ABOUT

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The Soil Geomorphology Group at the GSI was established in 1994 by Rivka Amit. Our research focuses on Quaternary geology, soil stratigraphy, geomorphology (with emphasis on desert environments), dust, paleoclimate, and paleoseismology. During the 1990s, most studies focused on developing methodologies for studying active tectonics and paleoseismology along the Dead Sea Rift, through the study of hyperarid soil formation. Since the 2000s, the research fields have expanded and focus also on dust generation, sources of dust, loess, coastal geomorphology, and paleoclimatic reconstruction from sedimentary archives. Our research team integrates field-based research, field sampling, long-term monitoring, laboratory analyses, remote sensing, geographic information systems, and the application of numerical models. Since 2014 Onn Crouvi is the head of the group.
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The group collaborates with the other groups and laboratories at the GSI, including the Geochemistry and OSL labs, Remote sensing group, Marine Geo-Hazard Core lab, and the Dead-Sea Observatory, and with laboratories from universities in Israel and abroad.