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Ruthie Gautrogen (1952–28 February 2022) was a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Urban Academic College, and a college for modern Byzantine and Greek studies at the University of Haifa, and an Israeli and international researcher in the field of maritime history and archaeology in the Mediterranean Sea.

biography
In 1976, Gautrogen graduated from the Department of General History and the Department of the Bible at the University of Haifa, and in 1982 the second degree in the history of marine civilizations at the University of Haifa was completed. In 2000, she graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in collaboration with the Faculty of History of the University of Venice. From 1994 to 1996 he headed the junior faculty organization at the University of Haifa.

In 1991, there was the organisers of an international conference that took place in its midst, on the subject of "Abo, a medieval historical city." In 2004, he was a member of the founding of an academic network called “Mediterranean Maritime History Network”, designed to create links and collaborations between researchers in the Mediterranean countries, and help them uncover their research results and share information for further research. In 2006, he initiated and served as head of the international workshop held in Venice, on the subject of “interferences between man and the environment in the Mediterranean region from the Roman period to the 19th century: history and ecological perspective on fishing activities.” In 2004,–2010 was a member of the HMAP’s “History of the Sea Animals” project, and in the same years as chairman and society in a scientific steering group about the population of marine animals in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea of HMAP. Between 2005–2011, the chairman and coordinator of the Venetian and the Great Northern Sea Project (HMAP). In addition, Israel’s representative from 2008 to 2010, served as the International Maritime History Association (ICMHA).

In 2009 he was an international summer camp organizer for doctoral and post-doctors who took place in Italy on the subject of “when the intelligent sciences meet ecology: historical changes in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the marine biologic system from the Roman era to today.” From 2012 to 2009, the International Association of Maritime Economic History (IMEHA) was named chairman of the International Journal of Maritime History (IJMH). In 2011, the organizers of a conference on “food, food, and culinary in the Mirror of History” held at the University of Urbane, in 2012, was a member of the International Organizing and Scientific Committee on Cultural Exchange between Byzantine, East and West during the Late Byzantine period (the 11th century to the 16th century) held at the University of Haifa. From 2012 to 2016, Israel served as a representative of the International Association for Maritime Economic History (IMEHA). From 2014 to 2012, the scientific committee of the Second World Conference of Environmental History held in Portugal, in 2014, was a member of the scientific committee as part of an international conference of the Mediterranean Sea History Organization, held in Barcelona, Spain. That same year, he was among the organisers of the international workshop at the University of Haifa on a maritime ecological history in the ancient and Middle Ages in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. In 2015 he served as the scientific committee of the Second World Congress for the History of the Environment (WCEH) held in Portugal. In 2016, he was a member of the scientific committee as part of an international conference – the sixth international conference of economic history