![comination.jpg](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/Emeritus/100Px3.jpg) | Dr. Yoram Ayal, Retired, Desert EcologyThe structure of desert communities; The effect of habitat productivity on community structure and trophic interactions; Insect-plant interactions and insect community structure in desert ecosystems; Insect parasitoid-host population interactions. |
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![comination.jpg](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/Emeritus/100Px3.jpg) | Prof. Constantin Freidin, Professor Emeritus, Bona Terra the Man in the Desertfreidin@bgu.ac.ilDevelopment of new technological processes for cement; Concrete and concrete-like materials; Utilization of industrial waste in manufacturing of concrete and other building materials. |
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| Prof. Gordon M. Jeffrey, Emeritus Professor, Environmental Physics & Solar EnergyResearch Interests: Nanomaterial synthesis by highly concentrated solar and ultra-bright lamp light; physics and characterization of ultra-efficient solar cells; advanced solar concentrator optics; radiometry and illumination optics; bio-inspired systems. |
![comination.jpg](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/Emeritus/100Px3.jpg) | Prof. Gideon Kressel, Emeritus Professor, Bona Terra the Man in the DesertAgnation in Middle Eastern societies; Transition of Bedouin (nomadic pastoralists) into static pastoralism; Villages for shepherds; Livestock breeding and marketing; Regression in socialist economy and cooperation in Israel's rural sector; The kibbutz and the moshav. |
![comination.jpg](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/Emeritus/100Px3.jpg) | Prof. Abraham Kudish, Emeritus Professor, Solar Energy akudish@bgu.ac.ilMeasurement and analysis of visible solar radiation; Measurement and analysis of UVB and UVA solar radiation; Conversion ofsolar to thermal energy; Solar desalination |
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| Prof. Yael Lubin, Professor Emerita, Desert EcologyArachnid ecology; behavioral ecology, life history, social evolution, dispersal |
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| Prof. Zvi Offer, Emeritus Professor, Environmental Physics offer@bgu.ac.ilMeteorology-geomorphology; Combined relationships between the meteorological parameters, relief morphometry and airborne particles in the Negev Desert (deflation, erosion, transport, sedimentation, composition, aerosols, atmospheric pollution); Practical applications |
![פינשאו.png](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/SIDEER-faculty/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%95.png?RenditionID=1) | Prof. Berry Pinshow, Professor Emeritus, Desert EcologyPhysiological ecology; ergy and water exchange between animals and the environment; ysiology of thermoregulation and osmoregulation in desert animals - especially birds, bats and rodents; rrow architecture: How are burrows "designed", through natural selection on their builders to suite the builder's physiological needs, thus becoming become part of the organisms "extended physiology". |
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Emeritus Professor, Environmental PhysicsMathematical modeling; Variational and free boundary problems; Numerical methods; Granular mechanics and Aeolian sand transport; Applied superconductivity. |
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![comination.jpg](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/Emeritus/100Px3.jpg) | Dr. Moshe Schwartz, Retired, Bona Terra the Man in the DesertPolitical sociology; Economic sociology; The social organization and political economy of cooperative agricultural settlements in Israel; Agricultural R&D organizations; The political economy of Israel; The political economy of agriculture in Africa; Agricultural settlement projects in the developing world; Human contributions to desertification; The political economy of natural resource management. |
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| Dr. Shenbrot Georgy, Researcher Grade A, Retired, Desert Ecology
Research Interests: Community and population ecology of desert animals (small mammals, lizards);Biogeography of arid zones; Taxonomy of small mammals (Rodentia, Insectivora) and lizards (Agamidae); Conservation ecology, protection of rare species.
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| Prof. Yair Zarmi, Emeritus Professor, Environmental PhysicsEnvironmental physics; Nonlinear dynamics (solitons and their interactions, wave phenomena in nature); Physical aspects of algal biomass production |
![זמל.png](/en/bidr/SIDEER/Site%20Assets/Pages/SIDEER-faculty/%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%9C.png?RenditionID=1) | Prof. Amos Zemel , Emeritus Professor, Environmental PhysicsResearch Interests: The efficient management of natural resources; optimization under uncertainty; the methodology of dynamic optimization.
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