Dr. Moshe Gophen

Dr. Moshe Gophen
Research Group Leader
Phone
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Education

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.

Academic and research positions

1968- 2001 - Research scientist, zooplankton and fish, in the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel
Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd. (IOLR).
1972-73 - Lecturer in Biology at the Pre-Academic School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1973-78 - Lecturer in Hydrobiology at the Haifa University (Oranim), Department of Biology.
1980-83 - Israeli Project Leader, Dutch-Israeli Catfish (Clarias lazera) Project, with Eng. R.Viveen, Prof. P. Van-Oordt and Dr. K.Richter (The Netherlands)
1980-83 - Israeli Principal Investigator of the Egypt-USA-Israel AID Project-Lake Management, with Dr. Dowidar (Alexandria, Egypt), Dr. R. W. Drenner and Dr. G. L. Vinyard (USA)
1980-86 - Director of the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory.
1981-83 - Member of the Committee for Kinneret Watershed Management Policy (Water Commission).
1981-86 - Member of the Scientific Committee of Lake Kinneret (Water Commission).
1982 – (Jan-Mar) - Research visit of Dr. M. Seaman, Orange Free State University, Bloemfontein, South Africa, with Dr. Gophen on Bacteria Uptake by the Rotifer B. calyciflorus.
1982 - Member of the Committee of Upper Jordan Diversion (Water Commission).
1983 (May-Jul.) - Research visit of Prof. M.N. Bruton, Grahamstown, South Africa, with Dr. Gophen on Ecology of Fish Reproduction in the Beteicha Area, Northeast of Lake Kinneret.
1983 - Member of Steering Committee of Yarmuch Management (Water Commission).
1983 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Tilipia in Aquaculture.
1983-84 - Member of the Kinneret Fishery Management Committee (Agriculture Ministry).
1983-86 - Member of the Hula Committee (Agriculture Ministry).
1984-85 - Sabbatical leave of Dr. P. Spataru with Dr. Gophen, Studying Food Compositions of Lake Kinneret Fishes.
1985-87 - Principal Investigator, American NSF Research Project: Selective planktivory by the Galilee St. Peter's Fish and its impact on the plankton community of Lake Kinneret, with Dr. R.W. Drenner and G.L. Vinyard (USA) and Dr. U. Pollingher (IOLR).
1985-88 - Principal Investigator, Egypt-Israel-US AID Project- Lake Management, Phase III, with Dr. P. Walline (KLL, Israel), and Dr. Ibrahim A. Ezzat (National Institute of Inland Waters Research,Cairo, Egypt).
1987-90 - Member of the Executive Committee of the "World Association of Copepodologists" (WAPC).
1988-90 - Israeli Principal Investigator AID-CDR Project: Feeding Habits of Tilapias in Lake Victoria: Background Studies for Fishery Recovery Designs (with U. Pollingher, Israel and Peter B.O. Ochumba, Kenya). 
1989 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Research in the Drainage Basin of Lake Kinneret (Water Commission).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).

