EDUCATION:
High School:
1951-1955 Beit Yerach, Agriculture and Biology High School
University:
1960-63 - Preparation of B.Sc. Zoology, Botany, Chemistry. Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1963-66 - Preparation of M.Sc. Botany. Thesis Title: "Skin Separation in Barhi Dates". Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1971-76 - Preparation of Ph.D. Zoology-Invertebrates, Marine Biology and Limnology. Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1971 - Started my doctoral thesis conducted in the framework of, and in complement to my work at the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory (IOLR).Thesis Title: "The Ecological Conditions that Influence the Reproduction and Development of Mesocyclops leuckarti (Claus) and its Role in the Food-Chain in Lake Kinneret".
1976 - PhD. Thesis submitted February 1976, approved by the Faculty of Science and The Senate of the Hebrew University, November 1976, and Ph.D. degree awarded on 26 December 1976.
WORK (From 1990)
1968- 2001 - Research scientist, zooplankton and fish, in the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd. (IOLR).
1989-90 - Supervised B. Azoulay for her MSc studies: Thesis entitled: "Predator-prey interactions between larval bleak Mirogrex terraesanctae (Steinitz, 1952) and Lake Kinneret zooplankton. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Kinneret Limnological Laboratory (IOLR).
1991-92 - Chairman of Scientific Committee for the Hula Drainage Basin (Keren Kayemet Le'Israel).
1992 - Full Professor, in the University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Department of Zoology, USA.
1991-92 - Principal Investigator, with Dr. T. Berman, Protozoans as potential food sources for zooplankton and fish larvae in Lake Kinneret. The Basic Science Foundation, Israel Academy of Science ($30,000).
1992-95 - Principal Investigator, with Dr. P. Walline, Dr. I. Kalikhman (Israel) and Dr. Ezzat A. Ibrahim (National Institute for Inland Waters Research, Cairo, Egypt), Egypt -Israel-US-Aid Project: "Investigations on Lake Ecosystem in Egypt and Israe with Implications on Fisheries and Water Quality Management" Phase IV ($261,164).
1992 - May 25-June 6: Lecturer-Instructor-Summer Session: Reservoir Limnology; ZOO. 5970, Section 054; 3 Credit Hours. The University of Oklahoma, Biological Station, Department of Zoology;10 Graduate and Undergraduate students.
1992 - Fall Semester: Lecturer-Instructor- Semestrial Course: Oceanography; ZOO 4453 Section 900; 3 Credit Hours. The University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoolo 23 Graduate and Undergraduate students.
1994 - July 18- July 29,Summer Session: Lecturer- Instructor: Reservoir Limnology; ZOO 4970/5970, Section 059, 3 Credit Hours; University of Oklahoma, Department of Zoology Biological Station. 5 Graduate and Undergraduate Students.
1994 - Fall Semester: Lecturer-Instructor-Semestrial Course: Limnology; ZOO 4462, Section 900; 2 Credit Hours. The University of Oklahoma Department of Zoology. 18 Graduate and Undergraduate Students.
1993-94 - Major Professor of Ph. D.'s student, Kirsten A. Work. Title: The Ecology of Daphnia lumholtzi (Sars), in LakeTexoma.
1993-94 - Major Professor of Ph.D.'s student, Philip W. Lienesch. Title: Interactions between Menidia beryllina and zooplankton in Lake Texoma.
1997-2000 - Superviser (Professor) of Ph.D. Student, Bonnie Azoulay. Title: The autecology of the new invader Eudiaptomus dreischi in Lake Kinneret. Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Kinneret Limnological Laboratory.
1997-2000 - Superviser (Professor) of Ph.D Student, James Easton. Title: Interactions between Kinneret Lavnun (Acanthobrama terraesanctae) and Zooplankton in Lake Kinneret. Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Kinneret Limnological Laboratory.
1995-98 - Scientific coordination, Hula project, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Company- Galilee Technological Center: The Management of the Hula Valley: Water studies, Safari Wetland and Agricultural development (50,000$).
1995 - Member of the Committee for Introduction and Fisheries management of Lake Kinneret; Ministry of Agriculture-Water Commissionary.
1996-97 - Project leader (Principal Investigator) with Dr. P.Walline (PI): The Limnology of Lake Ilopango, (El-Salvador); Funded by The Friends Association of Lake Ilopangoand FIAES (50,000$).
