Academic
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- Prof. Ofira Ayalon
- Interests: Environmental management, waste management, including food waste reduction, energy policy and management, climate change – reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for these changes.
- Phone: +972-4-8292190
- Email: aofira@gmail.com
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Anna Brook
- Interests: Hyperspectral and thermal remote imaging, spectroscopy, multidimensional imaging and analysis, LiDAR data analysis.
- Email: abrook@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Igal Charney
- Interests: Urban geography, urban planning, metropolitan development, elevation construction, real estate and urban renewal, central business districts.
- Email: charney@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Prof. Noga Collins-Kreiner
- Interests: Human geography, leisure, vacation and tourism, religious-Christian and Jewish tourism, cartography, the rural spaces.
- Email: nogack@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. Elad Dente
- Interests: Interactions between climate change and human activity and hydrological and geomorphological processes.
- Email: edente@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Prof. Andrea Ghermandi
- Interests: Environmental engineering, environmental economics, ecosystem services, sustainability.
- Phone: +972-4-8249918
- Email: aghermand@univ.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. Moshe Gish
- Interests: Innovative strategies for increasing the resilience of ecosystems to climate change, invasive and eruptive species, domestic cats and street cats as environmental harm, nature conservation, human exposure to pesticides.
- Phone: +972-4-8288875
- Email: mgish@univ.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Arnon Golan
- Interests: Historical-political geography of the modern era, historical-urban geography, colonial state geography.
- Email: agolan@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Prof. Mashor Housh
- Interests: Optimization under uncertainty. Optimization of infrastructure. Management and planning of water resources in situations of uncertainty. Control, monitoring and operation of of water supply systems.
- Phone: +972-4-8288541
- Email: mashor.housh@gmail.com
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. David Katz
- Interests: Environmental policy, water resource policy and management, environmental and natural resource economics, political geography, and the politics of transboundary resource management.
- Email: katzd@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Rassem Khamaisi
- Interests: Urban and Environmental Planning, Urban Geography, Planning in the Arab Sector.
- Email: khamaisi@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Prof. Dan Malkinson
- Interests: Interactions between ecological processes and spatial models in the landscape, & use of GIS software to analyze and simulate spatial processes.
- Email: dmalk@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Role: Head, School of Environmental Sciences
- Prof. Lea Wittenberg
- Interests: Stream geomorphology, ecology of forest fires, surface water hydrology, land erosion.
- Phone: +972-4-8249609 (53609)
- Email: leaw@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Shlomit Paz
- Interests: Climate change, the effects of climate change on human health and safety, human-rotating relations, environmental issues in the Mediterranean basin, air pollution.
- Email: shlomit@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Boris A. Portnov
- Interests: Environmental risk assessment, geographic information systems in environmental research, green construction, behavior change as a means of saving energy, environmental and health impacts of light pollution.
- Phone: +972-4-8288532
- Email: portnov@research.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. Carmit Rapaport-Leax
- Interests: Emergency and disaster management, coping and behavior of communities in natural disasters, emergency preparedness and natural disasters, resilience, emergency leadership and business continuity.
- Email: crapaport@geo.haifa.ac.il
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- Prof. Uri Schattner
- Interests: Geophysics, geology, tectonics, seismic decoding, marine geomorphology, potential fields, earth system.
- Email: schattner@univ.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
- Lab Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Deborah Shmueli
- Interests: Town planning, environmental aspects of water, land use, transportation and solid waste, managing environmental conflicts in the public sector and building capabilities of communities and institutions.
- Email: deborah@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. Nurit Shtober-Zisu
- Interests: Geomorphology and landscape, quaternary geology, geoarchaeology.
- Phone: +972-8249575 (53575)
- Email: nshtober@research.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Dr. Tamar Trop
- Interests: Environmental policy design, ecology of built environments, environmental impact surveys, and sustainable infrastructure.
- Phone: +972-4-8288541
- Email: ttrop@univ.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
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- Prof. Motti Zohar
- Interests: Geoinformatics, environmental research, natural risks, environmental history.
- Email: mzohar@geo.haifa.ac.il
- Personal Website: Visit Website
Researchers at the Shamir Institute for Research in SES
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Dr. Moti Charter
Interests: Human-wildlife conflict, ecosystem services, wildlife ecology, applied ecology.
Email: mcharter@geo.haifa.ac.il
Email: mcharter@geo.haifa.ac.il
![Dr. Eyal Kurzbaum](/images/People/academic/ayel.jpg)
Dr. Eyal Kurzbaum
Interests: Purification of water from micro-pollutants, treatment of agricultural wastewater (gloaf wastewater, fish ponds, subsidiary wastewater and wineries), removal of nitrogen compounds from water by biological means, Encapsulation of bacterial and fungal cultures to decompose pollutants in water, advanced oxidation for water treatment.
Email: ekurzbaum@univ.haifa.ac.il
Email: ekurzbaum@univ.haifa.ac.il