SDG 14:
LIFE BELOW WATER

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

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SDG14 Highlights

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
Announcement, Poster, Winning a Grant, University of Haifa, Innovation Authority

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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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Marine Ecology and Ocean Health Lab headed by Dr. Igal Berenshtein
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Estimating drawdown magnitudes of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant basin during the Lago Mare stage of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

By: Ben Moshe L., Ben-Avraham Z., Enzel Y., Schattner U.
Published in: Marine Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The Messinian Salinity Crisis (5.97–5.33 Ma) is one of the most dramatic sea level change events in the global geologica (more…)

Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4

By: von Schuckmann K., Le Traon P.-Y., Smith N., (Chair), Pascual A., Djavidnia S., Gattuso J.-P., Grégoire M., Nolan G., Aaboe S., Fanjul E.Á., Aouf L., Aznar R., Badewien T.H., Behrens A., Berta M., Bertino L., Blackford J., Bolzon G., Borile F., Bretagnon M., Brewin R.J.W., Canu D., Cessi P., Ciavatta S., Chapron B., Trang Chau T.T., Chevallier F., Chtirkova B., Ciliberti S., Clark J.R., Clementi E., Combot C., Comerma E., Conchon A., Coppini G., Corgnati L., Cossarini G., Cravatte S., de Alfonso M., de Boyer Montégut C., De Lera Fernández C., de los Santos F.J., Denvil-Sommer A., de Pascual Collar Á., Dias Nunes P.A.L., Di Biagio V., Drudi M., Embury O., Falco P., d’Andon O.F., Ferrer L., Ford D., Freund H., León M.G., Sotillo M.G., García-Valdecasas J.M., Garnesson P., Garric G., Gasparin F., Gehlen M., Genua-Olmedo A., Geyer G., Ghermandi A., Good S.A., Gourrion J., Greiner E., Griffa A., González M., Griffa A., Hernández-Carrasco I., Isoard S., Kennedy J.J., Kay S., Korosov A., Laanemäe K., Land P.E., Lavergne T., Lazzari P., Legeais J.-F., Lemieux B., Levier B., Llovel W., Lyubartsev V., Lien V.S., Lima L., Lorente P., Mader J., Magaldi M.G., Mangin A., Maljutenko I., Mantovani C., Marinova V., Masina S., Mauri E., Meyerjürgens J., Mignot A., McEwan R., Mejia C., Melet A., Menna M., Meyssignac B., Mouche A., Mourre B., Müller M., Notarstefano G., Pardo S., Orfila A., Peneva E., Pérez-Gómez B., Perruche C., Peterlin M., Poulain P.-M., Pinardi N., Quilfen Y., Raudsepp U., Renshaw R., Révelard A., Reyes-Reyes E., Ricker M., Rodríguez-Rubio P., Rotllán P., Gelabert E.R., Rubio A., Ruiz-Parrado I., Sathyendranath S., She J., Solidoro C., Stanev E.V., Staneva J., Storto A., Su J., Bakhsh T.T., Tilstone G.H., Tintoré J., Toledano C., Tournadre J., Tranchant B., Uiboupin R., Valcarcel A., Valcheva N., Verbrugge N., Vrac M., Wolff J.-O., Zambianchi E., Zielinski O., Zunino S.
Published in: Journal of Operational Oceanography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
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Diet composition and some observations on the feeding ecology of the rhizostome Rhopilema nomadica in Israeli coastal waters

By: Kuplik Z., Angel D.L.
Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Since the mid-1980s, swarms of the rhizostome Rhopilema nomadica have been an annual phenomenon in Israeli Mediterranean (more…)

Extracting Mg isotope signatures of ancient seawater from marine halite: A reconnaissance

By: Xia Z., Horita J., Reuning L., Bialik O.M., Hu Z., Waldmann N.D., Liu C., Li W.
Published in: Chemical Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The Mg/Ca ratio of seawater fluctuated remarkably over the Phanerozoic. The processes that controlled the temporal varia (more…)

Adaptive Modulation for Long-Range Underwater Acoustic Communication

By: Huang J., Diamant R.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Long-range underwater acoustic communication (LR-UWAC) refers to the peer-to-peer transmission of messages for distances (more…)

Epiphytes provide micro-scale refuge from ocean acidification

By: Guy-Haim T., Silverman J., Wahl M., Aguirre J., Noisette F., Rilov G.
Published in: Marine Environmental Research
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Coralline algae, a major calcifying component of coastal shallow water communities, have been shown to be one of the mor (more…)

Fish assemblages of three common artificial reef designs during early colonization

By: Hylkema A., Debrot A.O., Osinga R., Bron P.S., Heesink D.B., Izioka A.K., Reid C.B., Rippen J.C., Treibitz T., Yuval M., Murk A.J.
Published in: Ecological Engineering
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In this study, we compared the early fish colonization of three types of artificial reefs deployed in the coastal waters (more…)

