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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 - Lecture
Supported Nanocomposites for Water Decontamination
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Ines Zucker , Tel Aviv UniversityAbstract: Contamination of drinking water sources by a variety of organic and inorganic compounds demands more efficacious and reliable treatment technologies. However, conventional water tr Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Hour: 16:00Speaker: Kevin Uno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia UniversityContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
Styles and rates of landscape evolution away from tectonic-plate boundaries: examples from southern Africa
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Shlomy Vainer - Lecture
Adventures in the Critical Zone: from carbon fluxes to wildfires
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Antonello Provenzale - Lecture
Marine electrical imaging reveals novel freshwater transport mechanism in Hawaiʻi
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Eric Attias , Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology University of HawaiʻiAbstract: Conventional hydrogeologic models employed to compute ocean island sustainable yields and aquifer storage neglect the nearshore and onshore submarine environment’s complexity. Ho Continue read abstract - Lecture
In situ identification of 48-56.0 million old proteins in chert with unusually high stiffness
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Filipe Natalio , Scientific Archaeology Unit Weizmann Institute of ScienceContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
Nanoinclusions in diamonds: trapped fluids and solid molecular N2 and CO2
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Oded Navon, Institute of Earth Sciences The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: Diamonds are perfect boxes for delivering samples of fluids and volatile species from the mantle to the surface. While mineral inclusions are often a few >30 micrometer in size and Continue read abstract - Lecture
A coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis of the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation and its implication for climate change
Date: Sunday, December 27, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dana Reiter, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of ScienceAbstract: The Hadley circulation is a key element of the climate system. It is traditionally defined as the zonally averaged meridional circulation in the tropics, therefore treated as a zon Continue read abstractShare the event A coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis of the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation and its implication for climate change on email Add the event A coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian analysis of the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation and its implication for climate change to calendarContact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il - Lecture
Reducing the Uncertainty of Extreme Weather and Climate Predictions
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Assaf Hochman , Department of Tropospheric Research, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein - LeopoldshafenAbstract: Weather and climate extremes such as cold spells, heat waves, heavy precipitation or windstorms have long been considered challenging to adequately predict a few days in advance. E Continue read abstract - Lecture
Seismic sensing with optical fibers – principles and applications
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Hour: 10:00Speaker: Ariel Lellouch, Stanford UniversityAbstract: During the last decade, seismic sensing with optical fibers has become a reality. By analyzing the effect of seismic deformation on the fiber’s optical response, state-of-the-art Continue read abstract - Lecture
What caused megadroughts in North and South America?
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nathan Steiger , Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Insights on Processes in Polar Supercooled Cloud Lifecycles from Observations and Cloud Resolving Model Simulations
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Hour: 16:15Speaker: Israel Silber, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstract: Supercooled clouds substantially impact polar surface energy budgets but large-scale models often underestimate their occurrence, which motivates accurately establishing metrics of Continue read abstract - Lecture
Why are there colors in the ocean?