1998-2001 - Fisheries management and water quality in lakes in Egypt (Wadi-el-rayan) and Israel (Kinneret). PI’s: M.Gophen P. Walline, I. Ostrovski (Israel) and E. Ibrahim, (Egypt) US-AID-MERC-Collaborative (Israe-Egypt-USA Texas A&M) Project.
1997-98 - Consultant: International Project-TAHAL (Israel), EPAL, Jaakko Poyri and SABESP (Brazil) and the World Bank.
1998 - Member of the organizing comittee of the 30th anniversary of the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory: Kinneret symposium- Limnology and Lake Management 2000+.
1996-97 - Consultant and cooperative research visit to Lake Ilopango, El-Salvador: Lake Ilopango Friends Association and FIAES, El- Salvador.
From 1997 - Scientific coordinator of the Hula Project Monitoring Program, Water Commission and Keren Kayemet Le’Israel (KKL).
1998 – 2004. - Israeli elected National Representative of the International Society of Limnology (SIL).
From 2000 - Chairman of The Hula Committee, Interior Ministry, Hula Project.
1/01/02 - Retirement from Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, IOLR.
From 1/1/2002 - Scientist in MIGAL – Galilee Technologicakll Center and external Prof. in The Tel Hai Academic College Teaching Limnology.
2002-2005 - Phosphorus management in Lake Agmon Wetland. PI's: M. Gophen and A. Nishri KinnereLimnological Laboratory, IOLR, and C. J. Richardson Duke University Wetland
Center, Durham, USA. Hydrologfical and vegetation cover monitoring.The US Forestry Service, JNF-KKL-Migal.
From 2003 - Head of the Cherie and Aaron Raznick Chair for the study of a Sustainable Man – Environment Relationship in the upper Galilee. Nomination of the Tel Hai Academic College.
2005 - February-March Teaching Limnology in the University of Valdivia, Chile, invited Visiting Prof.
From 2003-Comittee member of JNF proposal development in the Hula Valley.
From 2005- Comittee member of Upper Galilee Regional Municipality for Life Project-aquatic development in the Hula Valley.
From 2004-Member of the Academic Council of the Academic College Kinneret, Zemach, Jordan Valley.
2005-2006. September 2005 and May 2006.Consultant of Tahal, in Limnology in the Guanting Reservoiur Project, China, Beijing, BHRI and BWA.
2007- Reservoir management supervisor, Upper Galilee Municipality
2007 – Phoslock representative in Israel
2008 – Private consultant to Levinson Lawyer office and the Upper Galilee Development company for the water quality of the River Dan.
2009 – Invited Professor lecturing (64 hours) limnology in the University of Mexico (UNAM Univ. M. City),
department of Biology, 10 – 19.06.09.2009 - Private consultant of water quality to Ofra Co. Natural management of swimming pools and constructed
wetlands.
2010 - Private consultant of water quality to TAHAL –Water Planning in Israel for risk assessment project of treated sewage diversion into Rio de La Plata, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2010 – Private consultant of water quality to Macabi Carasso: Purification of nitrate rich underground waters by Constructed Wetlands.
2010 – Private consultant to Znovar Co.: Potential use of Fish Pond waste waters to revived rivers in Israel.
2010 – Private consultant to Znovar Co.: Summary of the Hula Project Phase one achievements.
2010 –Private Consultant to Aloni, Navon – Law Office: The impact of plant removal in the Kinneret Beach at
Kibutz Ginosar.
2012- 15.8.-16.9.2013. Invited Professor lectures and Lab. Advisory in UNAM university in Mexico.
2011-2014 Two proposal:1) The ecology of the Kinneret litoral; 2) The food composition of Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) in Lake
Kinneret. Agriculture Office Fishery Department'Lake Kinneret research.
2014-Member of the Organizing Committee, The 2nd Hydrology, Ocean, and Atmosphere Conference (HOAC 2014) 13-15 Beijing China..
2001-2017 Professional advisory given to Lawyers and Parliament Committees in Lawsuit Cases: 1) Kinneret Fishery Management; Drinking Water Supply from the Dan River in the Upper Galilee Region; Kinneret Terrestrial Beach Vegetation Management; Drinking Water Improvement-Nitrate removal; Public Constructed Wetlands and Ponds; Fish Poisoning by Industrial Wastes in The Mediterranean; Potential Impact of Oil exploration in the Golan Height Region on the water quality in Lake Kinneret.

Scientific Publications

The Impact of Quality Standards on the Utilization of Kinneret Waters.

Gophen, M.
Kinneret and Watershed Research IN: Kinneret Authority 1988 Pages 17-2
1988

Larval Mirogrex terraesanctae (Cyprinidae) of Lake Kinneret (Israel): growth rate, plankton selectivities, consumption rates and interaction with rotifers

R. Landau; M. Gophen; P. Walline
Hydrobiologia 1988 Volume 169 Issue 1 Pages 91-106
1988

An experimental study of the plankton community impacts of two omnivorous filter-feeding cichlids, Tilapia galilaea and Tilapia aurea

G. L. Vinyard; R. W. Drenner; M. Gophen; U. Pollingher; D. L. Winkelman; K. D. Hambright
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 1988 Volume 45 Issue 4 Pages 685-690
1988

Scientific Background and Management Recommendations for Lake Kinneret.

Gophen, M.
Mada (Science) 1988 Volume 31(A6) Pages 281-285
1988

Changes of Copepoda populations in Lake Kiret during 1969-1985

M. Gophen
Hydrobiologia 1988 Issue 1 Pages 375-379
1988

The Kinneret

Gophen, M.
In Tiberias and Around ,1987, G. Biger and E. Shiler, Ed. ,Ariel Publ Jerusalem, Pages 168-176
1987

Food composition of Clarias gariepinus (= C. lazera) (Cypriniformes, Clariidae) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)

P. Spataru; W. J. A. R. Viveen; M. Gophen
Hydrobiologia 1987 Volume 144 Issue 1 Pages 77-82
1987

The Management of Lake Kinneret Under Low Water Level Regime.

