About the Blogger

About the blogger, Ruth Landau

Curriculum vitae: nee Ruth Zimring 14.09.1928, Kenora, Ontario, Canada

B.Sc. Agiculture, McGill University, 1951.  Plant Pathology option

M.A. Botany, Univ. Toronto, 1953.  Cytogenetics, research assistant to Prof. K. Rothfels, thesis supervisor.

Fish Pond Experimental Station at Dor, Israel, 1956-1957.  Chironimids

Dept. of Botany, Univ. Toronto, 1959 – 1961.  Salivary gland chromosome study on Simuliidae (blackflies), published in Can. J. Zool., 1962  Research assistant to Prof. K. Rothfels

Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 1962-1973. pelagic fisheries:  U.S.A sponsored Tunafish Project, Sardinella aurita stock assessment and sub-stock definition

Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, 1973 – 1988. Population and ecology studies on amnun hagalil (Sarotherodon galilaeus, musht and lavnun Acanthobrama terraesanctae, Kinneret sardine

Projects during retirement:  Sampling and analysis of ‘dilul’ and commercial lavnun fishery, 1994 – 2011. Growth, population and ecology of amnun hagalil at Dept of Fisheries laboratory, Tiberias between 2004 and 2007. 

While the blog deals specifically with Lake Kinneret, it presents an example of a problem that is common to environmentalists throughout the world.  Many ecological studies are sponsored by bodies aiming to receive government approval for projects that impact the environment. Consequently, reports on these matters lack objectivity. The public may remain ignorant of damage to their environment until it is obvious but irreversible