National Institute of Oceanography Nurit Kress nurit@ocean.org.il Tel: 04 – 8565256 Senior Scientist D.Sc. 1989, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology At IOLR since 1989

Research interests:
Marine environmental chemistry - fate and impact of waste on the near shore and deep sea environment.
Chemical oceanography of the nearshore and deep sea, cycling and transport of chemical constituents.

Selected publications:
Thingstad, T.F., Krom, M.D., Mantoura, R.F.C., Flaten, G.A.F., Groom, S., Herut, B., Kress, N., Law, C.S., 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.

Kress, N., Thingstad, T.F., Pitta, P., Psarra, S., Tanaka, T., Zohary, T., Groom, S., Herut, B., Mantoura, R.F.C., Polychronaki, T., Rasssoulzadegan, F. and Spyres, G. (2005). Effect of P and N addition to oligotrophic eastern Mediterranean waters influenced by near-shore waters: A microcosm experiment. Deep Sea Res. II 52:3054-3073.

Kress, N., Herut, B. and Galil, B.S. (2004). Sewage sludge impact on sediment quality and benthic assemblages off the Mediterranean coast of Israel – a long-term study. Mar. Environ. Res. 57:213-233.

Shoham-Frider, E., Shelef, G. and Kress, N. (2003). Chemical changes in different types of coal ash during prolonged, large scale, contact with seawater. Waste Manag. 23:125-134.

Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Hornung, H., Kress, N., Shoham-Frider, E., Goffman, O. and Spanier, E. (2003). Heavy metal levels in bottlenose and striped dolphins off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 46:504-512.

Kress, N., Manca, B.B., Klein, B. and Deponte, D. (2003). Continuing influence of the changed thermohaline circulation in the eastern Mediterranean on the distribution of dissolved oxygen and nutrients. Physical and chemical characterization of the water masses. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C9), 8109.

Klein, B., Roether, W., Kress, N., Manca, B.B., Ribera d'Alcala, M., Souvermezoglou, E., Theocharis, A., Civitares, G. and Luchetta, A. (2003). Accelerated oxygen consumption in eastern Mediterranean deep waters following the recent changes in thermohaline circulation. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C9), 8107.

Kress, N., Tom, M. and Spanier, E. (2002). The use of coal fly-ash in marine concrete for marine artificial reefs in the southeastern Mediterranean: Compressive strength, sessile biota and chemical composition. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 59:S231-S237.

Kress, N., Coto, S.L., Brenes, C.L., Brenner, S.and Arroyo, G. (2002). Horizontal transport and seasonal distribution of nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, a tropical estuary. Cont. Shelf Res. 22:51-66.

Kress, N. and Herut, B. (2001). Spatial and seasonal evolution of dissolved oxygen and nutrients in the Southern Levantine Basin (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Chemical characterization of the water masses and inferences on the high N:P ratio. Deep Sea Res. I 48:2347-2372.