Gophen, M.
Teva Va'Aretz 1987 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 12-17
1987

Particle Ingestion by Tilapia galilaea is not Affected by Removal of Gill Rakers and Microbranchiospines.

Drenner, R. W., G. L. Vinyard, K. D. Hambright and M. Gophen
Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 1987. Volume 116 Pages 272-276
1987

Long Term Changes in the Kinneret Ecosystem, Their Influence of Water Quality and Implications on Research Programs and Management.

Gophen, M.
The Biospher 1987 Volume 1 Pages 6-9
1987

Experimental study of size-selective phytoplankton grazing by a filter-feeding cichlid and the cichlid's effects on plankton community structure

R. W. Drenner; D. Hambright; G. L. Vinyard; M. Gophen; U. Pollinger
Limnology & Oceanography 1987 Volume 32 Issue 5 Pages 1138-1144
1987

The Food and Benthophagous Feeding Habits of Barbus longiceps (Cyprinidae) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)

Spatarus, P. and M. Gophen
Arch. Hydrobiol. 1987 Volume 110 Issue 3 Pages 331-337
1987

Food composition of Tristramella sacra (Gunther, 1864) (Cichlidae) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)

P. Spataru; M. Gophen
Israel Journal of Zoology 1986 Volume 34 Issue 03-??? Pages 183-189
1986

Phytoplankton-Zooplankton Feedback Effects on the Food Chain

Wynne, D. and M. Gophen.
Arch. Hydrobiol. 1986 Issue 106 Pages 145-154
1986

Food Composition of Tristramella simonis simonis (Gunther 1864) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)

Spataru, P. and M. Gophen
J. Aquacult. Tropics 1986 Volume 1 Pages 11-117
1986

Lake Kinneret Under Low Water level Regime: Background and Preliminary Recommendations.

Gophen, M.
Kinneret Authority, Water Commission. Proc. Workshop 24/6/1986. Ariel Publ. 1987 Pages 28-39
1986

Trophic relations between two agents of sewage purification systems: Algae and mosquito larvae

M. Gophen; M. Gophen
Agricultural Wastes 1986 Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 159-168
1986

Brachionus calyciflorus Pallas as agent for the removal of E. coli in sewage ponds

M. T. Seaman; M. Gophen; B. Z. Cavari; B. Azoulay
Hydrobiologia 1986 Volume 135 Issue 01-??? Pages 55-60
1986

Interactions Between Lake Kinneret and its Watershed Area.

Gophen, M.
Kinneret Authority-Water Comission and Hula Committee, Zemach, 2/3/1986, Proc. Workshop 1986 Pages 31-38
1986

Lipid geochemistry of Lake Kinneret

N. Robinson; P. A. Cranwell; G. Eglinton; S. C. Brassell; C. L. Sharp; M. Gophen; U. Pollingher
Organic Geochemistry 1986 Volume 10 Issue 05-??? Pages 733-742
1986

Food and Feeding Habits of Capoeta damascina (Cyprinidae) in Lake Kinneret, Israel

Spataru, P. and M. Gophen.
J. Aquacult. Tropics 1986 Volume 1 Pages 147-153
1986

Fisheries Management, Water Quality and Economic Impacts: A Case Study of Lake Kinneret

Gophen, M.
Proc. World Conference on Large Lakes, Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA. 18-21/5/1986. 1987 Volume II Pages 5-24
1986

Feeding behaviour of silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix Val. and its impact on the food web in Lake Kinneret, Israel

P. Spataru; M. Gophen
Hydrobiologia 1985 Volume 120 Issue 1 Pages 53-61
1985

The Management of Lake Kinneret and its Drainage Basin. IN: Scientific Basis for Water Resources management.

Gophen, M.
In Proc. Jerusalem Symposium. September 1985. ,1985, Ed. ,IAHS. Publ. , Pages 127-138
1985

Food composition and feeding habits of Astatotilapia flaviijosephi (Lortet) in Lake Kinneret (Israel)

P. Spataru; M. Gophen
Journal of Fish Biology 1985 Volume 26 Issue 5 Pages 503-507
1985