Hadar Elyashiv

I am a ma­ri­ne geo­lo­gist from Is­ra­el and cur­rent­ly a PhD stu­dent in MARUM (Bre­men Uni­ver­si­ty). As a child, in each vi­sit to the sea I was cu­rious to know what each vi­sit will hold for me. To­day, as a young re­se­ar­cher I am fa­sci­na­ted by the com­ple­xi­ties of the pro­ces­ses ran­ging from the co­asts to the de­epest parts of our oce­ans.
As a PhD stu­dent I have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to stu­dy some of the­se pro­ces­ses from the per­spec­tive of the small par­ti­cles ly­ing on the sea floor - the sand and the mud. My stu­dy fo­cu­ses on the in­itia­ti­on and trans­port pro­ces­ses of lands­li­des in the sea. Du­ring a lands­li­de a mass of rock is mo­ving down due to gra­vi­ty and when it hap­pens on the seaf­loor (=sub­ma­ri­ne lands­li­des) it can be far lar­ger than lands­li­des that oc­cur on land. Alt­hough it may seem that such pro­ces­ses hap­pen far away on the bot­tom of the sea, they are po­ten­ti­al­ly a gre­at dan­ger to hu­man li­ves sin­ce they may ge­ne­ra­te de­struc­tive tsu­na­mis re­aching the citizens along the co­asts. In re­gard to cli­ma­te chan­ge, it has been pro­po­sed that one of the re­sults of the chan­ging cli­ma­te and the ri­sing sea le­vel is that lands­li­des oc­cur­rence may in­crea­se and the­re­fo­re put the li­ves of thousands at im­me­dia­te risk.

Sto­ry tel­ling is per­haps the ol­dest and sim­plest form in which the in­for­ma­ti­on spreads li­te­r­al­ly by word of mouth. By communicating our science we don’t just want to increase the awareness to the change of our planet through fear. We rather hope to explain the various processes of our planet and its oceans so the people will understand them and find them as attractive and interesting as we scientists find it.

Here you can listen to me reading an excerpt from my Poem "Tonigt you will dream about the ocean".