Agam, Nurit, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and
Biotechnology of Drylands
✔ Exchange of heat, water, and momentum through the
soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in natural and agricultural systems
✔ Multi-scale
quantification of non-rainfall water inputs in arid and semi-arid regions and
understanding their hydrological and ecological functioning
✔ Nighttime
latent heat fluxes in the Negev desert
✔ Partitioning
evapotranspiration into evaporation and transpiration through modeling and
experimental approaches
✔ The effect of crop row orientation on the energy balance
components
✔ Upscaling of fluxes to field and regional scales with the
Two-Source-Energy-Balance (TSEB) model
Gelfand, Ilya,French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands 
✔ Terrestrial biogeochemistry
✔ Effect of management on the environmental impact of agroecosystems
✔ Impacts of environmental and land-use changes on linkages between C and N cycles in terrestrial ecosystems
✔ Processes regulating trace gases emissions from soils
Gilboa, Arye, French
Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔Effect of soil solution composition on variably
saturated water flow
✔Fate and transport of organic carbon and nitrogen in the
root zone
✔Surface activity of roots-exudates and soil-derived
organic substances
Berliner, Pedro, (Emeritus),
French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔Effect of various mulches on the productivity and water
use efficiency of dryland wheat and irrigated cotton
✔Water evaporation from trenches in the presence of trees
✔Testing and modeling of a runoff irrigated olive orchard
in which the trees are planted in the runoff collecting trenches
✔Modeling the effect interrow polyethylene mulches of
varying width on the energy balance, energy and mass fluxes in the
soil, and the evaporation of water from the soil surface of irrigated
row crops
✔Evaporation from irrigated gardens in an Open-Air Scaled
Urban Surface
✔Response of isolated trees to partial soil covering
✔Irrigation of various loessial soils with treated
wastewater
Carmi, Genadi,
French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔Hydrology
✔Runoff generation, infiltration and evaporation
✔Soil-water-plant interactions
Ephrath, Jhonathan E, French
Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔Examine environmental factors and plant parameters that affect the interaction
between the parasite and the host
✔Effects of salinity on the development of trees (Acacia
and several varieties of Tamarix) and annual shrubs on the biomass production,
root and shoot development, photosynthesis and several biochemical aspects
✔Development of models and innovative techniques for
optimizing environment friendly weed management in corn
✔Developing an expert system for controlling Amaranthus
spp In Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)
✔Working on root physiology and morphology of several
varieties of olive and citrus trees growing under different levels of salinity
✔The effects of water stress, wind erosion and different
temperature and radiation regimes on the early development of cotton seedling
Lazarovitch, Naftali, French
Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔Water flow and solute and heat transport in the
soil-plant-atmosphere continuum as a crucial factor for establishing optimal
protocols for farmers and decision makers
✔Raising agricultural water use efficiency using optimal
irrigation and fertigation scheduling
✔Use of modeling (numerical and analytical), measurement
and interpretation of water flow, solute and heat transport in the
soil-plant-atmosphere system
