Torfstein Lab

Seawater geochemistry and marine particles

Down-core studies

Gil, Tal, Adi and Kosta, looking at a freshly retrieved set of multi-cores (June 2019)

Dead Sea

Dust

Eilat coast before (left) and during (right) a mega dust storm (May, 2017)

Dust trap
Dust filter collected after the September 2015 dust storm

Clean lab

Isotope geochemistry

Sr and Nd isotope sedimentary mixing array across the Red-Med-Dead Seas (from Torfstein et al., 2018)

Seawater Pb isotope mixing curves: daily timescale perturbations of water column compositions in response to dust storms (from: Benaltabet et al., 2020)

Compiled U–Th isochron diagrams for the Dead Sea sections (from Torfstein et al., 2013)

Field work in China

Yehouda Enzel, Adi Torfstein, Jianghu Lan and Nathalie Neagu, at Chinese Loess Plateau
Jianghu Lan, Prof. Hai Xu and Adi Torfstein, at the shores of Lake Dahai

Coring coral reefs in Singapore

Mick O’Leary and Adi Torfstein extracting a core from the Singapore reef
Noa, Adi, Bar and Singaporean colleagues on the way to the work site

Coring the Eilat coral reefs

Field work in the Kalahari Desert