A multi-disciplinary research institute where scientists work together on social, environmental, agricultural and educational projects in the Golan
Katzrin, Israel
Joined August 2022
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This week in the spotlight in the local "Friday in the Golan" newspaper: Lior Gur, who researches pathogens affecting plants in the Golan. Check out the article here:
igolan.co.il/pdfonline/22/
#plantpathology #researcherspotlight
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What do you do if you encounter a jackal in Israel? Dr. Yaron Dekel weighs in (article in Hebrew)
israelhayom.co.il/animals/ar…
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A large new study, contributed to by Dr. Motti Charter and published in PNAS, shows that climate change is altering the breeding timing of birds. Is this bad? Depends on the bird. #newarticle #climatechange #birdbreeding
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
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This week in "Friday in the Golan," Dr. Emily Tran talks about her journey from the US to Northern Israel and her work on microplastics and other particles in the environment.
igolan.co.il/pdfonline/18/
English-language media coverage of our research on jackals in Israel- check it out!
ynetnews.com/environment/art…
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New article just out by the group headed by Yaron Dekel and first authored by his student Ayelet Barash suggests that wild jackals with morphological signs of domestication are indeed wild and not jackal/dog hybrids
#jackals #newarticle #wildanimalecology
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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This week, Dr. Oded Cohen is featured in the local "Friday in the Golan" newspaper. Dr. Cohen is a researcher at Shamir leading a war against trees- not all the trees, just the invasive ones
#invasivespecies #featuredresearcher
shishibagolan.co.il/%d7%93%d…
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Yet another job posting- we're growing so quickly! Please reach out to Michal at Michaly@gri.org.il if you are interested
#hiring #agriculturejobs #גולן #עבודה
Want to be a post doc or researcher with us at the Shamir Institute? Interested in both applied and fundamental research in the north of Israel? We're hiring! #helpwanted #postdocs #postdocposition #reserachposition #environmentalresearch #plantresearch #liferesearch
This week, Dr. Motti Charter is featured in "Friday in the Golan." Motti works with birds and specializes, in particular, in #barnowls, with projects all over the world.
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On Thursday, the Shamir family had our #springgathering, going out into nature and exploring our local history. After brunch in the forest, we visited the former train tracks of the #Hejaz railway amongst the flowers of the Golan. Happy Spring! #רכבתהחיגאזית
This week, Dr. Karen Kaplan Minz was featured in "Friday in the Golan" as our researcher of the week. She is in the unique field of #environmentalpsychology, studying how people interact with and feel about their environment, and how the environment contributes to our well-being
In this week's edition of "meet the scientist," we present Nativ Rotbart, #soilscience researcher.
"Of all the subjects in the world, Dr. Rotbart chose to deal with the most basic strata, something that we all use all the time - land..." @NativRotbart
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