רויטל בוקמן - בית הספר למדעי הים ע"ש ליאון צ'רני

About▼

Prof. Revital Bookman is a marine and lacustrine geologist, specializing in sedimentology, geohazards, and long-term environmental change. Her research spans the Eastern Mediterranean, the Dead Sea Basin, and the Gulf of Aqaba. She investigates seafloor and lake processes, including the formation and distribution of sub-marine landslides and turbidites to understand sediment transport dynamics, slope stability, and the geological record of earthquakes and other extreme events. Prof. Bookman also studies past climate variability and hydrological change recorded in marine and lacustrine sediments, contributing valuable insights into the regional impacts of climate change. Her work further addresses environmental pollution, examining how contaminants are archived in sedimentary records and what they reveal about human influence on aquatic systems. She integrates seafloor mapping, sediment core analysis, and advanced geophysical techniques to reconstruct Earth-surface processes and assess environmental and geohazard risks.

Publications▼

Annual Variations of Seawater Carbonate System in the Surface Layer of the South-Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Silverman, J., Sisma-Ventura, G., Yu, J. & Bookman, R., Jul 2026, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 131, 7, e2025JC023389.
Unveiling the levant basin as a unique sink for plastic bags and packaging through comprehensive multi-marker analysis, Li, X. Y., Bookman, R. & Segal, Y., Dec 2025, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 221, 118492.
Sediments in small endorheic basins as regional paleoenvironmental archives across a Mediterranean to arid transect, Vainer, S., Roskin, J., Markin, M., Raish, I., Taha, N., Porat, N. & Bookman, R., 1 Nov 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 367, 109530.
Seasonal pulses of microplastic emissions to the Mediterranean Sea, Ferry, A., Segal, Y., Bookman, R., Savva, I. & Angel, D. L., 1 Nov 2025, In: Environmental Research Letters. 20, 11, 114089.
How strong was Goliath? Geomechanical characterization of the submarine Goliath slide, Pinkert, S., Bar-Zvi, L., Makovsky, Y. & Bookman, R., Jun 2025, In: Landslides. 22, 6, p. 1841-1853 13 p.
Beachrock as a Natural Coastal Resource in Antiquity: Evidence from Southern Israel, Bar, A., Haddad, E., Asscher, Y., Galili, E., Bookman, R. & Zviely, D., Feb 2025, In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 13, 2, 240.
Shifting the Sands–Early Islamic Modification of the Caesarea Sandy Lowlands into Plot-and-Berm Water-Harvesting Agroecosystem, Robins, L., Roskin, J., Grono, E., Porat, N., Bookman, R., Ostrowski, A. & Taxel, I., 2025, In: Environmental Archaeology. 30, 6, p. 554-573 20 p.
Character and Evolution of Sunken Groundwater-Harvesting Agroecosystems in Aeolian Sand since Early Islamic Times, between Iran and Iberia, Roskin, J., Robins, L., Sánchez, R., Ostrowski, A., Bookman, R. & Taxel, I., 2025, In: Environmental Archaeology. 30, 6, p. 637-654 18 p.
Notes on multicoloured and red-only flowering populations of Anemone coronaria, Rottenberg, A. & Bookman, R., 2025, In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 72, 3-4, p. 250-255 6 p.
Beachrock: A chronological benchmark for Late Holocene build-up on the coast of Israel, Bar, A., Zviely, D., Roskin, J., Galili, E., Porat, N. & Bookman, R., 15 Nov 2024, In: Geomorphology. 465, 109408.
Far-field effects of the Nile damming on the silica cycle in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea, Katz, T., Bookman, R., Herut, B., Goodman-Tchernov, B. & Sisma-Ventura, G., 15 Apr 2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 921, 171274.
המטמנה ההיסטורית של מקווה ישראל - הזדמנות לחקר השפעות אנתרופוגניות ארוכות טווח על הסביבה, ⁨שטיינברג, ג.⁩, ⁨בוקמן, ר.⁩, ⁨בלסלב, י.⁩, ⁨נתיב, א.⁩, ⁨סמג'ה, ל.⁩ & ⁨אקרמן, א.⁩, 2024, מתחת לפני השטח: המזבלה של תל אביב המנדטורית במקווה ישראל. ⁨אלאור, ת.⁩ (ed.). תל אביב: רסלינג, p. 113-140 28 p. (הסדרה לסוציולוגיה ואנתרופולוגיה).
Limekiln services soil enrichment and water retention of an Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm groundwater-harvesting agroecosystem in coastal dunes near Caesarea, Israel, Taxel, I., Roskin, J., Grono, E., Balila, M., Bookman, R., Ostrowski, A., Shor, M., Asscher, Y., Porat, N. & Robins, L., Nov 2023, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 11, 170.
Reply to the Comment by John J. G. Reijmer on ‘Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective’ by Ash-Mor et al. (2022), Sedimentology, 69, 1231–1251, Ash-Mor, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Bouchet, V. M. P., Seuront, L., Guy-Haim, T., Ben-Avraham, Z. & Bookman, R., Feb 2023, In: Sedimentology. 70, 2, p. 598-601 4 p.
