2011 Expedition
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Eastern Mediterranean Sea

November 10 – 16, 2011
NA019

Expedition Partners

Lead Scientist
Lead Scientist

Selected Publications

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…
Lawal, M.A., Findlay, R., Bialik, O., Neuman, A., Waldermann, N., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Using multilevel composition to map rare seafloor gas-seepage habitats of the Palmahim disturbance, southeastern Mediterranean Sea. NSG2023 29th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics : 1-5.
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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