NAF-IOLR

IOLR’s new research vessel R/V Bat Galim returned to the water in October 2015 after being worked on in dry dock in the Israeli Navy’s Haifa yard for nearly two years. R/V Bat Galim will replace IOLR’s R/V Shikmona, IOLR’s current “blue water” research vessel which has been in use since 1982. The ...

Seagliders have arrived at IOLR, generating excitement among our faculty and the scientists of MERCI (the Mediterranean Sea Research Consortium of Israel, based at Haifa University and comprising IOLR and the major Israeli research universities). What’s a seaglider? A seaglider is a marine robotic drone, a UAV (Underwater Autonomous Vehicle) that collects physical oceanographic data. It operates ...

October 2010 Helping Coral Reefs In Trouble The health of the coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat, like that at many reef sites worldwide, has declined over the past four decades. More than a decade ago, IOLR-NIO scientist Dr. Buki Rinkevich suggested a novel approach for reef restoration that may stem the reefs’ ...

A new project financed by US-AID (MERC) aims to improve land-based integrated mariculture. NCM pilot saltwater fish farm, Eilat The integrated system is based on recycling fish excretions into feed for other valuable crops such as oysters, clams and seaweed. The goal of the project is to increase efficiency of the land-based system ...

Several years ago, former KLL Director Dr. Tom Berman conducted a 3 year pioneering study of small transparent organic particles (Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP)) in Lake Kinneret. This research showed that the lake water contained as many as 25 million tiny sugar and/or protein containing particles per liter regardless of the ...

In Lake Kinneret, the dinoflagellate (a single cell alga with two flagellates) Peridinium gatunense forms spring blooms of intensities comparable to those of red tides. A typical Peridinium bloom is characterized by distinct spatial heterogeneity (or patchiness) of the Peridinium population, as well as daily vertical migration of the population from ...