Welcome to the Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science. The Department's main goals are to promote, coordinate, and support research on all aspects of environmental research.
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Research in the department includes both experimental/field and theoretical studies focused on understanding the complex inter-relationships among the major Earth systems, and on the human need for non-polluting energy sources. Scientists in the department have expertise in a range of Earth science disciplines, including climate dynamics, oceanic circulation, hydrology, paleoceanography and the study of past climatic patterns, plant-environment interaction, atmospheric chemistry, cloud dynamics, earth system dynamics, geochemistry and geophysics. These disciplines, and topics studied in each one of them, are ultimately integrated as a means to understand and predict local, regional and global changes. Our main objective for the future is to develop scientific activities that explore the critical interfaces coupling the Earth systems. These include the biosphere-atmosphere, ocean-atmosphere, ocean-sediment, and atmosphere-land surface-soil-groundwater interfaces. We also aim to offer alternative energy sources to those which are adversely affecting our environment.