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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:
Prof. Nadav Lansky
Coordinator Office Hours:
After the weekly class, and if needed - contact Nadav and make an appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Nadav Lansky
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(%):
90
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. Exercise. 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 and coastal systems to lake level decline.
Required Reading:
Two papers that will be presented by each group
Additional Reading Material:
Will be given along the course.
Grading Scheme :
Written / Oral / Practical Exam / Home Exam 10 %
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 40 %
Presentation / Poster Presentation / Lecture/ Seminar / Pro-seminar / Research proposal 30 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 10 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 10 %
Additional information:
30% - presentation of the project, selected by the student (12 minutes),
40% - report on the same project,
10% - oral exam on the same project,
10% - Attendance in the field excursion and most of the classes,
10% - exercise grading (4 out of 6)
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