1996-98 - Lecturer-Instructor (cooperatively with Dr. I. Berman-Frank) fall semester: Oceanography and Limnology (2.5 credits), 1031402. Tel-Hay Academic College, 1995/6 (34 students).
PROFESSIONAL DEGREES (Scientific Research Scale):
1 April 1977 Grade C (Lecturer)
1 April 1978 Grade B (Assistant Professor)
1 April 1980 Grade A (Associate Professor)
1 April 1985 Grade A+ (Research Professor)
1992- Full professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
STUDY AND RESEARCH TRAVEL (From 1990):
1990 - April, Invited Scientist, USSR. Akademy of Science, Institut of Animal Morphology and Ecology, Moscow: University of Moscow, University of Yerevan and Lake Sivan Hydrobiological Institute in Armenia, Institute of Water Management (VNIIVO), in Kharkov and the Black Sea Research Institute in Odessa.
1992-94 - Sabbatical leave and visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma and the Biological Station, Department of Zoology.
1995-June - Visit in Egyptian Institute of Oceanography, Cairo, AID Project of Lake Management.
1995-July - Visit to Lake Amatitlan, Guatemala, and its Watercatchment Area. 28th July to 2nd August 1995. Consulting Lake Amatitlan Authority. 1997 and December 1997-june Consultant visit to Lake Guarapiranga, Brazil: TAHAL-Israel and EPAL, Jaakko Poyri, SETESBY and SABESPY, Brazil.
1996-97 - Consultant and cooperative research visit to Lake Ilopango, El-Salvado: Lake Ilopango Friends Association and FIAES, El- Salvador.
1995-2006 - Scientific coordinator, Hula Project-MIGAL-KLL-IOLR, Water Commission and Keren Kayemet Le’Israel (KKL).
1996-2014 - Lecturer of Limnology, Tel-Hai College, one Semester a year.
1999-2000 - Sabatical lieve in : Center for Water Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Zooplankton in the Kinneret CAEDYM Model.
25-30/7/1999. - Ten hours lecture and practicing (laboratory and cruises) on Lake Kinneret limnology and biological life. Oranim, Univ. of Haifa, Course of Limnology- BSc.
2001- September – November - Sabbatical Leave in The center for Water Research, UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany collaborating with Prof. Walter Geller: freshwater zooplankton ecology.
2003-14/6/03 - 4/7/03- scientific visit in Romania: the biological institutes for the research of the Danube Delta in Sinaia,Buchurest, Tulcea, Sulina and the Black Sea under the frame of the bilateral agreement of scientists exchange between The Romanian and Israeli academies of science (Dr. L. Parpala, Host).
2005-2006 – September2005 and May 2006. Supervising/consultant in BHRI and WBA water organization , Beijing, China. Guanting Reservoir, Consultant on behalf of Tahal Co. Israel.
2010- Invited speaker in a special symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Biological Institute in Bucharest.
PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES AND SYMPOSIA:
Prof. Gophen participated in 160 International and National Symposia, Congresses and Conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, USA and Africa, presenting studies on Plankton and Fish Ecology, Lake Management, and Wetlands Ecology with emphasis on Lake Kinneret, its drainage basin and the Hula Valley with respect to climate changes and water scarcity.
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
Present:
International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology` Israeli Elected Representative (1998 – 2001).
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Past:
Israel Zoological Society.
Israel Malacological Society, Chairman 1977-78.
Israel Ecological Society.
Associate Editor for the Middle East Newsletter of Stream Limnology.
Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), England, Life Member.
North American Lake Management Society.
Asian Fisheries Society.
Ichthos-Friends of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology.
Hydrobiological Society of East Africa (HYSEA).
Network of Tropical Aquaculture Scientists.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The National Geographic Society.
INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES:
During 1968-2009 Prof. Gophen presented approximately 120 invited lectures and seminars in Israel and internationally in Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia.
PUBLICATION (see attached list of publications 2012-2016):
73 Scientific reports were published by Prof. M. Gophen during 1968-2008, summarizing his studies in Israel and in International projects on Lake Kinneret, Hula Valley and Hula Project, and lake and reservoir management in Egypt, Kenya, El-Salvador and Brazil.
During 1968-2016 (through July), Prof. Gophen, Published 192 publications (see attached) and book chapters as reviewed papers in International journals representing his studies on Lake Kinneret ecology, climate change and water scarcity, Lake Texoma in USA, Kinneret Drainage Basin and the Hula Valley. Prof. Gophen in collaboration with I. Gal published a book in Hebrew on Lake Kinneret (Kinneret Authority and Defence Ministry Publishers).