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2020 Hour: 09:00Speaker: Derya Akkaynak, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Florida Atlantic University - Lecture
Maritime silver trade in the Levant during the Iron Age and its effect on human pollution
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yigal Erel , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & University of Haifa, Israel - Lecture
Life and death in a pinch of salt: chronology, sedimentology, and geobiology of the Messenian Salinity Crisis deposits in the deep Levant Basin
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Aaron Meilijson , University of HaifaAbstract: The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC; 5.97-5.33 Ma) is considered an extreme environmental event driven by changes in climate and tectonics, which affected global ocean salinity and Continue read abstractShare the event Life and death in a pinch of salt: chronology, sedimentology, and geobiology of the Messenian Salinity Crisis deposits in the deep Levant Basin on email Add the event Life and death in a pinch of salt: chronology, sedimentology, and geobiology of the Messenian Salinity Crisis deposits in the deep Levant Basin to calendar - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, April 5, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Colin Price - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Bar Oryan - Lecture
Seismic sensing with optical fibers – principles and applications
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Hour: 10:30Speaker: Ariel Lellouch, Department of Geophysics Stanford UniversityAbstract: During the last decade, seismic sensing with optical fibers has become a reality. By analyzing the effect of seismic deformation on the fiber’s optical response, state-of-the-art Continue read abstract - Lecture
Potential role of cloud microorganisms in atmospheric chemistry
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anne-Marie Delort , Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, CNRS, Université Clermont AuvergneAbstract: We have shown that microorganisms (bacteria, yeast and fungi) were present in clouds and were metabolically active. As a consequence a new scientific question rose: are they able t Continue read abstract - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 8, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Antonello Provenzale - Lecture
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Date: Sunday, March 1, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yakov Weiss , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Exploring the limits of Earth’s habitability by scientific ocean drilling: The impact of temperature on microbial life and carbon flow in deep sub-seafloor sediments
Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Verena Heuer, National Academy of Science University of BremenShare the event Exploring the limits of Earth’s habitability by scientific ocean drilling: The impact of temperature on microbial life and carbon flow in deep sub-seafloor sediments on email Add the event Exploring the limits of Earth’s habitability by scientific ocean drilling: The impact of temperature on microbial life and carbon flow in deep sub-seafloor sediments to calendar - Lecture
Utilization of machine learning techniques to retrieve aerosol and cloud properties from remote sensing measurements
Date: Sunday, February 9, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Michal Segal Rosenheimer , Tel Aviv University - Lecture
Developing Models to Estimate Crop Water Consumption based on Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data
Date: Sunday, February 2, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Offer Rozenstein, Volcani - Lecture
Quantifying Holocene rainfall and evaporation in East Asia
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yoni Goldsmith , Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Soil Spectroscopy throughout the Years: Availabilities and Capabilities
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Eyal Ben-Dor , Department of Geography Porter School of Environment and Earth Sciences Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel Aviv University IsraelAbstract: The soil spectroscopy discipline has been progressed over the past two decades quite remarkably. Many portable point spectrometers became available through that time where recently Continue read abstract - Lecture
Orbital modulation of geological activity
Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Francis Nimmo, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California Santa CruzAbstract: Many planetary bodies experience tides, which produce time-varying stresses. Seismic activity on the Moon is modulated by tides, and there are hints of similar effects on Earth (bu Continue read abstract - Lecture
The Critical Role of Chronology in Understanding Past Climate Change: Precisely Reconstructing Holocene Climate at Mono Lake, California
Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Susan R. H. Zimmerman, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryAbstract: Recent droughts and floods in California have drawn attention to the vulnerability of our water-supply system to present and future climate variability. A recent analysis of climat Continue read abstractShare the event The Critical Role of Chronology in Understanding Past Climate Change: Precisely Reconstructing Holocene Climate at Mono Lake, California on email Add the event The Critical Role of Chronology in Understanding Past Climate Change: Precisely Reconstructing Holocene Climate at Mono Lake, California to calendar - Lecture
Should multiple agents work together or split their job to control populations of harmful species?
