Mustafa Saribudak, Ph.D., P.G.

BIO

Mustafa Saribudak is the principal of Environmental Geophysics Associates (EGA). He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. (1975) in geology from the University of Istanbul and a Ph.D. (1987) from the Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. He came to the University of Houston in 1990 as a visiting geoscientist. He started working for Tierra Environmental in the Woodlands between 1991 and 1993, where he pioneered the application of geophysical methods to environmental problems. He founded EGA in 1994 to provide near-surface geophysical services for engineering, environmental, and oil and gas industries, and real estate developers. Since than he has worked on more than 400 projects.

His personal research interests have been the active growth faulting in the Houston area, major faults of the karstic Edwards Aquifer in central Texas (for example: Mt. Bonnell, Barton Springs and Haby faults); location of karstic features (caves, sinkholes, voids) across the Edwards Aquifer; location of abandoned oil and gas wells and water wells; application of geophysical methods to volcanoes. His consultancy work resulted in over 50 published papers, which provided valuable insights and quantitative data for the geophysical and geological fields.