Yizhaq Makovsky

Geophysicist

University of Haifa

Yizhaq Makovsky is the Israeli on-board operations manager for NA019.

Yizhaq Makovsky is a faculty member at the Dr. Moses Staruss Department of Marine Geosciences, Charney School of Marine Sciences (CSMS), University of Haifa. He graduated the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at Tel Aviv University in 1990 and earned his Ph.D. in Geophysics 1997 at Stanford University, studying deep crustal fluids and their contribution to mountain building in Tibet. For a decade he consulted worldwide petroleum industry on advanced geophysical subsurface imaging and analysis. He joined the University of Haifa faculty in 2007, where he was one of the founders of CSMS. Yizhaq’s current interests focus on applied research of active seafloor processes, such as submarine slides, sub-seafloor fluid flow and paleoseismology, and their interplay with marine development and global changes.

Expeditions

Yizhaq participated in the following Ocean Exploration Trust expeditions:

2010

Santorini & Kolumbo Volcanoes

2011

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Selected Publications

2024

Rubin-Blum, M., Rahav, E., Sisma-Ventura, G., Yudkovski, Y., Harbozov, Z., Bialik, O., Ezra, O., Foubert, A., Herut, B., and Makovsky, Y. (2024). Animal burrowing at cold seep ecotones boosts productivity by linking macromolecule turnover with chemosynthesis and nutrient cycling. EGUsphere https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1285

2023

Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D., Foubert, A., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Modes of gas migration and seepage on the salt-rooted Palmahim Disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264…

Lawal, M.A., Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D., Foubert, A., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Modes of gas migration and seepage on the salt-rooted Palmahim Disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology 153: 106256. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264…

Lawal, M.A., Findlay, R., Bialik, O., Neuman, A., Waldermann, N., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Using multilevel composition to map rare seafloor gas-seepage habitats of the Palmahim disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean Sea. NSG2023 29th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics : 1-5.

Weidlich, R., Bialik ,O.M., Rüggeberg, A., Grobéty, B., Vennemann, T., Neuman, A., Makovsky, Y., Foubert, A. (2023). Occurrence and genesis of cold-seep authigenic carbonates from the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Depositional Record 9: 844-870. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dep2.239