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Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Earth Science
Date: Sunday, December 1 – Sunday, December 1, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anna Brook, University of HaifaAbstract: Our Laboratory focuses on research that drives technological, environmental and social change. It includes advanced technologies in the social aspect of environment management, e Continue read abstract - Lecture
Late Oxygenation of Marine Environments Revealed by Dolomite U-Pb Dating
Date: Sunday, November 10 – Sunday, November 10, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Uri Ryb, Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: causal relationships between evolution and oxygenation of the ocean are vigorously debated. At the heart of these uncertainties are inconsistencies among reconstructed timelines Continue read abstract - Lecture
Forensic seismic evidence for precursory mobilization in Gaza leading to the October 7 terrorist attack
Date: Sunday, November 3 – Sunday, November 3, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Asaf Inbal, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstract: Seismic waves excited by human activity frequently obscure signals due to tectonic processes and are discarded as a nuisance. Seismic noise-field analysis is, however, a powerful Continue read abstract - Lecture
Data synthesis to assess the effects of climate change on agricultural production and food security
Date: Sunday, June 30 – Sunday, June 30, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: David Makowski, INRAe & University Paris-SaclayAbstract: Climate change is having an impact on agricultural production and food security. Rising temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and extreme weather events can reduce crop yiel Continue read abstract - Lecture
On Microbes and Mountains: Unraveling the Links Between Microbial Weathering and Large-Scale Surface Processes
Date: Sunday, June 16 – Sunday, June 16, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Michal Ben-Israel, University of CaliforniaAbstract: Microorganisms play a crucial role in the weathering processes that transform rock into soil through chemical and physical mechanisms essential for nutrient cycling, nitrogen fixat Continue read abstract - Lecture
The Role of Cloud Morphology in Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Date: Sunday, June 2 – Sunday, June 2, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Tom Goren, Bar Ilan UniversityAbstract: Aerosol-cloud interactions are extensively studied to understand the climatic effect of anthropogenic aerosols, as the latter can change the radiative properties of clouds. Despit Continue read abstract - Lecture
Floods in a warming climate: what are the missing puzzle pieces?
Date: Sunday, May 19 – Sunday, May 19, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Efrat Morin, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: Flood is the outcome of complex processes interacting at a range of scales. Flood generation and its magnitude depend on different precipitation and surface properties. As the clim Continue read abstract - Lecture
Lake Kinneret in a Changing Environment
Date: Sunday, May 12 – Sunday, May 12, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yael Amitai, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, The Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological LaboratoryAbstract: Located in a highly sensitive subtropical climate area and a densely populated area, Lake Kinneret is poised to undergo both natural and human-induced transformations in the coming Continue read abstract - Lecture
Data Drought in the Humid Tropics: How to Overcome the Cloud Barrier in Greenhouse Gas Remote Sensing
Date: Tuesday, May 7 – Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yinon Bar-On, California Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Quantifying land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon-dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) is essential for evaluating carbonclimate feedbacks. Greenhouse gas satellite missions aim to provid Continue read abstract - Lecture
Benthic side control on the chemical composition of the ocean
Date: Sunday, April 7 – Sunday, April 7, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Zvi Steiner, GEOMAR Helmholtz CentreAbstract: The sediment – bottom-water interface is suggested as a key control on the chemical composition of the ocean by studies of trace elements in the ocean water-column, yet data re Continue read abstract - Lecture
Large scale circulation adjustments to aerosol-cloud interactions and its radiative effect
Date: Sunday, March 31 – Sunday, March 31, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Guy Dagan, Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is a leading source of uncertainty in estimating the effect of human activity on the climate system. The challenge lies in the scale Continue read abstract - Lecture
EPS AI discussion seminar - Neural General Circulation Models for weather and climate predictions
Date: Monday, March 25 – Monday, March 25, 2024 Hour: 16:00Speaker: Janni Yuval - Lecture
EPS AI discussion seminar - Applications of Self Organizing Maps for the classification of cyclones in the Mediterranean
Date: Monday, March 11 – Monday, March 11, 2024 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Yonatan Givon, Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of ScienceAbstract: The use of SOM in atmospheric science has grown popular over the recent years. The SOM's strength lies in its ability to project the continuum of a given dynamical system to an Continue read abstract - Lecture
EPS AI discussion seminar - Towards a Unified Conversational Model for Remote Sensing Imagery
Date: Monday, February 26 – Monday, February 26, 2024 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Salman Khan (MBZUAI) - Lecture
EPS Departmental Seminar; Challenges and opportunities in global storm resolving climate models
Date: Sunday, February 25 – Sunday, February 25, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dr. Ilai Guendelman, Princeton University - Lecture
EPS AI discussion seminar- Machine Learning for Flood Forecasting: Research to Ope
Date: Monday, February 12 – Monday, February 12, 2024 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Grey Nearing - Lecture
The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron (oxyhydr)oxides
Date: Sunday, February 11 – Sunday, February 11, 2024 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nir Galili - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, November 26 – Sunday, November 26, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Jianmin Chen - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, November 19 – Sunday, November 19, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Erwin Zehe - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, November 5 – Sunday, November 5, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Paul O'Gorman - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, October 15 – Sunday, October 15, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dr. Katinka Bellomo - Lecture
