List of publications
Dissertation
Peer Reviewed Papers (in chronological order, * indicates corresponding author when not the first author)
Submitted Manuscripts
Pre-Prints and datasets
Scientific Reports
Not including confidential and internal reports for industry and government agencies.
Field Guidebooks
Invited Talks and Seminars
Abstracts, Presentations and Proceedings (Last 8 years)
- Bialik, O.M. (2013) Sedimentary configuration and cyclicity in the Late Triassic Mohilla formation, Southern Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Be'er Sheva, Israel. 288p.
Peer Reviewed Papers (in chronological order, * indicates corresponding author when not the first author)
- Wichern, N.M.A. ‡, Bialik, O.M., Nohl, T., Percival, L.M.E., Becker, R.T., Kaskes, P., Claeys P. & De Vleeschouwer, D. (2024) Astronomically-paced climate and carbon-cycle feedbacks in the lead-up to the Late Devonian Kellwasser Crisis. Climate of the Past. 20 (2), 415-448, 10.5194/cp-20-415-2024
- Alonso-Garcia, M., Reolid, J., Jimenez-Espejo, F.J., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez Zarikian, C. A., Laya, J.C., Carrasquiera, I., Jovane, L., Reijmer, J.J.G., Betzler, C. & Eberli, G.P. (2024) Sea-level and monsoonal control on the Maldives carbonate platform (Indian Ocean) over the last 1.3 million years. Climate of the Past. 20, 547–571, 10.5194/cp-20-547-2024
- Xia, Z., Li, S., Hu, Z., Bialik, O.M., Chen, T., Weldeghebriel, M.F., Fan, Q., Fan, J., Wang, X., An, S., Zhang, F., Xu, H., Chen, J., Ji, Z., Shen, S., Lowenstein, T.K., & Li, W. (2024) The evolution of Earth’s surficial Mg cycle over the past 2 billion years. Science Advances. 10(9), 10.1126/sciadv.adj5474
- Bialik, O.M., Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Commissario, L., Desbiolles, F., & Meroni, N.M. (2023) Availability and type of energy regulate the global distribution of neritic carbonates. Scientific Reports.: 10.1038/s41598-023-47029-4
- Auer, G., Bialik, O.M.*, Antoulas, M.E., Vogt-Vincent, N. & Piller, W.E. (2023) Biotic Response of Plankton Communities to Middle to Late Miocene Monsoon Wind and Nutrient Flux Changes in the Oman Margin Upwelling Zone. Climate of the Past, 19(11), 2313–2340. 10.5194/cp-19-2313-2023
- Lyu, G. ‡, Auer, G., Bialik, O.M., Christensen, B., Yamaoka, R. & De Vleeschouwer, D. (2023) Astronomically-paced changes in paleoproductivity, winnowing, and mineral flux over Broken Ridge (Indian Ocean) since the Early Miocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2023PA004761.
- Muhedeen, A.L. ‡, Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D. & Makovsky, Y. (2023) Modes of Gas Migration and Seepage on the Salt-Rooted Palmahim Disturbance, Southeastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 153, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106256
- 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 Southeastern Mediterranean Sea. The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.239
- Jacobson, Y., Bialik, O.M., Silverman, J., Lazar, B., Burd-Villanova, D., Galilove, E., Rahav, E. & Sisma-Ventura, G. (2023) Desalination brines as a potential vector for CO2 sequestration in the deep sea. Desalination. 10.1016/j.desal.2023.117234.
- Meilijson, A., Bialik, O. M., Boudinot, F. G., Bown, P. R., Benjamini, C., Waldmann, N. D. & Sepúlveda, J. (2023). Long-term carbon sequestration in the Eocene of the Levant Basin through transport of organic carbon from nearshore to deep marine environments. Chemical Geology, 121800, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121800
- Nachum, O., Bialik, O., Basson, U., Yasur-Landau, A. & Lazar, M. (2023) The Anthropogenic Affect—Humans and Geology: An Example from Tel Dor, Israel. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11 (2), 283, 10.3390/jmse11020283
- Coletti, G., Bosio, G., Collareta, A., Bialik, O.M., Regattieri, E., Cornacchia, I., Insacco, G. & Buckeridge, J. (2023) Plio-Pleistocene barnacle-rich facies as a tool for high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 111914, 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111914
- De Vleeschouwer, D., Nohl, T., Schulbert, C., Bialik, O.M. & Auer, G. (2023) Coring tools have an effect on lithification and physical properties of marine carbonate sediments. Scientific Drilling, 32. 10.5194/sd-32-43-2023.
