| Born: 1950, Israel |
Academic Qualifications:Ph.D. , 1984, The University of Arizona. Tucson. AZ. USA, Major in Hydrology and Minor in Soil Water Engineering
M.Sc. , 1979, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Physical Geography and Hydrology
B.Sc. , , The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Physical Geography. Geology and Climatology
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Research Interests:
Modeling of subsurface flow pattern in arid and semi-arid aquifers. Quantitative evaluation of recharge and subsurface flow system swith environmental isotopes and hydro chemistry. Flow and transport of industrial contaminants in fractured chalk aquitard in arid environment: Identifying the subsurface flow pattern in the aeration zone. |
Research Projects:
Assessment of groundwater flow systems and sources of recharge in complex arid basins with puzzling geology and scarce hydrological information. For complex hydrological systems, Adar developed the Mixing Cell Model (MCM) approach utilizing hydrochemistry and environmental isotopes coupled with a flow model for assessing groundwater flow patterns in multiple-aquifer systems by environmental tracers for both steady and transient groundwater flow systems. The model has been applied in worldwide basins, from the Aravaipa Valley (AZ, US), Kalahari Desert (Namibia), Yizrael and Bessor basins (Israel), Ili basin in Kazakhstan, to the cross-border aquifer in the Arava Valley (Israel-Jordan).
Current research activities:
• Evaluating the feasibility of sustainable versus progressing development of water resources in dry-land basins (the Jordan Valley & the Dead Sea basins) with scarce water resources.
• Migration of organic industrial pollutants in groundwater and Soil in the coastal aquifer of Israel (Ramat Hasharon area);
• The dynamics of flow and pollutant transport in a fractured chalk low permeable formation associated with Industrial chemical complex;
• Developing a submerged bio-chemical reactor for reclaiming contaminated shallow groundwater.
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Abstracts of Current Research:- Sources and dynamic processes of soil and groundwater contamination distribution in the coastal aquifer – Ramat Hasharon basin: Soil and groundwater contamination in the coastal aquifer of Israel (Ramat Hasharon area) by organic industrial pollutants.
- Utilization of environmental tracers for the evaluation of transmissivities in arid basins: The development of groundwater in remote arid basins with scarce hydrological data faces many difficulties due to lack of knowledge of transmissivities. Quantitative modeling that relies on environmental tracers enable the assessment of spatial distribution of transmissivities and fluxes.
- Assessment of aquifer parameters in a multi-compartmental groundwater flow system with natural tracers: A mathematical model for the evaluation of transmissivities and storativities distribution based on environmental tracers in basins with scarce hydrogeological information. Implementation of the model and verification are performed in the Arava Valley, Israel.
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| Keywords:Hydro-Geology, Groundwater Modeling, Hydro-chemistry. |
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Phones:
- Phone: 972-8-6596979
- Fax: 972-8-6596889
- Mobile: 052-8795860
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