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Groundwater-surface water interactions in coastal environments and the impact of hydrogeological changes.
Date: Sunday, March 19, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anner Paldor - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 12, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Boswell Wing, Colorado - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 5, 2023Speaker: Ann Pearson - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, February 26, 2023Speaker: Holly Michael - Lecture
flow, deformation and, reaction in porous media: the Coupling of Flow and Elastic Expansion in Porous Media
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yaniv Edery - Lecture
Forecasting surface weather and storm tracks at one-month leads: role of the stratosphere and the Madden Julian Oscillation
Date: Sunday, February 5, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Chaim Garfinkel, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: The traditional approach to weather forecasting on one- to two-week timescales utilizes weather forecasting models, but on timescales longer than two weeks, the value of determinis Continue read abstract - Lecture
Silver mines, the rise of money and the advent of democracy
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 Hour: 14:00Speaker: Prof. Francis Albarède, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FranceAbstract: Over the last 2½ millenia, the world economy depended on prevailing currencies: the Athenian owl (530- 168 BCE), the Roman denarius (211 BCE-250 AD), the Spanish piece-of-eight ( Continue read abstract - Lecture
Insolation Forcing and Eastern Mediterranean aridity: Evidence from the Dead Sea and implications for climate projections
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yochanan Kushnir, Lamont-Dohert Earth Observatory Columbia UniversityAbstract: The Mediterranean region stands out among other subtropical regions in its projected drying response to the global rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This drying t Continue read abstract - Lecture
Persistent and concurrent weather extremes in present and future climates
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Kai Kornhuber, Columbia UniversityAbstract: Recent severe summertime weather extremes in the Northern hemisphere extratropics such as the extraordinary 2021 North American Heatwave and the record-breaking floods in central Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, January 15, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Adi Torfstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, January 8, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dan Rabinowitz, Tel Aviv University - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, January 1, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yishai Weinstein, Bar Ilan Univrsity - Lecture
Lightning, Biology, and Evolution
Date: Sunday, December 25, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Colin Price, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstract: Most electrical activity in vertebrates and invertebrates occurs at extremely low frequencies (ELF), with characteristic maxima below 50 Hz. The origin of these frequency maxima i Continue read abstract - Lecture
Origin of compact exoplanetary systems
Date: Sunday, December 4, 2022 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Raluca Rufu SwRI, BoulderAbstract: One of the most surprising discoveries in exoplanet science has been the existence of compact systems of Earth to super-Earth sized planets. These multi-planet systems have nearly Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, November 20, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: David Fahey - Lecture
Targeted observations of transient luminous events from the International Space Station during the ILAN-ES campaign
Date: Sunday, November 13, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yoav Yair - Lecture
Climate change challenge and innovative approaches - from batteries to agriculture - towards a more sustainable future
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Hour: 09:30Speaker: Steven Chu, Stanford University InterPore Israel Chapter
Date: Sunday, September 18, 2022 Hour: 09:30- Lecture
Impacts of the June 2021 Heat Dome on Pacific Northwest (USA) Trees and Forests
Date: Sunday, June 19, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Chris Still, Oregon State UniversityAbstract: Most of the Pacific Northwest (PNW, USA) and British Columbia experienced extraordinarily high air temperatures during an extreme heat wave event (“heat dome”) in late June o Continue read abstract - Lecture
Biogeochemical cycling in subsurface systems
Date: Sunday, June 12, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dr. Maya Engel, SLAC National Lab Stanford UniversityAbstract: Subsurface systems, such as alluvial aquifers and soils, store and govern the quality of groundwater by sustaining a unique balance of biogeochemical and hydrological processes. Th Continue read abstract - Lecture
LESSONS FROM THE DEAD SEA, THE CLOSEST MODERN ANALOG FOR DEEP EVAPORITIC BASINS
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nadav Lensky, Geological survey of IsraelAbstract: Thick halite sequences are common in the Earth’s geologic record; they were accumulated in deep perennial hypersaline water bodies, saturated to halite and subjected to negative Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Avishai Abu, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, May 8, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nili Harnik, Tel Aviv University - Lecture
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Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Mathew Henry - Lecture
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Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Georg Wohlfahrt, University of Innsbruck Department of Ecology Symposium on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 5-6 April 2022
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Decadal Climate Predictions Using Sequential Learning Algorithms
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Golan Bel, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevAbstract: Decadal Climate Predictions Using Sequential Learning Algorithms Ensembles of climate models are commonly used to improve climate predictions and assess the uncertainties associa Continue read abstract - Lecture
Four disruptive technologies that are revolutionizing sensing of the oceans
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Emmanuel BossAbstract: The maker movement (cheap electronics + sharing), automated microscopy, autonomous platforms and small footprint satellites have been revolutionizing oceanography, opening a varie Continue read abstract - Lecture
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling: from wave-mean flow feedbacks to sub-seasonal predictability
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Thomas BirnerAbstract: It is by now well established that certain stratospheric flow configurations may alter tropospheric dynamical variability. Such flow configurations include the aftermath of sudden Continue read abstract - Lecture
Sediment geochemistry in large lakes, and what it can tell us about the ancient oceans
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Sergei Katsev, University of Minnesota, DuluthAbstract: The Great Lakes of the Earth are freshwater seas, and many of the geochemical processes that take place in their bottom sediments parallel those that happen in marine environments. Continue read abstract - Lecture
Reduced Rainfall in Future Heavy Precipitation Events Related to Contracted Rain Area Despite Increased Rain Rate
Date: Sunday, February 20, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Moshe (Koko) Armon, The Hebrew University - Lecture
Distributed views across media: From space to ocean-depths
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yoav Schechner , TechnionAbstract: By economy of scale, imaging sensors can now be deployed densely and operated in a coordinated manner at large numbers in space, air, underwater and on the ground. Such distributed Continue read abstract - Lecture
Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Michael P. Byrne, Lecturer in Earth & Environmental Sciences – University of St Andrews Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow – University of OxfordAbstract: Extreme temperatures have warmed substantially over recent decades and are expected to continue warming in response to future climate change. Warming of extreme temperatures is pro Continue read abstract - Lecture
M. Magaritz Memorial Lecture: The storyline approach to the construction of useable climate information at the local scale.
