Current Research – National Institute of Oceanography
Oceanography and Environmental Research

COCONET Project http://www.coconet-fp7.eu
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Developing a real time “smart” monitoring system of water quality near marine infrastructures that integrates stationary multi-spectral camera/s, bio-molecular indicators & continuous in situ measurements in the water body. press here for more details
Grant/Contract:	Israel Ministry of Science & Technology
PI:	Gideon Tibor (coordinator), Barak Herut
Collaborators:	Maxim Shoshani (Technion), Tamar Lotan (Univ. of Haifa).
SEADATANET: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean & marine data management
Grant/Contract:	European Commission
PI:	I. Gertman
Collaborators:	49 partners from 35 countries around the NE Atlantic and its adjacent Seas.
ECOOP: European Coastal sea Operational Observing and Forecasting system
Grant/Contract:	European Commission
PI:	I. Gertman
Collaborators:	72 parthers from about 37 countries around the NE Atlantic and its adjacent seas.
Equations of state for the Aral Sea and the Dead Sea: Searching for common approaches
Grant/Contract:	Israel Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport
PI:	I. Gertman
Collaborators:	P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sience.
MyOcean - marine core service for GMES
Grant/Contract:	European Commission
PI:	I. Gertman, D.S. Rosen
Collaborators:	Multinational project coordinated by Mercator Ocean, France.
MedGLOSS pilot network of sea level monitoring in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
http://medgloss.ocean.org.il
Grant/Contract:	CIESM; IOC
PI:	D.S. Rosen
Collaborators:	Multinational project coordinated by IOLR
Trunami early warning and mitigation system in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS)
http://www.ioc-tsunami.org
Grant/Contract:	IOC
PI:	D.S. Rosen
Collaborators:	Multinational project coordinated by INGV
Environmental impact assessments of the Haifa Port expansion
Grant/Contract:	Israel Ports Development and Assets Company Ltd.
PI:	D.S. Rosen, B. Galil, I. Gertman, A. Golan, N. Kress
Collaborators:	Danish Hydraulic Institute.
Meteo-marine monitoring and processes
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Defence, Israel Navy
PI:	D.S. Rosen, L. Raskin
Sea level monitoring at Elat
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	D.S. Rosen, L.Raskin
Collaborators:	Interuniversity for Marine Sciences at Elat
Research on coastal cliffs and beach erosion in Israel
Grant/Contract:	North American Friends of IOLR
PI:	D.S. Rosen
Hazard assessment of tsunami waves for the Israel coast by adaptation of state of the art tsunami generation and propagation models towards the Israel coast
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	D.S. Rosen, B. Galanti
Collaborators:	Geological Survey of Israel.
The current regime in the Ashdod and Haifa port areas
Grant/Contract:	Port Authority
PI:	Z. Rosentraub
Wintertime cross shelf circulation and mixing on the central Israeli shelf
Grant/Contract:	United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF)
PI:	Z. Rosentraub
Collaborators:	Texas A&M University, Department Of Marine Sciences & Oceanography.
Mapping sinkholes on the seafloor of the Dead Sea
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	G. Tibor
High resolution geophysical imaging of active faults in the Aqaba-Eilat
Grant/Contract:	USAID-MERC
PI:	G. Tibor
Collaborators:	Tel-Aviv University, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, U.S.A.
Dating a submerged fossil reef in the northern Gulf for estimation the movement along "Evropa" fault
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	G. Tibor
Detection of fresh groundwater bodies within the Mediterranean sub-marine aquifers offshore Israel using marine geoelectromagnetic methods
Grant/Contract:	BMBF, Joint Israeli-German Research Projects
PI:	B. Herut, G. Tibor
Collaborators:	Geophysical institute of Israel and German partners from the University of Cologne.
Pollution levels in Israel’s ports and marinas and water quality for diving
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Defense
PI:	B. Herut
Collaborators:	Geological Survey of Israel
Particulate phosphorous in the Gult of Eilat: Implications of anthropogenic impact
Grant/Contract:	BMBF, Joint Israeli-German Research Projects
PI:	B. Herut, A. Nishri
Collaborators:	Kiev and Bremen Universities, Germany.
Evaluation of the seawater solubility of Fe in the Eastern Mediterranean aerosol
Grant/Contract:	NATO
PI:	B. Herut
Collaborators:	University of Plymouth (UK), Middle East Technical University (Turkey).
