The gendered distribution for the female students in the field of engineering (Zengin-Arslan 2002) also exists for the women faculty distribution in many fields in Turkish universities. As the highest percentage of women faculty (tenured) is employed in chemistry, biology, food and environmental sciences, there is also a remarkable increase in earth sciences related fields (Fig. 1). 22 39 37 0 20 40 60 80 S t r u c t u r a l M e c h a n ic a l E l e c t r ic a l C h e m i c a l M i n i n g & M e t a l F o o d E n v ir o n C o m p u t e r E a r t h S c i M a t h P h y s ic C h e m B i o % Full Prof Associated Prof Assistant Prof Res TA Although Turkey has higher precentages of women faculty (Loder 1999; Schiebinger 2000) the data show that women still highly skewed and underpresented in many fields in earth sciences and higher level in earth science departments (Okay et al. 2004).
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2002
The disastrous 1999 earthquakes in Turkey have spurred the international community to study the g... more The disastrous 1999 earthquakes in Turkey have spurred the international community to study the geometry and behavior of the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) beneath the Marmara Sea. While the area is considered mature for a large earthquake, the detailed fault geometry below the Marmara Sea is uncertain, and this prevents a realistic assessment of seismic hazards in the highly-populated region close to Istanbul. Two geological/geophysical surveys were recently conducted in the Marmara Sea: the first in November 2000 with the ...
In Turkey women have been receiving a greater proportion of bachelor's and master's deg... more In Turkey women have been receiving a greater proportion of bachelor's and master's degrees (37%) in the geosciences. The growing number of female students is illustrated in Figure 1. Among those different fields, in social sciences and medicine almost 50% of the student populations are female students. Last 20 years number of female students have been continously increasing in the earth science and related engineering departments ( 6,7 ).
The 1600km-long North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) has been rupturing across Turkey from east to w... more The 1600km-long North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) has been rupturing across Turkey from east to west in a series of large earthquakes during the last century. The rupture advanced 160 km in 1999 in two disastrous earthquakes. The next rupture is expected to occur within the next few decades beneath the Marmara Sea. Because the seismic risk to Istanbul (population: 15 million) is severe, a large international research effort is focussing on this area. In particular, several recent expeditions acquired multibeam bathymetry data ...
COVID-19 pandemisinin küresel boyutta olmak üzere ekonomik, sosyal, halk sağlığı ve toplumsal bir... more COVID-19 pandemisinin küresel boyutta olmak üzere ekonomik, sosyal, halk sağlığı ve toplumsal birçok açıdan olumsuz sonuçları bulunmaktadır. Etkileri bu denli geniş olan pandeminin yalnızca sağlık boyutu ile ele alınması yetersizdir. Pandemi bir biyolojik kaynaklı afettir ve günümüz afet risk yönetimi sürecinin tüm aşamaları ile dirençlilik perspektifinden değerlendirilmelidir. Bu çalışma, pandemi ve afet ilişkisini ortaya koyarak pandemi sürecinde ülkemizdeki durumun afet yönetimi sürecine özgü değerlendirilmesini ve pandemi süreçlerinde afet risk azaltma ve dirençlilik kapsamında ele alınabilecek uygulamaları afet yönetiminin süreçlerine göre planlamayı ve tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Olay komuta yönetimi ve operasyon servisi Sağlık Bakanlığı olmak üzere, kurumsal düzenlemeler noktasında biyolojik afetlerde özellikle AFAD’ın da dahil olduğu koordinasyon düzeninde dirençlilik yaklaşımı benimsenmesi önerilmektedir. Sağlık Bakanlığı’nın mevcut pandemi planları dirençlilik bakış açısı i...
In this study, we examine and evaluate local knowledge to develop an integrated participatory mod... more In this study, we examine and evaluate local knowledge to develop an integrated participatory model for spatial planning. We used participatory approaches in Düzce province to enhance risk communication, and to obtain the local point of view related to natural hazards and vulnerabilities through collaborative workshop techniques. We integrated multi-knowledge sources including geoecological research data and local expert knowledge, and including the results of questionnaire surveys’ analyses from workshops and town-watch exercise. This paper presents integrated information that can be useful in risk communication, and valuable analyses in terms of stakeholders’ responsibilities and sources in disaster risk reduction towards resilience.
Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications
This study aims to explore the use of Twitter by Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFA... more This study aims to explore the use of Twitter by Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) in 2021, which is determined as the year of disaster education. Within the scope of this study, the tweets of the AFAD Presidency in the media section between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, were examined. The tweets were categorized considering hazard types (geological, hydrological and climatological, biological, technological accidents and Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN), forest fires, migration, and other) and phases of the disaster management cycle (pre-disaster (mitigation, and preparedness), response, and post-disaster recovery). Five hundred and eighty tweets related to disasters were identified including the number of 88 disaster irrelevant tweets. Most of the tweets were related to hydrological and meteorological hazards. Regarding the biological disaster-induced COVID-19, only two tweets specific to the response process were identified. This study pr...
