Guy Serbin Graduate research assistant Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences Ben Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 84105 Beer Sheva ISRAEL Electronic mail: serbin@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Education:

High school diploma, American program at the Agricultural High School in Pardes Hanna, Israel, 1990
IDF Military Service (1990-1993) at the Israeli Army Radio Station (Galei Tzahal) (1991-1993)
Bachelors of Science in Geology and Mineralogy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1996.
Currently working on a Masters of Science in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, (1996-present day).

M.Sc. thesis research: Microwave thermodielectric behavior of soil-water mixtures and its potential effects on radar backscatter

Project supervisors: Dr. Dan Blumberg and Prof. Jiftah Ben-Asher
(in conjuction with Dr. Dani Or of the Department of Plants, Soils and Biometeorology at Utah State University.)

Radar remote sensing, with special interest in SIR-C/X-SAR data.
Wind streaks in southern Syria.
Comparison of radar backscatter from SIR-C/X-SAR and ERS-2 imagery with NOAA AVHRR derived NDVI values for the Israeli- Egyptian- Gaza strip border region in the Sinai-Negev desert.

Presented posters in the CARESS '99 Second Annual Conference on Active Research by Environmental Sciences Students

Additional departmental activities:
Geology dept. web site administrator

Previous departmental activities:
Geology dept. computer lab administrator
The Earth and Planetary Imaging Facility (EPIF) web site administrator.
Teaching assistant in course "Introduction to Microcomputers", a basic level course on how to use a PC (covered Microsoft Windows 95 operating system, Microsoft Office, internet use, scanning, printing, peer-to-peer LAN usage, etc.)
Teaching assistant in course "Image Processing Techniques in Remote Sensing". The course covers basic optical satellite systems (Landsat, SPOT, NOAA AVHRR), GIS data formats, LUT functions, filters, atmospheric correction, modeling, supervised and unsupervised classification, geometric correction and map generation in ERDAS Imagine 8.3.1.

Available programs, data, etc.
I have prepared a page for Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) applications. This page contains the following:

1. Microsoft Excel 97 macros for importing raw waveforms from raw log files generated by ESI MP-917 Viewpoint software
2. Instructions on how to collect long waveforms (>251 data points) in WinTDR '98
3. General TDR links

I also keep a personal home page.