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Born: 1932, Baku, Azerbaijan
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Research interests:
Integrated geophysics, mineral prospecting, studies of long-term seismic
activity, hidden target revealing by geophysical methods (hydrogeological,
engineering-geological, environmental, archaeological and military studies),
information-statistical techniques, potential fields, mountainous and
temperate/tropical-latitude regions.
General information:
Khesin Boris graduated M.Sc. with honors (Mining Engineer-Geophysicist Diploma
of Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute, 1954), Ph.D. (Baku, 1965), D.Sc.
(Moscow, 1982), and Full Professor. From 1991 he works as professor at the
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences (Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev). Prof. Khesin is expert of INTAS program. He performed integrated
geophysical prospecting of oil and gas, fresh and thermal waters, ore and
non-metallic deposits, geophysical studies of environmental, archeological and
other targets in Caucasus, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Israel. Prof. Khesin
developed geophysical survey methodology for mountainous regions and (with
participation of his Ph.D. students) interpretation system for complicated
environments: uneven topography, inclined magnetization (usual for wide zone
of temperate and tropical latitudes), and heterogeneous media. This system
includes original information-statistical techniques for hidden (deep and
shallow) targets revealing and long-term seismicity zoning. Prof. Khesin has
252 scientific works, including 10 books. 1 Book, 32 articles and 45 abstracts
for Israeli and International Conferences were published during the last
sixteen years. Part of them was devoted to energy and water provision and
seismic security of Israel. Leading professional journals of the USSR and USA
published benevolent reviews to Khesin’s main books. He is Active Member of
international Society of Exploration Geophysicists and Presidium Member of
Israeli Association of Scientists-Newcomers.
Publications:
BOOKS (1-9 in Russian):
1. Aleskerova Z., Rostovtcev N., Kritsuk Yu., Khesin B. et al. 1958.
Geological structure and oil-and-gas potential of the West-Siberia Lowland. Gosgeoltekhizdat, Moscow.
2. Khesin B. and Shachnazaryan A. 1965. Geohydrological investigations of
Azerbaijan with the use of electric prospecting. VIEMS, Moscow
3. Khesin B. 1969. Mining geophysics in mountainous regions. Nedra, Moscow.
4. Alexeyev V. and Khesin B. 1971. Peculiarities of the interpretation of
magnetic anomalies in the orogens of southern part of the USSR. VIEMS, Moscow.
5. Khesin B. 1976. Prognosis and localization of hidden mineralization in
mountainous regions on the basis of geophysical data. Nedra, Moscow.
6. Ismail-Zade T., Gadjiev T., Khesin B. et al. 1983. Petromagnetic
characteristics of Azerbaijan. Elm, Baku.
7. Khesin B., Alexeyev V., and Metaxa Kh. 1983. Interpretation of magnetic
anomalies in the conditions of oblique magnetization and rugged topography.
Nedra, Moscow.
8. Gadjiev T., Karkoshkin A., Khesin B. et al. 1984. Petrodensity
characteristics of geological structures in Azerbaijan. Azerneshr, Baku.
9. Alexeyev V., Gadjiev T., Karkoshkin A. and Khesin B.
1989. Gravity and magnetic anomalies of Azerbaijan and their geological
interpretation. Map printing factory, Leningrad.
10. Khesin B., Alexeyev V. and Eppelbaum L. 1996. Interpretation of
Geophysical Fields in Complicated Environments. Bookseries: "Modern Approaches
in Geophysics", vol. 14. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht/Boston/London.
THE LATEST
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:
75. Eppelbaum L., Itkis S. and Khesin B. 2000. Optimization of magnetic
investigations at archaeological sites of Israel. - Special issue of
Prospezioni Archeologiche “Filtering, Modeling and Interpretation of
Geophysical Fields at Archaeological Objects”, p. 65-92.
76. Khesin B. 2000. Potential of geophysical methods for ore and non-metallic
deposits prospecting in
Israel. - The Israel Mineral Science and Engineering Association, The
Fifteenth Conference, Haifa, p. E-53 – E-58.
