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Articles in refereed journals

M.Sc. students

Tali Ilani (2002-2004) Interactions of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants with Dissolved Organic Matter from Treated Wastewater.

Adi Oren (2002-2005) Sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants to sediments of the Kishon River.

Orna Dorot (2001-2006) Sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to structural fractions of Olive leaf cuticle.

71018: Fundamentals of Soil Science

Instructor: Prof. Benny Chefetz

Course Level: undergraduate
Course Description: Soil as a dynamic system. Soil-plant relationship. Processes and states of compounds, elements and nutrients in the soil. Organic matter in soils. Soil carbonates. The soil as a colloidal system; the soil as a porous system. Soil-water relationship. Flow of water - laboratory and field. Soil aeration. Soil and environmental quality.  

Dissolved organic matter fractionation and pollutant interactions in soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater 

PIs: Benny Chefetz, Myrna Simpson (University of Toronto) and Edward G. Gregorich (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada)

Abstract 

Full Professor 

Open positions:

MSc and PhD students with background in Civil, Environmental or Chemical Engineering, Soil Science or Environmental Sciences (natural sciences track) for the following projects:

1) Impact of effluent irrigation on soil water dynamics and sustainable land use

2) Water repellent soils reclamation by surfactants application.

3) Characterizing surface runoff (quantity and quality) from urban areas – Kfar-Sava as a case study.

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Zhipeng Liu (Nanjing Agric. Univ., China) – Biochar hydrophobicity and its effect on flow in soil with biochar additament.

Ph.D. Students

Naaran Brindt – The moving boundary approach for prediction of gravity-driven unstable flow in porous media

Ziv Attia - The rule of CK and ABA in regulating plant water status and as a shoot to root long signal during biotic and abiotic stress (co-supervisor: Prof. Menachem Moshelion, Plant Sci.).

Prof. Rony Wallach

71601: Fundamentals of Irrigation Science

Instructor: Prof. Rony Wallach

Course Level: undergraduate

Effluent-irrigation induced water repellent soils

Current research topics

Plant-water relationships.

Irrigation control using soil sensors.

Formation of water repellent soils by crops and prolonged effluent irrigation.

Water flow and solute transport in water repellent soils

Effect of contact angle on unstable water flow in soils.