• Prof. Oded Aharonson

    • Past and present planetary climates
    • Lunar formation, crustal magnetism
    • Giant impact dynamics
    • Exoplanets
    • Planetary ice and other volatiles
    • Surface evolution
  • Prof. Brian Berkowitz

    • Modelling and measurements of anomalous chemical transport in heterogeneous porous media
    • Flow, transport and chemical reactions in fractured geological formations
    • Laboratory investigations of precipitation/dissolution and chemical reactivity in geological media
    • Scaling behavior of fluid flow and chemical transport
    • Reactive chemical transport in partially saturated and saturated media
    • Multiphase flows in porous media
    • Fate and transport of pharmaceutical compounds, nanomaterials, and technology-critical elements
    • Oxidative and reductive catalytic methods to treat contaminated water and industrial effluents
  • Dr. Rei Chemke

    • Climate dynamics 
    • Geophysical fluid dynamics
    • Atmosphere and ocean physics 
    • Geostrophic turbulence
  • Prof. Itay Halevy

    • Understanding the long-timescale co-evolution of the chemical composition and oxidation state of the oceans and atmosphere, biological activity, and climate
    • Understanding the suite of processes, microscopic to global, microbial and abiotic, which control the chemical and isotopic composition of sedimentary rocks
    • Using geochemical and isotopic signals preserved in the geologic record to understand important events in Earth history
  • Prof. Yohai Kaspi

    • Giant planet atmospheres and interiors
    • Planetary atmospheres and exoplanets
    • Earth’s storm track and jet dynamics
    • Climate dynamics and effects of climate change
    • Planetary gravity science
  • Dr. Yael Kiro

    • low-temperature geochemistry
    • ocean chemistry
    • paleoclimate (glacial-intergalcial time scales)
    • coastal aquifers
    • water-rock interaction
  • Prof. Ilan Koren

    • Cloud physics
    • Climate
    • Ocean atmosphere interactions
    • Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation
    • Radiation transfer and remote sensing
  • Dr. Shira Raveh-Rubin

    • Dynamical meteorology
    • large-scale dynamics
    • extratropical cyclones
    • Mediterranean cyclones
    • water cycle
    • atmospheric transport
    • extreme weather
    • feature-based climatologies
  • Prof. Yinon Rudich

    • Biological health effects of particulate matter
    • Atmospheric microbiome and microbiology
    • Optical properties of tropospheric aerosols
    • Heterogeneous ice nucleation in clouds
    • Sea-Atmosphere interactions
    • Atmospheric chemistry and microphysics of organic and mineral dust aerosols
  • Prof. Aldo Shemesh

    • Low temperature isotope geochemistry

    • Siliceous paleoceanography

    • Climate reconstruction

    • Anthropogenic stress on marine systems

    • Mediterranean corals and vermetid reefs

  • Prof. Dan Yakir

    • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
    • Carbon, water, and energy exchange of semi-arid ecosystems
    • Novel tracers and indicators of photosynthetic activities
    • Climatic and hydrological implications of land use and land cover changes
    • Stress and extreme events effects on ecosystem functioning