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2026

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56
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2422
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Barak Herut is affiliated with the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in Oceanography and Ecology as key subfields.

Herut's scholarly output covers topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. Additional research interests encompass Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and broader Marine and Environmental Studies.

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Herut include:

  • "A year in the life of the Eastern Mediterranean: Monthly dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in an ultra-oligotrophic sea" (2022) published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "Post-eastern Mediterranean Transient Oxygen Decline in the Deep Waters of the Southeast Mediterranean Sea Supports Weakening of Ventilation Rates" (2021) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Influence of cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies on plankton in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea during late summertime" (2022) published in Ocean Science
  • "Seasonal nutrient dynamics in the P depleted Eastern Mediterranean Sea" (2021) published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "Thermohaline Temporal Variability of the SE Mediterranean Coastal Waters (Israel) - Long-Term Trends, Seasonality, and Connectivity" (2022) published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators of Barak Herut include Eyal Rahav, Guy Sisma-Ventura, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Michal Kučera, and Maxim Rubin-Blum. These co-authors have collectively contributed to multiple studies in the relevant marine and environmental sciences domains.

The main venues where Herut's research has been published or made available include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Marine Science, The Science of The Total Environment, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

    Natalie Mahowald;Timothy D. Jickells;Alex R. Baker;Paulo Artaxo

  • Atmospheric Iron Deposition: Global Distribution, Variability, and Human Perturbations*

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Sebastian Engelstaedter;Chao Luo;Andrea Sealy

  • The role of atmospheric deposition in the biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea

    Stefano Guerzoni;Roy Chester;François Dulac;Barak Herut

  • Nutrient budget for the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for phosphorus limitation

    M. D. Krom;B. Herut;R. F. C. Mantoura

  • Atmospheric input of nitrogen and phosphorus to the Southeast Mediterranean: Sources, fluxes, and possible impact

    Barak Herut;Michael D. Krom;Gang Pan;Robert Mortimer

  • Spatial and seasonal evolution of dissolved oxygen and nutrients in the Southern Levantine Basin (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) : chemical characterization of the water masses and inferences on the N : P ratios

    Nurit Kress;Barak Herut

  • Interannual thermohaline (1979–2014) and nutrient (2002–2014) dynamics in the Levantine surface and intermediate water masses, SE Mediterranean Sea

    Tal Ozer;Isaac Gertman;Nurit Kress;Jacob Silverman

  • Nutrient cycling in the south east Levantine basin of the eastern Mediterranean: Results from a phosphorus starved system

    M.D. Krom;E.M.S. Woodward;B. Herut;N. Kress

  • Atmospheric acidification of mineral aerosols: a source of bioavailable phosphorus for the oceans

    A. Nenes;A. Nenes;M. D. Krom;N. Mihalopoulos;N. Mihalopoulos;P. Van Cappellen

  • The role of dust in supplying nitrogen and phosphorus to the Southeast Mediterranean

    Barak Herut;Robert W. Collier;Michael D. Krom

  • Dry atmospheric inputs of trace metals at the Mediterranean coast of Israel (SE Mediterranean): sources and fluxes

    Barak Herut;Malcolm Nimmo;Angela Medway;Roy Chester

  • Response of East Mediterranean surface water to Saharan dust: On-board microcosm experiment and field observations

    Barak Herut;Tamar Zohary;M.D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Co-existence of Methanogenesis and Sulfate Reduction with Common Substrates in Sulfate-Rich Estuarine Sediments.

    Michal Sela-Adler;Zeev Ronen;Barak Herut;Gilad Antler

  • Coupled sulfur and oxygen isotope insight into bacterial sulfate reduction in the natural environment

    Gilad Antler;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Victoria Rennie;Barak Herut

  • The characterisation of Saharan dusts and Nile particulate matter in surface sediments from the Levantine basin using Sr isotopes

    M.D Krom;R.A Cliff;L.M Eijsink;B Herut

  • Combined time‐series resistivity and geochemical tracer techniques to examine submarine groundwater discharge at Dor Beach, Israel

    P. W. Swarzenski;W. C. Burnett;W. J. Greenwood;B. Herut

  • Geochemical evolution and timescale of seawater intrusion into the coastal aquifer of Israel

    Orit Sivan;Yoseph Yechieli;Barak Herut;Boaz Lazar

  • P-limited bacteria but N and P co-limited phytoplankton in the Eastern Mediterranean—a microcosm experiment

    Tamar Zohary;Barak Herut;Michael D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Adsorption−Desorption of Phosphate on Airborne Dust and Riverborne Particulates in East Mediterranean Seawater

    Gang Pan;Michael D. Krom;Barak Herut

  • The role of seawater freezing in the formation of subsurface brines

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  • The seasonal dynamics of nutrient and chlorophyll a concentrations on the SE Mediterranean shelf-slope

    Barak Herut;Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Natasja Jannink;Isaac Gertman

Frequent Co-Authors

Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
Paraskevi Pitta
Paraskevi Pitta Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Ahuva Almogi-Labin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adina Paytan
Adina Paytan University of California, Santa Cruz
Boaz Lazar
Boaz Lazar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yoseph Yechieli
Yoseph Yechieli Geological Survey of Israel
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Margaret R. Mulholland
Margaret R. Mulholland Old Dominion University

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