Joseph Loya

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Joseph Loya (* 1942 in Bulgaria) is an Israeli biologist and expert on coral reefs.

Life

Joseph Loya was born in 1942 to a Jewish family in what is now Bulgaria, who emigrated to Israel in 1944. From 1962 to 1967 he studied biology and zoology at Tel Aviv University .

In 1971 he completed his PhD in ecology from Stony Brook University (New York). From 1971 to 1972 he spent a postdoctoral year at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution .

1977–1979 he was chairman of the Israel Zoological Society. In 1980 he was appointed Associate Professor at his alma mater and promoted to Full Professor in 1986 .

From 1980 to 1991 he undertook six ship expeditions to the Red Sea . Loya has been retired since 2011.

research

Among other things, Joseph Loya dealt with coral bleaching .

The Deterioration Index developed by Loya and published in 2004 for assessing the health status of a coral reef is one of the most cited papers in the field of reef research.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV (English)
  2. Jump up ↑ Y. Loya, K. Sakai, K. Yamazato, Y. Nakano, H. Sambali: Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers . In: Ecology Letters . tape 4 , no. 2 , March 2001, p. 122-131 , doi : 10.1046 / j.1461-0248.2001.00203.x .
  3. ^ O. Ben-Tzvi, Y. Loya, A. Abelson: Deterioration Index (DI): a suggested criterion for assessing the health of coral communities . In: Marine Pollution Bulletin . tape 48 , no. 9-10 , May 2004, pp. 954-960 , doi : 10.1016 / j.marpolbul.2003.11.022 .
  4. ↑ http://en.emetprize.org/laureates/exact-sciences/earth-science/joseph-loya/
personal data
SURNAME Loya, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulgaria