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

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
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

Research

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

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

Correction: Molecular identification and characterization of vibrio species and mycobacterium species in wild and cultured marine fish from the eastern mediterranean sea (Microorganisms 2020, 8, 863)

By: Regev Y., Davidovich N., Berzak R., Lau S.C.K., Scheinin A.P., Tchernov D., Morick D.
Published in: Microorganisms
SDGs : SDG 14  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Change in Affliations We would like to change the authors’ affliation of paper [1] from: Yael Regev 1,2, Nadav Davidovic (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
Description: