My main research projects are on aeolian-fluvial interactions, ancient agriculture in sand and arid zone water-harvesting, Mediterranean soils, sediments, and dry agriculture terraces, sandy shoreline response to Holocene sea level change, and sediment paleoenvironmental archives in small, closed basins in the southern Levant. I study tropical- and cold-region dunes in Portugal, Southern India and central Europe. I’m also developing the discipline of military geosciences with emphasis on the Middle East and underground warfare.

Focus: Promotion and scientific quality of the lab and its analyses.

Additional affiliation: Laboratories of: Environmental hydrology, Dept of Environment, Planning & Sustainability; Biology.

Focus: Port-OSL and laser diffraction particle-size analysis.

Content: Developing Matlab-based protocols.

Additional affiliation: Undergraduate student in Physics and Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University.

Focus: Chronological and Hydrological Assessments using a Portable-OSL Reader along a sequence of dune-dammed playas at the fringe of the Northwestern Negev Dunefield (Israel).

Content: Aeolian-fluvial interactions; geoarchaeology, port-OSL applications, bridging science into government decision-making; Israel stream monitoring.

Additional affiliation: Environmental Planning Specialist, Planning division, Central district, Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Focus: Late Quaternary evolution of cold region dunes of Central Europe.

Content: Arctic/Antarctic and cold region geomorphology; Geospatial analysis, geochronology, aeolian geomorphology.

Additional affiliation: Dept. of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic – Research technician.

Focus: Late Quaternary source-to-sink palaeohydrology, erosion and aeolian dynamics recorded in a small, dune-dammed, arid dune field margin playa.

Content: Paleoenvironmental archives from cores from small basin waterbody sediments.

Focus: Deciphering Spatial Variability and Reddening Processes in the Teri Dunes Using OSL Dating and Geochemical–Textural Approaches.

Content: Red sand geomorphology and geochemistry.

Additional affiliation:  Dept. of Geology and Environmental Science, Christ College Autonomous, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur Dist., Kerala, India.

Focus: Dune-Dammed Basins as Sensitive Paleoclimate Archives in Arid Landscapes: Evidence from the Shivta West Playa, Northwestern Negev, Israel.

Content: Quaternary studies.

Additional affiliation:  Dept. of Geology and Environmental Science, Christ College Autonomous, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur Dist., Kerala, India.

Focus: Current Middle East Military Geosciences.

Content: Geospatial analysis.