Ecology and Evolution of reef corals; Coral reef community structure; Species diversity of corals; Life history strategies of reef corals and their associated fauna; Competitive networks and space partitioning within coral populations; The role of boring organisms in bioerosion of coral reefs; Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on coral reef communities; Effects of oil-pollution on coral- reef communities; Conservation ecology and management of coral reef nature reserves; hormonal influences on anthozoan reproduction; effects of environmental stress on anthozoan reproduction Biologically active compounds derived from coral-reef organisms in search for new drugs; Global climatic changes and its effect on coral-reef communities; Coral bleaching;   Coral diseases.

                       Thesis title

Population dynamics and life history strategies in

Red Sea soft corals.

Bioerosion rate of corals by boring bivalves:

A chemical approach.

Ecological and physiological aspects of sex

hormones in corals.

Roee Segal

                               Thesis title

Quantitative characteristics of stony corals, soft corals and algae in the northern Gulf of Eilat ( Red Sea ).

On the reproduction of Stylophora pistillata (Esper) and harmful effects of oil pollution on its population.

     Yechiam Schlesinger

Effects of phosphate pollution on the community structure of the holothurians Actinopyga bannwarthi and Synapta maculata

Spatial heterogeneity in branching corals and fish species diversity

Competition and space partitioning among Trapezia species within the coral Stylophora pistillata .

Esther Kramarsky -

Winter

Life history strategy of the bivalve Lithophaga purpurea boring in the coral Cyphastrea chalcidicum.

Reproductive and settlement strategy of the boring bivalve Lithophaga purpurea in living corals.

Aggressiveness in stony corals: Is it competition for space?

Predation and life history strategies of the coral predatory snail Drupella cornus

Life history and reproduction of Pocillopora in the Gulf of Eilat

Sclerochrondogical aspects of hermatypic corals (genus: Porites) in the Gulf of Eilat.

Surface structural complexity and its influence on ecological indices of aquatic communities.

Tamar Liberman

Possible benefits to the coral Stylophora pistillata from the association with the fish Dascyllus marginatus

Bioerosion of the coral reef by parrotfish

(Co-supervisor: B. Lazar , Hebrew University ).

The scleractinian coral Oculina patagonica :

A new invader to the Mediterranean sea,

biological and ecological aspects.

Photoinhibition in shallow water colonies of Stylophora pistillata as measured in situ.

(Co-supervisor Sven Beer )

Environmental factors influencing the chronic bleaching of the Mediterranean stony coral

Oculina patagonica .

Fluorescent in situ Hybridization (FISH) reveals the fireworm Hermodice carunculata as a reservoir and a possible vector for the coral pathogen Vibrio shiloi  (Co-supervisor-E. Rosenberg ).

Deterioration Index (DI): a suggested tool for monitoring reef-coral community health.

(Co-supervisor- A. Abelson).

Reproductive cycle of Palythoa sp. at Eilat, Red Sea. (Co-supervisor- Y. Benayahu).

Nematocysts' toxins of the Mediterranean sea-anemone Aiptasia diaphana and their role in external digestion.

Molecular characteristics of the bleaching phenomenon of the Mediterranean stony coral Oculina patagonica .

Ecology of Lessepsian mussels invading the Mediterranean (Co-supervisor- Y. Benayahu TAU)

Community structure of deep (50 m ) scleractinian corals in Eilat, Red Sea .

Trophic biology of Scleractinian planulae

(Co-supervisor- A. Shemesh, Weitzman Institute).

Sclerochronology of bleached and non-bleached corals. (Co-supervisor- A. Shemesh, Weitzman Institute).

The re-morphogenesis Process in Fungia granulosa: Research and Application

Omri Bronstein

Morphological and molecular aspects of sea urchins (genus Echinometra)from Okinawa, Zanzibar and Eilat

Itzhak Hoskin

Coral community structure and diversity in protected vs. non-protected coral reefs in Zanzibar

Y. Loya and R. Klein "Coral Reefs" (1994).320pp (in Hebrew).

     Ministry of Defence. The publishing House

                                                        

Y.Loya, L.B. Slobodkin (1971). The coral reefs of Eilat (Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28: 117-140.