77. Eppelbaum, L. V., Khesin, B. E. and Itkis, S. E. 2001. Prompt magnetic
investigations of
archaeological remains in areas of infrastructure development: Israeli
experience. - Journal of
Archaeological Prospection, vol. 8, p. 163-185.
78. Khesin B. 2001. Seismotectonic map of Israel as a scientific base for
building and infrastructure
development. - Scientific issues of “Scientists of the South” Association,
issue 2, p. 5-19.
79. Khesin B., Feinstein S. and Eyal Y. 2001. Identification of hidden
geological features in Sinai using
statistical reduction of gravity anomalies. - Journal of Africa Geoscience
Review, vol. 8, Nos. 3 & 4, p. 365-378.
80. Khesin B. 2001. Induced polarization method as a tool for the study of
seawater invasion into coastal
aquifer. - Scientific Israel – Technological Advantages, vol. 3, No. 1-2
“Environmental Engineering and
Composite Materials”, p. 12-19.
81. Khesin B. E. and Itkis S. E. 2002. Revision of aeromagnetic data: ground
magnetic investigations of
altered sedimentary rocks (Hatrurim basin, Israel). – Proceedings of the
Estonian Academy of Sciences,
GEOLOGY, vol. 51, No. 1 (Special issue on geophysics), p. 16-32.
82. Eppelbaum L. and Khesin B. 2002. Some common aspects of magnetic, induced
polarization and self-potential anomalies interpretation: Implication for ore
targets localization. – Proceedings of the 4th Intern. Symp. on Eastern
Mediterr. Geology. Isparta, Turkey, p. 279-293.
83. Khesin B. 2002. Deep structure map as a scientific basis for prognosis of
mineral resources in Israel. -
Scientific Israel – Technological Advantages, vol. 4, Nos. 1-2, p. 103-116.
84.
Khesin B. 2002. Potential of geophysical methods for the solution of geoecological problems in the Beer-Sheva – Ramat Hovav area. - Scientific
issues of “Scientists of the South” Association, issue 3, p. 1-17.
85. Itkis S., Khesin B., Eppelbaum L. and Khalaily H. 2003. Archaeological
site Eynan (Hula valley, northern Israel): Revealing of new features based on
magnetic data analysis. - Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 52, Nos.3-4,
p. 209-219.
86. Khesin B. 2004. Gas-hydrate deposits in east Mediterranean: New challenge for geological-geophysical prospecting. - Scientific Israel – Technological Advantages, vol. 6, Nos. 1-2, p. 63-66.
87. Eppelbaum L. V. and Khesin B. E. 2004. Advanced 3D modelling of gravity field unmasks reserves of a pyrite-polymetallic deposit: A case study from the Greater Caucasus. – First Break, EAGE, vol. 22, November 2004, p. 53-56.
88. Khesin B. 2004. Use of geophysical methods for the solution of environmental problems in Israel. – HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering, vol. 1, issue 4 (in press).
89. Khesin B. 2005. Use of geophysical methods for
the solution of environmental problems in Israel. – HAIT Journal of Science
and Engineering, vol. 2, issues 1-2, p. 95-124
90. Khesin B., Feinstein S., Vapnik Ye., Itkis S. and Leonhardt R.
2005. Magnetic study of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Hatrurim
formation, Israel. – Geophysical Journal International, vol. 162, p. 49-63.
91. Khesin B. and Feinstein S. 2005. Phanerozoic rock magnetization in
southern and central Israel. - Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 54, No.
2, p. 97-111.
92. Khesin B. 2005. Mineral resources of Israel and
possibilities of their geophysical prospecting. - Scientific issues of
“Scientists of the South” Association, issue 4, p. 3-18.
93. Eppelbaum L. V., Khesin B. E., and Itkis S. E. 2006. Specifics of
geophysical investigations at the archaeological sites in Israel. – Russian
archaeology, No. 1, p. 59-70 (in Russian).
94. Khesin B., Feinstein S., and Itkis S. 2007. Possible sources of
magnetic anomalies over thermally metamorphosed carbonate rocks of the Mottled
Zone in Israel. – In: Ed. G. Stracher, GSA Engineering Geology Coal Fires Book
(in press).
