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Overview

Nurit Kress is affiliated with the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research in Israel. Their research work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Marine and fisheries research

Nurit Kress has contributed to several recent scientific papers, which include:

  • Post-eastern Mediterranean Transient Oxygen Decline in the Deep Waters of the Southeast Mediterranean Sea Supports Weakening of Ventilation Rates, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Legacy groundwater pollution as a source of mercury enrichment in marine food web, Haifa Bay, Israel, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Modeling the effects of brine outflow from desalination plants on coastal food-webs of the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea), 2020, Desalination

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Nurit Kress are:

  • Guy Sisma-Ventura
  • Jacob Silverman
  • Yaron Gertner
  • Eli Biton
  • Barak Herut

The scientist's research has been published in venues that include Frontiers in Marine Science, The Science of The Total Environment, and Desalination.

Best Publications

  • Phosphorus limitation of primary productivity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

    M. D. Krom;N. Kress;S. Brenner;L. I. Gordon

  • Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.

    T. F. Thingstad;M. D. Krom;R. F. C. Mantoura;R. F. C. Mantoura;G. A. F. Flaten

  • 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

  • Physical forcing and physical/biochemical variability of the Mediterranean Sea: a review of unresolved issues and directions for future research

    P. Malanotte-Rizzoli;V. Artale;G. L. Borzelli-Eusebi;S. Brenner

  • Chlorophyll distribution throughout the southeastern Mediterranean in relation to the physical structure of the water mass

    Y.Z. Yacobi;T. Zohary;N. Kress;A. Hecht

  • Nutrient dynamics and new production in a warm-core eddy from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

    M.D. Krom;S. Brenner;N. Kress;A. Neori

  • Molecular ecology of nifH genes and transcripts in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

    Dikla Man-Aharonovich;Nurit Kress;Edo Bar Zeev;Ilana Berman-Frank

  • Temporal evolution of physical and chemical characteristics of the water column in the Easternmost Levantine basin (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) from 2002 to 2010

    Nurit Kress;Isaac Gertman;Barak Herut

  • The effect of coagulants and antiscalants discharged with seawater desalination brines on coastal microbial communities: A laboratory and in situ study from the southeastern Mediterranean

    Natalia Belkin;Eyal Rahav;Hila Elifantz;Nurit Kress

  • Heavy metal levels in bottlenose and striped dolphins off the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

    Mia Roditi-Elasar;Dan Kerem;Hava Hornung;Nurit Kress

  • Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) stranding on the coast of Israel (eastern Mediterranean). Autopsy results and trace metal concentrations.

    Efrat Shoham-Frider;Shlomi Amiel;Mia Roditi-Elasar;Nurit Kress

  • Seasonal dynamics of the endosymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

    Edo Bar Zeev;Tali Yogev;Dikla Man-Aharonovich;Nurit Kress

  • Nutrient distributions during an annual cycle across a warmcore eddy from the E. Mediterranean Sea

    M.D. Krom;S. Brenner;N. Kress;A. Neori

  • Is dinitrogen fixation significant in the Levantine Basin, East Mediterranean Sea?

    Tali Yogev;Eyal Rahav;Edo Bar-Zeev;Dikla Man-Aharonovich

  • Trace metals in shallow sediments from the Mediterranean coastal region of Israel

    Barak Herut;Hava Hornung;Michael D. Krom;Nurit Kress

  • Heterotrophic dinoflagellates with symbiotic cyanobacteria and nitrogen limitation in the Gulf of Aqaba

    N. Gordon;DL Angel;A. Neorl;N. Kress

  • Summary and overview of the CYCLOPS P addition Lagrangian experiment in the Eastern Mediterranean

    M.D. Krom;T.F. Thingstad;S. Brenner;P. Carbo

  • Sewage sludge impact on sediment quality and benthic assemblages off the Mediterranean coast of Israel-a long-term study.

    N. Kress;B. Herut;B.S. Galil

Frequent Co-Authors

Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
Tamar Zohary
Tamar Zohary Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
R.F.C. Mantoura
R.F.C. Mantoura Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Akihiko Murata
Akihiko Murata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Wolfgang Roether
Wolfgang Roether University of Bremen
Steve Groom
Steve Groom Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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