Ground-based LiDAR, luminesncence dating, underwater surveys and airborne LiDAR are combined to study the process, rates and sediment budget associated with sea-cliff erosion along Israel's Mediterranean coast since the mid-Holocene. This project is co-led with Oded Katz from the Geological Survey of Israel.
LiDAR constraints on sediment loss from the cliff-shore system during the recent decade indicate comparable cliff retreat rates to the 'background' rate of 0.03-0.09 m/yr of retreat measured for this sea cliff since the mid Holocene. (Mushkin et al. AGU fall meeting 2015)
Selected publications:
Katz and Mushkin, 2013, Quaternary Research (80), 20-32.
Katz and Mushkin, 2013, Field guide – IGS annual meeting, Acre, Israel
Katz and Mushkin, 2014, EGU meeting, Vienna, Austria
Mushkin et al., 2014, AMQUA meeting, Seattle WA, USA.