Rami Tsadok

ROV Pilot

Rami is an Israeli Navy Seal instructor (officer), a PhD student in the Marine Biology department at the University of Haifa. He is a marine biologist, professional diver, yacht racing sailor, boat builder, and commercial skipper. His fields of interest include anthropogenic and marine environmental issues; atmospheric carbon dioxide emission and ocean acidification as potential threat on Scleractinian coral reefs; beach erosion; the study of sea level bio-indicator organisms; and deep ocean water biological communities. On the Nautilus expedition cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean, Rami is an Argus pilot and a marine biologist.

Expeditions

Rami participated in the following Ocean Exploration Trust expeditions:

2010

2011

Selected Publications

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. https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/87/3/780/578119

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. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journa…

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. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-014-2413-y