We are fortunate to have Professor Erkan Istanbulluoglu visiting UBC from the distant State of Washington. He will be giving a special seminar on Monday, Oct. 16 in room 223 (Geography Building) at 2 pm. He will be speaking on:
Mountain Hydro-geomorphic processes in the Pacific Northwest: Glacier response and landsliding
Erkan Istanbulluoglu received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Utah State University in 2003, and his BS and MS degrees in Agricultural Engineering at Uludag University, Turkey, in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He completed a postdoc at MIT in CEE in 2005. Erkan served on the faculty of University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2005-2009) before joining the University of Washington in the fall of 2009 as an Assistant Professor. Erkan is promoted to Associate Professor in 2013.
Erkan’s research is highly interdisciplinary and aims to improve the understanding and modeling of interactions among hydrologic, ecologic, and geomorphic processes in watersheds; their connections to society; and the impact of climate change on watershed response. He currently serves as an Associate Editor in Water Resources Research, and on the CUAHSI board of directors.