וינשטיין ישי

 

Yishai Weinstein – C.V.

Married to Annie

Kids: Eli, Shaked, Michael

 

EDUCATION

Year                    Degree                        Institution

1986                    B.Sc. Geology             The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1992                    M.Sc. Geochemistry   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1998                    Ph.D. Geochemistry   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

POSITIONS

Year                                                                                                       Appointment         

1981-1983         Field Guide in Keshet-Yehonatan Field School, the Golan Heights

1986-1989         Director of the Golan Field School, Katzrin, the Golan Heights

1989-1997         Teaching Assistant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1990-1997        Graduate Fellow (M.Sc., Ph.D.), Geological Survey of Israel                

1990 -                Lecturer, Lifschitz Teachers Training Collegue, Jerusalem           

6-11.1994                   Doctoral Fellow Researcher, University of Heidelberg

4-9.1996            Doctoral Fellow Researcher, University of Göttinngen

1998-2000        Post-Doc, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

2000 - 2010       Head of Geography Department, Lifschitz Teachers Training Collegue

2001 - 2007      Lecturer, Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University

2006 – 2007      Visiting Researcher (Sabbatical), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

2007 -     2013          Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography & Environment, Bar-Ilan Univ.

2013 -                    Associate Prof., Department of Geography & Environment, Bar-Ilan Univ

AWARDS/GRANT/HONORS

Year                  Foundation                                                               amount

2000-2001           US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)     $69,000

2003-2007           US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)     $36,000/yr

2004-2005           Israel Water Authority                                            NIS 103,454

2004-2005           Ministry of National Infrastructure                          NIS 40,000

2005-2006           Ministry of National Infrastructure                          NIS 74,000

2008-2012           Israel Science Foundation                                    NIS 196,000/yr

2008-2009           Israel Science Foundation (conference grant)          $40,000

2010-2014           USAID MERC                                                                $592,000

2010-2014           Israel Water Authority                                             NIS 350,000

2014-2017           Israel Water Authority                                             NIS 420,000

2014-2017           Israel Science Foundation                                    NIS 1,100,000

2014-2018           Israel Science Foundation                                    NIS 275,000/yr

RESEARCH STUDENTS

M.A./M.Sc.

Yehuda Shalem                                    2006-2009

Uri Shaanan                                          2005-2008

Roei Zeevi                                             2006-2010

Yael Noimeir                                          2009-2013

Ben Brinberg                                         2010-2013                       

Mor Feldman                                          2011-2014

Oren Friedheim                                     2012-

Larisa Odinchev                                         2016-

Ph.D

Yael Kiro                                              2007-2013

Yehuda Shalem                                            2009-2016

Adi Tal                                                 2011-

Ronen Alkalay                                          2015-

Dotan Rotem                                         2015-

Post Doc

Xiuguo Wei                                         2009-2010

Olga Zlatkin                                        2017-

 

Publications (peer-reviewd)

 

Tal, A., Weinstein, Y., Yechieli, Y. and Borisover , M. 2017, The influence of fish ponds and salinization on groundwater quality in the multi-layer coastal aquifer system in Israel, Journal of Hydrology 551, 768-783.

Weinstein, Y. and Heimann, A. 2016, Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Levant late Cenozoic volcanism, in: Enzel, Y. and Bar-Yoseph, O. (eds), Quaternary of the Levant, Chap. 5, Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-51.

Kiro, Y., Weinstein, Y., Starinsky, A. and Yechieli, Y. 2015, Application of radon and radium isotopes to groundwater flow dynamics: an example from the Dead Sea, Chemical Geology 411, 155-171.

Regenauer-Lieb, K., Rosenbaum, G., Lyakhovsky, V., Liu, J., Weinberg, R., Segev, A. and Weinstein, Y. 2015, Melt instabilities in a cold lithosphere and implications for intraplate volcanism in the Harrat Ash-Shaam volcanic field (NW Arabia), Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 120(3), 1543-1558.

Rodellas, V., Garcia-Orellana1, J., Masqué, P., Feldman, M. and Weinstein, Y. 2015, Submarine Groundwater Discharge: a major source of nutrients to the Mediterranean Sea, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 112(13), 3926-3930.

Shalem, Y., Weinstein, Y., Levi, E., Herut, B., Goldman, M. and Yechieli, Y. 2014, The extent of aquifer salinization next to an estuarine river, an example from the eastern Mediterranean, Hydrogeology Journal DOI 10.1007/s10040-014-1192-3.

Weinstein, Y. and Garfunkel, Z. 2014, The Dead Sea transform and the volcanism in northwestern Arabia, in: Garfunkel, Z. and Ben Avraham, Z (eds.), The Dead Sea Transform, Springer, pp. 91-108.

Kiro, Y., Weinstein, Y., Yechieli, Y. and Starinsky, A. 2014, The role of long-term aquifer seawater circulation in elemental mass balances: a lesson from the Dead Sea, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 394, 146-158.

Kiro, Y., Weinstein, Y., Yechieli, Y. and Starinsky, A., The role of long-term aquifer seawater circulation in elemental mass balances: a lesson from the Dead Sea, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. (resubmitted after revision).