- Bialik, O.M., Sisma-Ventura, G., Vogt-Vincent, N., Silverman, J. & Katz, T. (2022) Role of oceanic abiotic carbonate precipitation in future atmospheric CO2 regulation. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15970, 10.1038/s41598-022-20446-7
- Bialik, O.M., Bookman, R., Elyashiv, H., Marietou, A., Saar, R., Rivlin, T., Taha, N., Benaltabet, T., Lotem, N., Funaro, E. & Antler, G. (2022) Tropical storm-induced disturbance of deepwater porewater profiles, Gulf of Aqaba, Marine Geology, 453, 106926, 10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106926
- Bialik, O.M., Varzi, A.G., Duran Gallego, R., Le Bas, T., Gauci, A., Savini, A. & Micallef, A. (2022) Mesophotic depth biogenic accumulations (“biogenic mounds”) offshore the Maltese Islands, central Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 10.3389/fmars.2022.803687
- Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Kulhanek, D.K., Hincke, C., Waldmann, N.D. & Betzler, C. (2022) Sedimentary response to current and nutrient regime rearrangement in the Eastern Mediterranean during the early to middle Miocene (Southwestern Cyprus). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 10.31223/X5091W
- Reolid, J., Bialik, O.M.*, Puga-Bernabéu, Á., Zilberman, E., Cardenal, J. & Makowsky, Y. (2022) Evolution of a Miocene canyon and its carbonate infill in the pre-evaporitic Eastern Mediterranean. Facies, 10.1007/s10347-022-00644-5
- Sisma-Ventura, G., Bialik, O.M., Makovsky, Y., Rahav, E., Ozer, T., Kanari, M., Marmen, S., Blekin, N., Guy-Haim, T., Antler., G., Herut, B. & Rubin-Blum, M. (2022) Cold seeps alter the near-bottom biogeochemistry in the ultraoligotrophic Southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 183, 103744, 10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103744
- Coletti, G., Commissario, L., Mariani, L., Bosio, G., Desbiolles, F., Soldi, M. & Bialik, O.M. (2022) Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia. The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.204.
- Zammit, R., Lear, C., Samankassou, E., Lourens, L., Pearson., P., Micallef, A. & Bialik., O.M. (2022) Early Miocene intensification of the North African hydrological cycle: multi-proxy evidence from the shelf carbonates of Malta. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2022PA004414.
- Herut, B., Rubin-Blum, M., Sisma-Ventura, G., Jacobson, Y., Bialik., O.M., Lawal, M.A., Ozer, T., Kanari, M., Antler, G. & Makovsky, Y. (2022) Discovery and chemical composition of the eastmost deep-sea anoxic brine pools in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.3389/fmars.2022.1040681
- Betzler, C., Lindhorst, S., Reijmer, J.J.G., Braga, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Geßner, A.L., Hainbucher, D. & Bissessur, D. (2022) Carbonate platform drowning caught in the act: the sedimentology of Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean). Sedimentology, 10.1111/sed.13032
- Reich, T., Ben-Ezra, T., Belkin, N., Tsemel, A., Aharonovich, D., Roth-Rosenberg, D., Givati, S., Bialik O.M., Herut, B., Berman-Frank, I., Frada, M., Krom, M.D., Lehahn, Y., Rahav, E. & Sher. D. (2022) A year in the life of the Eastern Mediterranean: Monthly dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in an ultra-oligotrophic sea. Deep Sea Research Part I, 10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103720
- Wang, M., Chen, T., Feng, D., Zhang, X., Li, T., Robinson, L.F., Liang, Q., Bialik, O.M., Liu, L. & Makovsky, Y. (2022) Uranium-thorium isotope systematics of cold-seep carbonate and their constraints on geological methane leakage activities. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 10.1016/j.gca.2021.12.016
- Lawal, M. A., Pecher, I., Bialik, O.M., Waldmann, N.D., Bialas, J., Koren, Z., & Makovsky, Y. (2022) Multilevel Composition: A new method for revealing complex geological features in three-dimensional seismic reflection data. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105938
- Bialik, O.M., Jarochowska, E. & Grossowicz, M. (2021) Ordination analysis in sedimentology, geochemistry and paleoenvironment - background, current trends and recommendations. The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.161
- Betzler, C., Lindhorst, S., Lüdmann, T., Reijmer, J.J., Braga, J-C., Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Schutter, I., Eisermann, J.O., Emeis, K., Rixen, T. & Bissessur, D. (2021) Current and sea-level control the demise of shallow carbonate production on a tropical bank (Saya de Malha Bank, Indian Ocean). Geology, 10.1130/G49090.1
- Bialik, O.M., Zammit, R. & Micallef, A. (2021) Architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Coralline Limestone formation, Malta – implications for Eastern Mediterranean restriction prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.138.
- Micallef, A., Paull, C. K. Saadatkhah, N., & Bialik, O.M. (2021) The role of fluid seepage in the erosion of Mesozoic carbonate escarpments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 10.1029/2021JF006387.
- Coletti, G., Balmer, E.M., Bialik, O.M., Cannings, T., Kroon, D., Robertson, A.H.F. & Basso, D. (2021) Microfacies evidence for the evolution of Miocene coral-reef environments in Cyprus. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110670.
- Fokkema, C.D., Buijs, S., Bialik, O.M., Meilijson, A., Waldmann, N.D., Makovsky, Y., Frieling, J., Dickens, G.R. & Sluijs, A. (2021) Late Paleocene to middle Eocene carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Northern Negev, Southern Israel: potential for paleoclimate. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 10.1127/nos/2022/0684.
- Hu, Z., Bialik, O.M.*, Hohl, S.V., Xia, Z., Waldmann, N.D., Liu, C. & Li, W. (2021) The response of Mg isotopes to dolomitization during sea-level fluctuations: Constraints on the hydrological condition of massive dolomitization system. Sedimentary Geology, 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.105922.
