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.

M.Sc. student at the University of Haifa, supervised by Prof. Revital Bookman and Prof. Joel Roskin. His research focuses on Israel’s coastal kurkar (aeolianite) ridges, their formation environments and processes, stratigraphy and geomechanical properties.
Geologist and geotechnical consultant at Yishai David & Yehuda Benishti – Foundations of Buildings & Infrastructure Ltd., with experience in geomechanics laboratory management and geotechnical laboratory testing.

Focus: Current Middle East Military Geosciences.

Content: Geospatial analysis.

Focus: Coastal processes and depositional environments during the Holocene at the Kishon and Alexander river outlets
Content: Comparative sedimentological study of Holocene coastal response at two contrasting river outlets on the Israeli Mediterranean coast, integrating sediment coring, MSCL data and grain-size analysis to identify depositional patterns under shared regional forcing.
Additional affiliation: M.Sc. student, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center. Supervisor: Prof. Dov Zviely.