Mustafa Saribudak, Ph.D., P.G.
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) in geophysics from the Istanbul Technical University in Turkiye. He came to the University of Houston in 1990 as a visiting geoscientist to work on a National Science Project. Then he started working for an environmental company 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 across the North and South Americas. His research interests have been, aside his ongoing business projects, the active growth faulting in the Houston area, major faults and karstic features of the Edwards Aquifer (caves and sinkholes). His current curiosity has been the application of geophysical methods to volcanoes.