Prof. Colin Price

Department of Geophysics
חוג למדעי כדור הארץ סגל אקדמי בכיר
Prof. Colin Price
Phone: 03-6405714
Another phone: 03-6406029
Fax: 03-6409282
Office: Kaplun, 328

Research

  • The connection between global warming and future thunderstorm activity

  • The propagation of electromagnetic waves (low frequency: ULF, ELF, VLF) in the atmosphere

  • Severe weather including hurricances

  • Sprites and other TLEs on Earth, and other planets

  • ULF precursors related to earthquakes

  • Measurements of infrasound in the atmosphere

  • Space weather and the influence of solar storms on the Earth

  • The connections between biological systems and atmospheric electricity

 

Education

  • BSc in Geophysics and Atmospheric Science, Tel Aviv University, 1985

  • MSc in Atmospheric Science, Tel Aviv University, 1988

  • PhD in Atmospheric Science, Columbia University, USA, 1993

  • Postdoc, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1995

 

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University, 1995-1998

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University, 1998-2003

  • Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University, 2003-2007

  • Full Professor, Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University, 2007-Today

 

Awards and Prizes

  • Environment and Living Foundation Science Award, LSB Baden Wuerttemberg and Konstanz University, Konstanz, Germany, 2001

  • Discovery Magazine Top Science Stories of 2007 (ranked 25th in top 100 stories), 2007

  •   Elected to Executive Council of the International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity, ICAE, 2007

  • Outstanding Referee Citation - Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, 2008

  • Elected to Executive Council of the International Association of Meterology and Atmospheric Science, IAMAS, 2011

  • Elected Associate Editor of Journal of Geophsyical Research - Atmospheres, 2012

  • Nominated as the Israeli representative to the International Union on Geodesy and Geophysics, IUGG, 2014

 

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