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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33.1
48.3
63.3
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96.2

SDG14 Highlights

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
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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Prochlorococcus cells rely on microbial interactions rather than on chlorotic resting stages to survive long-term nutrient starvation

By: Roth-Rosenberg D., Aharonovich D., Luzzatto-Knaan T., Vogts A., Zoccarato L., Eigemann F., Nago N., Grossart H.-P., Voss M., Sher D.
Published in: mBio
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Many microorganisms produce resting cells with very low metabolic activity that allow them to survive phases of prolonge (more…)

A 45 kyr laminae record from the Dead Sea: Implications for basin erosion and floods recurrence

By: Lu Y., Bookman R., Waldmann N., Marco S.
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Recording and analyzing how climate change impacts flood recurrence, basin erosion, and sedimentation can improve our un (more…)

ThreatDetect: An Autonomous Platform to secure Marine Infrastructures

By: Casari P., Lampe L., Martinez S., Diamant R.
Published in: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The NATO SPS multi-year project ThreatDetect investigates an autonomous platform to secure marine infrastructures by rel (more…)

Ocean warming and tropical invaders erode the performance of a key herbivore

By: Yeruham E., Shpigel M., Abelson A., Rilov G.
Published in: Ecology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Climate change and bioinvasions are two facets of global change that can act in tandem to impact native species and ecos (more…)

Ocean warming is the key filter for successful colonization of the migrant octocoral Melithaea erythraea (Ehrenberg, 1834) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

By: Grossowicz M., Bialik O.M., Shemesh E., Tchernov D., Vonhof H.B., Sisma-Ventura G.
Published in: PeerJ
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Climate, which sets broad limits for migrating species, is considered a key filter to species migration between contrast (more…)

Comparison of geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of palaeogene oil shales and coals from the Huangxian Basin, Shandong Province, East China

By: Zheng X., Spiro B., Han Z.
Published in: Minerals
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Coal and oil shale are both organic matter-rich sedimentary rocks. However, their sources of organic matter and their de (more…)

Combining denoising autoencoders and dynamic programming for acoustic detection and tracking of underwater moving targets†

By: Testolin A., Diamant R.
Published in: Sensors (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Accurate detection and tracking of moving targets in underwater environments pose significant challenges, because noise (more…)

The Mediterranean culture of fishing: Continuity and change in the world of Jewish fishermen, 1500–1929

By: Srougo S.
Published in: International Journal of Maritime History
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: This essay discusses the maritime Jews and their changing role in the fishing occupation in the Mediterranean sea. The f (more…)

Tropicalization may invert trophic state and carbon budget of shallow temperate rocky reefs

By: Peleg O., Guy-Haim T., Yeruham E., Silverman J., Rilov G.
Published in: Journal of Ecology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Global warming mediates and maintains the tropicalization of temperate marine ecosystems. Recent studies have demonstrat (more…)

Sedimentary phosphorus cycling and budget in the seasonally hypoxic coastal area of Changjiang Estuary

By: Liu J., Krom M.D., Ran X., Zang J., Liu J., Yao Q., Yu Z.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Anthropogenic activities have greatly accelerated phosphorus (P) inputs from land to coastal seas. The increased P input (more…)

Indigenous versus Lessepsian Hosts: Nervous necrosis virus (NNV) in eastern Mediterranean Sea fish

By: Lampert Y., Berzak R., Davidovich N., Diamant A., Stern N., Scheinin A.P., Tchernov D., Morick D.
Published in: Viruses
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Viruses are among the most abundant and diverse biological components in the marine environment. In finfish, viruses are (more…)

Heated mud bricks in submerged and coastal Southern Levant Pre-Pottery Neolithic C and Late Pottery Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic settlements: Diachronic changes in technology and their social implications

By: Ogloblin Ramírez I., Galili E., Be’eri R., Golan D., Krakovsky M., Dayan A., Shalem D., Shahack-Gross R.
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Technological and social practices can be deciphered by deployment of multiple techniques that have been developed in th (more…)

Coastal breeding aggregations of threatened stingrays and guitarfish in the Levant

By: Chaikin S., Belmaker J., Barash A.
Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Stingrays and guitarfish are globally threatened by overexploitation, particularly so in the Mediterranean Sea. Neverthe (more…)

Phenological shift in swarming patterns of Rhopilema nomadica in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

By: Edelist D., Guy-Haim T., Kuplik Z., Zuckerman N., Nemoy P., Angel D.L.
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Jellyfish (JF) swarms impact human wellbeing and marine ecosystems. Their global proliferation is a matter of concern an (more…)

Gas in Marine Sediments (GIMS): past, current, and future (contributions from GIMS-14)

By: Katsman R., Dickens G.
Published in: Geo-Marine Letters
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
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Distribution of common modern dinoflagellate cyst taxa in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere in relation to environmental parameters: The new n=1968 database

By: de Vernal A., Radi T., Zaragosi S., Van Nieuwenhove N., Rochon A., Allan E., De Schepper S., Eynaud F., Head M.J., Limoges A., Londeix L., Marret F., Matthiessen J., Penaud A., Pospelova V., Price A., Richerol T.
Published in: Marine Micropaleontology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: We present a new version of the standardized Northern Hemisphere “modern” dinoflagellate cyst (“dinocyst”) database, whi (more…)

Advancing Through the Pandemic From the Perspective of Marine Graduate Researchers: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities

By: Pardo J.C.F., Ramon D., Stefanelli-Silva G., Elegbede I., Lima L.S., Principe S.C.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a new social and academic reality to researchers worldwide. The field of (more…)

Integrated biorefinery process for sustainable fractionation of Ulva ohnoi (Chlorophyta): process optimization and revenue analysis

By: Prabhu M.S., Israel A., Palatnik R.R., Zilberman D., Golberg A.
Published in: Journal of Applied Phycology
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Blue economy, the sustainable and effective use of ocean resources for economic growth, is a major challenge to coastal (more…)

Incorporating physiology into species distribution models moderates the projected impact of warming on selected Mediterranean marine species

By: Gamliel I., Buba Y., Guy-Haim T., Garval T., Willette D., Rilov G., Belmaker J.
Published in: Ecography
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Species distribution models (SDMs) correlate species occurrences with environmental predictors, and can be used to forec (more…)

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…)