2011 Expedition

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

November 10 – 16, 2011
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Lead Scientist
Lead Scientist

Expedition Partners

Selected Publications

2025

Rubin-Blum M, Rahav E, Sisma-Ventura G, Yudkovski Y, Harbozov Z, Bialik O, Ezra O, Foubert A, Herut B, Makovsky Y (2025). Animal burrowing at cold seep ecotones boosts productivity by linking macromolecule turnover with chemosynthesis and nutrient cycling. Biogeosciences 22 (5): 1321–1340. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1321-2025

2024

Brennan, M.L. (2024). Quantification of bottom trawl damage to ancient shipwrecks: a case study from the coastal waters of Turkey. Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling. Jarvis C (ed.) : 41-52. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-579…
Rubin-Blum, M., Rahav, E., Sisma-Ventura, G., Yudkovski, Y., Harbozov, Z., Bialik, O., Ezra, O., Foubert, A., Herut, B., and Makovsky, Y. (2024). Animal burrowing at cold seep ecotones boosts productivity by linking macromolecule turnover with chemosynthesis and nutrient cycling. EGUsphere https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1285

2023

Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D., Foubert, A., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Modes of gas migration and seepage on the salt-rooted Palmahim Disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264…
Lawal, M.A., Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N.D., Foubert, A., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Modes of gas migration and seepage on the salt-rooted Palmahim Disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology 153: 106256. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264…
Vintila, S., Kleiner, M., Tchernov, D., Rubin-Blum, M. (2023). Metabolic handoffs between multiple symbionts may benefit the deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. ISME Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00254-4#Bib1
Weidlich, R., Bialik ,O.M., Rüggeberg, A., Grobéty, B., Vennemann, T., Neuman, A., Makovsky, Y., Foubert, A. (2023). Occurrence and genesis of cold-seep authigenic carbonates from the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Depositional Record 9: 844-870. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dep2.239
Zvi-Kedem, T., Vintila, S., Kleiner, M., Tchernov, D., Rubin-Blum, M. (2023). Metabolic handoffs between multiple symbionts may benefit the deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. ISME Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00254-4

2021

Zvi-Kedem, T., Shemesh, E., Tchernov, D., & Rubin-Blum, M. (2021). The worm affair: Genetic diversity in two species of symbionts that co-occur in tubeworms from the Mediterranean Sea. bioRxiv

2014

Rubin-Blum, M., Antler, G., Turchyn, A., Tsadok, R., Goodman-Tchemov, B., Shemesh, E., Austin Jr., J., Coleman, D., Makovsky, Y., Sivan, O., Tchernov, D. (2014). Hydrocarbon-related microbial processes in the deep sediments of the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin. FEMS Microbial Ecology 87(3): 780–796.
Rubin-Blum, M., Antler, G., Turchyn, A., Tsadok, R., Shemesh, E., Austin Jr., J., Coleman, D., Goodman-Tchemov, B., Ben-Avraham, Z., Tchernov, D. (2014). First evidence for the presence of iron oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria at the Levantine continental margins. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91456.
Rubin-Blum, M., Shemesh, E., Goodman-Tchernov, B., Coleman, D., Ben-Avraham, Z., Tchernov, D. (2014). Cold seep biogenic carbonate crust in the Levantine basin is inhabited by burrowing Phascolosoma aff.turnerae, a sipunculan worm hosting a distinctive microbiota. Deep-sea Research I 90(1): 17-26.
Rubin-Blum, M., Tsadok, R., Shemesh, E., Goodman-Tchernov, B., Austin, J., Coleman, D., Ben-Avraham, Z., Gruber, D., Tchernov, D. (2014). Distribution of the Lamellibrachia spp. (Sibogilnidae, Annelida) and their trophosome endosymbiont phylotypes in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology 161(6): 1229-1239.

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