Israeli Researchers Monitor Eastern Mediterranean Water Quality

AT SEA - MAY 11: An Israeli researcher carefully handles a container of plankton on the deck of EcoOcean's marine research vessel Mediterranean Explorer on May 11, 2010 in the eastern Mediterranean, after is was collected some 12 nautical miles (22 kms) off the Israeli coastline. Staff and students from the Maritime College at Mikhmoret are monitoring the nutritional quality of the sea water as part of their ecological research in order to better understand how the smallest creatures living in the ocean interrelate with the properties of water over time. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)