Weinstein, Y. and Garfunkel, Z. 2013, The Dead Sea transform and the volcanism in northwestern Arabia, in: Garfunkel, Z. and Ben Avraham, Z (eds.), The Dead Sea Transform, Springer (accepted)

Weinstein, Y., Weinberger, R. and Calvert, A. 2013, High resolution 40Ar/39Ar study of Mount Avital, northern Golan: reconstructing the interaction between volcanism and a drainage system and their impact on eruptive styles, Bulletin of Volcanology 75, 712, doi:10.1007/s00445-013-0712-7

Kiro, Y., Weinstein, Y., Starinsky, A. and Yechieli, Y. 2013, Groundwater ages and reaction rates during seawater circulation in the Dead Sea aquifer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 122, 17-35, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.08.005

Shalev, E., Lyakhovsky, V., Weinstein, Y. and Ben-Avraham, Z. 2012, The Thermal Structure of Israel and the Dead Sea Fault, Tectonophysics (accepted).

Kiro, Y., Yechieli, Y., Voss, C., Starinsky, A. and Weinstein, Y. 2012, Modeling radium distribution in coastal aquifers during sea level changes: the Dead Sea case, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 88, 237-254.

Weinstein, Y., 2012, Transform faults as lithospheric boundaries, an example from the Dead Sea transform, Journal of Geodynamics 54, 21-28, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2011.09.005.

Weinstein, Y., Yechieli, Y., Shalem, Y., Burnett, W. C., Swarzenski, P. W. and Herut, B., 2011, What is the role of Fresh Groundwater and Recirculated Seawater in conveying Nutrients to the Coastal Ocean? Environmental Science and Technology 45(12), 5195–5200, DOI: 10.1021/es104394r

Shaanan, U., Porat, N., Navon, O., Weinberger, R., Calvert, A. and Weinstein, Y., 2011, OSL dating of a Pleistocene maar: Birket Ram, the Golan heights, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 201(1-4), 397-403, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.06.007

Lazar, B., Weinstein, Y., Paytan, A., Magal, E., Bruce, D. and Kolodny, Y., 2008, Ra and Th adsorption coefficients in lakes – Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) "natural experiment" Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72(14), 3446-3459.

Solomon, E. A., Kastner, M., Jannasch, J., Robertson, G. and Weinstein, Y. 2008, Dynamic fluid flow and chemical fluxes associated with a seafloor gas hydrate deposit on the northern Gulf of Mexico slope, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 270(1-2), 95-105.

Weinstein, Y., Burnett, W. C., Swarzenski, P. W, Shalem, Y., Yechieli, Y., and Herut, B. 2007, The role of coastal aquifer heterogeneity in determining fresh groundwater discharge and seawater recycling: an example from the Carmel coast, Israel.  Journal of Geophysical Research 112, C12016, doi:10.1029/2007JC004112.

Burnett, W. C., Santos, I., Weinstein, Y., Swarzenski, P. W. and Herut, B. 2007, Remaining uncertainties in the use of Rn-222 as a quantitative tracer of submarine groundwater discharge, in: W. Sanford (ed.), A New Focus on Groundwater–Seawater Interactions, IAHS Publ. 312, 109-118, IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK.

Weinstein, Y., Shalem, Y., Burnett, W. C., Swarzenski, P. W. and Herut, B. 2007, Temporal variability of Submarine Groundwater Discharge: assessments via radon and seep meters, the southern Carmel Coast, Israel, in: W. Sanford (ed.), A New Focus on Groundwater–Seawater Interactions, IAHS Publ. 312, 125-133, IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK.

Weinstein, Y. 2007, A transition from Strombolian to phreatomagmatic activity induced by a lava flow damming water in a valley, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 159, 167-284.

Weinstein, Y. and Weinberger, R. 2006, The geology and volcanological history of mount Avital, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 55, 237-255.

Swarzenski, P. W., Burnett, W. C., Greenwood, W. J., Herut, B., Peterson, R., Dimova, N., Shalem, Y., Yechieli, Y. and Weinstein, Y. 2006, Combined time-series resistivity and geochemical tracer techniques to examine submarine groundwater discharge at Dor Beach Israel, Geophysical Research Letters 33, L24405, doi:10.1029/2006GL028282.

Weinstein, Y., Less, G., Kafri, U. and Herut, B. 2006, Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the southeastern Mediterranean (Israel), preliminary results, Radioactivity of the Environment 8, 360-372.

Weinstein, Y., Navon, O., Altherr, R. and Stein, M. 2006, The role of fluids and of lithospheric heterogeneity in the generation of alkali basaltic suites from northwestern Arabia, Journal of  Petrology 47, 1017-1050.

Weinstein, Y. 2004, The source and generation of magmas in the Golan and western Arabia, in: Reuveni, M. and Livne, M. (eds.), Golan - Man and Landscape research, Ramot, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew; English abstract).

Carson, B., Kastner, M., Bartlett, D., Jaeger, J., Jannasch, J. and Weinstein, Y. 2003, Active  carbon flux on the cascadia accretionary prism: preliminary results from long-term, in-situ measurements at ODP site 892B, Marine Geology 198(1-2), 159-180.

Fisher, A.T., Giambalvo, E., Sclater, J., Kastner, M., Ransom, B., Weinstein, Y. and Lonsdale, P. 2001, Heat flow, sediment and pore fluid chemistry, and hydrothermal circulation on the east flank of Alarcon Ridge, Gulf of California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 188, 521-534.

Weinstein, Y. 2000, Spatial and temporal geochemical variability in basin-related volcanism, northern Israel, Journal of African Earth Sciences 30 (4), 865-885.

Weinstein, Y. 1998, Spatial and Temporal changes in composition of Neogene-Quaternary magmatic rocks in NE Israel, Israel Geological Survey Current Research 11, 87-95.

Weinstein, Y., Navon, O. and Lang, B. 1994, Fractionation of Pleistocene alkali- basalts from the northern Golan Heights, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 43 (2), 63-79.

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