National Institute of Oceanography Gideon Tibor tiborg@ocean.org.il Tel: 972-4-8565245 Associate Scientist Ph.D. 1992, Tel Aviv University, Israel At IOLR since 2000

Research interests:
Shallow marine geophysics
Remote sensing – Ocean color
Geographic Information System (GIS)


Selected publications:
Segev, A., Rybakovb, M., Lyakhovskya, V., Hofstetter, A., Tibor, G., Goldshmidt, V. and Ben Avraham, Z. (2006). The structure, isostasy and gravity field of the Levant continental margin and the southeast Mediterranean area. Tectonophysics 425:137-157.

Reshef, M., Marco, S., Ben-Avraham, Z. and Tibor, G. (2006). The use of acoustic imaging to reveal fossil fluvial systems - a case study from the southwestern Sea of Galilee. Geomorphology 83:58-66.

Tibor, G., Ben-Avraham, Z., Herut, B., Nishri, A. and Zurieli, A. (2005). Bottom morphology and shallow structure in the northwestern part of LakeKinneret. Isr. J. Earth Sci. 53:173-186.

Tibor, G. and Ben-Avraham, Z. (2005). Late Tertiary paleodepth reconstruction of the Levant margin off Israel. Mar. Geol. 221:331-347.

Tibor, G., Ben-Avraham, Z., Steckler, M. and Fligelman, H. (1992). Late Tertiary subsidence history of the southern Levant margin and its implications to the understanding of the Messinian event. J. Geophys. Res. 97:17593-17614.

Tibor, G. and Ben-Avraham, Z. (1992). Late Tertiary seismic facies and structures of the Levant passive margin off central Israel, eastern Mediterranean. Mar. Geol. 105:253-273.