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Date: May 25, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Shira Raveh-Rubin
Scientific Council Prize for Chemistry -
Date: April 13, 2023
Across the Universe: Israeli Tech to Reach Deep Space for the First Time
Read More about Across the Universe: Israeli Tech to Reach Deep Space for the First TimeThe journey to Jupiter has begun. The European Space Agency’s unmanned spacecraft JUICE (short for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) was recently launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. JUICE’s voyage, the ESA’s most ambitious mission to date, will be particularly lengthy: Upon reaching Jupiter’s orbit by 2031, it will embark on a four-year mission to investigate three of Jupiter’s moons – Callisto, Europa and Ganymede – as well as the composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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Date: March 22, 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Brian Berkowitz
ACS Environmental Au Best Paper Awards 2021?2022 -
Date: March 22, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Ishai Dror
ACS Environmental Au Best Paper Awards 2021?2022 -
Date: March 14, 2023
A Little Dusty – but Alive
Read More about A Little Dusty – but AliveBecause of their minute size, microorganisms travel the world effortlessly. Winds transport them, perched on specs of dust and other airborne particles, across continents and oceans. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and elsewhere have documented this movement consistently through gene sequencing of samples extracted from air.
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Date: March 12, 2023
הכירו את דורי ניסנבאום, דוקטורנט בקבוצה של פרופ' יינון רודיך
Read More about הכירו את דורי ניסנבאום, דוקטורנט בקבוצה של פרופ' יינון רודיךדורי הוא איש אשכולות - מהנדס מכונות בהכשרתו, שלמד בתכנית ברקים בטכניון, התגייס לחיל האוויר ולאחר מכן הגיע לקבוצתו של פרופ' יינון רודיך על מנת לפתח מערכת עם רחפנים במחלקה למדעי כדה"א וכוכבי הלכת.
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Date: February 7, 2023
הכירו את פרופ' חגית אפק, בוגרת המחלקה בקבוצתו של פרופ' דן יקיר
Read More about הכירו את פרופ' חגית אפק, בוגרת המחלקה בקבוצתו של פרופ' דן יקירחגית אפק התחילה את דרכה האקדמית אצל פרופ' דן יקיר במחלקה למדעי כדה"א וכוכבי הלכת במכון ויצמן.
היום חגית היא פרופ' חבר במחלקה למדעי כדה"א באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים.
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Date: January 23, 2023
Look on the Bright Side of Earth
Read More about Look on the Bright Side of EarthWhen looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres – northern and southern – appear equally bright. This is particularly unexpected because the Southern Hemisphere is mostly covered with dark oceans, whereas the Northern Hemisphere has a vast land area that is much brighter than these oceans. For years, the brightness symmetry between hemispheres remained a mystery.
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Date: December 28, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Brian Berkowitz
Recipient of the Israel Association of Urologists group award for Outstanding Research in Endourology 2022 -
Date: December 11, 2022
הכירו את ערן פוס, דוקטורנט בקבוצה של פרופ' עודד אהרונסון
Read More about הכירו את ערן פוס, דוקטורנט בקבוצה של פרופ' עודד אהרונסוןמה ניתן ללמוד על הקשר בין שינויי אקלים טבעיים במאדים לתנועתו סביב השמש? איך ניתן להשוות בין הקרח שנמצא בקוטב הצפוני של מאדים ובין כיפות הקרח באנטרקטיקה וגרינלד? ערן פוס, סטונדט בקבוצתו של פרופ' עודד אהרונסון מנסה לענות על שאלות אלה וגם לעזור לחזות את האקלים העתידי במאדים.
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Date: May 26, 2022
Harder Winters, Stronger Storms
Read More about Harder Winters, Stronger StormsAbout 30 massive, intricate computer networks serve the scientists who stand at the forefront of climate change research. Each network runs a software program comprised of millions of lines of code. These programs are computational models that combine the myriads of physical, chemical and biological phenomena that together form the climate of our planet. The models calculate the state of Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land and ice, capturing past and present climate variability and using the data to predict future climate change.
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Date: April 26, 2022
Breakfast of Champions
Read More about Breakfast of ChampionsEven the smallest organism can have a major influence on the evolution of life on Earth. Microscopic algae that inhabit the sunlit waters of the ocean surface are not only responsible for about half of the photosynthesis on the planet but are also valuable as a nutrient-rich food source sustaining the entire marine ecosystem. In their recently published study, Prof. Itay Halevy and Dr.
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Date: October 28, 2021
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time
Read More about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First TimeJupiter’s Great Red Spot is up there with the rings of Saturn and the blue marble of Earth for solar system icon status. In a study published today in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers and their collaborators on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter report that this spot – really a giant, persistent storm – extends to a depth of about 500 kilometers below the planet’s clouds.
