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Prof. Aldo Shemesh

Prof. Aldo Shemesh
Prof. Aldo Shemesh
Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100 ISRAEL

972-8-934-3429
08-9344124
Aldo.Shemesh@weizmann.ac.il

The Barry Rymer Family Chair

 

Research Interests:
 

  • Global climate change as revealed from stable isotopes records of marine and continental siliceous sediments.
  • Southern Ocean paleoceanograph Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica.
  • Carbon and Nitrogen isotopes in diatom-opal as recorders of past oceanic productivity.
  • Isotopic composition of siliceous microfossils: diatoms, radiolarian, sponge-spicules, phytoliths.
  • Regional climate change inferred from high altitude, high latitude diatom 18O records.
  • Carbon and Oxygen isotopes in corals: present and past manifestation of coral bleaching.