Y. Loya (1972). Community structure and species diversity of hermatypic corals at Eilat, Red Sea.Mar. Biol., 13: 100-123.

Y. Loya (1975). Possible effects of water pollution on the community structure  of Red Sea corals. Mar. Biol., 29: 177-185.

Y. Loya (1976a). The Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata is an r-strategist. Nature, 259: 478-480.

Y. Loya (1976b). Recolonization of Red Sea corals affected by natural catastrophes and man-made perturbations. Ecology, 57: 278-289.

Y. Loya (1976d). Skeletal regeneration rate in a Red Sea scleractinian coral population. Nature, 261: 490-491.

Bradbury R.H., Y. Loya (1978). A heuristic analysis of spatial patterns of  hermatypic corals at Eilat, Red Sea. Amer. Natur., 112: 439-507.

Loya Y., B. Rinkevich (1979). Abortion effects in corals induced by oil-pollution. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 1: 77-80.

Rinkevich B., Y. Loya (1979). The reproduction of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata. I.Gonads and planulae.Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 2: 133-144.

B. Rinkevich & Y. Loya (1979).The reproduction of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata. II. Synchronization in      breeding and seasonality of planulae shedding. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 2: 145-152.

L. Muscatine, L.R. McCloskey and Y. Loya (l985).A compare ison of the growth rates of zooxanthellae and animal tissue in the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata Fifth Int. Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti, 6:119-123.

Y. Schlesinger, Y. Loya (l985). Coral community reproductive patterns: Red Sea versus the Great Barrier Reef. Science, 228: 1333-1335.

R. Klein, Y. Loya, G. Gvirtzman, P.S. Isdale and M. Susic (l990).Seasonal rainfall in the Sinai desert during the late Quaternary inferred from fluorescent bands in fossil corals. Nature, 345: l45-l47.

Y. Loya (l990). Changes in a Red Sea Coral Community Structure: A Long-Term Case History Study. In: The Earth in Transition: Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment, G.M. Woodwell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 369-384.

N.E. Chadwick, Y. Loya (l992). Migration, habitat use and competition among mobile fungiid corals in the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea. Mar. Biol. ll4: 6l7-623.

A. Abelson, T. Miloh and Y. Loya (l993). Flow patterns induced by substratum and body morphology of benthic organisms and their role in determining food particle availability.Limnol. and Oceanog., 38: lll6-ll24.

A. Abelson, D. Weihs and Y. Loya (1994). Hydrodynamic impedance to settlement of marine propagules and trailing filament solutions Limnol. and Oceanogr., 39: 164-169.

N. Shashar, T. Feldstein, Y. Cohen and Y. Loya (1994). Nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) on a coral reef, Coral Reefs, 13: 171-174.

A. Abelson, Y. Loya (1995). Cross scale patterns of particulate-food acquisition in marine benthic environments. Amer. Natur., 145: 848-854.

A. Kushmaro, Y. Loya, M.Fine and E. Rosenberg (1996).Bacterial infection and coral bleaching Nature, 380: 396.

A. Kushmaro, E. Rosenberg, M. Fine and Y. Loya (1997). Bleaching of the coral Oculina patagoniaby Vibrio AK-1. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.147:159-165.

U. Oren, B. Rinkevich and Y. Loya (1997). Oriented intra-colonial transport of 14C labeled materials during coral regeneration.Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 161:117-

Y. Shlesinger, T. L. Goulet & Y. Loya (1998). Reproductive patterns of scleractinian corals in the northern Red Sea. Mar. Biol. 132:691-701.

