Amos Frumkin

Background

Amos Frumkin was born on February 20, 1953 in Tel Aviv, Israel in a family of Haim Jacob and Ruth Frumkin.

Education

Amos Frumkin started his education at Technion Technological Institute, where he studied geodetic engineering. After that he studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There he was majoring in natural and earth sciences. His last but not least educational institution was McMaster University in Canada.

Career

Amos Frumkin serves as a professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His interests include karst and cave morphology, cave sediments as indicators of paleoclimate, paleohydrology, the development of karst aquifers, and geoarchaeology. The research is mostly associated with speleological features studied using earth-sciences methods, such as geomorphology, modern dating, and stable isotopes.He has authored or co-authored over 100-refereed articles and eight books. He's also known for being an editor of "Niqrot Zurim". As an active speleologist, he founded and directs the Cave Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Achievements

• Amos Alexander Frumkin has been listed as a noteworthy geomorphologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• article

  • A karst cave in chalk – the longest of its kind in Israel

    1990

  • Hydrology and denudation rates of halite karst

    1994

  • Morphology and development of salt caves

    1994

  • Interaction between karst, water, and agriculture over the climatic gradient of Israel

    1999

• book

  • Multifaces of Geography

    (Edited book)

    1999

  • Atlas of the Holey Land - Judean Desert Caves

    (Edited book)

    2015

  • Proceedings of the Israel Geographical Society Conference

    (Edited book)

    2006

  • Karst Geomorphology

    (Edited book)

    2013

  • Karst Shafts in a Mediterranean Environment

    1984

  • The karst system of Mount Sedom

    1992

Membership

• Israeli Defense Forces , Israel

  1971 - 1975

• Israel Geological Society , Israel

• International Speleologist Union

  1993 - present

Connections

Amos Frumkin is married and has five children.

Father:

Haim Jacob Frumkin

Mother:

Ruth Frumkin

child:

Rachel Frumkin

child:

Shlomit Frumkin

child:

Ofer Frumkin

child:

Ariel Frumkin

child:

Yaara Frumkin

Wife:

Ayala Harary