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Benjamin Ankiri, a first-year Master’s degree student supervised by Prof. Barak Herut and Dr. Eyal Rahav, takes part in an international joint sailing in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, which both benefits his research and his hobby – Benjamin is a skipper in his free time. Follow the link below to dive deeper into his journey.
Xingyu Li, an international Master’s degree student, presented his study at the Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences Annual Meeting in Tel Aviv among more than 300 scientists.
Elias Mizrahi, a second-year Master’s degree student supervised by the Head of the Department Prof. Revital Bookman, Dr. Nadya Teutsch (Geological Survey of Israel), and Dr. Tamar Guy-Haim (Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research), is working with zooplankton samples from Haifa Bay to measure concentrations of heavy metals. He is also busy with his hobbies – footvolley and soccer. Follow the link below to dive deeper into his journey.
Maya Haimson, a Master’s degree student at the Department of Marine Geosciences, is a volunteer in Etgarim Dive Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to diving with the disabled.
Ekaterina Fishman, a Master’s degree student at the Department of Marine Geosciences, is researching Haifa Bay and looking forward to unraveling the sources of its reservoirs and pools pollution. She is also a coauthor of two scientific articles in Earth and Planetary Science Letters and works at Prof. Alex Furman’s chemistry laboratory at Technion. Follow the link below to dive deeper into her journey.
Department of Marine Geosciences remains academically appealing to a number of international students, and they do not hesitate to come to Haifa even in these disturbing times.
Styliani Sevastaki, an international Marine Geosciences Department student from Greece, uses her time before the official start of the semester to do a joint University of Haifa-GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research project in Germany and to participate in the IOC-UNESCO workshop in Chile. She also has a unique marine-related hobby.
Proud of our Marine Geosciences students who rocked the Israel Geological Society conference! Dr. Guy Lang, Mfoniso Otu, Svetlana Lintser, and Aleksei Nelaev presented their research and impressed everyone. Students from different universities were chosen to participate in a full week of lectures, lab analysis, snorkeling, diving and sailing on the institute research vessel all devoted to study the history of oceans. This year, six of our Israeli and international students participated in this highly intensive, but exciting course.
The "Paleoceanography" course at IUI-Eilat ended last week. The course is headed by Prof. Revital Bookman from the Department of Marine Geosciences in collaboration with the IUI researchers. Students from different universities were chosen to participate in a full week of lectures, lab analysis, snorkeling, diving and sailing on the institute research vessel all devoted to study the history of oceans. This year, six of our Israeli and international students participated in this highly intensive, but exciting course.