U. Oren, I. Brickner and Y. Loya (1998). Prudent sessile feeding by the corallivore snail Coralliophila violacea on coral energy sinks. Proc. Roy. Soc .Biol. Sci., 265:2043-2050.

  L. Stone, A. Huppert, B. Rajagopalan and Y. Loya (1999). Mass coral reef bleaching: a recent outcome of increased El-Nino activity? Ecology Letters 2:325-330.

U. Oren, Y. Benayahu, H. Lubinevsky and Y. Loya (2001). Colony integration during regeneration in the stony coral Favia favus. Ecology, 82: 802-813.

Y. Loya, K. Sakai, K. Yamazato, Y. Nakano, H. Sembali, and R. van Woesik (2001). Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers.Ecology Letters, 4:122-131.

M. Fine, H. Zibrowius and Y. Loya (2001). Oculina patagonica : a non- lessepsian scleractinian coral invading the Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Biol. 138: 1195-1203.

O. Choresh, E. Ron and Y. Loya (2001). The 60-kDa Heat Shock Protein (HSP60) of the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata: a potential early warning system for monitoring environmental changes.

Mar. Biotech. 3: 501-508.

M. Fine, Y. Loya (2003). Alternate competitive superiority during coral bleaching. Mar. Biol. 142: 989-996.

Y. Loya, E. Kramarsky-Winter (2003). In situ eutrophication caused by fish farms in the northern Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba) is beneficial for its coral reefs: a critique. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 261:299-303.

Rosenfeld, A. Shemesh and Y. Loya (2003) Implication of water depth on stable isotope composition and skeletal and density banding. Coral Reefs, 22: 337-345.

Y. Loya (2004). The coral reefs of Eilat- past, present and future: Three decades of coral community structure studies. In: Coral Reef Health and Disease; Rosenberg and Loya (Eds). Springer-Verlag; Berlin Heidelberg, New York. pp. 1-34.

Y. Loya, H. Lubinevsky, M. Rosenfeld and E. Kramarsky-Winter (2004). Nutrient enrichment caused by in situ fish-farms is detrimental to coral reproduction. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 49: 344-353

Y. Loya, M. Rosenfeld and E. Kramarsky-Winter (2005). Nutrient enrichment and coral reproduction:  empty vessels make the most sound (response to a critique by B. Rinkevich).Mar. Pollut. Bull. 50: 114-118

Y. Nozawa, Y. Loya (2005). Genetic relationship and maturity state of the allorecognition system affect contact reactions in juvenile scleractinian corals. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 286:115-123

N. Shenkar, M. Fine and Y. Loya (2005). Size matters: - bleaching dynamics of the coral Oculina patagonica. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 294: 181-188.

D. Kelman, Y. Kashman, E. Rosenberg, A. Kushmaro and Y. Loya (2006).Antimicrobial activity of Red Sea corals.  Mar. Biol. 149: 357–363

I. Brickner, U. Frank, U. Oren, and Y. Loya (2006). Energy integration between the solitary polyps of the clonal coral Lobophyllia corymbosa. Jour. of Exp. Biol. 209: 1690-1695

N. Shenkar, M. Fine, E. K. Winter and Y. Loya (2006). Population dynamics of zooxanthella during a bacterial bleaching event. Coral Reefs, 25: 223–227

M. Rosenfeld, A. Shemesh R. Yam and Y. Loya (2006). 18O record of Porites spp. corals during the 1998-bleaching event in Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 314: 127–133

L. Reshef, O. Koren, Y. Loya, I. Zilber-Rosenberg and E. Rosenberg. (2006). The Coral probiotic hypothesis, Environ. Microbiol. 8:2068-2073

G. Winters, S. Beer and Y. Loya (2006). In situ measured seasonal variations in Fv /Fm of two common Red Sea corals. Coral Reefs 25:593-598

T.D. Ainsworth, E. Kramasky–Winter, Y. Loya, O. Hoegh-Guldberg and M. Fine (2007). Coral Disease Diagnostics: What’s between a plague and a band? Appl. Environ. Microb. 73: 981-992

