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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Geology
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Nadav Lansky
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nadav Lansky
Mr. Ziv Mor
Course/Module description:
An advanced course on the limnology of the Dead Sea, with emphasis on the dynamic responss of the lake and its surroundings to the continuous level decline – lessons we can gain from the Dead Sea as a modern analog to evaporitic basins. The course overs the following topics: the water, aslt and heat budgets; evaporation an heat fluxes across lake surface; the dynamics of thermohaline stratification; the formation of halite deposits; the response of the fluvial system.
Course/Module aims:
To apply the basic principles of limnology to the unique hypersaline Dead Sea and gain insight on the formation of salt deposits.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The student will learn basic concepts in limnology and advanced implications to hypersaline lakes; field and laboratory methods; data analysis with emphasis on spatio-temporal variations; insights from in situ observations to interpretation of evaporitic basins and their paleolimnology.
Attendance requirements(%):
no
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Weekly - two hours lecture and exercise (10 meetings), presentation of selected topic from the course based on published papers. Field excursion -2 days.
Course/Module Content:
Water, salt and heat balances; evaporation and heat fluxes at lake surface; thermohaline stratification; salt deposition – spatio-temporal variations; dynamics response of the fluvial system.
Required Reading:
Two papers that will be presented by each group
Additional Reading Material:
Will be given along the course.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 40 %
Presentation 25 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 25 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
no
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