Academic Background
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Post-Doctoral Training, 2013
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (formerly. Geology & Geophysic) Yale University Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions & Climate Sensitivity in ESMs Advisor: Professor Trude Storelvmo |
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Ph.D., 2011 Department of Meteorology Modeling of Ice Microphysics and Clouds Penn State University Advisor: Professor Jerry Y. Harrington |
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M.S., 2005
Department of Meteorology (Meteorological Engineering) Numerical Weather Prediction of Heavy Precipitation, Flooding Istanbul Technical University Advisor: Professor Yurdanur Sezginer Unal |
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B.S., 2004
Department of Environmental Engineering Urban Air Quality, Particulate Matter 2.5 (Dual Major Student, Honors Student) Istanbul Technical University Advisor: Professor Kadir Alp B.S., 2003 Department of Meteorology (Meteorological Engineering) Regional Climate, Decadal Atmospheric Oscillations (Top Student in Ranking, Honors Student, Valedictorian) Istanbul Technical University Advisor: Professor Yurdanur Sezginer Unal |
HONOURS & AWARDS
2005 Penn State University Anne C. Wilson Graduate Research Award
2001 At Istanbul Technical University, I was awarded to study a second major (environmental engineering) due to my high academic success (Dual Major Student).
Summer 2015, I was selected and awarded full funding to attend the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Early Career Summer Workshop on Geoengineering.
NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Komurcu published a new journal article on Climate Change and Adaptation Pathways for Saudi Arabia. Check out the News Story about this study,
Dr. Komurcu presented her work at the AMS 2020 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Toward Resilient Cities: High-Resolution Climate Change in the Northeastern United States” in the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell on October 31, 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Improving Regional and Local Resiliency to Climate Change using High-Resolution Climate Projections”, in the Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University on October 2, 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Climate Aware Urban Design” at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2019,
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "High-Resolution Simulations of the Arabian Peninsula for Regional Sustainability Studies" and a poster presentation titled " Improved Climate Projections through Dynamical Downscaling" at the 2019 AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ in January 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "Dynamical Downscaling Improves Climate Projections" at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. on December 12th 2018.
Dr. Komurcu published her work with Kerry Emanuel, Matthew Huber and Paul Acosta on high-resolution climate projections for the Northeastern U.S. at AGU's Earth and Space Science. It is open access: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EA000426
Dr. Komurcu was one of the panelists at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Agriculture and Global Change Workshop in November 2018..
Dr. Komurcu presented her work at the 43rd NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2018.
Dr. Komurcu attended the Hurricane WRF model tutorial at NOAA Greenbelt, MD in January 2018.
Dr. Komurcu started her new research scientist position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2017. She will continue working on high-resolution convection permitting climate modeling.
Dr. Komurcu wrote a report for NOAA 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop on her downscaling work: Available through this link starting January 2017.
Dr. Komurcu presented her work titled "Analyzing Changes in Future Extreme Events in New England using A New Dynamically Downscaled High Resolution Climate Dataset" at the 2017 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA on January 24, 2017.
Dr. Komurcu presented her work titled "A New High Resolution Climate Dataset for Climate Change Impacts Assessments in New England" at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA on December 12, 2016.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "A New Dataset to Analyze Extreme Events in New England" at the 41st NOAA Climate Dynamics and Prediction Workshop in Orono, Maine on October 5, 2016.
Dr. Komurcu and Dr. Bayraktar's new Multi-Objective Wind Driven Optimization algorithm is accepted for presentation at the 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications, Portugal, Nov, 2016
Dr. Komurcu's high resolution regional climate modeling work and her contributions to climate change impacts assessments in New England are highlighted at UNH SPARKS research magazine.
Dr. Komurcu convened a session at the AGU Fall Meeting titled "Linking Downscaled Climate Variables to Extreme Events, Land Surface Hydrology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Health" on December 16th 2015. The session was a huge success with two oral and one poster presentation sections.
Dr. Komurcu is serving on two American Meteorological Society committees: the Centennial Committee and the 2018 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee.
Dr. Zikri Bayraktar and Dr. Komurcu published and presented their new Adaptive Wind Driven Optimization Algorithm at BICT 2015 at Columbia University between December 3-5, 2015.
Dr. Komurcu presented her high resolution climate modeling research at the National EPSCoR Conference (November 1-4, 2015).
Dr. Komurcu is selected and awarded full funding to attend the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Early Career Summer Workshop on Geoengineering (Summer 2015).
Dr. Komurcu presented her work at the AMS 2020 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Toward Resilient Cities: High-Resolution Climate Change in the Northeastern United States” in the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell on October 31, 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Improving Regional and Local Resiliency to Climate Change using High-Resolution Climate Projections”, in the Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University on October 2, 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled “Climate Aware Urban Design” at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2019,
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "High-Resolution Simulations of the Arabian Peninsula for Regional Sustainability Studies" and a poster presentation titled " Improved Climate Projections through Dynamical Downscaling" at the 2019 AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ in January 2019.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "Dynamical Downscaling Improves Climate Projections" at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. on December 12th 2018.
Dr. Komurcu published her work with Kerry Emanuel, Matthew Huber and Paul Acosta on high-resolution climate projections for the Northeastern U.S. at AGU's Earth and Space Science. It is open access: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EA000426
Dr. Komurcu was one of the panelists at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Agriculture and Global Change Workshop in November 2018..
Dr. Komurcu presented her work at the 43rd NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA in October 2018.
Dr. Komurcu attended the Hurricane WRF model tutorial at NOAA Greenbelt, MD in January 2018.
Dr. Komurcu started her new research scientist position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2017. She will continue working on high-resolution convection permitting climate modeling.
Dr. Komurcu wrote a report for NOAA 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop on her downscaling work: Available through this link starting January 2017.
Dr. Komurcu presented her work titled "Analyzing Changes in Future Extreme Events in New England using A New Dynamically Downscaled High Resolution Climate Dataset" at the 2017 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA on January 24, 2017.
Dr. Komurcu presented her work titled "A New High Resolution Climate Dataset for Climate Change Impacts Assessments in New England" at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA on December 12, 2016.
Dr. Komurcu gave a talk titled "A New Dataset to Analyze Extreme Events in New England" at the 41st NOAA Climate Dynamics and Prediction Workshop in Orono, Maine on October 5, 2016.
Dr. Komurcu and Dr. Bayraktar's new Multi-Objective Wind Driven Optimization algorithm is accepted for presentation at the 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications, Portugal, Nov, 2016
Dr. Komurcu's high resolution regional climate modeling work and her contributions to climate change impacts assessments in New England are highlighted at UNH SPARKS research magazine.
Dr. Komurcu convened a session at the AGU Fall Meeting titled "Linking Downscaled Climate Variables to Extreme Events, Land Surface Hydrology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Human Health" on December 16th 2015. The session was a huge success with two oral and one poster presentation sections.
Dr. Komurcu is serving on two American Meteorological Society committees: the Centennial Committee and the 2018 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee.
Dr. Zikri Bayraktar and Dr. Komurcu published and presented their new Adaptive Wind Driven Optimization Algorithm at BICT 2015 at Columbia University between December 3-5, 2015.
Dr. Komurcu presented her high resolution climate modeling research at the National EPSCoR Conference (November 1-4, 2015).
Dr. Komurcu is selected and awarded full funding to attend the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Study Program (ASP) Early Career Summer Workshop on Geoengineering (Summer 2015).