THE LATEST PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:56. Khesin B., Itkis S. 2000. Magnetic prospecting of altered sedimentary rocks of the Hatrurim Basin (Israel). - 25th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, SE28, Nice, France.
57. Khesin B., Metaxas Ch. 2000. Revealing of main faults within collision zone of Arabian/Russian plates by geophysical features. - 25th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, SE1, Nice, France.
58. Khesin B., Metaxas Ch. 2000. Levantine and South-Caspian Basins as products of shearing geodynamics: Similarity and difference in their structural and geophysical characteristics. - The First Stephan Mueller Conference of the European Geophysical Society, Dead Sea, Israel, p. 84.
59. Khesin B. 2000. Information-statistical methods for geophysical field interpretation. - 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, SESSION 16-2.
60. Khesin B. and Itkis S. 2000. The revision of aeromagnetic data: Ground magnetic investigations of altered sedimentary rocks (Hatrurim basin, Israel). - In: Geophysics in the Baltic region: Problems and prospects for the new millennium. International Conference. Abstracts, Tallinn, Estonia, p. 28-29.
61. Khesin B. 2000. Seismic-tectonic regioning as a base for the planning of seismic-stable building. – Seismic-stable building – Seminar of scientists-repatriates, Technion, Haifa, p. 7 (In Hebrew), p. 51 (In Russian).
62. Khesin B. 2000. Potential of geophysical methods for ore and non-metallic deposits prospecting in Israel. - The 15th Meeting of Mineral Engineering. The Israel Mineral Science and Engineering Association. Haifa.
63. Eppelbaum L. and Khesin B. 2001. Some common aspects of magnetic, induced polarization and self-potential anomalies interpretation: Implication for ore targets localization. –Trans. of the 4th Intern. Symp. on Eastern Mediterr. Geology. Isparta, Turkey
64. Eppelbaum L. and Khesin B. 2001. Disturbing factors in geophysical investigations at archaelogical sites and ways of their elimination. – In: Archaelogical Prospection (Eds. Doneus M., Eder-Hinterleitner A., Neubauer W.). Fourth International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. Vienna, p. 99-101.
65. Itkis S. E., Khesin B. E. and Feinstein S. 2002. Detailed Magnetic Prospecting at Archaeological Sites of Israel – Complications and Physical-Archaeological Models. – Extended Abstracts, 64th EAGE Conference & Exhibition. Florence, vol. 2, P278, p. 1-4.
66. Itkis
S. E., Khesin B. E. and Feinstein S. 2003. Detailed ground magnetic
prospecting of archaeological sites in Israel. - Abstracts, Israel Geological
Society, Annual Meeting, Ein Boqeq, p. 58.
67. Itkis S. E., Khesin B. E. and Goren Y. 2003. Magnetic prospecting at the
Calcolitic site Kissufim Road: Evaluation of its boundaries and new objects
using modeling of main archaeological features. – Abstracts, ARCHEOMETRIE
2003, Bordeaux, p. 145.
68. Eppelbaum L. V., Itkis S. E., and Khesin B. E. 2004. Initial visualization of magnetic survey results at the Prehistoric archaeological sites in Israel. – Proceedings of the 5th Intern. Symp. on Eastern Mediterranean Geology. Thessaloniki, Greece, vol. 2, p. 747-750.
69. Eppelbaum L. V., Khesin B. E., Itkis S. E. and Ben-Avraham, Z. 2004. Advanced analysis of self-potential data in ore deposits and archaeological sites. Trans. of the 10th Europian Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
70. Eppelbaum L. V., Itkis S. E., and Khesin B. E.
2005. Detailed magnetic survey unmasks Prehistoric archaeological sites in
Israel. – Proceedings of the EAGE 67th Conference & Exhibition. Madrid, Spain,
p. 1-4.
71. Eppelbaum, L.V., Khesin, B.E. and Itkis, S.E., 2006. Modern
geophysical methodologies as reliable tool for reducing risk of archaeological
heritage destruction. Trans. of the Intern. Conf. on Mathematical Geophysics,
Sea of Galilee, Israel, p. 35.