Our people
Alexander Surdyaev
Partners, Associates & Post-docs
ameilijs@campus.haifa.ac.il
Organic matter quality, quantity, preservation and source; Interrelationship between productivity & bottom water environments
obialik@campus.haifa.ac.il
Carbonates; Carbonate system; Environmental reconstruction of marine environments
Dr. Micha Feigin
Dr. Gal Hartman
Exploration manager, Ratio Petroleum
Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, deep-water turbidites, Carbonate Buildups, Petroleum Systems, Seismic Stratigraphy, Seismic Attributes and DHIs
High-resolution seismic imaging of the continental slope offshore Israel: Detailed investigation of the Goliath mass transport complex and the Dor Disturbance
Acoustic seafloor characterization using low to mid frequency sound and reverberation
Rifting and subsidence of the northwest African continental margin.
Supervisors: Prof. . Makovsky & Dr. Gal Hartman
Students
PhD student
Gas Migration and Seepage in the Eastern deep-sea fan of the Nile, Eastern Mediterranean
Supervisors: Prof. Y. Makovsky & Dr. N. Waldmann
PhD student
The impact of polygonal fault systems on deep-sea sedimentary processes: The western Demerara Rise margin, offshore Suriname
Supervisors: Prof. Y. Makovsky & Dr. G. Hartman
PhD student (Visiting, Imperial College, UK)
The Piano-Key-Fault system in the Levant basin (offshore Israel)
Supervisors: Prof. C. Jackson, Prof. Y. Makovsky & Dr. J. Steinberg
MSc student
The Controls of pre-MSC Morphology on the Focused Thin Skin Tectonics at the Dor Disturbance Offshore North Central Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Y. Makovsky
Gleb Papeer
MSc student
Characterization of sea-floor methane ebullitions surrounding the Palmahim Disturbance, by utilizing state-of-the-art acoustic equipment and processing techniques
Supervisor: Prof. Y. Makovsky
Yaad Ben-Lulu
PhD student
Strain partitioning within MTD fold-thrust belts and implications for recurrence mass-wasting on continental margins (Orange Basin)
Supervisors: Dr. N. Waldmann, Dr. M. Opuwari & Prof. Y. Makovsky
Olajide Oladipo
MSc student
Insights into environmental variability in Sumatra (Indonesia) from lacustrine sub-bottom profiler and sediment cores
Supervisors: Dr. N. Waldmann & Prof. Y. Makovsky
Research Assistants
Alumni
Postdocs
MSc
Shiwei Wang (2019) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Constraining the recent activity of the Carmel and Western Galilee Faults System at the edge of the continental shelf
Matan Elad (2017) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Time constraints and sedimentary structures of recent submarine landslides on the continental slope of Israel: A tool for hazard assessments in an active landslides province
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky & R. Bookman
Assaf Tsabar (2015) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Monitoring the dynamics of the hydrological system in Mineral Beach sinkholes, Dead Sea.
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky, E. Shalev and A. Sagy
Yaniv Alter (2020) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Modeling sub-seafloor calcite precipitation in the deep Israeli offshore - a sensitivity test
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky & R. Katsman
Ziv Tayber (2017) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Methane hydrate stability and potential reserves in the Levant basin
Murad Safadi (2015) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Long lasting continued activity of buried mass transport deposits in the southeast Levant margins
Liad Bar-Zvi (2020) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Geomechanical characterization of marine sediments: an updated tool for studying submarine slides on the continental slope of Israel
Oded Ezra (2017) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Topology and formation settings of deep water carbonates at the boundaries of the Palmahim Disturbance, offshore Israel
Yaniv Marig (2015) Department of Marine Geosciences, Ben-Gurion University
A New Look at the Tectonic Evolution of the Palmahim Disturbance
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky, S. Feinstein and Y. Ben Gai
Jie Liu (2020) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Characteristics of base Messinian surface in the Levant Basin, offshore central Israel
Nadav Bronshtein (2017) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Gravity study of the Moho boundary beneath the northern Dead Sea Transform
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky & U. ten Brink (primary)
Omri Gadol (2015) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Submarine slides: shaping of the continental slope offshore Israel
Ravit Ben-Naim (2019) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Petrophysical properties of shallow marine sediments offshore Haifa Bay, Northern Israel
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky & N. Waldmann (primary)
Mor Arnon (2017) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
Geomorphological insights into the evolution of the Israeli continental shelf since the Pleistocene
Supervisors: Y. Makovsky & N. Waldmann (primary)
Isaak Elhanaty (2014) Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
High Resolution seismic characterization of shallow gas bearing sediments, North Western Sea of Galilee, Israel