Logging data are measurements of physical properties of the formation surrounding a borehole, acq... more Logging data are measurements of physical properties of the formation surrounding a borehole, acquired in situ after completion of coring (wireline logging) or during drilling (Logging-While-Drilling, LWD). The range of data (resistivity, gamma radiation, velocity, density, borehole images,…) in any hole depends on the scientific objectives and operational constraints.
This study aims to develop an integrated spatial planning methodology with a participatory planni... more This study aims to develop an integrated spatial planning methodology with a participatory planning approach for building resilient settlements against complex ecological risk factors. Düzce Province is selected as a case study because of its complex ecological characteristics as witnessed many times in past. The methodology consists of four phases. (1) The first phase of the methodology joins the ecological planning aims. In the (2) second phase, ecosystem services (ES) integrated land suitability maps was produced by combining natural hazard risks and landscape vulnerabilities with the risk of degradation of valuable ES. The (3) third phase, is participatory risk governance approach, which consists of three components namely, (a) risk communication, (b) risk assessment, (c) risk management that conducted between the local and regional stakeholders within the multi-scale approach. In the (4) fourth phase, comprehensive outputs for spatial risk mitigation was provided by the integra...
ABSTRACT Keywords: women faculty, women in science, gender equity, earth sciences, scientific pro... more ABSTRACT Keywords: women faculty, women in science, gender equity, earth sciences, scientific productivity patterns. Many studies have been conducted on the status of women in earth sciences at all levels (Crawford et al. 1987; Wolfe 1999; Loder 1999; Schiebinger 2002; Holmes and O'Connell 2005; Bell et al. 2003). In general, the representation of women in senior scientific positions remains low. In the European countries, women constitute less than 10 percentages of full-time professors. In US the proportion of women in earth science departments has risen up to 14% (Holmes and O'Connell 2005). From 1990 to 2000, the representation of women in natural sciences rose from 8% to 12%, while the percentage of women in the graduate student population has increased to 33% (DeWett et al. 2002). In this study, the data show that greater amount of women (28%) is represented in the Turkish universities. Last 20 years the number of female students in the earth sciences and related engineering departments has significantly increased in Turkey (up to 48%, ÖSYM 2008), as well as in Europe and US (ETAN 2000; NSF 2004; WIS 2005). The gendered distribution for the female students in the field of engineering (Zengin-Arslan 2002) also exists for the women faculty distribution in many fields in Turkish universities. As the highest percentage of women faculty (tenured) is employed in chemistry, biology, food and environmental sciences, there is also a remarkable increase in earth sciences related fields (Fig. 1). 22 39 37 0 20 40 60 80 S t r u c t u r a l M e c h a n ic a l E l e c t r ic a l C h e m i c a l M i n i n g & M e t a l F o o d E n v ir o n C o m p u t e r E a r t h S c i M a t h P h y s ic C h e m B i o % Full Prof Associated Prof Assistant Prof Res TA Although Turkey has higher precentages of women faculty (Loder 1999; Schiebinger 2000) the data show that women still highly skewed and underpresented in many fields in earth sciences and higher level in earth science departments (Okay et al. 2004).
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2002
The disastrous 1999 earthquakes in Turkey have spurred the international community to study the g... more The disastrous 1999 earthquakes in Turkey have spurred the international community to study the geometry and behavior of the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) beneath the Marmara Sea. While the area is considered mature for a large earthquake, the detailed fault geometry below the Marmara Sea is uncertain, and this prevents a realistic assessment of seismic hazards in the highly-populated region close to Istanbul. Two geological/geophysical surveys were recently conducted in the Marmara Sea: the first in November 2000 with the ...
In Turkey women have been receiving a greater proportion of bachelor's and master's deg... more In Turkey women have been receiving a greater proportion of bachelor's and master's degrees (37%) in the geosciences. The growing number of female students is illustrated in Figure 1. Among those different fields, in social sciences and medicine almost 50% of the student populations are female students. Last 20 years number of female students have been continously increasing in the earth science and related engineering departments ( 6,7 ).
The 1600km-long North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) has been rupturing across Turkey from east to w... more The 1600km-long North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) has been rupturing across Turkey from east to west in a series of large earthquakes during the last century. The rupture advanced 160 km in 1999 in two disastrous earthquakes. The next rupture is expected to occur within the next few decades beneath the Marmara Sea. Because the seismic risk to Istanbul (population: 15 million) is severe, a large international research effort is focussing on this area. In particular, several recent expeditions acquired multibeam bathymetry data ...
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