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.

Did you know the ocean floor is bursting with color? Our very own Dr. Derya Akkaynak, head of the COLOR Lab, shed light on this fascinating topic at the second School Seminar this year.

Today, we celebrate the incredible achievements of women in marine sciences around the world. Here at the School of Marine Sciences, we're proud to mark this important day and reaffirm our commitment to promoting gender equality in science.

First course of its kind! Our Colorimetry course in IUI-Eilat, designed and led by Dr. Derya Akkaynak from the Department of Marine Technologies, just wrapped up!

We are thrilled to congratulate our Marine Biology students who won Best Poster Awards at the recent Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences (IAAS) conference!

According to the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which examines the academic ranking of universities in social and environmental sustainability indices, set by the UN and published last week, Haifa University was ranked 28th in the target of 14 " life below water" out of about 500 universities in the world.

We recently celebrated the inaugural launch of the "Eastern Mediterranean Sea Centre – An Early-Warning Model-System for our Future Ocean" project, a collaborative effort with the Germany-based GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.