Marine biologist and data analyst. Passionate about nature, technology, and the connections between them.
2020 – now
A.I. Support and Ops
MSD Animal Health Israel
Marine biologist on Project Falcon, underwater imaging for aquaculture. Evaluated sea lice annotations and model performance, translated biology into insights that improved the models, and assembled and calibrated the camera systems.
2019 – 2020
Research and Development Assistant
Antelliq
Ruminant behavior project. Annotated video to classify cattle behavior, managed field data, prepared datasets for the algorithm team, matched recordings to hardware, and trained new annotators.
2016
Data Manager
viisights
2023 – now
PhD, Marine Biology
University of Haifa, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences
Environmental impacts of global chronic oil pollution on marine ecosystems.
2016 – 2018
M.Sc., Plant and Environmental Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Use of thermal imaging to detect transpiration rate in Mediterranean tree species.
2010 – 2014
B.Sc., Marine Biology and Biotechnology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2026
Species-specific sensitivity to PAHs reveals widespread biodiversity impact from the 2021 oil spill in the Eastern Mediterranean
Lapidot, O., Perlin, N., Biton, E., Khain, P., Levi, Y., Alpert, P., … & Berenshtein, I. Marine Pollution Bulletin 233, 120090.
2020
Can electrostatic fields limit the take-off of tiny whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci)?
Lapidot, O., Bechar, A., Ronen, B., & Ribak, G. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 809–817.
2019
Use of thermal imaging to detect evaporative cooling in coniferous and broadleaved tree species of the Mediterranean maquis
Lapidot, O., Ignat, T., Rud, R., Rog, I., Alchanatis, V., & Klein, T. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 271, 285–294.
Science
Marine research, scientific writing, image annotation, model validation
Code
R, MATLAB, SQL