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Isaac Gertman
CURRICULUM VITAE.
Personal
25-FEB-1950
Born in Russia
1964 – 1967
High school in Sevastopol, USSR
Marital status: Married, two children
University Education
1967 - 1972 M.Sc. in oceanology at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
1982 - 1986 Ph.D. in physical oceanography at the State Institute of Oceanography. Moscow,
Russia.
Positions held and Academic Status.
2005 – now Head, Department of Physical Oceanography (IOLR).
2001 – now Head, Israel Marine Data Center (IOLR).
1993 –
Scientist, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research (IOLR),
Haifa.
1978 – 1988 Scientist, State Institute of Oceanography, Sevastopol, USSR.
1972 – 1978 Scientist, Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Research, Murmansk,
USSR.
Teaching Experience.
Lecturer at Israel Maritime College. Course: Introduction to Physical Oceanography Course (since
2003).
Research Interests: Marine thermohaline structures and circulation: formation, stability, long-term
changes. Marine operational forecasting. Oceanographic data bases development.
Mediterranean, Dead Sea, Black Sea.
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LIST OF MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
Articles in reviewed Journals (10/27)
Gertman I., Golubeva Z. (1988).
Simulation of the reaction of the thermohaline structure of the water in Black Sea to
alternative tendencies of river flows.
Journal of the State Institute of Oceanography (Труды ГОИН). Vol. 189: 54-65. (In
Russian).
Gertman I., Ovchinnicov I., Popov Y. (1994).
Deep Convection in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea.
Oceanology. Vol. 34, No 1: 25-31. (In Russian. Journal translated and published in
English).
Hecht A. and Gertman I. (2001).
Physical Features of the Eastern Mediterranean resulting from the integration of POEM
data with Russian Mediterranean Cruises.
Deep Sea Research. Part I, Vol 48/8: 1847-1876.
Gertman I. and Hecht A. (2002).
The Dead Sea Hydrography from 1992 to 2000.
Journal of Marine Systems. Vol 35/3-4: 169-181.
Ivanov V.A., Lyubartseva S.P., Mikhailova E.N., Shapiro N.B., Gertman I. (2002).
Model of the Dead Sea simulation of the variability of the thermohaline water structure
in 1992–2000.
Physical Oceanography. Vol.12, No.5: 237-256. (In Russian. Journal translated and
published in English).
Gertman I., Pinardi N., Popov Y. and Hecht A. (2006)
Aegean Sea water masses during the early stages of the Eastern Mediterranean
Climatic Transient (1988-1990).
Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 36, No. 9, pages 1841–1859.
Menna M., Poulain P.-M., Zodiatis G., Gertman I. (2012).
On the surface circulation of the Levantine sub-basin derived from Lagrangian drifters
and satellite altimetry data. Deep Sea Research, I-65, 46-58.
Efrati S, Lehahn Y, Rahav E, Kress N., Herut B. Gertman I. Goldman R, Ozer T, Lazar M, and
Heifetz E. (2013).
Intrusion of coastal waters into the pelagic eastern Mediterranean: in situ and satellite
based characterization. Biogeosciences. DOI:10.5194/bg-10-3349-2013.
Nehorai R., Lensky IM., Hochman L., Gertman I., Brenner S., Muskin A. and Lensky NG.
(2013).
Satellite observations of turbidity in the Dead Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research –
Oceans, Vol. 118, 3146-3160, doi:10.102/jgrc.20204
Kress N., Gertman I., Herut B. (2013).
Temporal evolution of physical and chemical characteristics of the water column in the
Easternmost Levantine basin (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) from 2002 to 2010. Journal
of Marine Science. Doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.11.016
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Book chapters (8/14)
Altman E., Gertman I., Golubeva Z. (1987).
Climatic fields of water salinity and temperature in the Black Sea. (Atlas).
Sevastopol, State Institute of Oceanography, 150 p. (In Russian).
Altman E., Gertman I. (1991).
Salinity field reaction on the changes of runoff (data analysis). Chapter 2.4.1.
In: “Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of Seas of the USSR. Vol. 4, Black Sea.
