Curriculum Vita

Research and Teaching Interests

Geomorphology, Tectonics, and Geodynamics

Research statement

My research interests are in the fields of Quaternary geomorphology, geochronology, tectonics, and surface processes. My research goals are to understand and quantify rates of processes that control the shape of the Earth's surface at temporal scales varying from present active processes to the accumulative affect of millions of years and spatial scales varying from the single slope to the global scale mountain fronts. My research involves the application of several techniques to understand and quantify geomorphic processes and to relate them to climatic and tectonic environments. Quaternary (the last 2 My) time-scale landscape development, erosion, and sediment yield are of major current interest in Earth and Environmental Sciences research. In my work, I try to link surface processes to the dynamics of the underlying crust, in order to shed light on the complex relation between internal and external forces that shape the face of our planet ace processes.

Academic Training

2005 – present   Senior lecturer, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,

2002 - 2005       Research Geologist, Slip rates along the San Andreas Fault, CA, the Denali Fault, Alaska, and Erosion rates in the Basin and Range, USGS, Menlo Park

2000-2002          Post doctoral, erosion of the Appalachian Mountains, Erosion and landscape development in Namibia, University of Vermont

December 2001, Ph.D. thesis: “Landscape analysis as a key to the understanding of the tectonic evolution of the Galilee, northern , during the last 4 Million years”.

Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with Enzel, Y., Zilberman E., and Garfunkel, Z.

May 1995, M.Sc. thesis: “Solubility of minerals in water at high temperatures and pressures. An experimental study using a Diamond Anvil Cell”.

Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with Navon, O.

July 1990, B.Sc. Geology and chemistry. Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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