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SHABTAI COHEN June 2008 Part I: CURRICULUM VITAE I. Personal 1952 Born in Queens County, New York 19661970 High School in Yeshiva University High School, New York, N.Y. 1982 Military service, IDF Marital status: married + 4 II. University Education and Additional Training 19701974 B.A. in Biology at Queens College of CUNY, N.Y. 19741977 M.Sc. in Botany at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title of thesis: Potential Transpiration in the Summer and Aspects of the Physiological Ecology of the Genus Phlomis on Mount Hermon. Supervision by: Professor Joseph Gale 19781983 Ph.D. in Agriculture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title of thesis: Light Relations of an Orange Canopy. Supervision by: Professor Marcel Fuchs Sabbatical leave at Northeastern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Burlington VT, USA with Prof. Melvin Tyree. Research subject: Influence of hydraulic properties of rootstocks and the rootstock-scion graft on water use and productivity of apple trees III. Positions held and Academic Status 19831984: Research Scientist at the ARO, Inst. of Soils and Water, Dept of Environmental Physiology and Irrigation. 19931998: Research Scientist (Grade C) at the ARO, Inst. of Soils and Water, Dept of Environmental Physics and Irrigation. 1998-2004: Senior (Grade B) Research Scientist at the ARO, Inst. of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Dept of Environmental Physics and Irrigation. 2001-2002: Research Scientist (Plant Physiologist), USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Research Station, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Burlington, VT, USA. An affiliate of the University of Vermont (on Sabbatical leave from the Volcani Center). 2004-present:Senior (Grade A) Research Scientist at the ARO, Inst. of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Dept of Environmental Physics and Irrigation. IV. Training / Teaching Experience (including guidance of students and foreign scholars) Courses: 2003-2004