Eric’s research focuses on dynamic Earth processes associated with marine geohazards and resources spanning from the upper mantle to the ultra-shallow crust. He is particularly interested in lithosphere-biosphere feedback loop interactions. Eric’s group at OCEEMlab uses primarily passive (MT) and active (CSEM) marine electromagnetic techniques, integrated with seismic reflection and tomography, gravity, magnetic, and oceanographic data to study complex oceanic lithosphere mechanisms.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The interplay between mantle plume, submarine freshwater, and marine biodiversity in volcanic systems.

• Hot-spot mantle plume geodynamics and submarine volcanism.

•  Slab rollback-driven toroidal and poloidal mantle flows at back-arc subduction zones and their role in the evolution of continental breakup. 

• Oceanic mid-ocean ridge transform faults’ role in quasi-periodic earthquake cycles.

• Impact of ice-sheet retreat and isostatic rebound on fluid flow dynamics and marine gas hydrate dissociation in polar regions.

• Subsea CO2 storage sites time-lapse monitoring.

• Characterization of seafloor minerals at hydrothermal vent fields along seafloor spreading ridges.

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ACADEMICS

Ph.D., Marine Geophysics, University of Southampton, UK
MRes., Geophysics, University of Southampton, UK
B.Sc., Marine Sciences, Ruppin Academic Institution, Israel