Y. Loya (2007). How to influence environmental decision makers? The case of Eilat (Red Sea) coral reefs. Jour. Exp .Mar. Biol. Ecol. 73: 35-53

O. Choresh, A. Azem and Y. Loya (2007). Over-expression of highly conserved mitochondrial 70-kDa heat-shock protein in the sea anemone Anemonia viridis. Jour. of Thermal Biol. 32: 367–373

A. Zvuloni, Y. Artzy-Randrup, L. Stone, R. van Woesik and Y. Loya (2008). Ecological size-frequency distributions: how to prevent and correct biases in spatial sampling Limno. and Oceanog. : Methods. 6: 144-15

N. Shenkar, Y. Zeldman and Y. Loya (2008). Ascidian recruitment patterns on an artificial reef in Eilat (Red Sea). Biofouling 1-2:119-128.

Harel M, Ben Dov E, Rasoulouniriana D , Siboni N , Kramarsky-Winter E, Loya Y. Barak Z WiesmanZ and Kushmaro A. (2008). A new Thraustochytrid, strain Fng1, isolated from the surface-mucus of the hermatypic coral Fungia granulosa FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 1-10.

Assaf Zvuloni, Rachel Armoza-Zvuloni1 and Yossi Loya (2008). Structural deformation and growth inhibition of branching corals associated with the vermatid gastropod Dendropoma maxima Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser 363:103-108.

N. Shenkar Y. Loya (2008). Ecology and systematics of the ascidian fauna in the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba).

In “Aqaba-Eilat, the Improbable Gulf. Environment, Biodiversity and Preservation” Ed. F.D Por, Magnes, Jerusalem. pp 197-208.

N. Shenkar, O. Bronstein and Y. Loya (2008) population dynamics of a coral reef ascidian in a deteriorating environment.

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 367:163-171.

Eugene Rosenberg , Ariel Kushmaro, Esti Kramarsky-Winter, Hudi Banin, and Yossi Loya (2008). The role of microorganisms in coral bleaching.

Inter. Soc. Micr. Ecol. (ISME ) 3: 139-146.

A. Zvuloni, Y. Artzy-Randrup, L. Stone, E. Kramarsky-Winter, R. Barkan and Y. Loya (2009).

Spatio-temporal transmission patterns of black-band disease in a coral community.

Ami Schlesinger, Eliahu Zlotkin, Esti Kramarsky-Winter and Y. Loya (2009). Cnidarian internal stinging mechanism. Proc. Roy. Soc. Biol. B 276:1063-1067.

A. Schlesinger, E. Kramarsky-Winter and Y. Loya (2009). Active nematocyst isolation via nudibranchs Mar. Biotechnol. 11:441–444.

A. Alamaru, O.Bronstein, G.Dishon and Y.Loya (2009). Opportunistic feeding by the fungiid coral Fungia scruposa on the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita Coral reefs 28:865

E. Kramarsky-Winter, C. A. Downs, A, Downs and Y. Loya (2009). Cellular responses in the coral Stylophora pistillata exposed to eutrophication from fish mariculture . Evol. Ecol. Res. 11: 1–21.

G.Tsagkogeorga, X. Turon, R. Hopcroft, M.-Ka Tilak, T. Feldstein, N. Shenkar Y. Loya , D. Huchon, E. Douzery and F. Delsuc (2009) An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models BMC Evolutionary Biology (in press) .

N. Shenkar Y. Loya (2009). Non-indigenous ascidians (Phylum: Chordata, Subphylum: Tunicata) along the Mediterranean coast of  Israel Mar. Biod. Rec. (In press).

C. A. Downs, E. Kramarsky-Winter, J. Martinez, A. Kushmaro, C.M. Woodley, Y. Loya , G. K. Ostrander (2009). Symbiophagy as a Cellular Mechanism for Coral Bleaching. Autophagy 5: 211-216.

