Source: <https://nimrodgavriel.com/appearances/>

# Talks & media

Seminars, conference presentations, and conversations about planetary atmospheres.

## Seminars

Feb 2026

### Center for Integrative Planetary Science seminar, UC Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Talk: Jupiter’s planetary-scale atmospheric circulations exposed by Juno · [Program](<https://cips.berkeley.edu/seminars/>)

Nov 2025

### Physics Department, Midreshet Ben-Gurion

Sde Boker, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Oct 2025

### Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Sep 2025

### Environmental Engineering, Technion

Haifa, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Jun 2025

### Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University

Jerusalem, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Sep 2024

### PhD Defense Seminar, Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Jun 2024

### Scripps Institution of Oceanography

San Diego, California

Talk: Jupiter’s Circumpolar and Polar Cyclones: Understanding Their Static and Transient Properties Through Vorticity Dynamics

Jun 2024

### Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech

Pasadena, California

Talk: Jupiter’s Circumpolar and Polar Cyclones: Understanding Their Static and Transient Properties Through Vorticity Dynamics

Jun 2024

### University of California, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

Talk: Jupiter’s Circumpolar and Polar Cyclones: Understanding Their Static and Transient Properties Through Vorticity Dynamics

Jun 2024

### University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Talk: Jupiter’s Circumpolar and Polar Cyclones: Understanding Their Static and Transient Properties Through Vorticity Dynamics

Aug 2023

### GFD Program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Talk: Can AI-based climate models learn rare, extreme weather events?

## Conferences and other presentations

Sep 2026

### Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC 2026)

The Hague, Netherlands · Oral presentation

Talk: Evidence for Tilted Columnar Cells Driving Jupiter’s Equatorial Jets · [Abstract](<https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2026/EPSC2026-651.html>)

Jan 2026

### Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD 2026)

Houston, Texas

Talk: Dynamical Constraints on the Vertical Structure of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Jan 2026

### Juno Atmospheric Working Group monthly meeting

Talk: Evidence for Tilted Columnar Cells Driving Jupiter’s Equatorial Jets

Sep 2025

### Europlanet Science Congress / Division for Planetary Sciences Joint Meeting (EPSC-DPS 2025)

Helsinki, Finland

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones · [Abstract](<https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/EPSC-DPS2025-625.html>)

Jul 2025

### Israel Physical Society annual meeting (IPS 2025)

Haifa, Israel

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Mar 2025

### Parameterizations for Global Dynamical Models in Climatology, Astrophysics and Planetology

Les Houches, France

Talk: The Dynamics of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

Jan 2025

### International Space Science Conference

Tel Aviv, Israel

Poster: Cyclone dynamics in an ideal environment: the motion and stability of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones

Oct 2024

### Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS 2024) Meeting

Virtual presentation

Talk: The mechanisms controlling the temporal motion, evolution and stability of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones

Jun 2024

### Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD 2024)

Burlington, Vermont

Talk: The motion of Jupiter’s polar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics and a center-of-mass approach

Apr 2024

### European Geosciences Union (EGU 2024) General Assembly

Vienna, Austria

Talk: Vorticity-gradient forces and a center-of-mass approach explain the mean and oscillatory motion of Jupiter's polar cyclones · [Abstract](<https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-8890.html>)

Sep 2022

### Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC 2022)

Granada, Spain

Talk: The oscillatory motion of the polar cyclones of Jupiter results from vorticity dynamics · [Abstract](<https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2022/EPSC2022-980.html>)

Jun 2022

### Juno’s Prime Mission workshop

Pasadena, California

Jun 2022

### Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD 2022)

Breckenridge, Colorado

Talk: The number, location, and oscillation of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

May 2022

### European Geosciences Union (EGU 2022) General Assembly

Vienna, Austria

Talk: The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

Apr 2022

### Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD 2022) Days

Sde Boker, Israel

Talk: The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

Jan 2022

### Juno Atmospheric Working Group monthly meeting

Oct 2021

### Moscow Solar System Symposium

Talk: The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

Oct 2021

### Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS 2021) Meeting

Talk: The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

Sep 2021

### Juno Atmospheric Working Group monthly meeting

Sep 2021

### NASA Headquarters Monthly Science Report

Invited short talk

Talk: The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

## Recordings

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### Jupiter’s planetary-scale atmospheric circulations exposed by Juno

CIPS seminar · UC Berkeley · February 2026

](<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SkI6Z-ntWCe3PCoa_RLff4dzg6enb3bt/view>)
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### The motion of Jupiter’s polar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics and a center-of-mass approach

AOFD 2024 · Burlington, Vermont · June 2024

](<https://youtu.be/DIoy4-n2rRc>)
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### The dynamics of Jupiter’s polar cyclones

PhD defense seminar · Weizmann Institute · 2024

](<https://youtu.be/F0eyXPrLpXA>)

## Media coverage

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### Deflated: Israeli scientists find Jupiter, though huge, is smaller than previously thought

The Times of Israel · February 2026 · English

](<https://www.timesofisrael.com/deflated-israeli-scientists-find-jupiter-is-smaller-than-previously-thought/#:~:text=Kaspi%E2%80%99s%20previous%20work%20on%20Jupiter%E2%80%99s%20polar%20cyclones,peer-reviewed%20journal%20PNAS.>)
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### Why do giant planet jet streams blow in opposite directions?

Astronomy · November 2025 · English

](<https://www.astronomy.com/science/why-do-giant-planet-jet-streams-blow-in-opposite-directions/>)
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### NASA’s Juno Finds Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers

NASA/JPL · November 2023 · English

](<https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/nasas-juno-finds-jupiters-winds-penetrate-in-cylindrical-layers/>)
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### NASA’s Juno: Science Results Offer First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere

NASA/JPL · October 2021 · English

](<https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-juno-science-results-offer-first-3d-view-of-jupiter-atmosphere/>)
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### Jupiter’s super polar cyclones are here to stay

Weizmann Wonder Wander · English

](<https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/jupiters-super-polar-cyclones-are-here-stay>)
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### הסופות המוזרות של צדק

Davidson Institute · Hebrew

](<https://davidson.org.il/read-experience/sciencenews/הסופות-המוזרות-של-צדק/>)
