Member of the Scientific Committee
Email: odedk@gsi.gov.il
Research Areas:Sediment transport along the Israeli offshore with implications to marine geo-hazard

Additional information: personal website

Geological Survey of Israel goals in Mediterranean research:

Study the geo-marine natural processes in the Israeli offshore that are relevant to national near future challenges in the marine environment and advising the government on all aspects of marine geoscience (e.g. in the frame of the development of infrastructure and its interaction with the marine natural environment; natural and human-caused marine-geohazards; planning of sustainable development of natural resources).

On-going marine-research at the Geological Survey of Israel:

• Amit Mushkin, Oded Katz, Onn Crouvi, Annual monitoring, retreat rate and sediment budget of the Israeli coastal cliff.
• Itay J. Reznik, Yoav Oved Rosenberg, Yizhaq Makovsky, Aaron Meilijson, Mor Kanari and Assaf Giladi, Characterization of seafloor gas emanations and their potential linkage with sub-sea reservoirs in the Levant.

• Nadya Teutsch, Revital Bookman, Jack Silverman, Tracing sources, dispersal and burial of heavy metals in industrialized bays using multiple stable isotopes.
• Nadya Teutsch, Sigal Abramovich, Barak Herut, Adi Torfstein, Danna Titelboim, Monitoring heavy metals contamination using foraminiferal shells.

• Oded Katz, Amit Mushkin, Onn Crouvi, Elad Dante, Mechanisms of time-dependent cliff failure of the Israeli coastal cliff.
• Oded Katz, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Adi Torfstein, The structure, formation-mechanism and current activity of submarine canyons incising the continental-slope offshore Israel, southeastern Mediterranean.
• Oded Katz, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Ashkenazi Leeron, Abramovich Sigal, Almogi-Labin Ahuva, Makovsky Yizhaq, Gadol Omri, Kanari Mor, Benthic foraminifera as indicators of recent mixed turbidite-contourite sediment transport system in the Eastern Mediterranean upper continental slope.
• Onn Crouvi, Amit Mushkin, Nadav Lensky, Oded Katz, Timor Katz, Nearshore (< 10 m water depth) sediment and seafloor dynamics along the Mediterranean coast of Israel during intra- and inter-storm timescales.
• Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Deep-sea benthic foraminifera of the Levantine basin (SE Mediterranean) and their ecological characteristic
• Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Gil Rilov, Alien benthic foraminifera inhabiting rocky reefs in northern Israeli Mediterranean shelf
• Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Sigal Abramovich, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Michal Kucera, Evaluating the thermo-hyaline threshold and the future proliferation of symbiont bearing foraminifera as ecosystem engineers using laboratory experiments.
• Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Sigal Abramovich, Yael Edelman-Furstenburg, Ahuva-Almogi-Labin, Nadia Teutsch, Tracking Anthropocene signals in the Eastern Mediterranean using benthic foraminifera

• Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Navot Morag, Onn Crouvi, Nadya Teutsch,  High-resolution record of the past 250 years of sedimentary changes in the eastern Mediterranean
• Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Molluscan death assemblages from sedimentary cores as indicators of recent ecological shift on the Eastern Mediterranean shelf.
• Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Tracking short and long-term Anthropocene ecosystem shift: integrating molluscan death assemblages, chronology and chemistry.
• Yael Leshno Afriat, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Roni Tadir, Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Assessing anthropogenic impact of sewage discharge on marine health offshore Israel combing live and dead assemblages of benthic molluscs and foraminifera.
• Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Susan M. Kidwell, Timor Katz, Gal Eyal, Yonathan Shaked, Dated core history of significant loss of seagrass and bivalve trophic change in response to urbanization: Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea

• Yael Leshno Afriat, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Roni Tadir, Yael Edelman-Furstenberg, Assessing anthropogenic impact of sewage discharge on marine health offshore Israel combing live and dead assemblages of benthic molluscs and foraminifera.
• Yehudit Harlavan, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Bark Herut, Tracing the Israeli deep sea EEZ sediments using Sr and Pb isotopic composition
• Yehudit Harlavan, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Bark Herut, Tracing the Nile contribution to the shellf sediment s using Sr and Pb isotopic composition
• Yehudit Harlavan, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Bark Herut, Tracing anthropogenic contribution to the mshelf sediments using Pb isotopes.
• Zohar Gvirtzman, International initiative DREAM, A proposal for drilling and sampling the Messinian evaporitic section in the deep Mediterranean Sea.
• Zohar Gvirtzman, Oded Katz, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Definition, classification and characterization of geo-hazard in the Israeli offshore.
• Zohar Gvirtzman, Oded Katz, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Yizhaq Makovsky, Zvi Karcz, Impact of submarine channels on seafloor infrastructure.