ACADEMIC (EDUCATION) & TRAINING COMMITTEE
Dr. Shiri Zemah Shamir
Reichman University (IDC Herzliya )
Chairman of Academic Committee and Member of the Board
Email shiri.zemahshamir@idc.ac.il
Position at Reichman university (IDC Herzliya) : Head of Economics-Sustainability, Academic Advisor
Research Areas: Marine environment economicsEסקבואןהק
Dr. Gilad Antler
Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Revital Bookman
University of Haifa
Member of the Academic Committee
Email: rbookman@univ.haifa.ac.il
Research Areas: Recent and past marine and lacustrine environments and modern anthropogenic processes
Dr. Hanit Ben Ari
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Prof. Adi Torfstein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Member of the Board and the Academic Committee
Email adi.torf@mail.huji.ac.il
Position at the Hebrew University: Head of the Oceanography Department
Research Areas: Geochemistry, Chemical oceanography, Climate change, Paleoceanography
Dr. Ayelet Dadon-Pilosof
Ruppin Academic Center
Member of the Board and Academic Committee
Email ayelet@ruppin.ac.il
Research Areas: Grazing resistance of marine bacteria, Microbial interactions, Isolation and grazing by Nanoflagellate, Changes in microbial community composition, long-term coastal ecosystem monitoring
Dr. Gal Eyal
The Bar-Ilan University
Member of the Board and Academic Committee
Email: gal.eyal1@biu.ac.il
Research Areas: Ecology, Marine biology and Plant Sciences
Prof. Yael Dubowski
Technion
Member of the Board and Academic Committee
Email yaeld@technion.ac.il
Research Areas:
- Environmental chemistry of persistent pollutants and agrochemicals
- Photochemistry and heterogeneous chemistry of organic pollutants
- Indoor and outdoor air pollution
- Advanced oxidation for water treatment
- VOCs exchange between ocean and atmosphere
Dr. Matan Oren
ARIEL University
Member of the Board and the Academic Committee
Email: matanok@gmail.com
Research Areas: The plastisphere – the ecosystem of marine plastic trash;
Marine plastic-degrading organisms and the underlying molecular mechanisms for plastic biodegradation
Dr. Orit Hyams-Kaphzan
Geological survey of Israel
Member of the Academic Committee
Email: orithy@gsi.gov.il
Research Areas:Benthic and Planktic foraminifera; Marine biomonitoring; Paleoecology; Taphonomy; Alien foraminifera; Marine Geology
Prof. Noa Shenkar
TEL AVIV University
Member of the Academic Committee
Email: shenkarn@tauex.tau.ac.il
Research Areas: Marine pollution, Marine bioinvasions, taxonomy and ecology of ascidians
Dr. Yael Kiro
Weizmann Institute of Science
Member of the Academic Committee
Email: yael.kiro@weizmann.ac.il
Research Areas: low-temperature geochemistry, paleoclimate and coastal aquifers