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פרסומים מדעיים

  1. Goffman, O., Roditi, M., Shariv, T., Spanier, E. and Kerem, D. 2000. Cetaceans from the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology 46: 143-147.

  2. Shoham-Frider, E., Amiel, S., Roditi-Elasar, M. and Kress, N. 2002. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) stranding on the coast of Israel (eastern Mediterranean). Autopsy results and trace metal concentrations. The Science of the Total Environment 295: 157-166.

  3. Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Hornung, H., Kress, N., Shoham-Frider, E., Goffman, O. and Spanier, E. 2003. Heavy metal levels in bottlenose and striped dolphins off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 491-521.

  4. Shoham-Frider, E., Kress, N., Wynne, D., Scheinin, A., Roditi-Elasar, M. and Kerem, D. 2009. Persistent organochlorine pollutants and heavy metals in tissues of common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from the Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean. Chemosphere 77:  621–627.

  5. Scheinin, A. P., Goffman, O., Elasar, M., Perelberg, A., & Kerem, D. H. 2011. Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) resighted along the Israeli coastline after more than half a century. Aquatic Mammals, 37: 241–242.

  6. Kerem,D., Kent, R., Roditi-Elasar, M., Goffman, O., Scheinin, A. and  Gol'din, P. 2014.: Earlyphysical maturation of female common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus in the eastern Levantine Basin, Israel. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution, 59(3): 154-162. DOI: 10.1080/15659801.2013.892297

  7. Shoham-Frider, E., Kerem, D., Roditi- Elasar, M., Goffman, O., Morrick, D., Yoffe, O. and Kress. N. 2014. Trace elements in tissues of cetacean species rarely stranded along the Israeli Mediterranean coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin 83: 376-382.

  8. Shoham-Frider, Goffman, O., Harlavan, Y., Kress. N., Morrick, D., Roditi- Elasar, M., Shefer, E. and Kerem, D. 2016. Trace elements in striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Eastern Mediterranean: A 10-years perspective. Marine pollution bulletin 109: 624-632. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.05.021.

  9. Kerem, D., Goffman, O., Elasar, M., Hadar, N., Logen, S. and Lewis, T. 2016. The Rough-Toothed Dolphin, Steno bredanensis, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A Relict Population? Advances in Marine Biology, 75: 233-258. DOI: 10.1016/bs.amb.2016.07.005

  10. Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Kerem, D., Smeenk, C., Rudolph, P., Cesario, A., Costa, M., Elasar, M., Feingold, D., Fumagalli, M., Goffman, O., Hadar, N., Mebrathu, Y.T. and Scheinin, A. 2017. Cetaceans of the Red Sea. CMS Technical series 33, 86 p. ISBN 978-3-937429-21-2.

  11. Bigal, E., Morick, D., Scheinin, A.V., Salant, H., Berkowitz, A., King, R., Levy, Y., Melero, M., Sánchez-Vizcaíno, L.M., Goffman, O., Hadar, N., Roditi-Elasar, M., Tchernov, D. 2018. Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in three common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus); A first description from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Veterinary Parasitology 258: 74-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2018.06.009

  12. Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Lazar, M., Barneah, O., Almogi-Labin, A., Angel, D. 2019. Benthic macro-faunal abundance and diversity and sediment distribution in Akhziv submarine canyon and the adjacent slope (eastern Levant Basin, Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean Marine Science, 20(3): 521-531. DOI:10.12681/mms.19430

  13. Paldor, A., Katz, O., Aharonov, E., Weinstein, Y., Roditi‐Elasar, M., Lazar, A., & Lazar, B. 2020. 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. DOI:10.1029/2019JC015435

  14. Roditi-Elasar, M., Bundone, L., Goffman, O., Scheinin, A. P. and Kerem, D.H. 2021. Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) sightings in Israel 2009-2020: Extralimital records or signs of population expansion? Marine mammal Science 37: 344-351. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12734

  15. Morick, D., Blum, S. E., Davidovich, N., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Bigal, E., Peleg, I, Rokney, A., Nasie, I., Feldman, N., Flecker, M., Roditi-Elasar, M., Aharoni, K., Zuriel, Y., Wosnick, N., Tchernov, D and Scheinin, A. P. 2023. Photobacterium damselae subspecies damselae Pneumonia in Dead, Stranded Bottlenose Dolphin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 29(1): 179-183.

  16. Galili, O., Goffman, O., Roditi-Elasar, M., Mevorach, Y., Bigal, E., Zuriel, Y., Haitovich, Y., Hadar, N., Markovich, M., Vardimon, D., Reininger, D., Marco, S., Morick, D., Ratner, E., Tchernov, D and Scheinin, A. 2023. Two decades of coastal dolphin population surveys in Israel, Eastern Mediterranean. Biology, 12(328).

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Conference Abstracts

  1. Roditi, M., Hornung, H., Kress, N., Goffman, O., Kerem, D. and Spanier, E.  1995.  Dolphin strandings on the Mediterranean coast of Israel -- Why?  Research on the Land-Sea Margin of Israel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd., Haifa, Israel, 6 June 1995. 

  2. Goffman, O., Roditi, M., Barnea, O., Lavalli, K., and Kerem, D.  1996.  Observations of cetaceans in the Gulfs of Eilat and Suez. Israel Journal of Zoology 43(1): 101. 

  3. Goffman, O., Kerem, D. Lavalli, K.L., Roditi, M. and Spanier, E. 1996.  Successful herding of wild dolphins, Tursiop truncatus, out of Haifa Port, Israel via an acoustical wall.  International Marine Animal Trainer's Association, 24th Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 3-8 November 1996.

