Prof. Eilon Adar, ZIWR Director

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Groundwater hydrology of arid basins. Deals particularly with Israel's "international" aquifers, their quality and division with Palestinians and other neighboring countries.

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Prof. Noam Weisbrod, Head

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Contaminant transport in the subsurface; vadose zone processes; groundwater salinization in arid environments; colloidal transport and fracture flow.

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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:

* Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment

* Biogeochemical processes in streams

* Stream restoration

* Hydroecology

* Soil and groundwater remediation

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Dr. Ofer Dahan

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Vadose zone and groundwater hydrology, emphasizing quantitative assessment of water infiltration and groundwater recharge.

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Dr. Osnat Gillor

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Investigating bacterial produced antibacterial peptides (bacteriocins) which are produced by all major lineages of Bacteria and Archaea. These potent toxins are highly diverse, but they are all ribosomally synthesized, and are active against bacteria closely related to the producing bacteria. Explore the role bacteriocin play in microbial communities.

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Dr. Amit Gross

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Efficient use of marginal water, remediation techniques, and the environmental risks associated with contaminated water resources (i.e. agriculture effluents, wastewater, contaminated groundwater).

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Prof. Arie S. Issar, Emeritus

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Prof. Issar's current research focuses on the impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle and socio-economic systems to enable the development of conceptual models in order to mitigate the negative impact of global change.

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Dr. Drora Kaplan

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Microbial aspects of water pollution; developing cost-effective and feasible biotechnologies for removing pollutants from water; the biological processes leading to removal and or detoxification of toxic heavy metals from contaminated wastewater by microalgae; the effect of global change, mainly the effect of increasing CO₂ concentration on vegetation, using Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis as a model system.

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Prof. Ali Nejidat

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Biochemistry and molecular genetics of microorganisms capable of degrading individual or groups of toxic compounds, in particular the ecophysiology and molecular genetics of chemolithotrophic nitrifying bacteria.

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Prof. Gideon Oron, Emeritus

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Low quality water treatment and reclamation, membrane technology for wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for waste treatment and reuse, management modeling and optimization of water resources and environmental systems, irrigation, sustainable development, aquaculture for wastewater treatment and reuse, reliability of treatment and reuse of low quality water systems.

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Prof. Daniel Ronen, Adjunct Professor

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:

Hydrogeologist specializing in hydrochemistry; groundwater research and groundwater quality monitoring. Developed a novel multi-layer sampler that facilitates the study of physico-chemical and biological mediated processes and transport phenomena in groundwater, at a microscale level. Moreover, it enables monitoring of water influx to the saturated zone, and therefore, the development of groundwater-quality early-warning monitoring systems.  Study of cause-effect processes such as the impact of reutilization of sewage effluents on the quality of groundwater.

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Dr. Zeev Ronen

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Bio-remediation of wastewater and bio-degradation of organic pollutants in aquifer water. Includes research at Ramat- Hovav.

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Dr. Ines Soares

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Denitrification of drinking water; wastewater treatment; constructed wetlands; bioremediation; use of symbiotic biodiversity to enhance plant tolerance to environmental stresses and combat desertification.

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Prof. Shaul Sorek

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Developing continuum mechanics models, mathematical methods and numerical algorithms of transport phenomena through deformable porous/fractured media and bio-systems of multi-phase and multi-components.

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Dr. Alexander Yakirevich

Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in soils and groundwater. Areas of investigation include the Israeli coastal aquifer (Gaza aquifer in collaboration with Palestinians), and aquifers in Central Asian Republics (in collaboration with researchers from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan).

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