Announcing the First Marine Technologies Conference (MTC)

This one-day event will bring together researchers, industry professionals, and students to explore the latest developments in marine technologies. The conference will highlight cutting-edge research, breakthrough innovations, and emerging trends shaping the future of the field.

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Advanced Marine Research in Haifa Bay: Highlights from the Charney School’s Annual Research Cruise

In July 2025, the Charney School of Marine Sciences launched one of its most ambitious and multidisciplinary research cruises to date. Over the course of three intensive days at sea, researchers, students, engineers, and professional staff worked side by side—merging diverse fields of expertise, cutting-edge technologies, and a variety of research platforms

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Final Event of the Marine Entrepreneurship Course: A Celebration of Innovation and Collaboration

Final Event of the Marine Entrepreneurship Course: A Celebration of Innovation and CollaborationThe Marine Entrepreneurship Course concluded with an inspiring final event that showcased the creativity, dedication, and teamwork of…

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Outstanding Achievement: Marine Biology Graduate Receives Prestigious University Award

The School of Marine Sciences congratulates Tovah Nehrer, graduate of our MSc program in Marine Biology, on receiving the University of Haifa's Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Outstanding Thesis for the 2024–2025 academic year. Her research, titled "A Conserved Signaling Pathway, a Different Outcome: The Role of the ERK Signaling Pathway in Sea Urchin Skeletal Elongation," was supervised by Prof. Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon.

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Charney School signed a first-of-its-kind MOU with Emirati and German academic institutes to protect oceans

The University of Haifa is partnering with the United Arab Emirates University and the Germany-based GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel to investigate climate change and pollution in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Gulf.

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The Dusty and Ettie Miller Fellowship was recently awarded to Dr. Tal Luzzatto-Knaan

The Fellowship was recently awarded in a festive ceremony, for her cutting-edge research in metabolomics. Luzzatto-Knaan's Lab explores the communication "chemistry" in algae and bacterial interactions, as well as the functional role of these molecules.

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Three current Charney School members and one alum became new fellows of The Kavli Frontiers of Science Israel-USA

The Kavli Frontiers of Science Israel-USA, held in partnership with the Israel Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences brings together accomplished early career scientists for a three day opportunity to exchange ideas, network, and cross pollinate. This year, three current Charney School members (Dr. Tal Luzzatto Knaan, Prof. Tali Mass, Dr. Aviad Scheinin) and one alum (Dr. Maxim Rubin-Blum) became new fellows, and one Charney School member participated for the fourth time (Dr. Beverly Goodman-Tchernov).

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The European Research Executive Agency awarded Prof. Roee Diamant (Hatter Department of Marine Technologies) an ERA Chair

In this capacity he will lead a branch of his Marine Acoustics Lab within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. Congratulations to Roee and best of luck! Congratulations to Roee and best of luck!

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MSc and PhD students for a study on the dynamics of jellyfish swarms

What controls the dynamics of jellyfish swarms? Can we use this information to protect coastal infrastructure? We are looking for talented MSc and PhD students to take part in an interdisciplinary collaborative project combining remote sensing and image analysis, ocean dynamics, data sciences and ecology

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