Team

Alex Furman

Associate Professor

 

Office 1: Water Institute #304

Office 2: Rabin #621

Phone: +972-4-8292427

afurman@technion.ac.il

Current team

Shany Ben-Moshe
(PhD)
SIP sensing of nano-particles and their reactive transport
Ido Arad
(MSc)
Soil-based alternatives to SAT
   Dor Eilat
(MSc)
Modeling reactive nanoparticles transport in porous media
Natalia (Natasha) Katsevman

(MSc, with Noam Weisbrod)
Pilot testing of Air-SAT

Former team members

Ali Zur
(M.Sc. 2009)
Use of electrical resistivity tomography for study of water flow and water distribution in the vadose zone
Nimrod Schwartz
(M.Sc. 2010)
The influence of NAPL on the electrical properties of partially saturated soil
Sivan Stern
(M.Sc. 2010)
Characterization of root uptake and its dependence on soil environmental conditions by geophysical tools
Yunwu Xiong
(PhD HUJI 2011, with Rony Wallach)
Water Flow in Soils of Dierent Water Repellencies -Measurement and Modeling
Elazar Bamberger
(PhD 2011, with Rafi Linker)
Combined use of ERT and Vadose Zone Flow Modeling for Improved Estimation of Soil Water Content
Ravid Rozenzwieg
(PhD 2012, with Uri Shavit)
The effect of biofilms on the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils
Naaran Brindt
(M.Sc., HUJI 2013, with Rony Wallach)
Monitoring Spatial and Temporal Saturation Changes and Finding Preferential Flow Paths by Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)
Reut Glassman – Gabai
(M.Sc. 2012 – with Noam Weisbrod, BGU)
Investigation of the relationship between soil heterogeneity and flow processes in the vadose zone
  Nimrod Schwartz
(PhD 2013)
Spectral Induced Polarization of Soil Contaminated with Organic Pollutant
Rotem Sade
(PhD 2013, with Iggy Litaor and Alon Rimmer)
Snow dynamics in high Mediterranean mountains: Mount Hermon as a case study
  Mor Shahar
(M.Sc. 2013, Ben Gurion University, with Noam Weisbrod)
Heat transfer in soil under extreme conditions and its effects on soil’s microbial community
Cassandra Gomez – Hochberg
(M.Sc. 2014, Ben Gurion University, with Noam Weisbrod)
Impact of Treated Wastewater Irrigation on Physical and Chemical Properties of Clay Soils
Idit Shefer
(M.Sc. 2015)
Identifying contaminants in variably saturated soils using induced polarization
Ziv Moreno 
(MSc. 2014)
Estimation of aquifer recharge below agriculture fields using resistivity methods
Elazar Volk
(M.Sc. 2016, with Ravid Rosenzweig)
Experimental study of the effect of biofilm on soil
hydraulic properties
 Moran Hagage
(M.Sc. 2015)
Effect of biochar on hydraulic properties of soil
   Tal Shkolnik
(M.Sc., With Roey Egozy and Gil Eshel, Soil Erosion Research Station)
Study of the impact of various erosion reducing soil covers on infiltration
  Imri Oz
(PostDoc)
Erosion estimation using LiDAR
   Hanna Ouaknin
(PhD, with Noam Weisbrod, BGU)
Biochemical processes at soil interfaces
Ofri Orgad
(M.Sc. Ben Gurion University – with Noam Weisbrod)
Redox dynamics under SAT
Tamar Shalem
(M.Sc.)
Spectral induced polarization signature of heavy metals
Pauline Kessouri
(Research associate)
The geo-electrical signature of non-aqueous phase liquids
Adrian Mellage

(PhD at U. Waterloo – with Philippe Van Cappellen and Fereidoun Rezanezhad)

biogeochemical activities around the capillary fringe and their geo-electrical signature

Svetlana (Orly) Bakarev

(Lab engineer)

Shany Ben-Moshe
(M.Sc., with Noam Weisbrod)
Experimental and modeling biochemical processes for soil aquifer treatment (SAT)
Zengyu Zhang
(PhD)
Experimental study of biochemical processes at the capillary fringe and their geo-electrical signature
Shifaa Bdarneh

Ido Lotan
Ron Mannheim
(M.Sc., with Noam Weisbrod)
Monitoring Biochemical process at the SHAFDAN infiltration ponds for the optimization of flooding and drying cycles

Xin Liu
(PhD)
Numerical Modelling of Physical and Biochemical Processes in Subsurface and Their Impacts on Geophysical Signals