Dr. Avner Gross is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development and the School of sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on plants, soils and oceans, how desert dust can be a natural fertilizer of forests and oceans, and more. Dr. Gross is an informed voice on Israeli perspectives on climate change, and global climate change more broadly.