Shamir Research Institute

Researchers Assemble!

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

What do you do if you encounter a jackal in Israel? Dr. Yaron Dekel weighs in (article in Hebrew) israelhayom.co.il/animals/articl…

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/10.107…

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/ar…

מחפשים עבודה בניהול חשבונות בגולן? בואו תעבוד איתנו! #ניהולחשבונות #דרוש #עובדים

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/s4159…

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%d7%a8-%…

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

We're hiring! Come be a part of the Shamir family. #helpwanted #hiring #מחפשיםעובדים

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.

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 shishibagolan.co.il/%d7%93%d7%a8-%…

On Tuesday evening, the Shamir Institute hosted the community of biology teachers in the north and unveiled the flagship project for wild plant species. Thanks to Uri Shapira and Neta Weiss for leading the successful evening!