World Wide Collaborations

Eran Ben-Elia

• Caspar Chorus, TU Delft: Human interaction with robot cars
• Song Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Cooperation in congested networks
• Amanda Stathopoulos, Northwestern University: Choice models for ridesharing
• Owen Waygood, Laval University Quebec: Pedestrian Cities

Itay Kloog

• Prof Robert Wright,Department of Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Stress-chemical interactions and neurobehavior in school age children"

• Prof Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health, "Spatio temporal development of nation wide exposure models"

• Prof Allan Just, Department of Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Spatiotemporal modeling of hourly temperature dynamics and risk of cardiovascular events in New York

• Prof Roz Wright, Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai, "Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes"

Itzhak Katra

• Jasper Kok, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA: Generation of dust from active aeolian sand dunes

• Klaus Kroy, Institute of Theoretical physics, Leipzig University, Germany: Aeolian sand ripples on Earth and Mars – Integrating mathematical models, field and wind tunnel experiments
• Petros Koutrakis, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA: Dust storms and PM distributions in urban environments

Tal Svoray

• Prof. Peter M. Atkinson, Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, UK "Mapping soil health over agricultural areas using geostatistics"

• Prof. Sally Thompson, University of California, Berkeley, US, "Modeling hydrological connectivity"
• Prof. Gabriel Katul, Duke University, US, "Confronting mathematical models and ecosystem complexity"
• Prof. Greg Hancock, The University of Newcastle, Australia, "Soilscape evolution in dry environments"

Oren Yiftachel

• Prof. Libby Porter, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia – " Indigenous Urbanization in Settler Societies"  Product: A special theme issue of the journal 'Settler-Colonial Studies" Vol. 8, No. 2  (joint paper attached)

• Dr. Henrik Lebuhn and Prof. Talja Blokland, Humboldt University, Berlin "Urban Citizenship Revisited". Product – special issue of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research - http://www.ijurr.org/symposia/urban-citizenship/
• Prof.  Jeremey Gilbert, University of East London, "Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples" – product:  joint workshop on the legal geography of indigenous peoples; preliminary  product – see attached
• Prof. Gautam Bahn, Indian Institute for Human Settlement, Bangalore, India – "Urban Planning in the Global South"; Product: edited book "Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South"
• https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Planning-in-the-Global-South/Bhan-Srinivas-watson/p/book/9781138932814
• Prof. Raj Balakrishnan, Prof. Bish Sanyal,  MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, DRAN Center. "New Directions in Displacement Research" – product:
• http://mitdisplacement.org/symposiumhomepage

Jonathan Laronne

• Daizo Tsutsumi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University: "Bedload transport in mountain rivers using Japanese pipe microphones"

• Joel Johnson, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin: "Hydraulics and bedload transport in flood bores"

• Dan Cadol & Susan Bilek, Earth and Environmental Science Dept., New Mexico Tech: "Acoustic and seismic monitoring of bedload in a desert wash."

• Dave Varyu, Science and Technology Center, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: "Ephemeral Tributary Sediment Transport Measurement" https://www.usbr.gov/research/projects/detail.cfm?id=9781
• Jens Turowski, Geoarchives, Geomorphology Group, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences: "Seismic monitoring of bedload"
• Florent Gimbert, ISTerre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble: "SEISMORIV - SEISmic MOnitoring of mountain RIVers to quantify the control of extreme climatic events on river dynamics"
• Fred Liebault, Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Sgriculture (IRSTEA), Grenoble: "Bedload monitoring under conditions of ultra-high suspended sediment concentrations "

Avinoam Meir

Geography Research Forum (GRF) edited by Professor Avinoam Meir, is an international journal since 1979, and became open-access online journal since 2015. It specializes in peer-reviewed theme issues edited by invited international prominent as guest editors and authored by eminent figures. www.geog.bgu.ac.il/GRF

Recent special issues are:

• Volume 35, 2015: Displacement and Resettlement with Chinese Characteristics
• Guest editors: Mark Wang, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Kevin Lo, Hong Kong Baptist University, The People Republic of China
• Volume 36, 2016: The Multifaceted Relation between Formal Institutions and the Production of Informal Urban Spaces
• Guest editors: Francesco Chiodelli,  Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, and Erez Tzfadia, Sapir College, Israel
• Volume 37, 2017: Landed Resources, Property Rights, and Development in Africa
• Guest editor: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Eli Stern

• Prof. Graham Clarke, Dept. of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. And Prof. John Lombard, School of Public Service, Old Dominion University, USA.  Project – "Studies in Applied Geography".
• Product:  Applied Spatial Modelling and Planning, Routledge, London and New York, 2017.