simonaav@ocean.org.il
Tel: 04 – 8565274
Researcher
Biology department
Ph.D. 2011, Haifa University, Israel.
Post-Doctoral Studies:
2012-2015- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Israel
2015-2017 – The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
At IOLR since 2018
Research interests:
I am a micropaleontologist utilizing my specialties in Geology, Ecology, sea level, climate and natural hazards studies. I've gained extensive taxonomic and ecological knowledge on recent (living) and fossil foraminifera (calcareous microorganisms), from different aquatic habitats. This includes deep-water, shallow continental shelf, and marginal marine environments from contemporary to Quaternary world-wide environments (the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and western US).
Selected publications:
Bechor, B., Avnaim-Katav, S., Mischke, S., Miko, S., Hasan, O., Grisonic, M., et al. 2023. How can past sea level be evaluated from traces of anthropogenic layers in ancient saltpans? PLoS ONE 18(7): e0287977. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287977
Chaabane, S., de Garidel, T, Giraud, X., Schiebel, R., Beaugrand, G., Brummer, G-J Casajus, N., Greco, M., Grigoratou, M., Howa, H., Jonkers, L., Kucera, M., Kuroyanagi, A., Meilland, J., Monteiro, F., Mortyn, P.G., Almogi-Labin, A., Asahi, H., Avnaim-Katav, S., Bassinot, F., Davis, V.C., Field, B.D., Hernandez-Almeida, I., Herut, B., Hosie, G., Howard, W., Jentzen, A., Johns, G.D., keigwin, I., Kitchener, J., Kohfeld, E.K., Lessa, VO.D., Manno, C., Siri Ofstad, M.M., Ortiz, J., Post, A., Rigual-Hernández, A., Rillo, C.M., Robinson, K., Sagawa, T., Sierro, F., Takahashi, T.K., Torfstein, A., Venancio, I., Yamasaki, M., & Ziveri, P., 2023. The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters. Accepted for publication in Scientific Data
Avnaim-Katav, S., Garrett, E., Roland, W.G., Brown, N.L., Rockwell, K.T., Simms, R.A., Bentz J.M., & MacDonald, M.G., 2023. Contemporary salt-marsh foraminifera from southeastern California and implications for reconstructing late Holocene Sea-Level change. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 53, 157–176
Wachsmann, S., Burke, A. A. Dunn R. K. and Avnaim-Katav S., 2022. ‘He Went Down to Joppa and Found a Ship Going to Tarshish’ (Jonah 1:3): Landscape Reconstruction at Jaffa and a Potential Early Harbour. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 51(2): 267-303. (DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2022.2148819).
Avnaim-Katav, S., Holzmann, M., Pawlowski J., 2022. Carterina labinea sp. nov. – A new alien foraminifer from the Southeastern Mediterranean shelf. European Journal of Protistology 85, 125911.
Bouchet, V.M.P., Frontalini, F., Francescangeli, F., Sauriau, P-G., Geslin, E., Alves Martins, M.V., Almogi-Labin, A., Avnaim-Katav, S., Di Bella, L., Cearreta, A., Coccioni, R., Costelloe, A., Dimiza, M.D., Ferraro, L., Haynert, K., Martínez-Col´on, M., Melis, R., Schweizer, M., Triantaphyllou, M.V., Tsujimoto, A., Wilson, B., du Chˆatelet E.., 2021. Relative abundances of benthic foraminifera in response to total organic carbon in sediments: Data from European intertidal areas and transitional waters. Data in Brief 35, 106920.
Bouchet, V.M.P., Frontalini, F., Francescangeli, F., Sauriau, P-G., Geslin, E., Alves Martins, M.V., Almogi-Labin, A., Avnaim-Katav, S., Di Bella, L., Cearreta, A., Coccioni, R., Costelloe, A., Dimiza, M.D., Ferraro, L., Haynert, K., Martínez-Col´on, M., Melis, R., Schweizer, M., Triantaphyllou, M.V., Tsujimoto, A., Wilson, B., du Chˆatelet E.., 2021. Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin 164, 112071.
Avnaim-Katav, S., Almogi-Labin, A., Herut, B., Kanari, M. & Guy-Haim, T., 2021. Benthic foraminifera from the Southeastern Mediterranean shelf: Dead assemblages and living-dead comparisons recording consequences of Nile River damming. Marine Micropaleontology 164 ,101977
More publications at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona-Avnaim-Katav
