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Miryam Bar-Matthews

Miryam Bar-Matthews

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Earth Science
Israel
2026

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Earth Science

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Citations
15264
World Ranking
2126
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2018 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Miryam Bar-Matthews is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities, with a total of 11 and 3 relevant publications respectively.

The subfields of their study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Archaeology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Paleontology
  • Ecology

The main topics covered in their work involve:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology

Recent publications by Miryam Bar-Matthews include:

  • Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A new MIS 5 to MIS 2 speleothem record from Sandkraal Cave on the South African Cape south coast, 2024, Quaternary Research
  • Oexcess17 in speleothem carbonates in Soreq Cave as an archive for hydro-climatic conditions, 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Corrigendum to "Comparison of climate and environment on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain to the Little Karoo (South Africa) in Marine Isotope Stage 5-3 as indicated by speleothems" [Quat. Sci.Rev. 235 (2020) 105803], 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Reconstructing Eastern Mediterranean climate during MIS6 and MIS5e from Peqi'in Cave speleothem fluid inclusion stable isotope and TEX86 measurements, 2021, Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Avner Ayalon
  • Tami Zilberman
  • Alan Matthews
  • Kerstin Braun
  • Richard M. Cowling

They have published in various scientific venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary Research
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Miryam Bar-Matthews was recognized with the Geochemistry Fellow Honor by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Sea-land oxygen isotopic relationships from planktonic foraminifera and speleothems in the Eastern Mediterranean region and their implication for paleorainfall during interglacial intervals

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Mabs Gilmour;Alan Matthews

  • Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

    Curtis W. Marean;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Jocelyn Bernatchez;Erich Fisher

  • The Eastern Mediterranean paleoclimate as a reflection of regional events: Soreq cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman;Gerald J Wasserburg

  • Late Quaternary Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotope Analysis of Speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman

  • Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

    Katharine Grant;Eelco Rohling;Eelco Rohling;M Bar-Matthews;A Ayalon

  • The earliest modern humans outside Africa

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Gerhard W. Weber;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam;Mathieu Duval

  • Timing and hydrological conditions of Sapropel events in the Eastern Mediterranean, as evident from speleothems, Soreq cave, Israel

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Aaron Kaufman

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope study of the active water-carbonate system in a karstic Mediterranean cave: Implications for paleoclimate research in semiarid regions

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews;Eytan Sass

  • Mid-Holocene climate variations revealed by high-resolution speleothem records from Soreq Cave, Israel and their correlation with cultural changes

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon

  • Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry

    Hagit P. Affek;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Mg isotopic composition of carbonate: insight from speleothem formation

    Albert Galy;Albert Galy;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Ludwik Halicz;R.Keith O’Nions

  • Global climate instability reflected by Eastern Mediterranean marine records during the late Holocene

    Bettina Schilman;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Boaz Luz

  • Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Ofer Marder;Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews

  • Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon;A. Matthews

  • Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa

    Erich C. Fisher;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Antonieta Jerardino;Curtis W. Marean

  • A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Curtis W. Marean;Zenobia Jacobs;Panagiotis Karkanas

  • Copper isotope fractionation in sedimentary copper mineralization (Timna Valley, Israel)

    Dan Asael;Alan Matthews;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Ludwik Halicz

  • Rainfall-recharge relationships within a karstic terrain in the Eastern Mediterranean semi-arid region, Israel: δ 18O and δD characteristics

    Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Eytan Sass

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Bettina Schilman

  • Climatic variability during the last ∼90 ka of the southern and northern Levantine Basin as evident from marine records and speleothems

    Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Dan Shriki;Elina Kolosovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Avner Ayalon
Avner Ayalon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amos Frumkin
Amos Frumkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Ahuva Almogi-Labin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Curtis W. Marean
Curtis W. Marean Arizona State University
Ludwik Halicz
Ludwik Halicz University of Oxford
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andy I.R. Herries
Andy I.R. Herries La Trobe University
Hagit P. Affek
Hagit P. Affek Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elisabetta Boaretto
Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute of Science
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University

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