SeaWheat

Education and tenures:  

1985:    Ph.D. in Marine Biology (Tel Aviv University).

1985-2017:    Senior Scientist and Head of the Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture                            (IMTA) Systems Department at the National Center for Mariculture (NCM), Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research (IOLR).                             

1989-1990:    Postdoctoral position at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Research subject: bivalve bioenergetics.

1998-1999:    Sabbatical leave, at N.O.A.A, Milford Laboratory, Milford, CT, USA.

2010-2020:    Adjunct Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

2017-2020:    Visiting scientist at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat.

2018-to date:  Principal Research Associate, Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, Haifa University.

Research interests:  

• Sustainable aquaculture. Research and development of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) systems.   
• Mariculture (biology and technology) of bivalves, sea urchins, abalone and seaweeds.
• Physiology of bivalves (oysters, clams), abalone and sea urchins.
• Use of bivalves, Artemia, seaweeds and constructed wetlands with halophytes as biofilters of mariculture effluents.
• Use of seaweeds and halophyte plants as food and feed.