My aim in research is developing/inventing new techniques to image fault zones and/or crust in terms of velocity, velocity impedance and attenuation. One of the topics I am currently working on is mapping receiver functions into spatial domain using an existing 3D velocity model for shallow structures.
I also enjoy field work and participated in several projects concerning San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults in Southern California, North Anatolian Fault and crustal structure of East Anatolia in Turkey. I installed/maintained seismic stations and networks.
I especially enjoy programming and visualization. I am a big fan of Python and some of the plotting tools written for it.
I also enjoy field work and participated in several projects concerning San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults in Southern California, North Anatolian Fault and crustal structure of East Anatolia in Turkey. I installed/maintained seismic stations and networks.
I especially enjoy programming and visualization. I am a big fan of Python and some of the plotting tools written for it.
Attenuation
This is from a dense array of seismic instruments installed on San Jacinto Fault Zone. We are extracting attenuation information using the explosion data from the array. Publication is in preparation.
Receiver Functions
We tackled the problem of having apparent Moho offsets in CCP stacks across major faults which are caused by velocity contrasts across the faults by extracting individual 1D velocity models for each incoming teleseismic ray.
I am also working on developing a technique for incorporating 3D velocity models directly when converting receiver functions into spatial domain. (Ozakin, Y. and Y. Ben-Zion , Systematic receiver function analysis of the Moho geometry in the Southern California plate-boundary region, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0924-, 2014.)
I am also working on developing a technique for incorporating 3D velocity models directly when converting receiver functions into spatial domain. (Ozakin, Y. and Y. Ben-Zion , Systematic receiver function analysis of the Moho geometry in the Southern California plate-boundary region, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0924-, 2014.)