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

University of Haifa, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, partnership, cooperation, research

Research

Partnership between University of Haifa and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Research

Marine Ecology and Ocean Health Lab headed by Dr. Igal Berenshtein
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
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
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Identifying organic-rich intervals sourcing the pliocene-quaternary yafo petroleum system biogenic gas in the Levant Basin

By: Meilijson A., Makovsky Y., Lazar M., Waldmann N.D.
Published in: 2nd EAGE Eastern Mediterranean Workshop
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Analysis of high-resolution seismic reflection data reveals fluid-flow elements within the buried intra- to post-Messini (more…)

Geo-archaeological markers reveal magnitude and rates of Israeli coastal cliff erosion and retreat

By: Galili E., Zviely D.
Published in: Journal of Coastal Conservation
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Geo-archaeological studies along the Mediterranean coast of Israel and its seabed have revealed shipwrecks, anchorages, (more…)

Evidence of the impacts of emerging shark tourism in the Mediterranean

By: Zemah Shamir Z., Zemah Shamir S., Becker N., Scheinin A., Tchernov D.
Published in: Ocean and Coastal Management
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Shark tourism is a new concept that has not yet been recognized in Israel. While the principles and regulation of shark (more…)

Shark aggregation and tourism: opportunities and challenges of an emerging phenomenon

By: Zemah Shamir Z., Zemah Shamir S., Tchernov D., Scheinin A., Becker N.
Published in: International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: In the last few winters, shark communities have been aggregating near the Israeli Mediterranean coast, at a specific poi (more…)

Simulating Bleaching: Long-Term Adaptation to the Dark Reveals Phenotypic Plasticity of the Mediterranean Sea Coral Oculina patagonica

By: Zaquin T., Zaslansky P., Pinkas I., Mass T.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Eastern Mediterranean Sea scleractinian Oculina patagonica, demonstrates high resilience to repeated seasonal bleach (more…)

Management priorities for marine invasive species

By: Giakoumi S., Katsanevakis S., Albano P.G., Azzurro E., Cardoso A.C., Cebrian E., Deidun A., Edelist D., Francour P., Jimenez C., Mačić V., Occhipinti-Ambrogi A., Rilov G., Sghaier Y.R.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Managing invasive alien species is particularly challenging in the ocean mainly because marine ecosystems are highly con (more…)

Development of a modified SEDEX phosphorus speciation method for ancient rocks and modern iron-rich sediments

By: Thompson J., Poulton S.W., Guilbaud R., Doyle K.A., Reid S., Krom M.D.
Published in: Chemical Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: We report the development of a modified method for evaluating different reservoirs of sedimentary phosphorus (P) in anci (more…)

Tethys ocean withdrawal and continental peneplanation—An example from the Galilee, northwestern Arabia

By: Wald R., Segev A., Ben-Avraham Z., Schattner U.
Published in: Journal of Geodynamics
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: During the early Oligocene northeast Africa (Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt) and Arabia (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Sinai and (more…)

Magnetic Signature of the Kinneret–Kinarot Tectonic Basin Along the Dead Sea Transform, Northern Israel

By: Schattner U., Segev A., Mikhailov V., Rybakov M., Lyakhovsky V.
Published in: Pure and Applied Geophysics
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The magnetic signature of subsurface geology is crucial for understanding the crustal structure and its composition. Mar (more…)

Is Ulva sp. able to be an efficient biofilter for mariculture effluents?

By: Shpigel M., Guttman L., Ben-Ezra D., Yu J., Chen S.
Published in: Journal of Applied Phycology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Nitrogenous compounds such as ammonia, nitrate, and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) are the main waste components of ma (more…)

Multiple Inertial Measurement Units-An Empirical Study

By: Larey A., Aknin E., Klein I.
Published in: IEEE Access
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: An inertial navigation system is commonly used in various marine platforms above and below the sea surface to calculate (more…)

Carbon export and drivers in the southeastern Levantine Basin

By: Alkalay R., Zlatkin O., Katz T., Herut B., Halicz L., Berman-Frank I., Weinstein Y.
Published in: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In this paper, we present C export data from the southeastern Levantine Basin, 50 km west of Haifa, at water depth of 15 (more…)

The first deep-sea mooring station in the eastern Levantine basin (DeepLev), outline and insights into regional sedimentological processes

By: Katz T., Weinstein Y., Alkalay R., Biton E., Toledo Y., Lazar A., Zlatkin O., Soffer R., Rahav E., Sisma-Ventura G., Bar T., Ozer T., Gildor H., Almogi-Labin A., Kanari M., Berman-Frank I., Herut B.
Published in: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The eastern Levantine basin (ELB) is an ultra-oligotrophic, warm and saline marine system, significantly affected by cli (more…)

How corals made rocks through the ages

By: Drake J.L., Mass T., Stolarski J., Von Euw S., van de Schootbrugge B., Falkowski P.G.
Published in: Global Change Biology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Hard, or stony, corals make rocks that can, on geological time scales, lead to the formation of massive reefs in shallow (more…)

Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence

By: Minshull T.A., Marín-Moreno H., Betlem P., Bialas J., Bünz S., Burwicz E., Cameselle A.L., Cifci G., Giustiniani M., Hillman J.I.T., Hölz S., Hopper J.R., Ion G., León R., Magalhaes V., Makovsky Y., Mata M.-P., Max M.D., Nielsen T., Okay S., Ostrovsky I., O’Neill N., Pinheiro L.M., Plaza-Faverola A.A., Rey D., Roy S., Schwalenberg K., Senger K., Vadakkepuliyambatta S., Vasilev A., Vázquez J.-T.
Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Large national programs in the United States and several Asian countries have defined and characterised their marine met (more…)

Linking Internal Carbonate Chemistry Regulation and Calcification in Corals Growing at a Mediterranean CO2 Vent

By: Wall M., Prada F., Fietzke J., Caroselli E., Dubinsky Z., Brizi L., Fantazzini P., Franzellitti S., Mass T., Montagna P., Falini G., Goffredo S.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Corals exert a strong biological control over their calcification processes, but there is a lack of knowledge on their c (more…)

Underwater Acoustic Detection and Localization with a Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder

By: Testolin A., Diamant R.
Published in: 2019 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2019 – Proceedings
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Detecting and tracking moving targets is a challenging task, which becomes even harder in underwater scenarios due to th (more…)

Detecting Submerged Objects Using Active Acoustics and Deep Neural Networks: a Test Case for Pelagic Fish

By: Testolin A., Kipnis D., Diamant R.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The accurate detection and quantification of submerged targets has been recognized as a key challenge in marine explorat (more…)

Environmental preferences of Cyanobacteria in the gradient of macroclimatic factors and pollution

By: Barinova S.
Published in: Theoretical and Applied Ecology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The article describes the distribution of the diversity of cyanobacteria in 51 Eurasian floras in the gradient of enviro (more…)

Transcriptome analysis provides a blueprint of coral egg and sperm functions

By: Van Etten J., Shumaker A., Mass T., Putnam H.M., Bhattacharya D.
Published in: PeerJ
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Background. Reproductive biology and the evolutionary constraints acting on dispersal stages are poorly understood in ma (more…)