SDG 14:
LIFE BELOW WATER

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

University Impact Ranking for SDG 14
U of Haifa 0/100 

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SDG14 Highlights

Research

Marine Ecology and Ocean Health Lab headed by Dr. Igal Berenshtein
Announcement, Poster, Winning a Grant, University of Haifa, Innovation Authority

Learning & Students

The Leon Charney School of Marine Sciences and Haifa Innovation Labs (HIL) won a grant to operate a new training program for veterans and reservists
Dr. Ziv Zemah-Shamir, Cultural Center, Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa, Marine research, sharks

Public Engagements

The Cultural Center at the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library hosted two summer meetings with university’s marine researchers, July 2024
University of Haifa, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, partnership, cooperation, research

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Partnership between University of Haifa and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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A satellite-based Lagrangian view on phytoplankton dynamics

By: Lehahn Y., D’Ovidio F., Koren I.
Published in: Annual Review of Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The well-lit upper layer of the open ocean is a dynamical environment that hosts approximately half of global primary pr (more…)

Harnessing remote sensing to address critical science questions on ocean-atmosphere interactions

By: Neukermans G., Harmel T., Galí M., Rudorff N., Chowdhary J., Dubovik O., Hostetler C., Hu Y., Jamet C., Knobelspiesse K., Lehahn Y., Litvinov P., Sayer A.M., Ward B., Boss E., Koren I., Miller L.A.
Published in: Elementa
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Earth observing systems have proven to be a unique source of long-term synoptic information on numerous physical, chemic (more…)

Phosphorus and nitrogen trajectories in the Mediterranean Sea (1950–2030): Diagnosing basin-wide anthropogenic nutrient enrichment

By: Powley H.R., Krom M.D., Van Cappellen P.
Published in: Progress in Oceanography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Human activities have significantly modified the inputs of land-derived phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) to the Mediterra (more…)

Alien turf: Overfishing, overgrazing and invader domination in south-eastern Levant reef ecosystems

By: Rilov G., Peleg O., Yeruham E., Garval T., Vichik A., Raveh O.
Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Coastal reefs are highly diverse marine ecosystems that in many regions suffer today from growing pressures by human act (more…)

Patterns and drivers of wild bee community assembly in a Mediterranean IUCN important plant area

By: Dorchin A., Dafni A., Izhaki I., Sapir Y., Vereecken N.J.
Published in: Biodiversity and Conservation
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Recent reports of pollinator declines have stirred interest in investigating the impacts of habitat exploitation on the (more…)

A new perspective on valuating marine climate regulation: The Israeli Mediterranean as a case study

By: Peled Y., Zemah Shamir S., Shechter M., Rahav E., Israel A.
Published in: Ecosystem Services
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Marine climate regulation, the absorption and deposition of atmospheric carbon in the marine environment, is considered (more…)

Identification and chemical characterization of N-acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals across sponge species and time

By: Britstein M., Saurav K., Teta R., Sala G.D., Bar-Shalom R., Stoppelli N., Zoccarato L., Costantino V., Steindler L.
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Marine sponges form symbiotic relationships with complex microbial communities, yet little is known about the mechanisms (more…)

A Clustering Approach for the Detection of Acoustic/Seismic Signals of Unknown Structure

By: Diamant R., Kipnis D., Zorzi M.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: We focus on the detection of sporadic low-power acoustic/seismic signals of unknown structure and statistics, such as th (more…)

Beach deposits containing Middle Paleolithic archaeological remains from northern Israel

By: Galili E., Ronen A., Mienis H.K., Horwitz L.K.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Beach deposits of the last interglacial maximum, MIS 5e, are common on the Mediterranean coasts, however only a few of t (more…)

Message in a bottle – The story of floating plastic in the eastern Mediterranean sea

By: Pasternak G., Zviely D., Ariel A., Spanier E., Ribic C.A.
Published in: Waste Management
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The Mediterranean Sea is a closed basin with limited water exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar, and sites along its (more…)

Detecting human-knapped flint with marine high-resolution reflection seismics: A preliminary study of new possibilities for subsea mapping of submerged stone age sites

By: Grøn O., Boldreel L.O., Hermand J.-P., Rasmussen H., Dell’anno A., Cvikel D., Galili E., Madsen B., Nørmark E.
Published in: Underwater Technology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Seismic high-resolution Chirp profiles from the well-documented submerged Stone Age settlement Atlit-Yam, located off Is (more…)

Marine recreational ecosystem service value estimation: A meta-analysis with cultural considerations

By: Hynes S., Ghermandi A., Norton D., Williams H.
Published in: Ecosystem Services
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Marine and coastal ecosystems provide a wide variety of recreational opportunities that are highly valued by society. Fo (more…)

State of the art and challenges for offshore Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)

By: Buck B.H., Troell M.F., Krause G., Angel D.L., Grote B., Chopin T.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: By moving away from coastal waters and hence reducing pressure on nearshore ecosystems, offshore aquaculture can be seen (more…)

Coccolithovirus facilitation of carbon export in the North Atlantic

By: Laber C.P., Hunter J.E., Carvalho F., Collins J.R., Hunter E.J., Schieler B.M., Boss E., More K., Frada M., Thamatrakoln K., Brown C.M., Haramaty L., Ossolinski J., Fredricks H., Nissimov J.I., Vandzura R., Sheyn U., Lehahn Y., Chant R.J., Martins A.M., Coolen M.J.L., Vardi A., Ditullio G.R., Van Mooy B.A.S., Bidle K.D.
Published in: Nature Microbiology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Marine phytoplankton account for approximately half of global primary productivity 1 , making their fate an important dr (more…)

Water saturated sand and a shallow bay: Combining coastal geophysics and underwater archaeology in the south bay of Tel Dor

By: Lazar M., Engoltz K., Basson U., Yasur-Landau A.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The south bay of Tel Dor was examined during a detailed underwater archaeological expedition and through an onland, coas (more…)

Storm induced estuarine turbidity maxima and controls on nutrient fluxes across river-estuary-coast continuum

By: Chen N., Krom M.D., Wu Y., Yu D., Hong H.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Climate change is likely to increase the frequency and intensity of tropical storms. However, the impacts of major storm (more…)

Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade

By: Guy S.-V., Thomas T., Irit Z., Andreas P., Dorit S., Omri L., Ayelet G., Guy B.-O.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Past fish provenance, exploitation and trade patterns were studied by analyzing phosphate oxygen isotope compositions (δ (more…)

Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: A gap analysis in environmental space

By: Mannocci L., Roberts J.J., Halpin P.N., Authier M., Boisseau O., Bradai M.N., Canãdas A., Chicote C., David L., Di-Méglio N., Fortuna C.M., Frantzis A., Gazo M., Genov T., Hammond P.S., Holcer D., Kaschner K., Kerem D., Lauriano G., Lewis T., Notarbartolo Di Sciara G., Panigada S., Raga J.A., Scheinin A., Ridoux V., Vella A., Vella J.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Heterogeneous data collection in the marine environment has led to large gaps in our knowledge of marine species distrib (more…)

Under-ranked localization of acoustically tagged mobile marine animals

By: Alexandri T., Diamant R.
Published in: 2018 15th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communications, WPNC 2018
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: We consider the challenge of localizing and tracking of underwater acoustically tagged mobile marine fauna by a sparse s (more…)

The dire implications of releasing marine ornamental fishes into the wild: first reported case from the Red Sea

By: Stern N., Rachmilovitz E.N., Sharon G., Diamant A.
Published in: Marine Biodiversity
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This study provides the first documented incidence of aquarium-based introduction of exotic fishes into the Red Sea, in (more…)