- Spiro, B., Ezra, O., Najorka, J., Delgado, A., Bialik, O., Ben-Avraham, Z., Coleman, D. & Makovsky, Y. (2021) Mineralogical, chemical and stable C and O isotope characteristics of surficial carbonate structures from the Mediterranean offshore Israel indicate microbial and thermogenic methane origin. Geo-Marine Letters, 41, 17, 10.1007/s00367-021-00684-w
- Opuwari, M., Bialik, O.M., Waldmann, N.D. (2021) The role of detrital components in the petrophysical parameters of Paleogene calcareous-dominated hemipelagic deposits. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 10.1007/s12517-021-07328-4
- Petrash, D., Bialik, O.M.*, Staudigel, P.T., Konhauser, K.O. & Budd, D. (2021) Biogeochemical reappraisal of the freshwater-seawater mixing zone diagenetic model. Sedimentology (State of Science), 10.1111/sed.12849
- Bialik, O.M., Samankassou, E., Meilijson, A., Waldmann, N.D., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K. & Makovsky, Y. (2020) Short lived Cenomanian volcanic atolls of Mt. Carmel, northern Israel. Sedimentary Geology, 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105805
- Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Waldmann, N.D., Betzler, C. & Eberli, G.P. (2020). Source shifts to periplatform deposits during the early to middle Miocene in response to climatic and oceanographic forcing, Maldives, western Indian Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecologym, 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109969
- Reolid, J., Betzler, C., Bialik, O.M. & Waldman, N.D. (2020) Lenticular-bedding-like bioturbation and the onshore recognition of carbonate drifts (Oligocene, Cyprus), Journal of Sedimentary Research, 10.2110/jsr.2020.70
- Meilijson, A., Finkelman-Torgeman, E., Bialik, O.M., Boudinot, F.G., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Waldmann, N.D., Benjamini, C., Vinegar, H., Makovsky, Y. & Sepúlveda, J. (2020) Significance to hydrocarbon exploration of terrestrial organic matter introduced into deep marine systems: Insights from the Lower Cretaceous in the Levant Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104671
- Xia, Z., Horita, J., Reuning, L., Bialik, O.M., Hu, Z., Waldmann, N.D., Liu, C. & Li, W. (2020) Extracting Mg isotope signatures of ancient seawater from marine halite. Chemical Geology, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119768
- Grossowicz, M., Bialik, O.M.*, Shemesh, E., Tchernov. D., Hubert, B.V. & Sisma-Ventura, G. (2020) Warming is the key filter for successful colonization of the migrant octocoral Melithaea erythraea in the Eastern Mediterranean. PeerJ, 10.7717/peerj.9355
- Bialik, O.M., Auer, G., Ogawa, N.O., Kroon, D., Waldmann, N.D. & Ohkouchi, N. (2020) Monsoons, upwelling and the deoxygenation of the northwestern Indian Ocean in response to Middle to Late Miocene global climatic shifts. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2019PA003762
- Dulin, T., Avnaim-Katav, S., Sisma-Ventura, G., Bialik, O.M. & Angel, D. L. (2019) Rhodolith beds along the southeastern Mediterranean inner shelf: implications for past depositional environments. Journal of Marine Systems, 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2019.103241
- Sisma-Ventura, G., Tütken, T., Peters, S., Bialik, O.M., Zohar, I., & Pack, A. (2019) Past aquatic environments in the Levant inferred from stable isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphate in fish teeth. PLoS One, 14(7): e0220390, 10.1371/journal.pone.0220390
- Lanci, L., Betzler, C., Reolid, J., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Nath, B.N., Guo, J. A., Hui Mee, A.L., Nakakuni, M., Sloss, C.R., Niino, K., Lüdmann, T., Laya, J.C., Blättler, C. L., Wright, J.D., Galeotti, S., Zanella, E., Kroon, D., Petruny, L.M., Swart, P.K., Inoue, M., Reijmer, J.J.G., Eberli, G.P., Jovane, L., Bialik, O.M., Haffen, S., Alonso-García, M., Su, X., Young, J., Pratiwi, S.D., Horozal, S., Yao, Z. & Slagle, A.L., (2019) Magnetic properties of Early Pliocene sediments from IODP Site U1467 (Maldives platform) reveal changes in the monsoon system, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109283
- Bialik, O.M., Frank, M., Zammit, R., Betzler, C. & Waldmann, N.D. (2019) Two-step closure of the Miocene Indian Ocean Gateway to the Mediterranean. Scientific Reports, 10.1038/s41598-019-45308-7
- Meilijson, A., Hilgen, F., Sepúlveda, J., Steinberg, J., Fairbank, V., Flecker, R., Waldmann, N.D., Spaulding, S.A., Bialik, O.M., Boudinot, F.,G., Illner, P. & Makovsky, Y., (2019) Chronology with a pinch of salt: integrated stratigraphy of Messinian evaporites in the deep Eastern Mediterranean reveals long-lasting halite deposition during Atlantic connectivity, Earth Science Review, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.05.011
- Swart, P.K., Blättler, C. L., Nakakuni, M., Mackenzie, G.J., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Alonso-García, M., Slagle, A.L., Wright, J.D., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Hui Mee, A.L., Young, J., Bialik, O.M., Guo, J. A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L. Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Su, X., Sloss, C.R. & Yao, Z. (2019) Cyclic Anoxia and Organic Rich Carbonate Sediments within a Drowned Carbonate Platform linked to Antarctic Ice Volume Changes: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Maldives, Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.019
- Coianiz, L., Bialik, O.M., Ben-Avraham, Z. & Lazar, M. (2019) Late Quaternary lacustrine deposits of the Dead Sea basin: high resolution sequence stratigraphy from downhole logging data. Quaternary Science Reviews, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.009.
