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Name, Academic Rank |
Uri Shamir, Professor Emeritus |
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Office |
Karmeli Building, Room 1 |
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Tel., Fax., E-mail |
Tel: +972-4-8292239 Fax:
+972-4-8228898 |
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Teaching Activities |
Water Resources Systems |
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Research Interest |
Optimal planning, design and operation of
water resources systems: reservoirs, distribution systems, aquifers
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Year awarded doctorate |
1966 |
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Institution |
MIT |
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Field of doctorate |
Hydrodynamics and Water Resources |
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Thesis title |
Numerical solutions for dispersion in porous media |
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Books published
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1. Rubin, H., P. Nachtnebel, J. Furst and U. Shamir (Eds.) "Water Resources Quality: Preserving the Quality of our Water Resources", Springer-Verlag, 2002. 2. Fisher, F.M., Huber-Lee, A., Amir, I., Arlosoroff, S., Eckstein, Z., Haddadin, M.J., Hamati, S. G., Jarrar, A.M., Jayyousi, A.F., Shamir, U. and Wesseling, H. "Liquid Assets: An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond", Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA, 2005. |
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Recent journal publications (From January 1997) |
1. Carmon, N. and Shamir, U. "Water-Sensitive Urban Planning: Concept and Preliminary Analysis", in “Groundwater in the Urban Environment: Problems And Management”, Ed. By J. Chilton et al. Rotterdam: Balkema, 1997, pp. 107-113. 2. Carmon, N., Shamir, U. and Meiron-Pistiner, S. "Water-Sensitive Urban Planning: Protecting Groundwater", Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 40(4),1997, pp. 413-434. 3. Morin, E., Enzel, Y., Shamir, U. and Garti, R., “Temporal and Spatial Aggregation of Meteorological Radar Data: A New Approach for Flood Prediction and Basin Hydrology”, Fourth International Symposium on Hydrologic Applications of Weather Radar, San Diego, California, April 5-9, 1998, pp. 95-100 4. Shamir, U. “Water Agreements Between Israel and Its Neighbors” in “Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons, Ed. By J. Albert, M. Bernhardson & R. Kenna, Number 103, Bulletin Series, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998, pp. 274-296. 5. Shamir, U. “Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft”, in Zukunft der Hydrologie in Deutchland, Bundesanstalt Gewasserkunde, Koblenz, Germany, 1998, pp. 151-160. 6. Shamir, U. and Carmon, N., "Water-Sensitive Urban Planning: the Case of Israel's Coastal Aquifer, in "Impacts of Urban Growth on Surface Water and Ground Water Quality", Edited by J.B. Ellis, Publication No. 259, International Association for Hydrological Sciences, 1999. 7. Cohen, D., Shamir, U. and Sinai, G. "Optimal Operation of Multi-Quality Networks - I: Introduction and The Q-C Model", Engineering Optimization, Vol 1, 32, No. 5, 2000, pp. 549-584. 8. Cohen, D., Shamir, U. and Sinai, G. "Optimal Operation of Multi-Quality Networks - II: The Q-H Model", Engineering Optimization, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2000, pp. 687-719. 9. Cohen, D., Shamir, U. and Sinai, G. Optimal Operation of Multi-Quality Networks - III: The Q-C-H Model" , Engineering Optimization, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2001, pp. 1-35. 10. Shamir, U. and Howard, C.D.D., "Management of Urban Water", Editorial, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, vol. 126, No. 3, 2000, pp. 114-117. 11. Gordon, E., Shamir, U. and Bensabat, J., "Optimal Management of a Regional Aquifer Under Salinization Conditions", Water Resources Research, 36 (11), Nov. 2000, p. 3193-3204. 12. Gordon, E., Shamir, U. and Bensabat, J., "Optimal Extraction of Water from a Regional Aquifer Under Salinization", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, March/April 2001, pp. 71-77. 13. Kronaveter, L., Shamir, U. and Kessler, A., "Water-Sensitive Urban Planning: Modeling On-Site Infiltration", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, March/April 2001, pp. 78-88. 14. Kliot, N., Shmueli, D. and Shamir, U., "Institutions for Management of Transboundary Water Resources: Their Nature, Characteristics and Shortcomings", Water Policy, Vol. 3, 2001, pp. 229-255. 