Abraham
(Avi) Shaviv, Professor
Department of Environmental, Water and Agricultural Engineering
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Head, Grand Water Research Inst. – GWRI
Phone – 972-4-8292602 ; GWRI-offices: 972-4-8292220; 972-4-8293351 Fax 972-4-8224246
E-mail: agshaviv@tx.technion.ac.il
Rabin Building, room 620; GWRI Building
Technion City, Haifa, Israel 32000
Dahlia Greidinger
International Symposium on Sensing in Agriculture, Technion,
Feb. 2011
Graduate Students and Post-Doctorates
Special Professional Position –recent
Main Research Interest – Physical Chemistry of Soil and Environmental Systems:
Advanced isotopic
and spectroscopy based methods
to study nitrogen and phosphorus transformations in soils and sediment; Special
resent focus- Development of the Modified Isotope Pairing Technique
MIPT to trace N-transformations in
polluted stream sediments with emphasis on N2O emissions;
In Situ Evaluation of Net Nitrification Rate in Terra Rossa Soil Using a Fourier Transform Infrared Attenuated
Total Reflection 15N Tracing Technique
Phosphorus
dynamics in effluent irrigated soils using oxygen isotopic composition of
phosphate
Phosphorus
dynamics in soils irrigated with reclaimed waste water or fresh water — A study
using oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate
Method for the Analysis of Oxygen Isotopic
Composition of Soil Phosphate Fractions
On line monitoring
in soil and water systems using MidIR based
spectroscopy:
FTIR based measurements
for direct nitrate determination and soil identification with ATR Devices
Soil identification using FTIR-PAS
Nitrate
determination in soils using Transmission through Anion Exchange Membranes;
Long term
effects of irrigation with reclaimed wastewater, special emphasis on:
Nitrogen transformations and nitrous
oxide emmision
Microbial activity and community
change of ammonia oxidizers
Boron
in humus and inorganic components of Hamra and Grumosol soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater
Environmentally
friendly fertilization approaches
(controlled release, precision fertilization) emphasis on both investigation of
mechanisms, evaluation approaches and modeling of release;
Advances in Controlled Release of
Fertilizers
Modeling
Controlled Nutrient Release from a Population of Polymer Coated Fertilizers:
Statistically Based Model for Diffusion Release
Prediction of nitrate release from
polymer-coated fertilizers using an artificial neural network model
Models of nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in soils under various agronomic practices, application of environmentally friendly fertilization approaches, irrigation with reclaimed effluents and soil/root interactions