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Date: July 19, 2021
Jupiter's Super Polar Cyclones are Here to Stay
Read More about Jupiter's Super Polar Cyclones are Here to StayUntil recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its orbit around the planet Jupiter, no one knew that powerful cyclones, approximately the size of Australia, rage across its polar regions. Jupiter's storms, as opposed to their earthly variety, do not disperse, hardly change, and are clearly not associated with flying rooftops and damp weather reporters.
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Date: May 18, 2021
In memoriam of Prof. Jacob Karni
Read More about In memoriam of Prof. Jacob KarniIn light of the untimely death of Prof. Jacob Karni from the EPS, we share here the words of the head of the department, Prof. Ilan Koren.
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Date: May 2, 2021
Summary of the LAG BAOMER 2021 measurement campaign at the EPS
Read More about Summary of the LAG BAOMER 2021 measurement campaign at the EPSThe non-stop LAG BAOMER 2021 measurement campaign, conducted by the aerosol group of Prof. Yinon Rudich, has come to an end. Now all is left is to wait for the analyses and results of the numerous measurements.
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Date: April 27, 2021
The lab that studies LAG BAOMER
Read More about The lab that studies LAG BAOMERFor the past 15 years Prof. Yinon Rudich’s group at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been conducting groundbreaking research on LAG BAOMER. This year, we have a unique opportunity to follow their LAG BAOMER 2021 measurement campaign in real time.
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Date: April 4, 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Brian Berkowitz
Awarded an InterPore Honorary Lifetime Membership -
Date: March 22, 2021
Students on the blue marble - Shlomit Sharoni
Read More about Students on the blue marble - Shlomit SharoniShlomit Sharoni has successfully completed her PhD at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Prof. Itay Halevy’s group. She is a modern-day Renaissance woman, in addition to her research career, she is also an aerial acrobatics instructor and a bass guitar player. She has an adorable 3-year old daughter, and currently lives in Eilat with her family. During her PhD, Shlomit investigated the impact of the elemental composition of microscopic algae on the oceanic environment, both in the present and in the geological past.
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Date: March 18, 2021
How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the World
Read More about How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the WorldIt’s not just how hot the fires burn – it’s also where they burn that matters. During the recent extreme fire season in Australia, which began in 2019 and burned into 2020, millions of tons of smoke particles were released into the atmosphere. Most of those particles followed a typical pattern, settling to the ground after a day or week; yet the ones created in fires burning in one corner of the country managed to blanket the entire Southern hemisphere for months.
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Date: March 8, 2021
Introducing Yael Kiro – an early career PI at the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Read More about Introducing Yael Kiro – an early career PI at the department of Earth and Planetary SciencesYael Kiro is the second female PI to join the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute. Her main research fields are Earth sciences and geochemistry, focusing on groundwater aquifers, chemical oceanography, and paleoclimate. She’s intelligent, eloquent, and an enthusiastic advocate of women’s equal opportunity in science, striving to find a deep and meaningful solution by getting to the root of the problem and bringing about a substantial change in perception.
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Date: January 28, 2021
In honor of Tu Bishvat, the holiday of trees – where to plant a forest?
Read More about In honor of Tu Bishvat, the holiday of trees – where to plant a forest?In the year 2000, Prof. Dan Yakir, the 2019 Israel prize recipient for Earth sciences, established the research station in the Yatir forest in order to explore the interplay between vegetation, the atmosphere, and the climate system. Recent findings from data analysis of the measurements conducted at the station indicate a considerable carbon sink potential in semiarid soils and forest plantations, and imply that afforestation of even 10% of semiarid land area under conditions similar to that of the study site, could sequester ~400 billion kg of carbon per year over several decades.
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Date: January 18, 2021
Introducing Rei Chemke, the newest faculty member at the EPS
Read More about Introducing Rei Chemke, the newest faculty member at the EPS2020 wasn’t the easiest year, one might say it was somewhat apocalyptic. Still, it also had some bright moments. One of them, for the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was the addition of Rei Chemke as a principal investigator. Rei’s research focuses on climate dynamics. He’s interested in large scale processes, particularly in the atmospheric and oceanic flows, temperature and sea ice due to both natural and anthropogenic processes.
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Date: January 13, 2021
The most accurate clock of its kind to be sent to Jupiter
Read More about The most accurate clock of its kind to be sent to JupiterIsraelis are not usually known for their exceptional punctuality, but Prof. Yohai Kaspi and Dr. Eli Galanti of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Earth and Planetary Sciences designed a clock so accurate, it will lose less than a second in ten million years. Kaspi is the PI of the atmospheric science experiment of the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission to Jupiter. The clock will be used to perform atmospheric radio-occultations of Jupiter in order to study the properties of its atmosphere.