Symposium Program

23^rd October

17:30 - Shuttle from Adi and Americana hotels

17:00 – 19:00: Registration desk opens

18:00 – Ice-breaker party. All participants are warmly invited and encouraged to attend the cocktail and ice-breaker party

20:30 - Shuttle from Campus to Adi and Americana hotels

24^th October

08:00 - Shuttle from Adi and Americana hotels

08:15 – 10:00: Registration desk opens

08:30 – 12:45: Opening plenary and keynote addresses – Chair: Haim Tsoar (Auditorium)

08:30 – 08:45: Conference Welcome and remarks – Haim Tsoar

08:45 – 09:00: Welcome to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus – Prof. Miri Amit, Dean

09:00 – 09:15: Geography and Geology of Eilat, the rift valley and the Red Sea – Haim Tsoar

09:15 – 09:45: Physicists playing in the sandpit – Klaus Kroy, University of Leipzig, Germany

09:45 – 10:15: Scaling and distribution laws in aeolian sand transport – Alexandre Valance, Université de Rennes, Rennes cedex, France

10:15 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15: Mobility and stability of sand dunes in deserts and along the coasts – Haim Tsoar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

11:15– 11:45: Micro-scale dust physics and global dust modeling – Yaping Shao, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany

11:45 – 12:15: The diversity of loess sources in North America during the last glacial period – Daniel R. Muhs, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA

12:15 - 12:45: Dune fields as mega grinders and the loess accretion at the margins of warm deserts – Yehouda Enzel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:00 – 15:00: Lunch and Poster Session

Granular anisotropic gases – Kirsten Harth, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

CFD wind modelling for wind erosion research: a comparison of three open source models - Zhuodong Zhang, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Muencheberg, Germany

Cause-effect - relations between dust storms, dust transferring and the impact on the environment in the southern Aral Sea region – Ilkhomjon Aslanov, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Aeolian sand transport at variable wind speeds – Lukas Kimme, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

A theoretical study of morphodynamics of dunes using dune skeleton model – Hirofumi Niiya, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

15:00 – 17:00: Aeolian erosion, dust emission and deposition – Chair: Ralf Stannarius (Auditorium)

15:00 – 15:15: Diurnal changes of fine dust emission potentials of arable soils in Brandenburg (NE-Germany) – Carsten Hoffmann, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Muencheberg, Germany

15:15 – 15:30: Sand-induced dust emission - Daniel Rings, University of Leipzig, Germany

15:30 – 15:45: Aeolian dust emission from different land uses in semi-arid loess soils - Chai Israel Naveh - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

15:45 – 16:00: Spatial and Temporal distribution of the dust deposition in Central Asia – results from a long term monitoring programme – Michael Groll, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break

16:30 – 16:45: Contribution of flash floods to the interannual variability of dust emission in the Sahara – Kerstin Schepanski, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

16:45 – 17:00: A scaling theory for the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols – Jasper F. Kok, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

17:00 – 17:45: Aeolian sand transport – Chair: Daniel R. Muhs (Auditorium)

17:00 – 17:15: Where to Dig for Gold? - Density Segregation inside Migrating Dunes – Christof A. Kruelle, Maschinenbau und Mechatronik, Karlsruhe, Germany

17:15 – 17:30: A two-species continuum model of aeolian sand transport – Marc Lämmel, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

17:30 – 17:45: A simple model of the influence of sediment texture on threshold shear velocity for dry and wet sands – Brandon L. Edwards, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

18:00 – Shuttle from Campus to Adi and Americana hotels

25^th October

08:00: Shuttle from Adi and Americana hotels

08:30 – 09:15: Aeolian saltation – Chair: Christof Kruelle (Auditorium)

08:30 – 08:45: Measuring saltation and creep with high spatial and temporal resolution – Hans-Jürgen Schönfeldt, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

08:45– 09:00: Analytical steady state saltation model based on invariants of the splash-entrainment process – novel scaling laws for mass flux and apparent roughness – Thomas Pähtz, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

09:00 – 09:15: Jump at the onset of saltation – Marcus V. Carneiro, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

09:15 – 09:45: Modeling sand dunes – Chair: Yosef Ashkenazy (Auditorium)

09:15 – 09:30: Transverse instability of dunes – Eric J. R. Parteli, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

09:30 – 09:45: Morphodynamics of dunes described by the migration of crestlines – Hiraku Nishimori, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

09:50 – 10:20: Coffee Break

10:20 – 11:35: Aeolian sand – Chair: Klaus Kroy (Auditorium)

10:20 – 10:50: Granular matter composed of shape-anisotropic grains – Ralf Stannarius, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

10:50 – 11:05: The origin of mineralogical maturity in the Negev Desert dunes of Israel – Daniel R. Muhs, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA

11:05 – 11:20: An analogy study of basaltic dune sands on Mars and Hawaii – Daniela Tirsch, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

11:20 – 11:35: Evolution of megaripples from flat bed – Hezi Yizhaq, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel

11:40 – 12:20: Lunch

12:30 – 18:30: Mid - conference excursion

26^th October

08:00: Shuttle from Adi and Americana hotels

08:30 – 10:15: Coastal dunes – geomorphology and ecology – Chair: Dan G. Blumberg (Auditorium)

08:30 – 09:00: Restoration of coastal sand dunes for conservation of biodiversity – the Israeli experience – Pua Bar (Kutiel), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

09:00 – 09:15: The aeolian role in beaches with global deficitary sedimentary budgets – Helena Granja, University of Minho, Portugal

09:15 – 09:30: Identification of threats for present developing foredunes on Polish Baltic coast – Tomasz A. Łabuz, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

09:30 – 09:45: Mobility evolution of a highly active coastal dune (SW SPAIN) in several terms – Marina Navarro, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz) Spain

09:45 – 10:00: Dynamic dunes: knowledge transfer, academic research and management practice in coastal dune management – Paul Rooney, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

10:00 – 10:15: Dune vegetation: biodiversity in relation to scale – Maike Isermann, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany

10:15 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00: Ecology of desert sand dunes – Chair: Pua Bar (Kutiel) (Auditorium)

10:45 – 11:00: Stabilization of sand dune in a hyper-arid environment caused by hidden farming edge-effect – Roy Talbi, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel

11:00 – 11:15: The overexploited Samar (Israel) sand dune holds unique genetic populations – Uri Shanas, University of Haifa – Oranim, Tivon, Israel

11:15 – 11:30: Ecological restoration of the Western-Negev dunes System in light of land-use changes: aeolian activity and faunal responses – Udi Columbus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

11:30 – 11:45: cessation of traditional land-use and its effect on biodiversity in the Western Negev sands in Israel – Ittai Renan, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

11:45 – 12:00: Role of biological soil crusts in sand dunes stabilization – mathematical analysis – Shai Kinast, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel

12:00 – 14:00: Lunch and Poster Session

Poster session

                        Have the northwestern Negev dunefield sands reddened since their deposition? – Joel Roskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

                        Soil moisture and vegetation patterns in a coastal sand dune ecosystem in the Mediterranean – Vered ziso, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

                        Coast exposition as a key to identify of former shifting coastal dunes types in Poland – Tomasz A. Łabuz, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Eradication of invasive plants as a part of coastal sand dune restoration – Pua Bar (Kutiel), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Does the size distribution of mineral dust aerosols depend on the wind speed at emission? – Jasper F. Kok, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

14:00 – 15:45: Climate change and aeolian processes – Chair: Yaping Shao (Auditorium)

14:00 – 14:15: Pleistocene and Holocene linear dune formation in W-Egypt, SW-Namibia and S-Australia – an interhemispheric comparison – Olaf Bubenzer, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

14:15 – 14:30: Sand dune mobility under climate change in the Kalahari and Australian deserts – Yosef Ashkenazy, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel

14:30 – 14:45: Palaeoclimatic interpretation of the Late Pleistocene dune encroachments into the Northwestern Negev Desert, Israel – Joel Roskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

14:45 – 15:00: Evidence of Late-Holocene megadrought activity in dunefields of the United States Central Great Plains – Alan F. Halfen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

15:00 – 15:15: Luminescence chronology of the aeolian Kurkar and Hamra soil sequences along the coastal plain, Israel – Naomi Porat, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

15:15 – 15:30: Holocene paleo-environmental history of the Sahara Desert: insights from marine sediments – Inka Meyer, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany

15:30 – 15:45: Loess record of pedogenesis during the last glacial—interglacial transition within the central Great Plains – William C. Johnson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

15:45 – 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:15: Remote sensing and aeolian processes – Chair: Naomi Porat (Auditorium)

16:15 – 16:30: Measurements of dune morphology in the great sand sea (Egypt) - field work vs. digital elevation models (ASTER / SRTM X-BAND) – Andreas Bolten, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

16:30 – 16:45: A method for assessing aeolian stability and motion using SAR coherence; a case study with land-use land-change drivers – Dan G. Blumberg, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

16:45 – 17:00: Multi-annual analysis of the spatial distribution of biological soil crusts in the northwestern Negev sandfields – Arnon Karnieli, BIDR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel

17:00 – 17:15: Aeolian mobility and stability of the Central Asian ergs, a study by remote sensing and geographic information systems – Shimrit Maman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 - Shuttle from Campus to Adi and Americana hotels

27^th October

06:00: Pick up from the hotels for the post-conference excursion