Chernihovsky N., Torfstein A. and Almogi-Labin A. (2018) Seasonal flux patterns of planktonic foraminifera in a deep, oligotrophic, marginal sea: sediment trap time series from the Gulf of Aqaba, north Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I 140, 78-94. pdf
Chien C-T., Benaltabet T., Torfstein A. and Paytan A. (2019) Contributions of atmospheric deposition to Pb concentration and isotopic composition in seawater and particulate matter in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Environmental Science & Technology 53, 6162-6170. pdf
Basu, S., Gledhill, M., de Beer, D., Matondkar, SGP., and Shaked, Y. (2019) Colonies of marine cyanobacteria Trichodesmium interact with associated bacteria to acquire iron from dust. Communications biology 2 (1), 1-8. link
Rubin, M., Berman-Frank, I., and Shaked Y. (2011) Dust- and mineral-iron utilization by the marine dinitrogen-fixer Trichodesmium. Nature Geosciences 4(8): 529–534. pdf
Solodoch, A., Barkan, R., Verma, V., Gildor, H., Toledo, Y., Khain, P. and Levi, Y. (2023) Basin-Scale to Submesoscale Variability of the East Mediterranean Sea Upper Circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(9), 2137-2158. link
Carlson, D., Fredj E. and Gildor H. (2014) The annual cycle of vertical mixing and restratification in the Northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba (Red Sea) based on high temporal and vertical resolution observations. Deep Sea Research 84: 1-17. link
Amitai, Y., Ashkenazy, Y. and Gildor, H. (2019) The effect of wind-stress over the Eastern Mediterranean on deep-water formation in the Adriatic Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 164, 5-13. link
Tzabari, M., D. Iluz, Z. Dubinsky, C. Haspel, and D. Mayer (2018) Linear polarization characteristics within the Rosh HaNikra mid-littoral cave, Israel, Frontiers of Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00192.
Steiner Z., Lazar B., Torfstein A. and Erez Y. (2017) Testing how variations in water column productivity affect trace metal accumulation in marine sediments: the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Chemical Geology 473, 40-49. pdf
Abelson, M. and Erez, J. (2017) The onset of modern‐like Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at the Eocene‐Oligocene transition: Evidence, causes, and possible implications for global cooling. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(6), pp.2177-2199. link
Bar, N., Agnon, A., Yehudai, M., Lazar, B., Shaked, Y. and Stein, M. (2018) Last interglacial sea levels and regional tectonics from fossil coral reefs in the northeast Gulf of Aqaba. Quaternary Science Reviews, 191, pp.41-56. link
Palchan, D. and Torfstein, A. (2019) A drop in Sahara dust fluxes records the northern limits of the African Humid Period. Nature communications 10 (1), 1-9. link
May, 2017 dust storm
Same spot (IUI shore), different day
Torfstein A. and Kienast S.S. (2018) No correlation between atmospheric dust and surface chlorophyll-a in the oligotrophic Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research - biogeosciences, 123, doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004063. pdf, Eos Research Spotlight, GEOTRACES highlight
Torfstein A., Teutsch N., Tirosh O., Shaked Y., Rivlin T., Zipori A., Stein M., Lazar B. and Erel Y. (2017) Chemical characterization of atmospheric dust from a weekly time series in the north Red Sea between 2006-2010. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 211, 373-393. pdf, link
Rubin, M., Berman-Frank, I., and Y. Shaked. (2011) Dust- and mineral-iron utilization by the marine dinitrogen-fixer Trichodesmium. Nature Geosciences 4(8): 529–534. pdf
Steiner, Z., Erez, J., Shemesh, A., Yam, R., Katz, A. and Lazar, B. (2020) Basin-scale estimates of pelagic and coral reef calcification in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (46), 16303-16308. link
Shalev, N., Gavrieli, I., Halicz, L., Sandler, A., Stein, M. and Lazar, B. (2017) Enrichment of 88Sr in continental waters due to calcium carbonate precipitation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 459, pp.381-393. link
Silverman, J., Lazar, B., Cao, L., Caldeira, K. and Erez, J. (2009) Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(5). link
Paldor, A., Katz, O., Aharonov, E., Weinstein, Y., Roditi‐Elasar, M., Lazar, A. and Lazar, B. (2019) Deep submarine groundwater discharge–Evidence from Achziv Submarine Canyon at the exposure of the Judea Group confined aquifer, eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, e2019JC015435. pdf
Mauri, E., L. Sitz, R. Gerin, P.M. Poulain, D. Hayes, H. Gildor (2019) On the variability of the circulation and water mass properties in the eastern Levantine Sea between September 2016–August 2017, Water 11 (9), 1741.