Dr. Nur Schuba

Research Interests

• Seismic interpretation and structural geology
• Fault characterization
• Petrophysics
• Salt tectonics and geological storage in salt features
• Science Communication

Education

• M.F.A. (2023): Visual Communication (focus: Illustration and Sequential Art) from Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA)
• Ph.D. (2019): Geoscience (focus: Structural Geology and Applied Geophysics) from Rice University (Houston, TX)
• B.Sc. (2011): Geophysical Engineering (focus: Seismology) from Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey)

Professional History

• Research Assistant Professor at State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery Group, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX (2023-present)
• Post-Doctoral Researcher at State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery Group, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX (2022-2023)
• Visiting Scientist at Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park, WY (2021)
• Geoscientist at Upstream Business Development, ExxonMobil, TX (2019-2021)
• Intern Geophysicist at Reservoir Development, BP, TX (Summer of 2018)
• Intern Exploration Geophysicist at Middle East Exploration, Occidental Petroleum, TX (Summer of 2017)
• Research Assistant at Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, TX (2014-2019)
• Measurements/Logging While Drilling Engineer at Drilling & Measurements, Schlumberger, UK (2011-2014)

Selected Publications

• Schuba. C. N., Moscardelli, L., & Schuba, J. (in review). Impact of salt dome morphology on underground storage volumetric estimations: Implications for prospect-scale assessment, Energy Geoscience.
• Schuba. C. N., Fulton, P., Kirkpatrick, J., Kodaira, S., Conin, M., Regalla, C., Ujie, K., Pincus, M., Cooper, S., Bentley, C., & Expedition 405 Science Party (in review). A Deep Dive into the Japan Trench, Frontiers for Young Minds.
• Martinez-Doñate, A., Moscardelli, L., Schuba, C. N., Ko, L., Melani, L., & Bhattacharya, S. (2025). The Role of Refluxing Deep Hypersaline Brines and Evaporite Precipitation Dynamics in the Castile Formation and Marginal Carbonate Strata (Delaware Basin, USA), The Depositional Record.
• Schuba, C. N., Moscardelli, L., Dooley, T. P., Peel, F. J., Martinez-Doñate, A., Lawton, T., Apps, G., & Schuba, J. P. (2025). Geophysical characterization of dissolution features and deformation in bedded salt formations in NE Delaware Basin, Interpretation, 13 (2), p. T367-T386.
• Zhang, J., Moscardelli, L., Dooley, T. P., & Schuba, C. N. (2023). Salt-tectonic induced topographic controls on sediment routing in salt-bearing basins: a combined physical and numerical modeling approach, GSA Today, 33(6), p. 4-9.
• Schuba, C. N. & Moscardelli, L. (2023). Subsurface storage in the Mississippi Salt Basin domes: Considerations for the emerging hydrogen economy, AAPG Bulletin, 107(11), p. 1957-1970.
• Schuba, C.N. (2021). Temperature loggers shed light on past, future Yellowstone geyser activity. USGS Caldera Chronicles, Oct 2021.
• Keller, W., Himmelberger, A., & Schuba, C.N. (2021). Yellowstone in 3-D. National Park Service interactive story map for the public. http://www.arcg.is/0n5THm
• Schuba, C.N., Gray, G.G., Morgan, J.K., Schuba, J.P. and Sawyer, D.S. (2019). Origin of serpentinization patterns beneath the S‐reflector detachment fault in the Galicia margin, offshore Spain. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(8), p. 3971-3984.
• Schuba, C.N., Schuba, J.P., Gray, G.G. and Davy, R.G. (2019). Interface-targeted seismic velocity estimation using machine learning. Geophysical Journal International, 218(1), p. 45-56.
• Schuba, C.N., Gray, G.G., Morgan, J.K., Sawyer, D.S., Shillington, D.J., Reston, T.J., Bull, J.M. & Jordan, B.E. (2018).  A low-angle detachment fault revealed: three-dimensional images of the S-reflector fault zone along the Galicia passive margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, p. 232-238.