Researcher interests: Reef response to eutrophication: benthic bloom experiment. Carbon geochemistry of hypersaline microbial mats: implications for stromatolitic paleoenvironments. Diagenesis in living corals from the Gulf of Eilat: inferences for the Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and U/Ca paleothermometers and U-Th isotope system. Coral reef metabolic performance and the effect of nutrients on reef calcification. Nutrient dynamics in the open waters of the Gulf of Aqaba. Rn and Ra isotopes as tracers for mixing in the water column and seawater exchange with the coastal region. 14C as a tracer for carbon biogeochemical processes in freshwater-seawater interface, bottom water-sediment interface and tracer for flooding intensity in the Dead Sea drainage basin.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Science
DEPARTMENT: The Institute of Earth Sciences
Selected Publications
constraining evaporation rates based on large scale sea surface transects of salinity or isotopic compositions (2019)|
Journal of Geophysical Research|
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carbonates dissolution and precipitation in hemipelagic sediments overlaid by supersaturated bottom waters gulf of aqaba red sea (2019)|
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta|
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comparing rhizon samplers and centrifugation for pore water separation in studies of the marine carbonate system in sediments (2018)|
Limnology and Oceanography-methods|
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the chemical evolution of brine and mg k salts along the course of extreme evaporation of seawater an experimental study (2018)|
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta|
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last interglacial sea levels and regional tectonics from fossil coral reefs in the northeast gulf of aqaba (2018)|
Quaternary Science Reviews|
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the circulation of the dead sea brine in the regional aquifer (2018)|
Earth and Planetary Science Letters|
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salt precipitation and dissolution in the late quaternary dead sea evidence from chemical and δ 37 cl composition of pore fluids and halites (2018)|
Earth and Planetary Science Letters|
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taking the metabolic pulse of the world s coral reefs (2018)|
PLOS ONE|
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sr isotopes at the onset of the ice ages (2018)|
[Poster] In: Goldschmidt Conference 2018, 12.08.-17.08.2018, Boston, USA .|
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testing the utility of geochemical proxies for paleoproductivity in oxic sedimentary marine settings of the gulf of aqaba red sea (2017)|
Chemical Geology|
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chemical characterization of atmospheric dust from a weekly time series in the north red sea between 2006 and 2010 (2017)|
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta|
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quantifying thermohaline circulations seawater isotopic compositions and salinity as proxies of the ratio between advection time and evaporation time (2017)|
Ocean Science Discussions|
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u th dating of calcite corals from the gulf of aqaba (2017)|
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta|
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evidence for inorganic precipitation of caco3 on suspended solids in the open water of the red sea (2016)|
Marine Chemistry|
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relationships between lake level changes and water and salt budgets in the dead sea during extreme aridities in the eastern mediterranean ()|
Earth and Planetary Science Letters|
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