International research collaboration

Last week, divers of the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, were proud to support an international collaboration of scientists from Israel and Bermuda, all of whom are certified AAUS CCR divers. The operation took place at the Interuniversity Institute for marine sciences in Eilat, Israel, and examined different aspects of global climate change on impacted coral reefs.

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Shark week!

Last week, the Top Predator Group hosted two special guests: Dr Neil Hammerschlag – Research Associate Professor and Director of the Shark Research and Conservation Program (SRC) at the University of Miami, and Beth Bowers – a PhD student and Lab Supervisor at the Elasmobranch Research Laboratory of Florida Atlantic University. The visit provided a great opportunity to present our different studies and share our current hypotheses regarding the shark aggregation phenomenon with some of the foremost researchers in the field. 

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