Hilit Kranenburg
MA Student
Hilit Kranenburg holds a BA degree in Israel Studies and Geography from the University of Haifa. During her BA she received the JNF (Jewish National Fund) scholarship prize for her seminar "forest fire effects on carbonate rocks erosion - the Mt Carmel case study". After her graduation with excellency in 2020, she immediately continued to MA following her love and enthusiasm for Geology. Between studies she works as a tour guide and attends geological seminars and educational geological field trips. Hilit loves open air travel and hikes, cats and pasta.
Hiliwa is registered at the Department of Israel Studies and mentored in collaboration with Dr. Nurit Shtober-Zisu.
kranenburgia@gmail.com
Research subject
Late Quaternary evolution of the Yesha Valley (Naftali Mountains): a paleoenvironmental study
In the present study, we aim to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental setting utilizing a ~20 m long core retrieved from the Yesha Valley (Naftali mountains, west of Hula valley). The thick paleosols sequence will be used to reconstruct the changing terrestrial surroundings through time. Initial results carried out on a previous core retrieved in the 1990s, show the feasibility of the study, with probabilities to reconstruct the physical, biological and chemical environmental variability going back in time to half a million years.
We aim to utilize this exceptional site as a basin that trapped in a noncontinuous fashion and stored (as typical for paleosol sequences) the climate signals in the northern Levantine corridor for the time frame of the Pleistocene. The current study aims to tackle the proposed study with the analysis of stable isotope ratios planned to be carried out on soil concretions and microfauna, framed by a robust OSL chronology.
