Odugbesan Oluwadamilare, a second-year Master’s student from Nigeria, is at the forefront of marine geoscience research, investigating the contourites on the continental shelf of Western Galilee.

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.

Parth Shah, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Nicolas Waldmann, is a multi-award-winning scientist who presented his research at various scientific conferences and published papers in peer-reviewed journals. In his studies, he aims to reconstruct centennial-scale climate variability, and in his spare time, he prefers to combine hobbies and science. In the future, Parth is planning to pursue postdoctoral studies under the guidance of his current supervisor.

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.