Arnon, Shai, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔The study of the fate and transport of contaminants in the
environment
✔The integration of hydrology, geochemistry, and environmental
microbiology to predict the transport of reactive substances under complex
aquatic environments
✔The study of the interaction between hydrodynamic conditions and
biogeochemical processes in streams and wetlands
Bernstein, Anat, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Groundwater
contamination by organic pollutants
✔Degradation
processes of organic pollutants
✔Compound-specific
isotope analysis
Dahan, Ofer, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Vadose zone and groundwater hydrology
✔Quantitative assessment of water infiltration and groundwater
recharge
✔Contaminant transport
✔Water flow and contaminant transport through the vadose
zone
✔Groundwater recharge
✔Arid land hydrology
✔Development of monitoring technologies for deep vadose
zone
Gilor, Osnat, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔The role of antimicrobials in biofilm formation
✔The diversity of soil bacteria and their role in the ecosystem
✔The use of molecular and experimental methods to study the
processes and patterns of microbial ecology and evolution
Gross, Amit, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Issues related to water, effluent, and soil qualities as well as
their impact on the environment
✔The search for practices to improve water and environmental
quality related to contamination by different sources (i.e. aquaculture,
wastewater, and saline water).
✔Ecological Sanitation (ECOSAN), aimed at developing and
improving means for efficient use and reuse of natural resources
✔Recycling of water and nutrients through the reuse of marginal
waters by green solutions
Hansen, Scott, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Mathematical and computational modelling of subsurface solute
transport, and in particular on how this is impacted by unresolved heterogeneity
✔Development of closure models to average away unresolved
heterogeneity, to calibrate predictive models using macroscopic observables,
and to develop error envelopes for hydrogeological predictions
✔Transport behavior of reacting solutes in heterogeneous flow
fields
✔Analysis of the effect of model (as opposed to measurement)
error on predictive accuracy,
✔Stochastic (especially random walk) methods,
✔Multiphase systems and scientific computing
Levintal, Elad, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔ Emerging methods for sustainable groundwater management.
✔ Spatial distribution of gas transport mechanisms at the
Earth-atmosphere boundary.
✔ Digital Water – open-source, low-cost sensors for quantifying
environmental processes.
Nejidat, Ali, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Microbial ecology and the role of microorganisms in safeguarding
environmental quality
✔Availability of water and water quality
✔Prevention of contamination of available water resources
✔Design of recycling schemes for wastewater reuse
✔Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of the chemolithotrophic
nitrifying bacteria
✔Bacteria involved in the biodegradation of the environmentally
hazardous halo-organics for the remediation of polluted sites
Weisbrod, Noam, Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Contaminant hydrology
✔Processes at the Earth-atmosphere
✔Fracture flow
✔Colloidal transport
✔Mechanisms controlling colloid-facilitated transport in the
subsurface, under a variety of environmental conditions
✔The processes occurring within fractures in the upper vadose
zone under arid conditions and their relation to groundwater salinization and
Eath-atmosphere gas exchange
✔Unsaturated-zone conditions, where processes at the
air-fluid-solid interface play an important role
✔Processes occurring at the interface between fluids, phases and
the fluid-matrix, as well as the transition between scales
Professors Emeriti and Retired
Adar, Eilon (Emeritus), Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Quantitative assessment of groundwater flow systems
✔Sources of recharge in complex arid basins with puzzling geology
and scarce hydrological information
✔Mixing Cell Model (MCMtr) approach utilizing hydrochemistry and
environmental isotopes coupled with a non-steady flow model
✔The role of water reservoirs and shallow groundwater on top-soil
salinization in the Jezreel Valley
✔The effects of forestation over sand-dune terrain on local
groundwater reservoirs
✔The dynamics of flow and pollutant transport in a fractured
chalk aquitard (low permeable yet fractured formation) in the vicinity of the
Ramat Hovav Industrial Park
Oron, Gideon (Emeritus), Department of Environmental
Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Optimal treatment and reclamation of low quality waters in arid
and semi-arid regions
✔Field work on various treatment and reclamation system
✔Management modeling towards optimal treatment and reuse of the
reclaimed low quality waters
Sorek, Shaul (Emeritus), Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Theoretical and numerical models of mechanics and transport
phenomena for heterogeneous media
✔Decision Support Systems for modeling water management
Yakirevich, Alex (Emeritus), Department of
Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
✔Experimental and theoretical investigation of water flow, solute
and heat transfer in porous and fractured media
✔Formulation of mathematical models for multiphase and
multicomponent flow and transport in the vadose zone and groundwater system
✔Simulation of saltwater-intrusion problems
✔Simulation of overland flow, solutes transport in runoff and
streams
✔Estimating mass-transfer parameters from laboratory- or
field-measured water and solute distribution data
