Seawater geochemistry and marine particles

Down-core studies

Gil, Tal, Adi and Kosta, looking at a freshly retrieved set of multi-cores (June 2019)

Dead Sea

Dust

May, 2017 dust storm

Same spot (IUI shore), different day

Dust trap

Dust filter collected after the September 2015 Mega-storm

Dust leaching experiments (from the work of Gil Lapid)

Clean lab

Isotope geochemistry

Sr and Nd isotope sedimentary mixing array across the Red-Med-Dead Seas (From: Torfstein et al., 2018)

U-Th isochron diagram of late Quaternary Dead Sea lacustrine deposits (From: Torfstein et al., 2009)

Seawater Pb isotope mixing curves: daily timescale perturbations of water column compositions in response to dust storms (from: Benaltabet et al., 2020)

Oil sample from the Evrona Oil spill (December, 2014)

Field work in China

Yehouda Enzel, Adi Torfstein, Jianghu Lan and Nathalie Neagu, at the Chinese Loess Plateau

Jianghu Lan, Prof. Hai Xu and Adi Torfstein, at the shores of Lake Dahai

Coring coral reefs in Singapore

Mick O'Leary and Adi Torfstein extracting a core from the Singapore reef

Noa, Adi, Bar and Singaporean colleagues on the way to the work site

Coring the Eilat coral reefs

Field work in the Kalahari Desert

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