The Team

team members:

Principal Investigator:

orit sivan

LABORATORY MANAGER:

efRAT eLIANI russak

In addition to working as the lab manager I am also undertaking research. Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) compounds are pollutants of water from environmental and human- health points of view. A large portion of the mostly anthropogenic DIN inputs is consumed by microorganisms before reaching the oceans. My current research interests deal with the consumption of DIN in different terrestrial environments facilitating stable isotopes. Another interest of mine is the potential use of stable isotopes as a tool for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy investigations (links to poster). elianief@bgu.ac.il

Current phd students

elan levy

My research involves investigating the geochemistry of pore fluid extracted from the deep Dead Sea International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) cores. I am especially interested in using the pore fluid records to reconstruct paleolimnological and paleohydrological conditions of the Dead Sea over the last 220ky. elanlevy27@gmail.com
Link: http://www.icdp-online.org/projects/world/asia/dead-sea/details

shaked stein

My research is about desalination of saline ground water in the coastal aquifer of Israel. I examine the suitability of saline ground water as a raw material for desalination plants. I compare it with sea water through examination of chemical and physical properties of the water. shakedstein@gmail.com

hanni leibowitz

I explore the novel process we recently found in Lake kinneret of iron coupled anaerobic oxidation of methane (Fe-AOM). The study uses mainly a geochemical isotope approach.
chani669@gmail.com

current m.sc students:

Nitai Amiel

My research is on Authigenic magnetite in deep sediments. nitai.amiel@gmail.com

Omer Yorshansky

My research deals with microbial iron reduction and its link to methane cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean and South China Sea continental shelf sediments.
omeryo@post.bgu.ac.il