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[Last updated: 4 May, 2010 ] Academic Education
Research InterestsOver the last 7-8 years, Prof. Weisbrod has focused his research on contaminant hydrology in general, and fracture flow and colloidal transport in particular.
Since return to Israel, he has focused on studies related to the mechanisms controlling colloid and colloid-facilitated transport in the subsurface, under a variety of environmental conditions. Another major research direction is related to the processes occurring within fractures in the upper vadose zone and their relation to groundwater salinization and earth-atmosphere gas exchange. A large portion of his current research focuses on unsaturated-zone conditions, where processes at the air-fluid-solid interface play an important role. Some of his recent projects involve the study of contaminant transport (salts, VOC's, perchlorate, Cr, explosives, pesticides, oil droplets and pharmaceuticals wastes) below industrial zones, infiltration ponds and non-point sources.
Processes occurring at the interface between fluids, phases and the fluid-matrix, as well as the transition between scales, are of special interest. Understanding transport phenomena in the subsurface usually requires micro-scale experimental work. Nevertheless, Dr. Weisbrod is trying to tie his research to larger scale and field-scale processes.
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