Shelf inhabiting foraminifera as a tool for understanding late quaternary mass transport processes in the Northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea, Ash-Mor, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Ben-Avraham, Z., Kanari, M. & Bookman, R., Feb 2023, In: Marine Geology. 456, 106988.
Tropical storm-induced disturbance of deep-water porewater profiles, Gulf of Aqaba, Bialik, O. M., Bookman, R., Elyashiv, H., Marietou, A., Saar, R., Rivlin, T., Taha, N., Benaltabet, T., Lotem, N., Funaro, E. & Antler, G., Nov 2022, In: Marine Geology. 453, 106926.
Beachrock Morphology along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel: Typological Classification of Erosion Features, Bar, A., Bookman, R., Galili, E. & Zviely, D., Nov 2022, In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10, 11, 1571.
Stratigraphic record reveals contrasting roles of overflows and underflows over glacial cycles in a hypersaline lake (Dead Sea), Lu, Y., Pope, E. L., Moernaut, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N., Agnon, A., Marco, S. & Strasser, M., 15 Sep 2022, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 594, 117723.
Aeolian-fluvial processes control landscape evolution along dunefield margins of the northwestern Negev (Israel) since the late Quaternary, Robins, L., Roskin, J., Yu, L., Bookman, R. & Greenbaum, N., 1 Jun 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 285, 107520.
When did Goliath collapse? Dating the recent events of a major submarine slide complex, Southeastern Mediterranean margin, Elad, M., Gadol, O., Makovsky, Y., Almogi-Labin, A., Boaretto, E. & Bookman, R., May 2022, In: Sedimentary Geology. 433, 106123.
Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective, Ash-Mor, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Bouchet, V. M. P., Seuront, L., Guy-Haim, T., Ben-Avraham, Z. & Bookman, R., Apr 2022, In: Sedimentology. 69, 3, p. 1231-1251 21 p.
A Global Assessment of Night Lights as an Indicator for Shipping Activity in Anchorage Areas, Polinov, S., Bookman, R. & Levin, N., 1 Mar 2022, In: Remote Sensing. 14, 5, 1079.
Development of the Nile Littoral Cell during the past 8.2 kyr, Bookman, R., Mor-Federman, T., Herut, B., Harlavan, Y., Taha, N., Stein, M. & Almogi-Labin, A., 15 Dec 2021, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 274, 107262.
An Initial Assessment of the Contribution of Fresh Submarine Ground Water Discharge to the Alkalinity Budget of the Mediterranean Sea, Kolker, D., Bookman, R., Herut, B., David, N. & Silverman, J., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 126, 8, e2020JC017085.
Orbital- and Millennial-Scale Changes in Lake-Levels Facilitate Earthquake-Triggered Mass Failures in the Dead Sea Basin, Lu, Y., Moernaut, J., Waldmann, N., Bookman, R., Ian Alsop, G., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Strasser, M., Agnon, A. & Marco, S., 28 Jul 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 14, e2021GL093391.
Spatial and temporal assessment of oil spills in the Mediterranean Sea, Polinov, S., Bookman, R. & Levin, N., Jun 2021, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 167, 112338.
High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary, Robins, L., Greenbaum, N., Yu, L. P., Bookman, R. & Roskin, J., Mar 2021, In: Aeolian Research. 50, 100680.
A New Approach to Constrain the Seismic Origin for Prehistoric Turbidites as Applied to the Dead Sea Basin, Lu, Y., Moernaut, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N., Wetzler, N., Agnon, A., Marco, S., Alsop, G. I., Strasser, M. & Hubert-Ferrari, A., 16 Feb 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 3, e2020GL090947.
הדגמים המרחביים והעיתיים של דליפות נפט מאוניות בים התיכון: [מתוך המדור: בקצרה], ⁨פולינוב, ס.⁩, ⁨בוקמן, ר.⁩ & ⁨לוין, נ.⁩, 2021, In: אקולוגיה וסביבה.
Numerical characterization of cohesive and non-cohesive ‘sediments’ under different consolidation states using 3d dem triaxial experiments, Elyashiv, H., Bookman, R., Siemann, L., Brink, U. T. & Huhn, K., Oct 2020, In: Processes. 8, 10, p. 1-24 24 p., 1252.
The control of sediment gas accumulation on spatial distribution of ebullition in Lake Kinneret, Liu, L., Sotiri, K., Dück, Y., Hilgert, S., Ostrovsky, I., Uzhansky, E., Katsman, R., Katsnelson, B., Bookman, R., Wilkinson, J. & Lorke, A., 1 Aug 2020, In: Geo-Marine Letters. 40, 4, p. 453-466 14 p.
Comment to: Ben Dor Y. et al. “Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record” Quaternary Science reviews 215 (2019): 173–184, Bookman, R., 1 Mar 2020, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 231, 106064.
