Dr. Yael Edelman-Furstenberg

Email: yael@gsi.gov.il 

Tel: 02-5314237  

In charge of the macropaleontology lab

Research interests:

• Paleoecology of marine environments.
• Paleontology.
• Taphonomy and molluscan shell preservation.
• Marine geology.

Main projects and grants:

• Are baselines shifting in the Gulf of Eilat? Bivalve death assemblages from sedimentary cores as key indicators (funded by BSF).
• Benthic macrofaunal-based environmental assessment of the middle Jurassic formations in outcrop from southern and northern Israel (funded by the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Infrastructures Energy and Water Resources).

Key publications:

• Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Kidwell, S.M., 2015. Chemosymbiont-dominated communities in modern and Cretaceous upwelling systems supports a new, high-productivity variant of standard low-oxygen models. Geology, 43: 975-978.

• Comay, O., Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Ben-Ami, F., 2015. Patterns in molluscan death assemblages along the Israeli Mediterranean continental shelf. Quaternary International, 390: 21-28.

• Leshno, Y., Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Mienis, H., Benjamini, Ch., 2015. Anthropogenic modification of the Israeli Mediterranean coast, tracked by live-dead benthic mollusk assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 433: 49-59.

• Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., 2008. Macrobenthic community structure in a high-productivity region: Upper Campanian Mishash Formation (Israel). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 261: 58-77.

• Grossowicz, L. Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., and Almogi-Labin, A., 2008. Characteristics of the shallow-water benthic foraminifera of the northernmost Gulf of Elat. In: Aqaba-Eilat, the Improbable Gulf. Environment, Biodiversity and Preservation, Por F.D. (Ed)., Magnes Publication. 439-458.

• Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Almogi-Labin, A. and Hemleben, C., 2009. Palaeoceanographic evolution of the central Red Sea during the late Holocene. The Holocene, 19 (1): 117-127.

• Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., 2009. Cyclic upwelling facies along the Late Cretaceous southern Tethys (Israel): taphonomic and ichnofacies evidence of a high-productivity mosaic. Cretaceous Research, 30: 847-863.

• Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., 2014. Distribution and paleoecology of molluscan skeletal remains along an upwelling tract: Benguela system, Namibian shelf. Marine Geology, 353C: 153-162.

Degrees, Post-docs, Sabbaticals:

• MSc: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (advisor: Zeev Reiss and Ahuva Almogi-Labin)
• PhD: University of Chicago, USA (advisor: Susan M. Kidwell)
• Sabbatical: Museum of paleontology, University of California Berkeley, USA