Date: Thursday, January 2, 2020 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Adam LampertAbstract: The management of harmful species, including invasive species, pests, parasites, and diseases, is a major global challenge. Harmful species cause severe damage to ecosystems, biodi Continue read abstract - Lecture
A mechanism for positive lapse-rate feedback in polar regions
Date: Monday, December 30, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Prof. Rodrigo Caballero, Department of Meteorology (MISU) Stockholm UniversityAbstract: Observations and climate simulations show that polar regions warm faster than the rest of the globe in response to radiative forcing. Feedback diagnostics in models show that a lar Continue read abstract - Lecture
Water-use strategies leading to resilience of pine trees to global climatic change
Date: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Hour: 10:30Speaker: Yakir Preisler, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriclture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Study of S isotope values of specific organic and inorganic S compounds in immature organic rich sediments
Date: Sunday, December 22, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Lubna Shawar , The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: The preservation of the organic matter (OM) occurs as a result of post-depositional abiotic sulfurization, condensation and polymerization processes that convert the OM into stable Continue read abstract - Lecture
Evaporation from the ocean: A new Lagrangian model and its application to observations
Date: Sunday, December 15, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Natan Paldor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Using cosmogenic 21Ne to quantify sediment residence time in large-scale fluvial systems throughout the geological record
Date: Sunday, December 1, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Michal Ben-Israel, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAbstract: Rivers are the most effective agent of erosion on earth, transporting massive amounts of detrital and dissolved matter into depositional basins, making them a significant part of t Continue read abstract - Lecture
A Photodynamical Model for Uniform and Precise Planetary Parameters Determination in Kepler Systems
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Hour: 13:30Speaker: Gidi Yoffe, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science - Lecture
Internal Waves in the Ocean - what we know, and what we don't
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Yuri V Lvov , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Lecture
Isotopic diagenesis of biogenic silica in marine sediments and implications for Cenozoic climate
Date: Sunday, November 24, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Anastasia Yanchilina, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of ScienceAbstract: The oxygen isotopic signature of marine deep-sea cherts was previously used to reconstruct past ocean temperature and bottom water δ18O through the Cenozoic and Mesozoic periods. Continue read abstract - Lecture
A universal rank-order transform to extract signals from noisy data
Date: Sunday, November 17, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Alex Kostinski, Michigan Technological University - Lecture
Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems
Date: Sunday, November 10, 2019 Hour: 14:00Speaker: Jack Lissauer , NASA Ames Research CenterAbstract: More than one-third of the 4000+ planet candidates found by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are associated with target stars that have more than one planet candidate, and such “multis Continue read abstract - Lecture
Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System: Life as we know it or life as we don’t?
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Alex Hayes, Associate Professor, Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetarty Science, Director of the Spacecraft Planetary Image FacilityAbstract: Recent discoveries have shown that habitable environments likely exist in subsurface water oceans within the outer planet moons of Europa and Enceladus. On Titan, the largest moon Continue read abstract - Lecture
Forecast Skill and the Impact of Equatorial Waves in Two Operational Weather Prediction Systems
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: George N. Kiladis , Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder, ColoradoAbstract: Equatorially trapped waves account for a large portion of the perturbations within the tropical atmosphere and ocean. In the atmosphere, these disturbances are coupled to convectio Continue read abstract - Lecture
Influence of terrestrial plants and phytoplankton on photochemical air-pollution
Date: Sunday, June 30, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Eran Tas, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Geochemical Dynamics of Atmospheric Oxygen
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Dan Schrag, Harvard University - Lecture
A Forward Model for the Architecture of Inner Planetary Systems
Date: Sunday, June 23, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Eric Ford, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Penn State - Lecture
Geoethics: what is geoethics and what it has to do with us?
Date: Sunday, June 16, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Nir Orion, Department of Science Teaching Weizmann Institute of Science - Lecture
The Ventilated Thermocline in the Tropical Pacific and Its Relationship to Decadal Variability in Global Warming
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Hour: 14:00Speaker: Dan Schrag, Harvard University - Lecture
The role of clouds in extratropical climate change and variability
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: David Thompson - Lecture
Mixing and Unmixing in Planets
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: David Stevenson - Lecture
Fluvial response to base-level fall: insights from the main perennial tributaries of the Dead Sea
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Elad Dente , Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecture
Improving the detection of biological aerosols in the atmosphere - pollen, spores, and nitrated proteins
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Alex Huffman, University of Denver - Lecture
The pathway of atmospheric water from ocean evaporation to rainout in extratropical weather systems
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Heini Wernli , ETH - Lecture
The stinging mechanism of jellyfish
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019 Hour: 11:00Speaker: Uri Shavit , Technion