- Li, W., Bialik, O.M.*, Wang, X., Yang, T., ,Zhao, S. & Waldmann, N.D. (2019) Effects of early diagenesis on Mg isotopes in dolomite: the roles of Mn(IV)-reduction and recrystallization. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 250, 1-17, 10.1016/j.gca.2019.01.029
- Kunkelova, T., Jung, J.S.A., de Leau, E.S., Odling., N., Thomas, A.L., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Hui Mee, A.L., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Bejugam, N.N., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid., J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J., Lindhorst. S., Stainbank., S., Rueggeberg, A., Spezzaferri, S., Carrasqueira, I., Hu, S. & Kroon, D. (2018) A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 5, 86, 10.1186/s40645-018-0238-x
- Bialik, O.M., Wang, X., Waldmann, N.D., Frank, R. & Li, W. (2018) Mg isotope response to dolomitization in hinterland attached carbonate platforms: Outlook of δ26Mg as a tracer of basin restriction and seawater Mg/Ca ratio. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.024
- Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., Sloss, C.R., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J. A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L. Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Su, X.,Yao, Z. & Young, J.R. (2018) Calcareous drift fan: a new drift type in a carbonate setting. Marine Geology, 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.04.011
- Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Lüdmann, T., Reolid, J., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Young, J.R. Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J. A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L. Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X & Yao, Z. (2018). Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean). Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 10.1186/s40645-018-0165-x
- Meilijson A., Steinberg J., Hilgen F.J., Bialik O.M., Waldmann, N.D. & Makovsky Y. (2018). Deep-basin evidence resolves a 50-year-old debate and demonstrates synchronous onset of Messinian evaporite deposition in a non-desiccated Mediterranean. Geology, 10.1130/G39868.1
- Higgins, J.A., Blättler, C.L., Lundstrom, E.A., Santiago-Ramos, D., Akhtar, A., Curger-Ahm, A.S., Bialik, O., Holmden, C., Bradburyd, H., Murray, S.T. & Swart, P., (2018). Mineralogy, early marine diagenesis, and the chemistry of shallow water carbonate sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 220, 512-534.
- Petrash, D.A., Bialik, O.M., Roberts, J.A., Vasconcelos, C., & Konhauser, K.O., (2017). Microbially catalyzed dolomite formation. From near-surface to burial. Earth Science Review, 171, 558-582. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.015.
- Sisma-Ventura, G., Bialik O.M., Yam R., Herut, B., Silverman, J., (2017) pCO2 variability in the surface waters of the ultra-oligotrophic Levantine Sea: Exploring the air–sea CO2 fluxes in a fast warming region. Marine Chemistry. 10.1016/j.marchem.2017.06.006
- Bialik, O.M. & Waldmann, N.D. (2017). The drowning of a siliciclastic shelf: insights into oceanographic reconstructions of the northern Arabian Platform during the Early Cretaceous. Basin Research. 10.1111/bre.12234
- Sisma-Ventura, G., Sivan, D., Shtienberg, G., Bialik, O.M., Filin, S. & Greenbaum, N. (2017). Last interglacial sea level highstand deduced from well-preserved abrasive notches exposed on the Galilee coast of northern Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 470, p. 1–10.
- Shtienberg, G., Dix, J.K., Roskin, J., Waldmann, N., Bookman, R., Bialik, O.M., Porat, N., Taha, N. & Sivan, D. (2017). New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: a test case from central Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468, p. 503–519.
- Bialik, O.M. & Sisma-Ventura G. (2016). Proxy-based reconstruction of surface water acidification and carbonate saturation of the Levant Sea during the Anthropocene. Anthropocene, 16, 42-53.
- Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Kroon, D., Wright, J.D., Swart, P.K., Nath, B.N., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J. A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L. Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X.,Yao, Z. & Young, J.R. (2016). The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds. Scientific Reports, 6, 29838. 10.1038/srep29838
- Sivan, D., Sisma-Ventura, G., Greenbaum, N., Bialik, O.M., Williams, F.H., Tamisiea, M.E., Rohling, E.J., Frumkin, A., Avnaim-Katav, S., Shtienberg, G. & Stein, M. (2016). Eastern Mediterranean sea levels through the last interglacial from a coastal-marine sequence in northern Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews, 145, p. 204-225.
- Meilijson, A., Bialik, O.M., & Benjamini, C. (2015). Stromatolitic biotic systems in the mid-Triassic of Israel—A product of stress on an epicontinental margin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, p. 696–711.
- Kongreen, D. & Bialik, O.M., (2015). The characteristics of carbonate recovery during relatively dry event in mixed carbonate/siliciclastic environment, in the Pelsonian proximal marginal marine basins: a case study from the tropical Tethyan northwest Gondwanan margins. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, p. 793–812.
- Anenburg, M., Bialik, O., Vapnik, Y., Chapman, H.J., Antler, G., Katzir, Y., Bickle, M.J. & Turchyn, A.V. (2014). The origin of celestine–quartz–calcite geodes associated with a basaltic dyke, Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. Geological Magazine, 151(5), p. 798-815.
- Bialik, O.M., Korngreen, D, & Benjamini, B. (2013). Carnian (Triassic) aridization on the Levant margin: Evidence from the Dolomite Member, Mohilla Formation, Makhtesh Ramon, south Israel. Facies, 59, p. 559–581
- Korngreen, D., Orlov-Labkovsky, O., Bialik, O. & Benjamini, C., (2013). The Permo – Triassic transition in the central Coastal Plain of Israel (north Arabian Plate margin) - David 1 borehole. PALAIOS, 28(8), p. 491-508.
- Bialik, O.M., Korngreen, D, & Benjamini, B. (2012). Lithofacies and cyclicity of Mohilla evaporite basins on the rifted margin of the Levant in the Late Triassic, Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel. Sedimentology, 59(7), p. 2097-2124.
- Bahat, D., Bankwitz, P., Bankwitz, E., Bialik, O. & Weinberger, R. (2012). Comparative tectonofractography: fracturing in 19 jointing provinces, experimental results, fracture mechanics considerations and province classification. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 164(4), p. 345–359.
