Dr. Yoni Goldsmith is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University. He received his PhD from Columbia University (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, 2017) and his postdoc was at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

Yoni is a geochemist and geomorphologist. His work is aimed at quantifying past changes in rainfall and evaporation around the world (China, Mongolia, western US, Middle East) in order to understand the natural variability of rainfall and evaporation and the processes that govern this variability. In addition, he studies how human societies have responded to climate change throughout history. For this he combines geomorphology with isotope geochemistry (compound specific stable isotopes [dD, d13C], traditional stable isotopes [dD, 18O, d13C], clumped isotopes and U/Th dating) to investigate how the status of lakes has changed through time. In addition, he uses hydrological models and outputs of climate models to quantify and evaluate the empirical data collected.

Ongoing projects:

• Quantifying the migration of the East Asian Monsoon during the Late Quaternary in China and Mongolia
• Reconstructing paleo-intensity of the Indian Monsoon using lake-area fluctuations from Lake Chenghai, Southern China
• Developing and applying compound specific stable isotope biogeochemistry to problems in terrestrial hydroclimate, East Asia, West Asia, Western USA
• Chemical and isotopic processes of shoreline tufa formation in Mono Lake, USA 

Personal website:  https://en.earth.huji.ac.il/people/yonatan-goldsmith

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2006064487_Yonaton_Goldsmith