Ofer Gon
Research Interests:
Marine fish systematics, Biology and ecology of marine fishes, and History of ichthyology in South Africa
Position: Curator Emeritus and Research Associate: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Ofer Gon joined SAIAB (then the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology) in 1982 as a research assistant to help with the work on Smiths’ Sea Fishes (Smith & Heemstra, 1986). This was followed by seven years of work on Antarctic and subantarctic fishes, culminating in the publication of Fishes of the Southern Ocean (Gon & Heemstra, 1990). He became a permanent staff member in 1993 and continued working on a variety of projects, mainly in marine fish systematics, but also with short-term digressions to estuarine and freshwater fishes.
Ofer retired in 2014 and started work on a revision of Fishes of the Southern Ocean, an ongoing project. Many of the original contributors to the first book are revising their original chapters for the new book.
Education
Degree | Institution and location | Graduated |
BSc. Biology | Hebrew University, Jerusalem | 1974 |
MSc.(cum laude) Oceanography and Marine Biology | Hebrew University, Jerusalem | 1979 |
MA History | Rhodes University, Makhanda | 2001 |