Submitted Manuscripts
- Auer, G., Bialik., O.M., Schölkopf, J. & Gallien, F., (Submitted to Earth Science Reviews) Marine carbonate accumulation – A (re-)vision of present estimates and future declines
Pre-Prints and datasets
- Muhedeen, A.L. ‡, Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D. & Makovsky, Y. (2023) Modes of Gas Migration and Seepage on the Salt-Rooted Palmahim Disturbance, Southeastern Mediterranean. SSRN, 10.2139/ssrn.4292812
- Bialik, O.M., Gadol, O., Micallef, A., Betzler, C., Nativ, H., Einbinder, S. & Makovsky, Y. (2023) Internal waves and bottom currentsinteractionsaround mesophotic reefs, southeastern Mediterranean. EarthArXiv, 10.31223/X56W88
- Xia, Z., Li, S., Hu, Z., Bialik, O.M., Chen, T., Weldeghebriel, M., Fan, Q., Fan, J., Wang, X., An, S., Zhang, F., Xu, H., Chen, J., Ji., Z., Shen, S., Lowenstein, T. and Li, W. (2022) The evolution of Earth’s surficial Mg cycle over the past 2 billion years. Research Square, 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2238947/v1
- Bialik, O.M., Sisma-Ventura, G., Vogt-Vincent, N., Silverman, J., Katz, T. (2022): supplumentary material for Role of oceanic abiotic carbonate precipitation in future atmospheric CO2 regulation. Figshare, 10.6084/m9.figshare.19721815.v1
- Bialik, O.M., Saar, R., Taha, N., Bookman, R., Antler, G. (2022): Supplementary information for: Tropical storm-induced disturbance of deepwater porewater profiles, Gulf of Aqaba, March 2020. Figshare, 10.6084/m9.figshare.17163566.v1
- Coletti, G., Commissario, L., Mariani, L., Bosio, G., Soldi, M. & Bialik, O.M. (2022) Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia. EarthArXiv, 10.31223/X5R33D
Coletti. G. & Bialik, O.M. (2022) Complete database of investigated sections of the research paper "Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Middle East and Western Central Asia". FigShare, 10.6084/m9.figshare.19323821.v1
Bialik, O.M., Varzi, A.G., Duran Gallego, R., Le Bas, T., Gauci, A., Savini, A. & Micallef, A. (2021) Mesophotic depth biogenic accumulations (“biogenic mounds”) offshore the Maltese Islands, central Mediterranean Sea. EarthArXiv, 10.31223/X5PP8J - Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Kulhanek, D.K., Hincke, C., Waldmann, N.D. & Betzler, C. (2021) Changing slope facies in response to rearrangement of currents and nutrient regime during the early to middle Miocene, southwestern Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean. EarthArXiv, 10.31223/X5091W
- Bialik, O.M., Jarochowska, E. & Grossowicz, M. (2021) Ordination analysis in sedimentology, geochemistry and paleoenvironment - background, current trends and recommendations. EarthArXiv, 10.31223/X5N31Q Supporting data: https://figshare.com/s/de2467546265bd867642
- Bialik, O.M., Zammit, R. & Micallef, A. (2020) Architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Coralline Limestone formation, Malta – implications for Eastern Mediterranean restriction prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. EarthArXiv, 10.1002/dep2.138. Pre-Print: 10.31223/X52302
- Reich, T., Ben-Ezra, T., Belkin, N., Tsemel, A., Aharonovich, D., Roth-Rosenberg, D., Givati, S., Bialik O., Herut, B., Berman-Frank, I., Frada, M., Krom, M.D., Lehahn, Y., Rahav, E. & Sher. D. (2021) Seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton at the ultra-oligotrophic southeastern Mediterranean Sea. BioRxiv, 10.1101/2021.03.24.436734
- Weinbaum-Hefetz, M., Bialik, O.M.* & Benjamini, C. (2020) Low latitude Tethyan calcareous nannofossil ocean paleoecology across the early/middle Eocene transition. Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), 10.1002/essoar.10503536.1
Scientific Reports
Not including confidential and internal reports for industry and government agencies.
- Betzler, C. Artschwager, M., Becking, J., Bialik, O., Eggers, D., Eisermann, J.O., Falkenberg, P., Häcker, T., Hübscher, C., Hincke, C., Lahajnar, N., Lindhorst, S., Lüdmann, T., Maak, J., Maul, J., Petrovic, A., Reolid, J., Saitz, Y., Schmidt, C., Schönbeck, F., Schwarz, T., Strehse, V., Wasilewski, T. and Welsch, A. (2022) Towards an understanding of carbonate platforms in the icehouse world, SONNE-Berichte Cruise No. SO292
- Shabtay, A., Goren, L., Slavenko, A., Idan, T., Neuman, A., Bialik, O. and Makovsky, Y. (2022) Environmental data collection and analyses to support conservation planning in the Israeli EEZ. Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
- Lindhorst, S., Appoo, J., Artschwager, M., Bialik, O., Birkicht, M., Bissessur, D., Braga, J.-C., Budke, L., Bunzel, D., Coopen, P., Eberhardt, B., Eggers, D., Eisermann, J.O., El Gareb, F., Emeis, K., Geßner, A.-L., Hüge, F., Knaack-Völker, H., Kornrumpf, N., Lenz, N., Lüdmann, T., Metzke, M., Naderipour, C., Neziraj, G., Reijmer, J., Reolid, J., Reule, N., Rixen, T., Saitz, Y., Schäfer, W., Schutter, I., Siddiqui, C., Sorry, A., Taphorn, B., Vosen, S., Wasilewski, T., Welsch, A. (2019) Saya de Malha Carbonates, Oceanography and Biogeochemistry (Western Indian Ocean), SONNE-Berichte Cruise No. SO270.
- Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Ling Hui Mee, A., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z. and Young, J.R. (2017) Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Volume 359, doi: 10.14379/iodp.proc.359.2017
- Makovsky, Y., Rüggeberg, A., Bialik, O., Foubert, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Alter, Y., Bampas, V., Basso, D., Feenstra, E., Fentimen, R., Friedheim, O., Hall, E., Hazan, O., Herut, B., Kallergis, E., Karageorgis, A., Kolountzakis, A., Manousakis, L., Nikolaidis, M., Pantazoglou, F., Rahav, E., Renieris, P., Schleinkofer, N., Sisma-Ventura, G., Stasnios, V., Weissman, A. and the EUROFLEETS2 SEMSEEP Participants (2017). R/V AEGAEO Cruise EUROFLEETS2 SEMSEEP, Cruise Summary Report.
- Betzler, C.G., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 359 Scientists (including Bialik, O.M.) (2016). Expedition 359 Preliminary Report: Maldives Monsoon and Sea Level. International Ocean Discovery Program. http://dx.doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.359.2016.
- Bialik, O.M., (2011). Depositional environments, diagenesis, and development of the subsurface Kurnub Basin, Mohilla Formation (Late Triassic) – comparative insights from the Ramon Basin, GSI report GSI/01/2011, 79 p. (In Hebrew).
Field Guidebooks
- Bialik, O.M., Meilijson, A., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Waldmann, N.D., & Makovsky, Y. (2019) Albian to Turonian Carbonate facies of Mt. Carmel. AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshops, Tel Aviv
- Bear, G., Weinberger, R., Anenburg, M., Bialik, O. and Teutsch, N. (2017). Dykes, their surroundings and volcanic collapse structures in east Makhtesh Ramon, summarizing 30 years of research. Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, Mitzpe Ramon (In Hebrew).
- Bialik, O.M., Korngreen, D. & Benjamini, C. (2014). The Ladinian-Carnian succession at Makhtesh Ramon. In: Korngreen, D. and Benjamini, C. (Eds). Triassic outcrops in the Negev – NW Gondwana margin of the Neo-Tethys. pp. 49-65.
- Benjamini, C., Meilijson, A., Bialik O.M. & Korngreen, D. (2014). Makhtesh Ramon, Gevanim Valley; from the Anisian to the Ladinian. In: Korngreen, D. and Benjamini, C. (Eds). Triassic outcrops in the Negev – NW Gondwana margin of the Neo-Tethys. pp. 27-48.
- Korngreen, D., Weinbaum-Hefetz, M., Bialik¸O.M., Benjamini, C. & Avny, Y. (2014). Western ‘Arief Makhatesh excursion. In: Korngreen, D. and Benjamini, C. (Eds). Triassic outcrops in the Negev – NW Gondwana margin of the Neo-Tethys. pp. 66-86.
- Bialik, O.M., Kantorovitch A., Meilijson A., Korngreen D. & Benjamini C. (2011). New investigations of the Triassic carbonate-evporite system of Maktesh Ramon: Subsidence, suppressed sedimentation and synsedimentary tectonics in a stressed ecological environment. Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, Mitzpe Ramon, 2011, p. 29-52. (In Hebrew).
Invited Talks and Seminars
- 2023 - Regulation on the southeastern Mediterranean inorganic carbon cycle, GEOMAR (EMS FORE seminar), March 16th. Controls and variability of productivity in the northwest Indian Ocean, Monsoon Geo Seminar series, March 29th.
- 2022 - Mediterranean environmental rearrangements through the Miocene in light of variation in oceanic gateways connectivity. Israeli Geological Survey, March 13th. Miocene paleo productivity patterns in the Northern Indian Ocean, MARUM, November 21st. The Cretaceous evolution of the Levant Platform, Khalifa University, December 15th.
- 2021 - Insights from the southwestern Tethys - the Cretaceous evolution of the Levant Platform. Keynote talk, 35th IAS meeting, Prague, June 23rd. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, September 23rd.
2020 - The end of the Tethyan Seaway - oceanographic rearrangement and biogenic response. University of Kiel, January 27th. - 2019 - Late Miocene teleconnection between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
the manifestation of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Western Indian Ocean. University of Bremen, German Israeli Foundation young scientists meeting (Going down into the abyss: Ocean-Floor Processes, Deep Life, and Climate Archives), October 30th. - 2018 - Closure of the Tethyan seaway - Timing and effect on Mediterranean and Indian Ocean oceanography. Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, November 1st. Tel Aviv University, November 5th. Ben-Gurioun University, November 27th.
- 2017 - Early Cretaceous record of sea level rise, anoxia and marine restriction of the Levant shelf. University of Haifa, May 15th. Miocene depositional regimes of the Maldives carbonate peri-platform settings – role of platform geometry and sea level. University of Malta, Sep 15th. Late Triassic climatic forcing of the Levant region - Western Tethyan Gondwanan Margin. Nanjing University, Oct 18th.
- 2016 - Carbonate depositional paradigms, monsoons and the dawn of the modern oceans -
New insights from the Maldives (IODP Exp. 359). University of Haifa, January 18th. IOLR, November 17th. - 2014 - The fill and cap of the Mohilla evaporite basins: Tectonic and sea level control accumulation patterns. 11th international field workshop – Pan-European correlation on the Triassic, Feb 13th. Mesozoic oscillations of major ions in seawater. West Virginia University, March 25th. A multi proxy approach to the study of dolomitization and the variability of magnesium isotopes in dolomites. Geological survey of Israel, October 25th.
