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Ron

Ron Shaar

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short bio

I am an associate proffesor at the Institute of Earth Sciences in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before I joined the Hebrew University in  2014 I was a postdoc in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego (2011-2014). My education includes MS.c and Ph.D in Geology (2005-2011) from the Hebrew University and a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Haifa (2003). My main research fields are the past behavior of Earth's magnetic field, rock-magnetim (magnetic properties of rocks and archaeological materials),   and paleo- and archaeo- magnetism (application of magnetic research in geology and archaeology).

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Lior Bar-Sovik

MSc student

Project title:

Reconstructing the absolute intensity of the geomagnetic field using archaeological ceramics: a field test under controlled conditions 

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Tomer Moshe

MsC student

project title:

paleo- and rock- magnetic properties of Birket Ram sediments

Yoav Vaknin

Dr. Yoav Vaknin

PhD (2023)

Publications:

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Archaeomagnetic Dating of the Outer Revetment Wall at Tel Lachish (Tel Aviv, 2024)

Applying thermal demagnetization to archaeological materials: A tool for detecting burnt clay and estimating its firing temperature (PlosOne, 2023)

Tel Beth-Shean in the Tenth–Ninth Centuries BCE: A Chronological Query and Its Possible Archaeomagnetic Resolution ( Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, 2023)

Reconstructing biblical military campaigns using geomagnetic field data (PNAS, 2022)

The Earth’s magnetic field in Jerusalem during the Babylonian destruction: A unique reference for field behavior and an anchor for archaeomagnetic dating (PlosOne, 2020)

 

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Yakar Zemach (lab manager)

MSc (2023), Paleo- and rock- magnetic properties of Holocene Eastern Mediterranean shelf sediments

Publications:

Paleomagnetic imprints of sulfate reduction pathways in continental
shelf sediments: organoclastic versus anaerobic oxidation of
methane (JGR, under review)