Call for Papers regarding Living Sandscapes – Experience, Land Use, and Environmental Change! 

For more information about the KIEL Conference visit ROOTS website, and see following invitation: SANDSCAPES 2027_KielConference_Call_for_Papers_Session_32 (1).pdf

The Israel Port-OSL Research Group (IP-OSLRG), founded in 2026 consists of the three major port-OSL researchers and luminescence dating experts in Israel.

A workshop is planned for September 16th, 2026 at Ariel University.

For a funded & groundbreaking study on unique high-resolution palaeoenvironmental and sedimentological archives throughout Israel, Earth and Archaeological Science research students (M.Sc / MA / Ph.D. / post-Doc) are needed!

Research methods include: Field work, geospatial analysis, sedimentology, geochemistry, numerical dating, archaeology, modelling.

Research Inception time: Immediate!

For details, pls email cv, declaration of interest and recommendation letter to:

Joel Roskin Geomorphology and Portable Luminescence Lab, Dept. of Geography and Environment, Bar-Ilan University Joel.Roskin@biu.ac.il

Revital Bookman Environmental Sedimentology Lab, L.H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, U. of Haifa bookman@univ.haifa.ac.il

Welcome to Dr. Helen Saul-Shalev who will be taking over a managerial position part-time!

Congratulations to Ms. Alana Maria and Mr. Hari A. for passing their oral MSc exams on their thesis' with flying colors.

Congratulations to Nitay Golovaty and his partner Ms. Miri on the birth of their first daughter!

Congratulations to Dr. Jakub Holusa on submitting the manuscript: Late Glacial landscape evolution in an active tectonic, hydrothermal and aeolian environment of Central Europe; and on the acceptance of the paper: Pedogeomorphology of semiarid soils of Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island, Antarctica – in Soil Science Society of America.