- 2011 - Triassic small evaporite basins on the Levant margin: sedimentological and structural perspectives, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Mar 31st.
Abstracts, Presentations and Proceedings (Last 8 years)
- Bialik, O.M., Bookman, R., Elyashiv, H., Marietou, A., Saar, R., Rivlin, T., Taha, N., Benaltabet, T., Lotem, N., Funaro, E. & Antler, G. (2023) Impact of storm-induced disturbance on slope diagenetic processes - caught in the act. 36th IAS meeting, Dubrovnik.
- Bialik, O.M., Coletti, G., Mariani, L., Commissario, L., Desbiolles, F. & Meroni, A. (2023) Global shelfal carbonate factory, processes and patterns. 36th IAS meeting, Dubrovnik.
- Reolid, J., Betzler, C., Bialik, O.M., Eisermann, J.O., Lindhorst, S. & Petrovic, A. (2023) Anatomy of a new type of mesophotic Halimeda bioherm (Queensland Plateau, NE Australia). 36th IAS meeting, Dubrovnik.
- Bialik, O.M., Reolid, J., Kulhanek, D.K., Hincke, C., Waldmann, N.D. & Betzler, C. (2023) The impact of Indian Ocean - Mediterranean gateway closure on the current and nutrient regime in the Eastern Mediterranean during the early to middle Miocen, EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Auer, G., Bialik, O.M., Antoulas, M.E., & Piller, W.E., (2023) Middle to Late Miocene responses of primary producers to monsoonal upwelling in the western Arabian Sea, EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Wichern, N.M.A., Bialik, O.M., Percival, L.M.E., Kaskes, P., Nohl, T., Beckerl, R.T. & De Vleeschouwer, D. (2023) Decoding the role of terrestrial/atmospheric interactions in Late Devonian Kellwasser black shale deposition: a high resolution cyclostratigraphic study of the Winsenberg section (Rhenish Massif, Germany), EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Mannucci, A., Fokkema, C., Kelly, L., Bialik, O.M., Dickens, G.R., Sluijs, A. & Galeotti, S. (2023) Orbital chronology of Early Eocene hyperthermals from Site RH-323, Northern Negev (Israel) , EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Fokkema, C., Agterhuis, T., Kelly, L., Mannucci, A., Theijse, B., Bialik, O.M., Bijl, P., Brinkhuis, H., Peterse, F., Galeotti, S., Dickens, G.R., & Sluijs, A (2023) Environmental consequences of early Paleogene hyperthermal events at Site RH-323, Northern Negev, EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria.
- Bialik, O.M. & Micallef, A. (2022) Sediment distribution control by internal waves and bottom currents in Mediterranean mesophotic peri-reefal environments, July 2022, 1st international conference on seafloor processes, Malta.
- Durán, R., Guillén, J., Bialik O. M., Lo Iacono C., Marco C., Muñoz A., Le Bas T. & Micallef A. (2022) Sorted bedforms dominated by coarse-grained sediment in the Mediterranean Sea, July 2022, 1st international conference on seafloor processes, Malta.
- Muhedeen L. A., Bialik O.M., Waldmann N., Lazar M. & Makovsky Y. (2022) Seabed hydrocarbon seepage linked to overlapping subsurface fluid flow systems, July 2022, 1st international conference on seafloor processes, Malta.
- Makovsky, Y., Rubin-Blum, M., Bialik, O. M., Lawal, M. A., Antler, G., Zvi-Kedem, T., Meilijson, A., Herut, B., Resnik, I., Kanari, M., Gilad, A., Sisma-Ventura, G., Guy-Haim, T., Treibitz T. & Berman-Frank I. (2022) A new discovery of pronounced methane and brine seepage, and an associated biodiversity hotspot, on Palmahim disturbance offshore Israel, July 2022, 1st international conference on seafloor processes, Malta.
- Omri G., Katz O., Kanari M., Bialik O.M. & Makovsky Y. (2022) Mass transport complexes reactivation revealed through multiscale geophysical observation, July 2022, 1st international conference on seafloor processes, Malta.
- Weidlich, R., Bialik, O.M., Pettke, T., Rüggeberg, A., Grobéty, B., Vennemann, T., Makovsky, Y. & Foubert, A. (2022) Insights into the REE Characteristics and Formation Conditions of Southeastern Mediterranean Seep Carbonates. July 2022, Goldschmidt Conference, Hawaii
- Meilijson, A., Reznik, I. J., Rosenberg, Y.O., Bialik, M.O., Kanari, M., Giladi, A., Ozer, T., Bronstein, O., Sisma-Ventura, G., Berman-Frank, I., Herut, B., Rubin-Blum, M. & Makovsky, Y. (2022) Characterization of seafloor gas emanations and their potential linkage with sub-sea reservoirs in the Levant Basin. April 2022. Israeli Geological Society meeting, Nir Etzyon.
- Bialik, O.M., Lüdmann, T., Coletti, G., Meilijson, A., Makovsky, Y., Waldmann, N.D., Erhardt, A., Hübscher, C. & Betzler, C. (2021) Shifting shallow-water carbonate factories in the Eastern Mediterranean's Miocene, 35th IAS meeting, Prague.
- Weidlich, R., Bialik, O.M., Rüggeberg, A., Vennemann, T., Makovsky, Y., & Foubert, A., (2021) Geochemical characterization of seep carbonates from the Palmachim Disturbance in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 35th IAS meeting, Prague.