Quantifying the Global and Regional Contribution of Terrestrial Carbon Pools to the Land Sink
Date: Sunday, September 10 – Sunday, September 10, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yinon Bar-On, California Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Terrestrial sequestration of carbon has mitigated ≈30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions. However its distribution across different pools—live or dead biomass, and soil and s Continue read abstract - Lecture
Using weather regimes in the context of sub-seasonal forecasting for the Extratropics: the role of synoptic-scale processes in regime predictability, modulation by the MJO and stratosphere, and link to surface weather
Date: Sunday, July 23 – Sunday, July 23, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Christian Grams, Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Sub-seasonal forecasting aims to predict the mean weather conditions on weekly time-scales 2-6 weeks ahead. In the midlatitudes, lLarge-scale, quasi-stationary, recurrent, and pers Continue read abstractShare the event Using weather regimes in the context of sub-seasonal forecasting for the Extratropics: the role of synoptic-scale processes in regime predictability, modulation by the MJO and stratosphere, and link to surface weather on email Add the event Using weather regimes in the context of sub-seasonal forecasting for the Extratropics: the role of synoptic-scale processes in regime predictability, modulation by the MJO and stratosphere, and link to surface weather to calendar - Lecture
A Neolithic Tsunami Event along the Eastern Mediterranean Littoral: A Transdisciplinary Research at the Coast of Dor Israel
Date: Sunday, July 9 – Sunday, July 9, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Gilad Steinberg, University of California San DiegoAbstract: Tsunami events in antiquity had a profound influence on coastal societies. Six thousand years of historical records and geological data show that tsunamis are a common phenomenon a Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, June 18 – Sunday, June 18, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Tal Benaltabet, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, June 11 – Sunday, June 11, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yael Leshno - Lecture
Paleoclimate reconstruction using speleothems in dry and cold regions.
Date: Sunday, June 4 – Sunday, June 4, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anton Vaks, GSI, Israel - Lecture
Studying the role of fluids in the mantle through natural samples and experiments
Date: Sunday, May 28 – Sunday, May 28, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Ronit Kesel, Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: Mantle fluids are the primary carriers of key volatile elements that make the Earth’s long-term planetary habitability possible. The interaction of such volatile-rich fluids with Continue read abstract - Lecture
Determining past lake temperatures in saline lake systems using fluid inclusions: an example from the Dead Sea
Date: Sunday, May 21 – Sunday, May 21, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Niels Brall, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: In recent decades, various temperature proxies have been developed and further established in the scientific community, at both low and high accuracy, however, not every method can Continue read abstract - Lecture
Projecting the impacts of climate change on human society
Date: Sunday, May 14 – Sunday, May 14, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Ram Fishman, Tel Aviv University - Lecture
Determining the age of the Kalahari Group, Southern Africa, using complex solutions for cosmogenic isotope concentrations
Date: Sunday, May 7 – Sunday, May 7, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Ari Matmon, The Hebrew university of Jerusalem - Lecture
Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves: sources, sinks, and interactions with the eddy field.
Date: Sunday, April 30 – Sunday, April 30, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Roy Barkan, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstract: The global oceanic overturning circulation and the transport of heat and dissolved gases are strongly controlled by upper ocean turbulent mixing that is driven by the breaking of i Continue read abstract - Lecture
Activation and arrest of thermal pressurization in localized faults
Date: Thursday, April 27 – Thursday, April 27, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nir Badt, The University of PennsylvaniaAbstract: Thermal Pressurization (TP) is expected to be a dominant frictional weakening mechanism during earthquakes. However, due to experimental limitations there is a lack of direct evide Continue read abstract - Lecture
Global warming accelerates soil heterotrophic respiration
Date: Sunday, April 2 – Sunday, April 2, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Alon Nissan, ETH ZurichAbstract: Carbon efflux from soils is the largest terrestrial carbon source to the atmosphere, yet it remains one of the most uncertain fluxes in the Earth’s carbon budget. A dominant comp Continue read abstract - Lecture
From Oceanic Blooms to Dust Events: Exploring the Activity and Survival Strategies of Bioaerosols
Date: Sunday, March 26 – Sunday, March 26, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Naama Lang-Yona, Technion, Haifa - Lecture
Groundwater-surface water interactions in coastal environments and the impact of hydrogeological changes.
Date: Sunday, March 19 – Sunday, March 19, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anner Paldor - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 12 – Sunday, March 12, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Boswell Wing, Colorado - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 5 – Sunday, March 5, 2023Speaker: Ann Pearson - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, February 26 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Thursday, February 2, 2023 Hour: 14:00Abstract: 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 – 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 – 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 – Sunday, January 15, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Adi Torfstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, January 8 – Sunday, January 8, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dan Rabinowitz, Tel Aviv University - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, January 1 – Sunday, January 1, 2023 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yishai Weinstein, Bar Ilan Univrsity - Lecture
Lightning, Biology, and Evolution
Date: Sunday, December 25 – 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 – Sunday, December 4, 2022 Hour: 15:00Speaker: Boulder,Raluca Rufu SwRIAbstract: 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