PEOPLE

Yarden Aaltonen

(2025) M.Sc. "Identifying Sediment Traps in Buried Offshore Features"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Timor Katz

Current Role: Currently pursuing a career in data analytics

Dr. Jeremy Gabriel

(2024) Postdoctoral Research.

Current Role: Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

Dr. Shai Oron

(2024; 2022) Research Associate; Postdoctoral Researcher.

Current Role: Marine Ecologist at the Environment and Nature Conservation Department, The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel

Cara Weisswasser

(2023) M.Sc. "Unearthing the mound of the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, northern Red Sea"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov, Timor Katz, and Gitai Yahel

Current Role: Environmental Education Program Manager at GreenStep

Muhammed (Moh) Adem

(2023) M.Sc. "Shifting Life Assemblages along the Coastlines of Dead Sea: A Real-Time Analogue for Discrete Lake Level Change"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Michael Lazar

Current Role: M.Sc. Candidate at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Gabriel Olawuyi

(2023) M.Sc. "Plastics in the Deep: Annotated ROV Video of Eastern Mediterranean Sea Floor"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Independent Researcher

Charles (C.J.) Everhardt IV

(2022) M.Sc. "Tsunami-derived sediments found in the destruction layer of an eighth century warehouse in Caesarea Maritima, Israel"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Geophysicist at Naval Oceanographic Office 

Ofra Barkai

(2021) Lab Manager, Postdoctoral Researcher.

Current Role: Marine Archaeologist, Underwater Unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority

Guy Raanan

(2021) M.Sc. "Analysis of a suspected Late Cretaceous tsunami event preserved at Spring Creek (Garland), Texas"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Lab Manager at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research

Akos Kalman

(2023; 2021) Postdoctoral Researcher; Ph.D. "Paleoflood Reconstruction in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Timor Katz

Current Role: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Miami

Daniel Killam

(2020) Postdoctoral Researcher.

Current Role: Environmental Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute

Stephane Martinez

(2020) Ph.D. "Understanding carbon sources and trophic positions in the marine ecosystem through amino acids stable isotope analysis"; Supervised by Dan Tchernov and Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Monaco Scientific Centre

Eleen Zirks

(2019) Ph.D. "The Holocene Oxygen Minimum Zone in the SE Levantine Basin: Its Evolution and Implications"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Michael D. Krom

Current Role: Geophysicist at Fugro GeoSurveys Inc.

Dongdong Zhu

(2019) M.Sc. "The Effect of Nile and Paleoclimate Change to the Redox Status of EMS during the Sapropel S1 Period"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Michael D. Krom

Current Role: Associate Professor at the School of Oceanography, Beibu Gulf University, China.

Roy Jaijel

(2018) Ph.D. "Geoarchaeology of the Maritime Maya Site Vista Alegre"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Zvi Ben-Avraham

Current Role: Scientific Director at Agma - Watershed and River Center

Debra Ramon

(2018) M.Sc. "Microplastic Ingestion by Marine Fishes and Bivalves Living in Israeli Coastal Waters: A Systemic Approach"; Supervised by Dan Tchernov and Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Haifa

Alyssa Victoria Pietraszek

(2018) M.Sc. "The Submerged Hellenistic to Early Roman Harbor at Akko: A Geoarchaeological Approach"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov and Oded Katz

Current Role: Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Haifa

Alysse Mathalon

(2017) M.Sc. "Mechanisms of Flashflood Deposit Preservation in Shallow Marine Sediments of a Hyperarid Environment"; Supervised by Paul Hill, Beverly Goodman-Tchernov, and Timor Katz

Current Role: Project Manager at the Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mor Kanari

(2016) Ph.D. "Chemical Characterization and Provenance Study of the Israeli Inner Shelf's Holocene Sediments"; Supervised by Shmulik Marco, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Revital Bookman, and Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Researcher at Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research

Natalia Tyuleneva

(2016) Postdoctoral Researcher. Fulbright Scholar (USA) 2018

Current Role: Independent Researcher

Nadine Hoffmann

(2016) Postdoctoral Researcher.

Current Role: Project Manager for STAR Program at Universität Siegen

Nairooz Qupty

(2014) M.Sc. "Offshore and on-land sedimentary evidence for Tsunami events at Palaikastro, Crete"; Supervised by Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Dance Company Member, Environmentalist

Maxim Rubin-Blum

(2014) Ph.D. "Multidisciplinary study of microbial niches at the deep benthos of Levantine basin"; Supervised by Dan Tchernov and Beverly Goodman-Tchernov

Current Role: Researcher at Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research