NATHAN PALDOR
Professor of dynamical meteorology and physical oceanography
32 Hatayassim Street
Jerusalem 92509
Israel
Tel. – H: (972) 2/563-3680; O: 2/658-4924; FAX: 2/566-2581
Email: nathan.paldor@huji.ac.il
Date of Resume: September, 2009
Languages: English, Hebrew
Education
Summer 1983 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Woods Hole, MA 02135
1979-1982 Ph.D.- Physical Oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island; Kingston, RI 02881
1973-1976 M.Sc.-Applied Physics (Electro-Optics), Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, 76100 Israel
1970-1973 B.Sc. - Cum Laude - Mathematics and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
Academic Experience
1985 – Present: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1982 – 4/1985: Post Doctoral Fellow; Geo-science Group, Department of Isotope Research,
The Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, 76100 Israel
1976 – 1979: Research Associate; Geo-science Group, Department of Isotope Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, 76100 Israel
Professional Affiliations
1) American Meteorological Society
2) American Geophysical Union.
3) Israel Physical Society
4) European Geophysical Society
Public Commitments
* Member of the Board of Directors Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (1993–96)
* Associate Editor: Israel Journal of Earth Sciences (1990–92)
* Chair of Scientific Steering Committee for Oceanography: IOLR, Haifa (1992–1998)
* Chair of Studies: Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1994–96)
* Member of the Board of Editors: Ocean Modeling (1999 – Present)
* Associate Editor: Israel Journal of Earth Sciences (1 Jan. 2000 – Present)
* Chairman and Convenor of Environmental Physics sessions; Israel Physical Society 46th and 47th Annual Meetings, IPS2000 and IPS2001.
* Member; Steering Committee of Israel Hydrologic Service: "Lake Kinneret Modeling" 2003-06.
* Chair of Studies: Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2004–2008)
* Member, National committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences on space-related research in Israel (affiliated with COSPAR). 2005 – 2007.
* Associate Editor: Ocean Modelling (2004-2009)
* Associate Dean, Faculty of mathematics and Natural Scineces, Hebrew University (2009-Present)
Prizes, Awards and Fellowships
2001 – Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
1989, 1990, 1997, 1999 – Rector’s citation for excellent teaching; The Hebrew University.
1998 – Senior Associateship: US National Research Council (GSFC/GISS appointment deferred)
1987 – The Royal Society of London/Israel Academy of Sciences Fellowship; Hooke Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford.
1986 – M. Richter Young Researchers’ Award; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1984 – The M. Marks Kennedy Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Outstanding Public Recognition of my Research
1992 – Study on parting of the Red Sea (publications 23 and 27) discussed in editorials in Science, NY Times, the Britannica 1994 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Public Broadcast Service (PBS), CNN, NBC and hundreds of newspapers and television networks around the world.
Research Grants (recent 5 years)
Paldor, N. and D. Nof. "The stability of intrusion eddies in the South Atlantic". US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation. 2007-2011. $106,000
Gavrieli, I. and N. Paldor. "A dynamics limnological model for the Dead Sea: Mixing between two end members with extreme density and compositional differences (the Dead Sea vs. seawater). Israel Science Foundation. 2005-2008. $123,000
Ben-Artzi, M., N. Paldor, K. Domelevo and R. Temam. “Theoretical and numerical studies of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in general geometries” Arc-En-Ciel (France-Israel Scientific Fund). 2005-2006 (4,600 EU).
Paldor, N. "A high-order theory of linear waves on the rotating Earth". Israel Science Foundation, 2005-2009. $71,172
Invited Talks (last five years)
Paldor (2007). On the non-divergent limit of the Shallow Water Equations. International Workshop on Two-Dimensional Turbulence, Lorentz Centre, 19-23 March 2007, Leiden, the Netherlands,.
Paldor (2006). The validity of the nondivergence assumption in 2D vortex dynamics on the rotating earth. IUTAM 2006, 25-30 August 2006, Moscow, Russia
Paldor (2005). A new theory for Planetary waves on the rotating Earth. ISEEQS, 2005 International Conference. 31/May-1/June; Rehovot, Israel
Paldor (2005). A new theory for Planetary Waves. EGS General Assembly, 25-29 April 2005; Vienna Austria
Paldor, N. (2004). A new theoretical estimate for the westward propagation speed of planetary waves. 50th annual meeting of the Israel Physical Society, 9/12/2004, Haifa, Israel.
(15.11.09)
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