15. Shmueli, D. and Shamir, U., "Application of International Law of Water Quality to Recent Middle East Water Agreements", Water Policy, Vol. 3, No. 5, 2001, pp. 405-423. 16. Morin, E., Enzel, Y., Shamir, U. and Garti, R., "The Characteristic Time Scale for Basin Hydrological Response Using Radar Data", Journal of Hydrology, 252 (1-4), 2001, pp. 85-99. 17. Kliot, N, Shmueli, D. and Shamir, U., "Development of Institutional Frameworks for the Management of International Water Resources", International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2001, pp.306-328. 18. Ostfeld, A., Kogan, D. and Shamir, U., "Reliability Simulation of Water Distribution Systems - Single and Multiquality", Urban Water, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2002, pp. 53-61. 19. Fisher, F., Arlosoroff, S., Eckstein, Z., Haddadin, M., Hamati, S., Huber-Lee, A., Jarrar, A., Jayyousi, A., Shamir, U. and Wesseling, H., "Optimal Water Management and Conflict Resolution: The Middle East Water Project", Water Resources Research, 10.1029/2001WR000943, Oct. 2002. 20. Morin, E., Georgakakos, K.P., Shamir, U., Garti, R. and Enzel, Y. "Objective, observations-based, automatic estimation of the catchment response timescale", Water Resources Research, 10.1029/2001WR000808, Oct. 2002. 21. Markel, D. and Shamir, U. "Monitoring Lake Kinneret and Its Watershed: Forming the Basis for Management of a Water Supply Lake", in: Rubin et al. (Eds.) "Water Resources Quality: Preserving the Quality of our Water Resources", Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 177-190. 22. Cohen, D., Shamir, U. and Sinai, G., “Comparison of Models for Optimal Operation of Multiquality Networks”, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp 579-605, December 2003. 23. Naveh, N. and Shamir, U. “Managing Groundwater Levels in an Agricultural Area with Peat Soils”, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, 130(3), pp. 243-254 May-June 2004. 24. Kronaveter, L. and Shamir, U., "A Negotiation Support System for Resolution of Disputes Over International Water Resources", in: "Topics on System Analysis and Integrated Water Resources Management", Edited by Andrea Castelletti and Rodofo Soncini-Sessa, Elsevier 2007, pp. 189-205. 25. Jamieson, D.G., Shamir, U., Martinez, F. and Franchini, M., "Conceptual design of a generic, real-time, near-optimal control system for water-distribution networks", Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 9., No. 1, January 2007, pp. 3-14. 26. Salomons, E., Goryashko, A., Shamir, U., Rao, Z. and Alvisi, S., "Optimizing the operation of the Haifa-A water-distribution network", Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol., No. 1, January 2007, pp. 51-64. 27. Shamir, U. and Salomons, E., "Optimal Real-Time Operation of Urban Water Distribution Systems", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, 2007. |
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Present and past positions at Technion and Present and past public positions |
· Founding Director, Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute, Technion-IIT (1992-2003) · Past President, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) (1991-1995) · President, International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy (IUGG) (2003-2007) · Chair of the Steering Committee: Monitoring and Research of the Kinneret Watershed and Lake · Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT (1995-2002) · Member, Priority Assessment Panel on Environment in Relation to Sustainable Development, Committee on Science Policy and Review (CSPR) of the International Council of Science (ICSU) (2002 - 2003) · Member of the Board of Governors, World Water Council, (1997-1999) · Chair, Sub-Committee of the Israel Council for Higher Education, to evaluate the proposals of Ben-Gurion University and Tel Aviv University to establish departments of construction engineering, (1998-1999) · Member of the Israeli team negotiating and implementing water agreements in the region, 1992- · Member, Committee on Membership Issues, International Council of Science (ICSU), 2004 · Member, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Yad Hanadiv, 2003-2007 · Member of the Water Commission Central Research Committee, 2003- · Member, Executive Board, International Council of Science (ICSU) 2005-2008 · Member, Water Commission Steering Committee for Augmenting Water Resources through Rainfall Enhancement, 2006- · Member, AGU Flinn Award Committee, 2006-2008 |