Mustafa Asfur Research website

About the Author

Writing by mustafa on Saturday, 26 of January , 2008 at 11:43 am

Curriculum Vitae

Mustafa Asfur

Kabull village, POB 401,Zip Code 24963, Israel.

TelFax: 972-4-9942640, email: asfurm@gmail.com

Personal:

Date of Birth: February 20, 1972

Place of Birth:

Kabull Village, Israel

Education

1992-1995 University of Haifa, Israel, B.A, Department of Physical Geography.
1996-1997 University of Haifa, Israel, M.A, Department of Physical Geography - Climetorology.
1996-1998 University of Haifa, Israel, Teaching Diploma,School of Education.
1997-1998 University of Haifa, Israel, Management Diploma,School of Education.
1998-2000 Tel Aviv University, Israel, M.Sc., Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science (Lightning “VLF” and Sprites).

2000 -2004 Tel Aviv University, Israel, Ph.D, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science (Lightning “ELF” and Climate change).
2005 -2008 Open University, Postdoctoral: African Lightning Activity and the Genesis of Hurricanes and Atlantic Tropical Storms.

Languages

Reading, Writing & Speaking: Arabic, Hebrew & English.

Teaching Experience

1995-1999 Teaching and Research Assistant,University ofHaifa.
1999-2000 Teaching the Courses “Space and the Planet Earth”,University ofHaifa.
2000-2002 Teaching the Courses “Introduction to Astronomy”, YardinCollageBarIlanUniversity.· Teaching the Courses “An to Astrophysics”, Arab Education Collage – Haifa.
2003- 2004 Teaching the Courses “Introduction to computer”, University ofHaifa.· Director in the Astronomy Observatory in Nazareth.
2004-present Director in the Astronomy Observatory inNazareth.· Lecture in the Oranim collage,Haifa university.· Research in the tel aviv university and open university.

Participant in projects:

1. Mediterranean Israeli dust experiment (MEIDEX), Israeli Astronaut.

2. Global Atmospheric campaign, STEPS, 1998.

3. Build the Astronomy observatory,Nazareth, Israel.

4. Participant in the environmental campaign,Germany, 1997.

5.Participant in the climate change school in Corsica, Francs, 2003.

6. Participant in the space campaign,Turkey, 2006.

Publication:

Arabic:

1. Asfur M, 1998: View the Universe, Al-Borhan,2,98-115.

2. Asfur M, 1999: The Constellation - Between the Science and the Horoscope, Al-Aswar,68, 110-125.

3. Masalha T, Asfur M.,O. Hmed, 2001: An Introduction in Astrophysics.

4. Asfur M, 2003:Geoastronomy, Israel.

5. Asfur M, 2004: An Introduction to Atmospheric Science, Israel.

6. Asfur M,2005: An Introduction to Geology, Oranim Collage, Israel.

7. Asfur M,2006: The Moon , Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

8. Asfur M,2006: The Earth, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

9. Asfur M,2006: The Solar System, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

10. Asfur M,2006: The Asteroids, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

11. Asfur M,2007: Galaxies and Universe, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

12. Asfur M,2007: The Constellation, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

13. Asfur M,2007: The Gravity, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

14. Asfur M,2007: The Nature of Light, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

15. Asfur M,2007: The Atmosphere, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

16. Asfur M,2007: Geology for kids, Alshark press, Jerusalem, Israel.

Hebrew:

1. Asfur, M., and C. Price, 2001: Observations of lightning and sprites in the United States from Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, Bulletin of Israel Meteorological Society, Vol. 6, 1.

English:

1. Price, C., Asfur M., W. Lyons and T. Nelson, 2002: An improved ELF/VLF method for globally geolocating sprite-producing lightning, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 29, No’ 3.

2. Yoav Y, Cloin P,Zev L,Joachim J, Peter I, Adam D, Meir M, Baruch Z and Asfur M.,2003: Sprites observation from the space shuttle during the Mediterranean Israeli dust experiment (MEIDEX), Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, Vol 65, 635-642.

3. R Hsu, H Su, Alfred Chen, L Lee; M. Asfur, C Price, Y Yair, 2003: Transient Luminous events in the Vicinity of Taiwan, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, Vol 65, 561-566.

4. Price C., Asfur M.,2001: Lightning and Climate: The Water Vapor

Connection, American Geophysical Union (AGU).

5. Price C, Asfur M, 2003: Global lightning and climate variability,

International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity, (ICAE).

6. Price C, Asfur M, 2006: Can Lightning Observations be Used as an Indicator of Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor Variability? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 291–298.

7. Price C, Asfur M, 2006: Long Term Trends in Lightning Activity over

Africa, Earth Planets Space (EPS), 58,1197-1201.

8. Yoav Yair, Reuven Aviv, Colin Price, Mustafa Asfur and Gilad Ravid, 2007: Can Spontaneous Synchronization of Lightning Flashes Occur in a Network of Distant Thunderstorms? Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 9.

9. Colin Price, Yoav Yair and Mustafa Asfur, 2007: East African Lightning as a Precursor of Atlantic Hurricane Activity, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34 L09805.


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Dr. Mustafa Asfur

Mustafa worked on the topic of sprites, and the detection of the extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic radiation emitted by the lightning that produces the sprite. Optical observations of sprites by Dr. Walt Lyons in Colorado were compared with the ELF measurements in Israel.