Grants Awarded (alone/with colleagues)

2004 : Environmental Education and Sustainable Tourism Development for High School and Primary School Students of the Dead Sea Regions, funded by Tamar and Megilot Regional Councils .

 2005-2009 : GABARDINE - Groundwater Artificial Recharge Based on Alternative Sources of Water: Advanced Integrated Technologies and Management, funded by EU FP6: Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems.

2006: Climatic changes in the Israeli summer and their influence on the Culex pipiens population abundance and on the probability for WNF outbreaks, funded by Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection).

2006-2007: Using FARSITE simulation model as a fire behavior forecasting tool in  Israeli forests, funded by Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund).    

2007-2011: SPICOSA - Science and Policy Integration for COastal System Assessment, funded by EU FP6: Global Change and Ecosystems.

2007: Frames and Framing Analysis for the Study of Preparedness for Climate change, funded by the Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.

2009: Application for Research Workshop: Impacts of Mediterranean climate change on human health, funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) - Framework of the ESF Activity: MedClivar - 'Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability and by The Energy, Environment and Water Research Center of The Cyprus Institute.

2010-2011: The impact of climate change on Mediterranean intertidal communities: Losses in coastal ecosystem integrity and service, funded by the Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.

2011-2013: Analysis of climate variations and the relationship with the occurrence of foodborne infections in Israel 1995-2010 and implications for future scenarios to the year 2030, funded by the Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.

2011-2012: Health impact assessment: Climate, weather and the West Nile Virus in Europe, funded by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). 

2012-2014: MoBoD: Mosquito-Borne Disease Determinants - Indicative Precursors of Mosquito-borne Disease outbreaks in Europe, funded by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). 

2014-2018: The effects of climate and land use changes on vector-borne disease distribution - a theoretical framework: Leishmania tropica as a case study, funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

2017-2021: Dryland Facing Change: Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Political Instability, COST Action, European Cooperation in Science & Technology, N°CA16233.

2019-2020: Developing urban community resilience and spatial planning schemes for emergency readiness: multi-disciplinary research comparing local level preparedness for emergencies resulting from war with those resulting from extreme weather conditions, National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness (MOST).

2020-2021: The effects of climate change on wild mushrooms in Israel, funded by the joint Fund of the University of Haifa and the Shamir Institute.

2021-2023: Using satellite-based spatiotemporal resolved air temperature exposure to evaluate the association between weather conditions and the risk of stroke, funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

2021-2024: Climatic and spatial effects on drainage basin pollution in the central Golan Heights, funded by Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund).    

2022-2025: Climate monitoring and decision support framework for sand fly-borne diseases detection and mitigation with cost-benefit and climate-policy measures (CLIMOS), funded by EU-HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-03: Health impacts of climate change, costs and benefits of action and inaction. 

2023-2026: The impacts of climate change on the ecosystem services in a multi-use catchment basin - a case study of the Hagaaton basin. Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.