National Marine Pollution Monitoring Program
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Environmental Protection
PI:	B. Herut, E. Shefer, N. Gordon, B. Galil, G. Tibor
SESAME - Southern Eropean Seas: assessing and modeling ecosystem changes
http://www.sesame-ip.eu
Grant/Contract:	Eropean Commission
PI:	B. Herut, I. Gertman, N. Kress, B. Galil
Collaborators:	48 institutions from about 30 countries around Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Determination of detergents in seawater of Eilat
Grant/Contract:	Israel Nature & National Parks Protection Authority (INNPPA)
PI:	N. Kress
Collaborators:	Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Phytoplankton in the Kishon River
Grant/Contract:	Kishon River Authority
PI:	N. Kress, N. Gordon, B. Herut
Mercury speciation in sediments of Haifa Bay, Israel
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	E. Shoham-Frider, N. Kress
Chromium anomaly in sediments along the southern Mediterranean shore of Israel
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of National Infrastructures
PI:	N. Kress, E. Shoham-Frider
The influence of Iron salts discharged from desalination plants on the marine environment
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP)
PI:	N. Kress
Collaborators:	Ministry of Environmental Protection (INNPPA)
Monitoring of the marine environment at a treated industrial effluents discharge site
Grant/Contract:	Paz, Ashdod Refinery and Agan, chemicals
PI:	E. Shoham-Frider, N. Kress, B. Galil
Monitoring of the marine environment at a sewage sludge disposal site
Grant/Contract:	Mei Ezor Dan
PI:	N. Kress, B. Galil, E. Shoham-Frider
Monitoring of the marine environment at a treated domestic effluents disposal site
Grant/Contract:	Ashdod Municipality
PI:	N. Kress, B. Galil, E. Shoham-Frider
The impacts of biological invasions and climate change on the biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea
Grant/Contract:	Tel-Aviv University and Italy Joint Fund
CO-PI:	B. Galil, A. Diamant
Collaborators:	Tel Aviv University ICRAM Laboratory of Milazzo, Italy Universita di Genova, Italy Universita di Lecce, Italy
Coral reef rehabilitation and restoration, coral breeding program
Grant/Contract:	Various
PI:	B. Rinkevich
Chimerism and cell lineage biology in colonial protochordates
Grant/Contract:	Varios
PI:	B. Rinkevich
Multi gene expression patterns assigned to crustacean molt and reproduction
Grant/Contract:	Israel Science Foundation
PI:	M. Tom
Collaborators:	Ben Gurion University
Evaluating pollution impact on marine fish using microarray-spotted gene product biomarkers
Grant/Contract:	Slovenian-Israeli research cooperation in biotechnology, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
PI:	M. Tom
Collaborators:	Slovenian National Institute of Biology, Ljubijana.
Production of seed stocks for sustainable tank cultivation of the red edible seaweed Porphyra
Grant/Contract:	US-Israel Bi-national Agricultural Research and Development Fund
PI:	A. Israel
Collaborators:	Michigan State University, U.S.A.
Monitoring of seaweed populations in Aqaba Bay, Israel
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Environmental Protection and Interuniversity Institute (Eilat)
PI:	A. Israel
Collaborators:	Interuniversity Institute, Eilat.
Seedlings growth of Porphyra (nori)
Grant/Contract:	Noritech Biotechnologies Ltd
PI:	A. Israel
Collaborators:	Noritech Biotechnologies Ltd.
Marine geomics Europe - Implementation of high-throughput genomic approaches to investigate the functioning of marine ecosystems and the biology of marine organisms
Grant/Contract:	European Commission
PI:	E. Lubzens, B. Rinkevich, M. Tom
Collaborators:	Multinational network of excellence coordinates by France Innovation Scientifique et Transfert.
Dormancy of cells and organisms-strategies for survival and preservation (Sleeping Beauty)
http://www.gmm.gu.se/SB
Grant/Contract:	European Commission
PI:	E. Lubzens, O. Hadas, A. Sukenik
Collaborators:	Institut de Recerca Technologia Agrolimentaries (IRTA), Spain Goteborg University, Sweden British Antarctic Survey (NERC-BAS), UK Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark.
Educidating the role of microRNAs in fish vitellogenesis
Grant/Contract:	Israel Science Foundation
PI:	E. Lubzens
Collaborators:	Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Development of methods for preservation of cell in the non-frozen state
Grant/Contract:	Ministry of Industry and Commerce - Magnet (TEVA)
PI:	E. Lubzens
Collaborators:	Israeli biotech companies and academic institutes.
Interaction between the GH-IGF axis and Myostatin in regulating muscle growth in Sparus aurata
Grant/Contract:	US-Israel Bi-national Aqricultural Research and Development Fund
PI:	B. Funkenstein
Collaborators:	University of Maryland, USA.