- Bialik, O.M., Bookman, R., Saar, R., Taha, N. & Antler, G. (2021) Tropical storm induced disturbance of deep water porewater profiles, Gulf of Aqaba, March 2020. Israeli Geological Society meeting, Yeruham.
- Bialik, O.M., Samankassou, E., Meilijson, A., Waldmann, N.D., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K. & Makovsky, Y. (2021) Short lived Cenomanian volcanic atolls of Mt. Carmel, northern Israel. Israeli Geological Society meeting, Yeruham.
- Bialik, O.M., Jarochowska, E. & Grossowicz, M. (2021) Ordination analyses in sedimentology, geochemistry and paleoenvironment - current trends and recommendations. vEGU21: Gather Online.
- Bialik, O.M., Lüdmann, T., Coletti, G., Meilijson, A., Makovsky, Y., Waldmann, N.D., Erhardt, A., Hübscher, C. & Betzler, C. (2021) Shifting shallow-water carbonate factories in the Eastern Mediterranean's Miocene, 35th IAS meeting, Prague.
- Weidlich, R., Bialik, O.M., Rüggeberg, A., Vennemann, T., Makovsky, Y., & Foubert, A., (2021) Geochemical characterization of seep carbonates from the Palmachim Disturbance in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 35th IAS meeting, Prague.
- Bialik, O.M., Lüdmann, T., Coletti, G., Meilijson, A., Makovsky, Y., Waldmann, N.D., Erhardt, A., Hübscher, C. & Betzler, C. (2020) Geometric changes of carbonate platforms through the Miocene and implication to changes in modes of production; Eratosthenes Seamount, Eastern Mediterranean. The Carbonate Forum 1st meeting.
- Auer, G., Christensen, B.A., Bialik, O.M., Ogawa, N.O., Yamaoka, R., Antoulas, M.E., De Vleeschouwer, D., Kroon, D., Ohkouchi, N. & Piller, W. (2020) Timing and pacing of middle to late Miocene intensification of the Indian Ocean-Atmospheric circulation system. EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online
- Auer, G., Bialik, O.M., Ogawa, N.O., Yamaoka, R., Antoulas, M.E., De Vleeschouwer, D., Christensen, B.A., Kroon, D., Piller, W. & Ohkouchi, N. (2020) Pacing the Miocene Monsoon System – Are there links to Indian Ocean circulation and migrating southern hemisphere climate belts? Chapman meeting (AGU) Evolution of the Monsoon in Cenozoic Asia, Washington, D.C., USA.
- Dedrick, J., Yvon-Lewis, S. A., Makovsky, Y., Bialik, O.M., Sher, D. (2020) Distributions and Air-Sea Exchange of Methane and Nitrous Oxide in the Levantine Basin. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020, San Diego, USA.
- Bialik, O.M., Meilijson, A., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Waldmann N., Li, W., Makovsky, Y. (2019) Evolution of the Albian-Turonian Levant carbonate platform in respond to the long term transgressive forcing. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria.
- Sisma-Ventura, G., Bialik, O.M., Yam, R., Herut, B., Silverman, J. (2019) The Southeastern Mediterranean Sea shifts from atmospheric CO2 sink to source in response to the damming of the Nile and warming. EGU 2019, Vienna, Austria.
- Bialik, O.M., Benjamini, C., Finkelman, E., Hadar, D., Meilijson, A., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Makovsky, Y., Waldmann, N.D. (2019) The Barremian-Albian sequence in Northern Israel: a potential onshore analog to source-rock systems in the Levant Basin. AAPG-Geoscience Technology Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Meilijson, A., Bialik, O.M., Coletti, G., Waldmann, N., Benjamini, C., Sepúlveda, J., Makovsky, Y. (2019) A regional investigation of an under-considered source rock in the Eastern Mediterranean: organic rich carbonates from the Eocene of the Levant margins. AAPG-Geoscience Technology Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Bialik, O.M., Meilijson, A., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Li, W., Waldmann N., Makovsky, Y. (2019) Depositional and diagenetic evolution of the Albian-Turonian Levant carbonate platform: insights from onshore outcrops. AAPG-Geoscience Technology Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Bialik, O.M., Auer, G., Niyazi, N., Ogawa, N.O., Ohkouchi, N., & Waldmann, N.D. (2018) The initiation and establishment of the Western Indian Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zone during the Early to Middle Miocene. Ocean Deoxygenation Conference. Keil, Germany.
- Bialik, O.M., Makovsky, Y., Arnon, M., Taha, N. & Waldmann, N.D. (2017). Discovery of a buried reef belt at the edge of the Israeli continental shelf: oceanographic implications for the Holocene East Mediterranean. EGU 2017, Vienna, Austria.
- Shtienberg, G., Dix, J., Roskin, J., Waldmann, N., Bookman, R., Bialik, O., Porat, N., Taha, N. and Sivan, D. (2017). New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: a test case from central Israel. EGU 2017, Vienna, Austria.
- Bialik, O.M., Makovsky, Y., Arnon, M., Taha, N. and Waldmann, N.D. (2017). Formation and demise of a reef belt at the edge and of the Israeli continental shelf, effects of sea level and sediment supply since the last glacial maxima. Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, Mitzpe Ramon.
- Hadar, D., Bialik, O.M., Simmons, M., Finkelman, E. and Benjamini, C. (2017). Open ocean early Cretaceous succession with black shales, based on facies associations and δ13Ccarb curve from the Manara Core, northern Galilee. Israel Geological Society Annual Meeting, Mitzpe Ramon.