Issue 1, Hydrometeorology conditions”, (eds. Simonov A.I. and Altman E.N.).
S.Peterburg, ГИДРОМЕТЕОИЗДАТ, 429 p. (In Russian).
Gertman I. (1991).
Description of data and methods for calculation statistical parameters of water
temperature and salinity. Chapter 2.1.
In: “Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of Seas of the USSR. Vol. 4, Black Sea.
Issue 1, Hydrometeorology conditions”, (eds. Simonov A.I. and Altman E.N.).
S.Peterburg, ГИДРОМЕТЕОИЗДАТ, 429 p. (In Russian).
Gertman I. (1991).
Sea water structure. Chapter 2.3.
In: “Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of Seas of the USSR. Vol. 4, Black Sea.
Issue 1, Hydrometeorology conditions”, (eds. Simonov A.I. and Altman E.N.).
S.Peterburg, ГИДРОМЕТЕОИЗДАТ, 429 p. (In Russian).
Gertman I. (1991).
Numerical modeling of the sea thermohaline structure reaction on the long term
changes in runoff. Chapter 2.4.4.
In: “Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of Seas of the USSR. Vol. 4, Black Sea.
Issue 1, Hydrometeorology conditions”, (eds. Simonov A.I. and Altman E.N.).
S.Peterburg, ГИДРОМЕТЕОИЗДАТ, 429 p. (In Russian).
Hecht A. and Gertman I. (2003).
Dead Sea Meteorological Climate. Chapter 4.
In: “Fungal Life in the Dead Sea”, (eds. Nevo, E, A. Oren and S. P. Wasser). A.R.G.
Ganter Verlag K.G. 325 p.
Gertman I. (2012).
Dead Sea. In: “Encylopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs”, (eds. Lars Bengtsson, Reginald
W. Herschy, Rhodes W. Fairbridge). Springer, 212-216.
Özsoy E., Sofianos S., Gertman I., Mantziafou A., Aydoğdu A., Georgiou S., Tutsak E.,
Lascaratos A., Hecht A. and Latif M. A. (2013).
Deep-water variability and inter-basin interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Rizzoli, P. (ed.), The Mediterranean Sea: Temporal Variability and Spatial Patterns,
American Geophysical Union. In press.
Reviewed articles of symposia proceedings (8/18)
Gertman I., Ovchinnikov I. and Popov Y. (1990).
Deep convection in the Levantine Sea. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM
Congress Proceedings). Vol 32, 1: 172.
Gertman I. and Hect A. (2001).
A history of Irapetra gyre.Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress
Proceedings). Vol 36: 65.
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Gertman I., Zodiatis G., Murashkovsky A., Hayes D., and Brenner S. (2007).
Determination of the location of southeastern Levantine eddies from CTD data. Rapp.
Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress Proceedings). Vol 38: 151.
Kress N., Gertman I., Herut B. (2007).
The impact of East Mediterranean Transient on the vertical distribution of dissolved
oxygen and nutrients off the Israeli Mediterranean coast.
Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress Proceedings). Vol 38: 165.
Gertman I., Goldman R., Rosentraub Z., Ozer T., Zodiatis G., Hayes D., Poulain P.-M. (2010).
Generation Shikmona anticyclonic eddy from longshore current.
Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress Proceedings). Vol 39: 114.
Gertman I., Barak H., Kress N. (2010).
Assesment of post-transient changes in Levantine basin deep water.
Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress Proceedings). Vol 39: 113.
Poulain P.-M., Gerin R., Menna M., Taupier-Letage I., Millot C., Ben Ismail S., Sammari S.,
Zodiatis G., Gertman I. (2010).
A Lagrangian view of the Eastern Mediterranean surface circulation over the last two
decades.
Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. (CIESM Congress Proceedings). Vol 39: 162.
Kress N., Gertman I., Herut B. (2012).
Two decades of studies document oceanographic changes in the easternmost part of the
Mediterranean Sea. Insights towards the design of repeated basin-wide surveys. CIESM
Workshop Monographs. Designing Med-SHIP: a program for repeated oceanographic
surveys. Supetar, Brac Island, 11-14 May 2011, pp. 71-76.