D. Kelman, Y. Kashman, R. Hill, E. Rosenberg and Y. Loya (2009). Chemical warfare in the sea: The search for antibiotics from Red Sea corals and sponges Pure Appl. Chem. 6:1113-1121.

C.A. Downs, E. Kramarsky-Winter, C. M. Woodley, A. Downs, G. Winters, Y. Loya , Gary K. Ostrander (2009). Cellular pathology and histopathology of hypo-salinity exposure on the coral Stylophora pistillata . . Science Tot. Envir   407: 4838-4851.

A. Alamaru., Y. Loya, E. Brokovich , R. Yam and A. Shemesh (2009) Carbon and nitrogen utilization in two species of Red Sea corals along a depth gradient; insights from stable isotope analysis of lipids Geoch. and Cosmoch. Acta 73:5333-5342.

G. Winters, R. Holzman, A. Blekhman, S. Beer and Y. Loya (2009). Photographic

assessment of coral chlorophyll contents: Implications for ecophysiological studies and coral monitoring. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol . 380: 25-35.

Tel Aviv University

University of the Ryukyus,
Okinawa, Japan

Sesoko Tropical Biosphere

Research Center

Scripps Inst. of Oceanography

La Jolla, San Diego USA

1979-1980

Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) and James Cook University, Australia

Marine Ecology

State University of New York at Stony Brook,

L.I., N.Y.

Univ. of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

International Targeted Working Group on indicators of coral

bleaching under the auspices of GEF and the World Bank .

Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University

1978-1992

Member

International Association of Biological Oceanography (IABO)

organizing the following coral reef symposia:
-3d International Symposium on Coral Reefs: Miami, Florida, 1977
-4th International Symposium on Coral Reefs: Philippines, May 1981.
-5th International Symposium on Coral Reefs: Tahiti, June l985.
-6th International Symposium on Coral Reefs: Australia, August l988.
-7th International Symposium on Coral Reefs: Guam, June l992.

2000

   The Darwin Medal

 (Award conferred once every 4 years)

Awarded by the International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS) for life contribution to coral reef research.

Award conferred during the 9th International coral Reef Symposium Bali, Indonesia.

2003

The Landau Prize

(together with Eugene Rosenberg, Tel Aviv University)

Awarded by Mifaal Hapais in the category of Life Sciences for original outstanding research contributionto the field of Ecology and Environmental Quality.

Israel Science Foundation (ISF)- Etiology of Black Band Disease (BBD) in the Red Sea.

(PI in collaboration with E. Rosenberg, TAU)

2004-2008

Marie Curie European Research Training Network (with M. Ilan, TAU)

Israel Science Foundation (ISF): "The isotopic composition of Eilat's corals:

basic aspects of signals buildup and tracing anthropogenic stress.

(Co-PI in collaboration with A. Shemesh, the Weizman Institute).

The Porter School of Environmental Studies in collaboration with the Italian Ministry

of the Environment: "Artificial Marine Structures (AMS): Multifunctional Tool for Research and Environmental Management in the Mediterranean and Red Sea (MED- RED)".

(PI in collaboration with Y. Benayahu and A. Abelson).

Israel Science Foundation (ISF): “An integrative approach of studying bacterial coral bleaching in the coral reefs of Eilat". (in collaboration with E. Rosenberg TAU).

2005- 2010

GEF/The World Bank/UNESCO/IOC : International Targeted Working Group of experts on "indicators of coral bleaching". Co-Chairman with Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg (Chairman) of the group, including 15 scientists from USA, England, Australia, Kenya, Israel, and Mexico.The group meets annually and works together 2-3 weeks

at four reef sites: Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia), Puerto Morelos (Mexico), Philippines and Zanzibar.

