פרופ'
ישי
וינשטיין

קורות חיים
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-
תחומי התמחות
הידרולוגיה של קרקעית הים ושל קו החוף, איזוטופים רדיואקטיביים במערכת ה U-Th, וולקנולוגיה.
פירסומים
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.
מחקר
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Submarine and Sublacustrine Hydrology with focus on cold seeps and Submarine
Groundwater Discharge (SGD)
2. Volcanism, with focus on phreatomagmatism (the interaction of magma and surface water)
3. U-Th isotopes
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 03/11/2020