The Dead Sea and Its Deviation from Natural Conditions, Bookman, R., 2020, Springer Water. Springer Nature, p. 1-33 33 p. (Springer Water).
Geomorphological response of the Lower Jordan River basin to active tectonics of the Dead Sea Transform, Marder, E., Bookman, R. & Filin, S., 15 Sep 2018, In: Geomorphology. 317, p. 75-90 16 p.
Middle to Late Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer encampments at the Ashalim site, on a linear dune-like morphology, along dunefield margin water bodies, Vardi, J., Marder, O., Bookman, R., Friesem, D. E., Groman-Yeroslavski, I., Edeltin, L., Porat, N., Boaretto, E. & Roskin, J., 10 Jan 2018, In: Quaternary International. 464, p. 187-205 19 p.
Anthropogenic overprints on natural coastal aeolian sediments: A study from the periphery of ancient Caesarea, Israel, Shtienberg, G., Dix, J. K., Shahack-Gross, R., Yasur-Landau, A., Roskin, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N., Shalev, S. & Sivan, D., Sep 2017, In: Anthropocene. 19, p. 22-34 13 p.
Urbanization effects on sediment and trace metals distribution in an urban winter pond (Netanya, Israel), Zohar, I., Teutsch, N., Levin, N., Mackin, G., de Stigter, H. & Bookman, R., 1 Aug 2017, In: Journal of Soils and Sediments. 17, 8, p. 2165-2176 12 p.
A late Pleistocene linear dune dam record of aeolian-fluvial dynamics at the fringes of the northwestern Negev dunefield, Roskin, J., Bookman, R., Friesem, D. E. & Vardi, J., 15 May 2017, In: Sedimentary Geology. 353, p. 76-95 20 p.
The effect of bioturbation in pelagic sediments: Lessons from radioactive tracers and planktonic foraminifera in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Steiner, Z., Lazar, B., Shani, L., Tsroya, S., Pelled, O., Bookman, R. & Erez, J., 1 Dec 2016, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 194, p. 139-152 14 p.
The role of transport processes of particulate mercury in modifying marine anthropogenic secondary sources, the case of Haifa bay, Israel, Bareket, M. M., Bookman, R., Katsman, R., de Stigter, H. & Herut, B., 15 Apr 2016, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 105, 1, p. 286-291 6 p.
Natural and human controls of the Holocene evolution of the beach, aeolian sand and dunes of Caesarea (Israel), Roskin, J., Sivan, D., Shtienberg, G., Roskin, E., Porat, N. & Bookman, R., 1 Dec 2015, In: Aeolian Research. 19, p. 65-85 21 p.
Contamination history of lead and other trace metals reconstructed from an urban winter pond in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast (Israel), Zohar, I., Bookman, R., Levin, N., De Stigter, H. & Teutsch, N., 2 Dec 2014, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 48, 23, p. 13592-13600 9 p.
Possible connection between large volcanic eruptions and level rise episodes in the Dead Sea Basin, Bookman, R., Filin, S., Avni, Y., Rosenfeld, D. & Marco, S., 1 Apr 2014, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 89, p. 123-128 6 p.
Impact of earthquakes on agriculture during the Roman-Byzantine period from pollen records of the Dead Sea laminated sediment, Leroy, S. A. G., Marco, S., Bookman, R. & Miller, C. S., Mar 2010, In: Quaternary Research. 73, 2, p. 191-200 10 p.
Resuspension of mercury-contaminated sediments from an in-lake industrial waste deposit, Owens, E. M., Bookman, R., Effler, S. W., Driscoll, C. T., Matthews, D. A. & Effler, A. J. P., 2009, In: Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States). 135, 7, p. 526-534 9 p.
ספרי ההיסטוריה של הטבע, ⁨בוקמן, ר.⁩ & ⁨זפרן, ש.⁩, 2007, In: טבע הדברים. 140, p. 92-94 3 p.
Quaternary lake levels in the Dead Sea basin: Two centuries of research, Bookman, R., Bartov, Y., Enzel, Y. & Stein, M., 2006, In: Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 401, p. 155-170 16 p.
Current depositional environments at the Dead Sea margins as indicators of past lake levels, Bartov, Y., Bookman, R. & Enzel, Y., 2006, In: Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 401, p. 127-140 14 p.
Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments, Migowski, C., Agnon, A., Bookman, R., Negendank, J. F. W. & Stein, M., 15 May 2004, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 222, 1, p. 301-314 14 p.
Late Holocene lake levels of the dead sea, Bookman, R., Enzel, Y., Agnon, A. & Stein, M., May 2004, In: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 116, 5-6, p. 555-571 17 p.

Education▼

PhD. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth sciences.

Research Areas▼

• Marine and lacustrine sedimentology • Paleoceanography and paleoclimate • Sediment mass transport processes • Environmental change and pollution