- March 2022: Our (US based) team has been granted a NASA grant on "Estimating Spatiotemporal Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability from Satellite Observations using Machine Learning", following our paper on this subject.
- June 2023: We went on a 36 hour research cruise, hunting for and investigating a shelf-break submesoscale eddy. Preliminary results here.
- July 2023: Recieved the "Deep Sea Research grant" from the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI).
- February 2024: Research cruise at lake Kinneret, studying outflow stream mixing.
- May 2024: Presented an invited lecture in the NOAA coastal ocean modeling webinar series, on "Basin Scale to Submesoscale Variability of the East-Mediterranean Sea Upper Circulation".
- June 2024: Our multi-national team has received a research grant on “Arava Stream salt transport and mixing”.
- September 2024: Our 2nd research cruise at lake Kinneret, studying outflow stream mixing.
- December 2024: Liron Michaeli presented his research on specrtral analysis of near-inertial wave dynamics within a submesoscale vortex in the IAAS 2024 conference in Eilat.
- December 2024: Field test of our seabed turbulence measuring system at a Dead Sea tributary.
- January 2025: Our work on surface waves spectrum measurement via UAV video has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
- March 2025: Our team and group of collaborators have completed the SUBLIME2 submesoscale circulation research cruise in the Israeli continental shelf, including measurements by research vessel, sea glider, 40 tracked drifters, instrumented buoys, and more.
- April 2025: The Med World research consortium is starting its operations, with about 10 active reserach groups, including POMS :) This consortium aims to develop ground breaking high performance computing models of the East Mediterranean climate system and its variability, to collect and analyze novel observational data continuously throughout the project, and to conduct intensive observational campaigns, for the next 5 years. Learn more/apply here, or by emailing Dr. Solodoch.
- May 2025 - presented a talk on "Full life-cycle observations of a deep-reaching summer submesoscale vortex" in the EGU 2025 general assembly in Vienna.
- May 2025: Every year our department hosts an oceanogrphy symposium. This year POMS co-organized a symposium on Air-Sea Interactions.
- June 2026: POMS is one of the funded research groups as part of the new research consortium, MOSES, dealing with physical oceanography of cross-shelf/slope circulation and material exchanges, their effects on the biological pump, and the climate change response of these systems. Graduate/postdoc research positions with observational and modelling foci are available.
RESEARCH STUDENTS(MSc/PhD)/POSTDOCS WANTED for a variety of research projects. Modeling projects include open questions on the Global Overturning Circulation, Air-Sea interaction, vortex dynamics, and internal waves. Observational projects include various aspects of density currents and submesoscale fronts and eddies, including their processes of dissipation, cross-scale fluxes, and modulation of air-sea interaction by submesoscale fronts. Contact Aviv.Solodoch@mail.huji.ac.il