Prof. Gophen published 81 articles about Lake Kinneret and the Hula Valley Ecology and Management (in Hebrew) in Israeli periodical magazines and daily News-paper.
Gophen: List of Publications 2011-2016 (Through July)
1. Gophen, M. 2011. The cladoceran trophic status in the nitrogen limited
ecosystem of Lake Kinneret (Israel). Journal ofenvironmental Biology; Vol.32,
No. 4, 455-462, July 2011.
2 .Gophen, M. 2012. The Ecology of Keratella cochlearis in Lake Kinneret (Israel).
Open Journal of Modern Hydrology, 2012, 2, pp.1-6.
3. Moshe Gophen and Liora Shealtie, 2012,Record of the alien species
Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 (Cnidaria:Limnomedusae) in Lake
Kinneret catchment area, BioInvasions Records, Volume 1, Issue 1, (pp 29-31).
4. Gophen, M. , T. Crisman, and G. Zalidis. Charting a Course for Ecosystem
Services in Lake Kinneret, Israel. SILnewsletter, Volume 61, pp. 13-16.
5. Gophen, M. 2013. The impact of temperature elevation on the decline of Cyclopoid
population in Lake Kinneret (Israel). The Journal of Ecology. Photon. 107 (2013)
23-239.
6. Danin, A. and M. Gophen, 2013 Willdenowia 43-2013. Notulae ad floram euro
-mediterranean pertinentes No. 31 pp245-246.
7. Gophen, M. 2013. The Zooplankton Communities in the Shallow Waters of Lake
Kinneret (Israel). Journal of Ecology, Photon. 107, (2013), 200-205.
8. Gophen, M., O. Sonin, and D. Golani, 2013. How Cormorant Impact The Kinneret
Ecosystem (Israel)? SIL newsletter, December 2013, pp. 20-21.
.9. Gophen, M. 2014. Competitive consumption of the Lake Kinneret (Israel) plankton
by Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Sarotherodon galilaeus. Open Journal of
Ecology, 2014, 4, 532-542.
10. Gophen, M. 2014. Land-Use, Albedo and Air Temperature Changes in the Hula
Valley (Israel) during 1946-2008. Open Journal of Modern Hydrology, Vol.4 No.4
(October 2014) 101-111.
11. Gophen,M., M. Meron, V. Orlov-Levin, & Y. Tsipris , (2014),Seasonal and spatial
distribution of N & P substances in the Hula Valley (Israel) subterranean. Open
Journal of Modern Hydrology; , 4, 121-131.
http://dx.doi.org./10.4236/ojmh.2014.44012.
12. Gophen, M. 2014, The Impact of Water level decline on water Quality in the
Epilimnion of Lake Kinneret (Israel): Perennial Perspectives. Open Journal of
Ecology, 4, 892-906. http://dx/doi.org./10.4236/oje.2014.414075.
13. Gophen, M. 2015. Management Improvement of the Agmon Wetlands System
(Hula Valley, Israel) aimed at Enhancement of Bird Populations and Kinneret
Protection. Open Journal of Modern Hydrology,2015,5, 1-9.
http://dx.doi.org./10.4236/ojmh.2015.51001.
14. Gophen, M. 2015, The Impact of Available Nitrogen Defficiency on Long-Term
Changes in the Lake Kinneret Ecosystem. Open Journal of Ecology,m 2015, 5,
pp.147-157. http://dx/doi.org./10.4236/oje.2015.54013
15. Gophen, M. 2015. Thermal Preference by Mesocyclops ogunnus (Onabamiro
1957).Open Journal of Ecology. 5, 15-21. http://dx.doi./10.4236/0je.2015.52002.
16. Gophen, M. 2015. Nitrogen and Phosphorus dynamics in the Shallow Lake
Agmon (Hula Valley, Israel), Open Journal of Ecology, 2015, 5, 55-65.
http://dx.doi.org./10.4236/oje.23015-53006.
17. Gophen, M. The Impact of Available Nitrogen Deficiency on Long-Term Changes
in the Lake Kinneret Ecosystem. Open Journal of Ecology, 2015, 5, 147-157.
http://dx.doi.org./10.4236/oje.23015-54013.
18. Gophen, M. 2015, Ecophysiology of Lake Kinneret (Israel) Zooplankton. Open
Journal of Ecology, 2015, 5, 187-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oje.2015.55016
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