Eastern Mediterranean

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The DEEP LEVANTINE Marine Station is the first deep-moored marine station in the ultraoligotrophic Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean. The mooring was deployed in Nov 2016 ~ 50 km west of Haifa at 1500 m water depth, with the support of the refurbished Israeli research vessel - R/V Bat Galim. The mooring includes an array of instruments and sensors designed to measure physical and environmental parameters along the water column, as well as sediment traps.
 

The aims of the project are:

   1) to characterize and quantify carbon export and its efficiency, as part of the biological pump,

       in the extreme environment (warm, ultra-oligotrophic) of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea;

   2) to study the role of external forcing (e.g. dust storms) in C export;

   3) to characterize long-term patterns in physical, chemical and biological parameters of the

       eastern Mediterranean, in particular, its response to environmental/ anthropogenic changes.

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