  4. Roditi, M., Hornung, H., Goffman, O., Kerem, D., Kress, N. and Spanier, E. 1996. Tissue trace metal content in dolphins off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1996.

  5. Goffman, O., Sonin, O., Roditi, M., Kerem, D., Spanier, E. and Eyal, L. 1997.  Appearance of cetaceans along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, February 1993 to February 1997.  Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences.  University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 16-17 June, 1997.

  6. Goffman, O., Kerem, D., Amiel, S., Roditi, M. & Spanier, E. 2000. Minke whale, first report from the eastern Mediterranean. 14th Annual Meeting of the American Cetacean Society, Monterey, California, November 2000.

  7. Feingold, D., Roditi-Elasar, M., Goffman, O., Granit, S., Hadar, N., Ratner, E., Scheininm A., Kerem D. 2005. Summary of cetacean strandings along the Mediterranean Israeli coast in the past decade (1993-2004). 19th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, La Rochelle, France, April 2005.

  8. Kent, R., Leibovitch, M., Goffman, O., Roditi-Elasar, M. and Kerem, D. 2005. Bycatch of dolphins in Israeli fisheries. 19th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, La Rochelle, France, April 2005.

  9. Goffman, O., Granit, S.L., Hadar,N., Kerem, D., Podiadis, V., Kent, R., Ratner, E., Elasar, M., Scheinin, A. P. and Spanier, E. 2006. Cetacean species in Israeli Mediterranean waters: update 2000-2006. Research on the Land-Sea Margin of Israel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel.

  10. Goffman, O., Granit, S.L., Roditi-Elasar, M., Scheinin, A.P., Hadar, N., Kerem, D.C.,2009. Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno berdanesis, G. Cuvier in, 1828) in Israeli Mediterranean: 1993-2008. 23ND Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2009.

  11. Aviad P. Scheinin, Oz Goffman, Mia Elasar and Dani Kerem. 2010. Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, re-sighted along the Israeli coastline after more than half a century. Monachus Guardian, Vol. 13(1).

  12. Scheinin, A.P., Goffman, O., Elasar, M., Perelberg, A. and Kerem, D.H. 2011.  Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) resighted along the Israeli coastline after more than half a century. Aquatic mammals 37(3) 241-242.

  13. Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Angel, D.L., Lazar, M., Steindler, L., Herut, B., Shoham-Frider, E.,  Barnea, O., Almogi, A. 2013. Achziv Submarine Canyon: an oasis in the warming oligotrophic Levantine Basin? The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) 40th congress, Marseille, France, October 2013

  14. Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Angel, D.L., Lazar, M., Steindler, L., Herut, B., Shoham-Frider, E.,  Barnea, O., Almogi, A. 2014. Achziv Submarine Canyon as a regional food web modifier. The Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences 11th congress, Jaffa, Israel. May 2014.

  15. Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Angel, D.L., Lazar, M., Barnea, O., Almogi, A. 2015. Akhziv submarine canyon: an oasis in the deep sea? 14th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Aveiro, Portugal. August-September 2015.

  16. Shoham-Frider, E., Joffe, O., Kerem, D., Roditi-Elasar, M., Morick, D., Goffman, O., Scheinin, A., Sivan, N., Kress, N. 2015. Pollutant levels in cetacean tissues from Israel – Synopsis of two decades. EAAM, Kolmarden, Sweden – OR.

  17. Roditi-Elasar, M., Miller, E., Scheinin, A.P., Zuriel, Y. and Kerem, D. 2016. Common Bottlenose dolphins in the Levantine deep sea (Akhziv Submarine Canyon). 30th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Funchal, Madeira, March 2016.

  18. Bundone, L., Roditi-Elasar, M., Goffman, O.,Scheinin, A.P. and Kerem, D. 2016. Monk seal sightings, identification and habitat survey in Israel. 30th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Funchal, Madeira, March 2016.

  19. Scheinin, A., Elasar, M. Hadar, N., Goffman, O. Galili, O., Morick, D., Shoham-Frider, E. Kerem, D. 2018. The easternmost Mediterranean population of Risso's Dolphins – much to be discovered. In: Lanfredi C., Remonato E. and Airoldi S. (Eds) 2018. Preliminary Report of the Mediterranean Grampus Project 2.0: Improving knowledge and conservation of the Mediterranean population of Risso's dolphins through effective partnerships. 48 pp. La Spezia, Italy, 7th April 2018.

  20. Galili, O., Kerem, D., Goffman, O., Roditi-Elasar, M., Bigal, E., Zuriel, Y., Mevorach, Y., Haitovich, Y., Ratner, E., Markovich, M., Hadar, N., Reininger, D., Marco, S., Tchernov, D. and Scheinin, P.A. 2019. 20 years of coastal dolphin population surveys in the eastern Mediterranean. World Marine Mammal Conference, Barcelona, Spain, December 2019.

  21. Roditi-Elasar, M. 2022. Marine mammals’ conservation in the Eastern Mediterranean - Are we on the right path? 33rd Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Virtual Platform, Ashdod Israel, 5-7 April 2022.

  22. Roditi-Elasar, M & Putnam, B. 2022. Teaching marine mammals’ conservation in school. 8th Workshop on “Communicating Marine Mammal Science to the General Public”. 2nd of the series “Arts as a tool for communication”. Within the framework of the 33rd Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Virtual Platform, Ashdod Israel, 5-7 April 2022

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