Differential Sensitivity of a Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifer to Seawater Carbonate Chemistry in a Decoupled DIC-pH Experiment

By: Oron S., Evans D., Abramovich S., Almogi-Labin A., Erez J.
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) are unicellular eukaryotic calcifying organisms and an important component of tropical (more…)

Genetic affinities and biogeography of putative Levantine-endemic seaweed Treptacantha rayssiae (Ramon) M.Mulas, J.Neiva & Á.Israel, comb. nov. (Phaeophyceae) [Affinités génétiques et biogéographie du peigne d’algues marines Levantine-endémique Treptacantha rayssiae (Ramon) M.Mulas, J.Neiva et Á.Israel, comb. nov. (Phaeophyceae).]

By: Mulas M., Neiva J., Sadogurska S.S., Ballesteros E., Serrão E.A., Rilov G., Israel Á.
Published in: Cryptogamie, Algologie
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Cystoseira sensu lato (Ochrophyta) forests are important habitat formers in the Mediterranean Sea, but they have mostly (more…)

Community dynamics and ecological shifts on Mediterranean vermetid reefs

By: Rilov G., Peleg O., Guy-Haim T., Yeruham E.
Published in: Marine Environmental Research
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Mediterranean coastal ecosystems experience many local and global stressors and require long-term monitoring to detect a (more…)

Current trends in ship movement via the suez canal in relation to future legislation and mitigation of marine species introductions

By: Bereza D., Rosen D., Shenkar N.
Published in: Management of Biological Invasions
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 created a tremendous impact both on the shipping industry, by shortening navigatio (more…)

Coastal occupation and foraging during the last glacial maximum and early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa

By: Fisher E.C., Cawthra H.C., Esteban I., Jerardino A., Neumann F.H., Oertle A., Pargeter J., Saktura R.B., Szabó K., Winkler S., Zohar I.
Published in: Quaternary Research (United States)
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Waterfall Bluff is a rock shelter in eastern Pondoland, South Africa, adjacent to a narrow continental shelf that limite (more…)

Pollution and human mobility in the southern Levant during the Iron Age using chemical and isotopic analysis of human tooth enamel

By: Eshel T., Yahalom-Mack N., Tirosh O., Maeir A.M., Harlavan Y., Gilboa A., Erel Y.
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The extent of pollution and human mobility in the Iron Age in the southern Levant is estimated in this study through lea (more…)

Benthic diatom composition in Coastal Zone of Black Sea, Sasyk Reservoir (Ukraine)

By: Bilous O.P., Wojtal A.Z., Ivanova N.O., Tsarenko P.M., Burova O.V., Barinova S.
Published in: Diversity
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The Sasyk Reservoir is one of the largest seaside reservoirs in Ukraine, artificially maintained as a freshwater area in (more…)

Significance to hydrocarbon exploration of terrestrial organic matter introduced into deep marine systems: Insights from the Lower Cretaceous in the Levant Basin

By: Meilijson A., Finkelman-Torgeman E., Bialik O.M., Boudinot F.G., Steinberg J., Karcz Z.K., Waldmann N.D., Benjamini C., Vinegar H., Makovsky Y.
Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Oil shows from wells in the Levant Basin and Egypt are suggestive of potential economic discoveries within unpenetrated (more…)

Apparent recruitment failure for the vast majority of coral species at Eilat, Red Sea

By: Guerrini G., Yerushalmy M., Shefy D., Shashar N., Rinkevich B.
Published in: Coral Reefs
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The status of coral reefs is often portrayed by parameters (e.g., coverage, bleaching, diseases, nutrients and rugosity) (more…)

Cross-sensor quality assurance for marine observatories

By: Diamant R., Shachar I., Makovsky Y., Ferreira B.M., Cruz N.A.
Published in: Remote Sensing
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Measuring and forecasting changes in coastal and deep-water ecosystems and climates requires sustained long-term measure (more…)

Deep-Learning Based Ship-Radiated Noise Suppression for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems

By: Atanackovic L., Lampe L., Diamant R.
Published in: 2020 Global Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Interference due to ship-radiated noise in the underwater acoustic (UA) channel generates additive distortions that degr (more…)

Stochastic Ship-Radiated Noise Modelling Via Generative Adversarial Networks

By: Atanackovic L., Vakilian V., Wiebe D., Lampe L., Diamant R.
Published in: 2020 Global Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The design and performance evaluation of underwater acoustic (UA) communication systems in shallow water and harbour env (more…)

Macroalgal biorefineries for the blue economy

By: Golberg A., Robin A.N., Zollmann M., Traugott H., Palatnik R.R., Israel A.
Published in: Macroalgal Biorefineries for the Blue Economy
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: This unique compendium provides an insight into the role of emerging marine biorefineries based on macroalgae (seaweeds) (more…)