National Institute of Oceanography Barak Herut barak@ocean.org.il Tel: 04 – 8565255 Senior Scientist Ph.D. 1992, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel At IOLR since 1991

Research interests:
Studies on marine pollution, chemistry of atmospheric aerosols, water geochemistry and chemical oceanography. Emphasis on transfer mechanisms of major and trace constituents from the atmosphere and land to the marine and other aquatic reservoirs, and their role in biogeochemical processes across the reservoirs.

Selected publications:
Weinstein, Y., Burnett, W.C., Swarzenski, P.W., Shalem, Y., Yechieli, Y. and Herut, B. (2007). Role of aquifer heterogeneity in fresh groundwater discharge and seawater recycling: an example from the Carmel coast,Israel. J. Geophys. Res. (C), 112, C12016, doi:10.1029/2007JC004112.

Kocak, M., Kubilay, N., Herut, B. and Nimmo, M. (2007). Trace metal solid state speciation in aerosols of the northern Levantine Basin, East Mediterranean. J. Atmos. Chem. 56:239-257

Thingstad, T.F., Krom, M.D., Mantoura, R.F.C., Flaten, G.A.F., Groom, S., Herut, B., Kress, N., Law, C., Pasternak, A., Pitta, P., Psarra, S., Rasssoulzadegan, F., Tanaka, T., Tselepides, A., Wassmann, P., Woodward, E.M.S., Wexels Riser, C., Zodiatis, G. and Zohary, T. (2005). Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean. Science 309:1068-1071.

Sivan, O., Yechieli, Y., Herut, B. and Lazar, B. (2005). Geochemical evolution and time-scale of seawater intrusion into the coastal aquifer of Israel. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 69:579-592.

Kocak, M., Kubilay, N., Herut, B. and Nimmo, M. (2005). Dry atmospheric fluxes of trace metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu) over the Levantine Basin; A refined assessment. Atmos. Environ. 39:7330-7341.

Herut, B., Zohary, T., Krom, M.D., Mantoura, F.R.C., Pitta, V., Psarra, S., Rassoulzadegan, F., Tanaka, T. and Thingstad, T.F. (2005). Response of East Mediterranean surface water to Saharan dust: on-board microcosm experiment and field observations. Deep Sea Res. II 52:3024-3040.

Groom, S., Herut, B., Brenner, S., Zodiatis, G., Psarra, S., Kress, N., Krom, M.D., Law, C.S. and Drakopoulus, P. (2005). Satellite derived spatial and temporal biological variability in the Cyprus Eddy. Deep Sea Res. II 52:2990-3010.

Carbo, P., Krom, M.D., Homoky, W.B., Benning, L.G. and Herut, B. (2005). Impact of atmospheric deposition on N and P geochemistry in the southeastern Levantine basin. Deep Sea Res. II 52:3041-3053.

Sivan, O., Lazar, B., Boaretto, E., Yechieli, Y. and Herut, B. (2004). Radiocarbon in porewater of continental shelf sediments (southeast Mediterranean). Radiocarbon 46:633-642.

Krom, M.D., Herut, B. and Mantoura, F. (2004). Nutrient budget for the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for phosphorus limitation. Limnol. Oceanog.
49:1582-1592.

Kocak, M., Nimmo, M., Kubilay, N. and Herut, B. (2004). Spatio-temporal aerosol trace metal concentrations and sources in the Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean. Atmos. Environ. 38:2133-2144.