SDG 14:
LIFE BELOW WATER

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

University Impact Ranking for SDG 14
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SDG14 Highlights

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

Research

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

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Marine Ecology and Ocean Health Lab headed by Dr. Igal Berenshtein
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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…)

Mg isotope response to dolomitization in hinterland-attached carbonate platforms: Outlook of δ26Mg as a tracer of basin restriction and seawater Mg/Ca ratio

By: Bialik O.M., Wang X., Zhao S., Waldmann N.D., Frank R., Li W.
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Magnesium isotopes in early diagenetic dolomite have been proposed as a potential tracer for seawater chemistry and glob (more…)

Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia

By: Jaspers C., Huwer B., Antajan E., Hosia A., Hinrichsen H.-H., Biastoch A., Angel D., Asmus R., Augustin C., Bagheri S., Beggs S.E., Balsby T.J.S., Boersma M., Bonnet D., Christensen J.T., Dänhardt A., Delpy F., Falkenhaug T., Finenko G., Fleming N.E.C., Fuentes V., Galil B., Gittenberger A., Griffin D.C., Haslob H., Javidpour J., Kamburska L., Kube S., Langenberg V.T., Lehtiniemi M., Lombard F., Malzahn A., Marambio M., Mihneva V., Møller L.F., Niermann U., Okyar M.I., Özdemir Z.B., Pitois S., Reusch T.B.H., Robbens J., Stefanova K., Thibault D., van der Veer H.W., Vansteenbrugge L., van Walraven L., Woźniczka A.
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Aim: Invasive species are of increasing global concern. Nevertheless, the mechanisms driving further distribution after (more…)

Indicator benthic microalgae in assessment of the degree of organic water pollution on the example of Crimean coastal waters of the Sea of Azov [ИНДИКАТОРНЫЕ МИКРОВОДОРОСЛИ БЕНТОСА В ОЦЕНКЕ СТЕПЕНИ ОРГАНИЧЕСКОГО ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЯ ВОД НА ПРИМЕРЕ КРЫМСКОГО ПРИБРЕЖЬЯ АЗОВСКОГО МОРЯ]

By: Ryabushko L.I., Bondarenko A.V., Barinova S.S.
Published in: Marine Biological Journal
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Data of the study of microphytobenthos of Crimean coastal waters of the Sea of Azov during 2005-2006, 2008-2011 and 2014 (more…)

Benthic macro-faunal abundance and diversity and sediment distribution in Akhziv submarine canyon and the adjacent slope (eastern Levant basin, Mediterranean sea)

By: Roditi-Elasar M., Kerem D., Lazar M., Barneah O., Almogi-Labin A., Angel D.L.
Published in: Mediterranean Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Israeli coastline is generally characterized by a broad and shallow continental shelf. Akhziv submarine canyon (ASC) (more…)

Foxes and humans at the Late Holocene Uyak site, Kodiak, Alaska

By: West C.F., Yeshurun R.
Published in: Arctic Anthropology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a generalist, omnivorous predator that is often drawn to human environments, exploiting a (more…)

Sandbar breaches control of the biogeochemistry of a micro-estuary

By: Suari Y., Amit T., Gilboa M., Sade T., Krom M.D., Gafni S., Topaz T., Yahel G.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Micro-estuaries in semi-arid areas, despite their small size (shallow depth of few meters, length of few kilometers and (more…)

OSL over-dispersion: A pilot study for the characterisation of extreme events in the shallow marine realm

By: López G.I., Goodman-Tchernov B.N., Porat N.
Published in: Sedimentary Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Identification of extreme events in the sedimentary record relies on the correct characterisation of the deposit by mean (more…)

Modelling the biogeochemical effects of heterotrophic and autotrophic N2 fixation in the Gulf of Aqaba (Israel), Red Sea

By: Kuhn A.M., Fennel K., Berman-Frank I.
Published in: Biogeosciences
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Recent studies demonstrate that marine N 2 fixation can be carried out without light by heterotrophic N 2 fixers (diazot (more…)

Automated analysis of marine video with limited data

By: Levy D., Belfer Y., Osherov E., Bigal E., Scheinin A.P., Nativ H., Tchernov D., Treibitz T.
Published in: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Monitoring of the marine environment requires large amounts of data, simply due to its vast size. Therefore, underwater (more…)

Enabling bioeconomy with offshore macroalgae biorefineries

By: Golberg A., Zollmann M., Prabhu M., Palatnik R.R.
Published in: Bioeconomy for Sustainable Development
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The bioeconomy provides a possible solution for the increasing demand on natural resources by substitution of the nonren (more…)

THEMO: The Texas A&M – university of haifa – Eastern mediterranean observatory

By: Diamant R., Knap A., Dahan S., Mardix I., Walpert J., DiMarco S.
Published in: 2018 OCEANS – MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans, OCEANS – Kobe 2018
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: We introduce the new Texas A&M – University of Haifa – Eastern Mediterranean Marine Observatory (THEMO). Including two s (more…)

Understanding how estuarine hydrology controls ammonium and other inorganic nitrogen concentrations and fluxes through the subtropical Jiulong River Estuary, S.E. China under baseflow and flood-affected conditions

By: Yu D., Chen N., Krom M.D., Lin J., Cheng P., Yu F., Guo W., Hong H., Gao X.
Published in: Biogeochemistry
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Higher nitrogen fluxes through estuaries increase the risk of harmful algal blooms, may expand eutrophication and can ca (more…)

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…)

Pre-setting of channel types for long range underwater acoustic communications

By: Huang J., Diamant R.
Published in: OCEANS 2019 – Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Long range underwater acoustic communication (LR-UWAC) is essential to applications including manned and unmanned operat (more…)

Statistical Shipping Noise Characterization and Mitigation for Underwater Acoustic Communications

By: Atanackovic L., Zhang R., Lampe L., DIamant R.
Published in: OCEANS 2019 – Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Achieving high data rate robust communication in shallow and harbour underwater acoustic (UA) environments can be a dema (more…)

Factors influencing flashflood deposit preservation in shallow marine sediments of a hyperarid environment

By: Mathalon A., Goodman-Tchernov B., Hill P., Kálmán Á., Katz T.
Published in: Marine Geology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Flashfloods entering marine basins can introduce large quantities of terrigenous sediment that deposit on the shallow se (more…)

Beachgoer participation in prevention of marine litter: Using design for behavior change

By: Portman M.E., Pasternak G., Yotam Y., Nusbaum R., Behar D.
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Much marine litter comes from land-based sources, with a significant amount coming from activities on bathing beaches. T (more…)