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Ted Shepherd , Department of Meteorology University of ReadingContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
Stormy weather: past and future hazards from a weather system perspective
Date: Sunday, January 23, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Jennifer Catto , University of ExeterAbstract: Natural hazards such as extreme wind, rainfall and ocean waves can have severe impacts on built and natural environments, contributing to the occurrence of disastrous events in som Continue read abstract - Lecture
Direct Imaging of Planet Formation
Date: Sunday, January 16, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Sivan Ginzburg , California Institute of TechnologyAbstract: The vast majority of detected planets are observed indirectly, using their small perturbation on the light emitted by the host stars. In recent years, however, the world's largest Continue read abstract - Lecture
Three arguments for increasing weather persistence in boreal summer – and why we should care.
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dim CoumouAbstract: Persistent summer weather can have significant socio-economic impacts. Prolonged hot-dry conditions may lead to crop yield losses, while consecutive rainy days (e.g. associated wit Continue read abstract - Lecture
The impact of friction on the stability of ice sheets
Date: Sunday, December 26, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Roiy SayagAbstract: Ice sheets can dramatically impact the state of climate. This is due to their capacity to modify the planetary energy balance through variations in the ice cover and mass. A major Continue read abstract - Lecture
Lessons from the past: Climate variability in the Levantine corridor during the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition
Date: Sunday, December 19, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nicolas WaldmanAbstract: The study of past warm climates with high atmospheric CO2 concentrations provides important tools for understanding present trends and developing mitigation strategies for future s Continue read abstract - Lecture
Transient response of the tropical rain belt to volcanic eruptions
Date: Sunday, December 5, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Ori Adam - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, November 21, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Raluca Rufu - Lecture
A Simple Model For Interpreting Temperature Variability And Its Higher-Order Changes
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Talia TamarinContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
On the tropospheric response to transient stratospheric momentum torques
Date: Sunday, November 7, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Idan White - Lecture
Promenades through Nobels' landscapes: From disorder & fluctuations to organization in Earth’s climate and other complex systems
Date: Sunday, October 31, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Michael David Chekroun, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of ScienceShare the event Promenades through Nobels' landscapes: From disorder & fluctuations to organization in Earth’s climate and other complex systems on email Add the event Promenades through Nobels' landscapes: From disorder & fluctuations to organization in Earth’s climate and other complex systems to calendar - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, October 17, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yossi Ashkenazy, Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben-Gurion University of the NegevContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
Halite deposition in the Dead Sea: Direct observations and lessons for thick halite sequences in the geological record
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Ido Sirota , Institute of Earth Sciences The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: Layered halite sequences were deposited in deep hypersaline basins throughout the geological record. These sequences are of research interest for hydrocarbon extraction, mineral ex Continue read abstract - Lecture
Inferring Mars' Surface Winds by Analyzing the Global Distribution of Barchan Dunes using a Convolutional Neural Network
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Lior Rubanenko, Department of Geological Sciences Stanford UniversityAbstract: Sand seas on Mars are riddled with eolian landforms created by accumulating sand particles. When the sand supply is limited and the wind is approximately unidirectional, these land Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Elan Levy - Lecture
Stir and mix: studying upper ocean dynamics from theory to application
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Abigail Bodner , Environmental and Society Brown UniversityAbstract: Near the ocean surface, mixing and turbulence modulate the transfer of heat, momentum, carbon and other properties, between the atmosphere and ocean interior. Accurate representati Continue read abstract - Lecture
What causes the leakiness of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current?
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Aviv Solodoch, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences UCLAAbstract: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a circulation pattern of great climatic importance. Its northward heat flux at the upper water column moderates European w Continue read abstract - Lecture
Deposition of Gypsum Deltas at the Holocene Dead Sea by outsalting and paleoclimatic insights
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Nurit Weber, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of SciencesAbstract: The rapid retreat of the Dead Sea during the past decades led the exposure of unique structures of massive gypsum and aragonite crusts: large capes pointing towards the open lake ( Continue read abstract - Lecture
Physics-guided machine-learning parameterizations of subgrid processes for climate modeling
Date: Monday, April 26, 2021 Hour: 14:00Speaker: Janni Yuval, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences MIT school of ScienceAbstract: Global climate models represent small-scale processes, such as clouds and convection, using subgrid models known as parameterizations. Traditional parameterizations are usually bas Continue read abstract - Lecture
The hydrological paradox - why the whole is less than the sum of its parts?
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2021Speaker: Erwin Zehe , KITAbstract: Hydrological systems are inherently non-linear and exhibit an enormous structural and functional heterogeneity. Strikingly, we can nevertheless successfully simulate stream flow ge Continue read abstract - Lecture
Larger tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes where slab dip is reduced
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Hour: 16:00Speaker: Bar Oryan, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia UniversityAbstract: A subset of megathrust earthquakes produce anomalously large tsunamis for their magnitude. All of these recorded ‘tsunami earthquakes’ in the past 50 years had extensional afte Continue read abstract - Lecture
Advances of remote sensing in agriculture and forestry for climate change adaptation
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021Speaker: Tarin Paz-Kagan , Volcani InstituteAbstract: Forests and agricultural orchards are becoming increasingly susceptible to drought, insect outbreaks, and disease due to climate change worldwide. Thus, forest and a Continue read abstractContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il