(Photo By: University of Haifa)
By: Simona Shemer - June 7, 2021
An Israeli marine conservationist was named as one of 15 global changemakers to make up the National Geographic Society’s 2021 Emerging Explorer Cohort, a list of top researchers selected by the prestigious National Geographic because they are “changing the world one idea at a time.”
Dr. Aviad Scheinen is the head of the University of Haifa’s Marine Apex Predator Lab at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station and is the Apex Predators Principal Investigator at the Leon Charney School of Marine Sciences. He has spent 20 years specializing in conservation, behavioral science, and long-term ecological research of coastal dolphins, sharks, rays, and bluefin tunas.
Scheinin leads the first long-term ecological research project on coastal dolphins in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS), with the achievement of having the Israeli coastal waters declared as an Important Marine Mammal Area for bottlenose and common dolphins.
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