MERC-Bi-national Research and Monitoring Program (Israel -Jordan) for

the Red Sea Marine Peace Park, Aqaba, Jordan

1998-2002

Israeli Ministry of Science: “Establishment of a National Infrastructure
Laboratory: Center for High Throughput Screening (HTS) for Novel Bioactive Compounds at Tel Aviv University”-

(Director and Coordinator of a research project involving 22 scientists

from 6 academic and research institutions in Israel).

The German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
(B.M.B.F.):- Red Sea Program-"Scleractinian corals as environmental

recorders of the Red Sea”.

The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and

Development (G.I.F): “Patterns of stable isotope fractionation during mineralizationprocesses in corals: Environmental implications”.

1991-1995

FAO Mediterranean Action Plan (MED POL) - “Swarming of jellyfish

along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel: An environmental approach”.

National Council for Research and Development -

Joint German-Israeli Program: “A new method to assess

indicators of environmental stress and possible stabilization or

degradation of toxicants in coral reefs”.

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Sea Pharm Project:
“Bioactive materials derived from soft corals and sponges from the

Red Sea”. (in collaboration with Prof. Y. Kashman, TAU).

1980-1982

Israeli Academy of Sciences- Basic Research Foundation:
“The variation in the chemical composition of soft-corals and

sponges as a function of the place of collection”.

(in collaboration with Prof. Y. Kashman,TAU).

2006

ISRS (International Society for Reef Studies) European Meeting Bremen,

Germany Sept 19-22
Lecture: Net pen fish farming and coral reefs: An unhappy marriage.

ARC Centre of Excellence- first scientific annual board meeting,

February 17-20, Townsville, Australia.

IOC-GEF/World Bank working group on coral bleaching Workshop,

7-11 April,  Paris .

World Bank/ UNESCO/IOC-GEF International targeted Group of Experts fourth

workshop on indicators of coral bleaching, 10-29 May, Puerto Morelos , Mexico.

Peer Review of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

13-16 April, Ravenna , Italy .

Ilanit Congress of the Federation of the Israel Societies for Experimental Biology

(FISEB ) February 7-10 Eilat.

Invited Plenary Lecture: The Coral Reefs of Eilat: Three decades of coral community

structure studies.

The World Bank/ /IOC-GEF International targeted Group of Experts third   

workshop on indicators of coral bleaching; 8-16 January, Puerto Morelos, Mexico .

IOC-GEF/World Bank working group on coral bleaching Workshop,

19-22  October, Washington DC

Census of Marine Life (Coml) Coral Reef Initiative Working Group:

Quantitative   methodologies for assessing coral community bleaching ,

14-16 October Washington DC

The 10th International Coral Reef Symposium , Okinawa , Japan .

Lecture: How to kill a coral reef?

2003

International Coral Ecotoxicology and Health Workshop: Bermuda Biological
Station for Research
Invited lecture: The coral reefs of Eilat -- past, present and future: Three

decades of coral community structure studies

The Red Sea Marine Peace Park International Symposium Integration of Marine Science and resource Management Aqaba 2-4 December 2003

 The World Bank/UNESCO/IOC International Working Group on indicators of

coral bleaching:- Workshop on Coral Bleaching: Biological Early Warning Systems,

Paris, France.

Workshop on “Biological considerations associated with current geochemical
approaches using stony corals as proxies for the reconstruction of different aspects

of past climates” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cape Cod, Mass.
Invited lecture: “Using stony corals as proxies for the reconstruction of Red

Sea past climates”.

The World Bank/UNESCO/IOC Workshop on Indicators of Coral Stress, Paris, France.

Initiation of the International Working Group of Experts.
Lecture: Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers..

Japan Marine Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) International Coral reef
Symposium- Coral reef biodiversity and health as indicators of environmental change,                  Tokyo, Japan.                                                                                                                              Invited lecture: Regeneration processes in scleractinian corals.

Hawaii Coral Reef Monitoring Workshop-A Tool for Management. Univ. of Hawaii
Plenary lecture: The Red Sea Peace Park Coral Reefs Benthic Communities: Ecology

and Biology Monitoring Program.

18th Pacific Science Congress: Population, Resources and Environment Prospects;

Beijing, China.
Lecture: Stony corals as environmental recorders.

Conference on Global Aspects of Coral Reefs: Health, Hazards and History,

Univ. of Miami, USA.
Plenary lecture: Long-term changes in coral community structure at Eilat, Red Sea

Status seminar of the German-Israeli Co-operation in Environmental Research;
Ploen, Germany.
Lecture: A new method to assess indicators of environmental stress and possible

stabilization of toxicants in the environment.

Workshop on oil pollution effects on the coral reefs of Panama; Meeting of Scientific

Review Board, Phase 3.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Workshop on coral bleaching, Coral Reef Ecosystems and Global Climate Change.
Miami, Florida.
Invited lecture: Climate change in Sinai Desert during the late Quaternary inferred

from fluorescent bands in fossil corals.

Fifth International Congress of Ecology, Yokohama, Japan.
Invited lecture: Coral host specificity between the date mussel Lithophaga lessepsiana

and the coral Stylophora pistillata.

Workshop on the oil pollution effects on the coral reefs of Panama; Meeting of the

Scientific Review Board, Phase 2.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Regional Research Workshop and International Symposium on the Conservation

and Management of Coral Reef and Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan.
Invited lecture: Effects of man-made versus natural disturbances on coral reefs.

Workshop on oil pollution effects on the coral reefs of Panama; Meeting of

Scientific Review Board, Phase 1.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

The Woods Hole Research Center: Conference on Biotic Impoverishment,
Woods Hole, USA.
Plenary lecture: Changes in a Red Sea coral community under chronic oil pollution:

A long-term case history study.

International Helgoland Symposium: “Diseases of Marine Organisms”.

Biologisch Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany F.R.
Invited lecture: Tumor formations in scleractinian corals.

Workshop on Evolution and Maintenance of Modern Coral Distributions.
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia.
Invited lecture: Reproductive cycle of Stylophora pistillata in the Great Barrier

Reef and the Red Sea.

International Conference on Marine Science in the Red Sea. Al-Ghardaqa

Marine Biological Station, Egypt.
Lecture: Seasonal changes in growth rates of a Red Sea coral population.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences - Update workshop on: “Oil in the sea: Inputs,

Fates and Effects”.
Invited referee in the section of Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on Coral Reefs.
Clearwater, Florida, USA.

Second International Symposium on Biology and Management of Mangroves and

Tropical Shallow Water Communities. The Western Society of Naturalists and the

University of Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
Plenary lecture: Competition for space among coral reef sessile organisms.

UNESCO workshop on Marine and Coastal Processes in the Pacific: Ecological

aspects of coastal zone management;
Mutupore Island Research Centre, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Panel leader: Degradation of the environment.

Tenth International Congress of Sedimentology, Jerusalem.
Field leader: “Pleistocene and Recent coral reefs and coastal sedimentation in

the Gulf of Eilat”.

Third International Coral Reef Symposium, Univ. of Miami, Florida.
Lectures:
   1. Seasonal occurrence of benthic-algae communities and grazing regulation by

       seaurchins at the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea.
   2. Harmful effects of chronic oil pollution on a Red Sea scleractinian coral population.

International Helgoland Symposium: Ecosystem Research. Biologische Anstalt

Helgoland - Helgoland, Germany F.R.
Invited lecture: Quantitative characteristics of community structure of stony corals,

soft corals and algae in the northern Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea.

Second International Symposium on Coral Reefs, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Plenary lecture: On the possible use of plotless methods for quantitative studies of

benthic communities of coral reefs.

Symposium of Regional Variation of Indian Ocean Coral Reefs. The Royal Society and

Zoological Society of London, London.
Invited lecture: The coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea.