Dani Or

portrait Prof. Dani Or

Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ITES)
Department of Environmental Sciences (D-UWIS)
ETH Zürich
Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP)
CHN F 29.1 , Universitaetstrasse 16
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 44 633 60 15
Phone2: +41 (0) 44 633 60 75
Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 13 09
E-mail: dani.or(at)env.ethz.ch
URL Institution: www.step.ethz.ch/people/scientific-staff/dani-or/


Additional functions:
Co-Editor Vadoze ZoneJournal (2006-present)
Editorial Board of Advances in Water Resources (2004-present)
Chair of the next Gordon Conference on Transport in Porous Media, Oxford (present to 2008)
Member of the Steering Board for the Competence Center Environment and Sustainability of the ETH Domain (CCES) 2006-present


Key Publications of Dani Or (up to ten) :
Most recent:

Or, D., B. F. Smets, J.M. Wraith, A. Dechesne, and S.P. Friedman. 2006. Physical constraints affecting microbial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media – A review. Adv. Water Resour. (in press).

Chen, Y. and D. Or. 2006. Effects of Maxwell-Wagner polarization on soil complex dielectric permittivity under variable temperature and electrical conductivity. Water Resour. Res., 42, W06424, doi:10.1029/2005WR004590

Berli, M. and D. Or, 2006. Deformation of pores in viscoplastic soil material. International Journal of Geomechanics 6(2):108-118.

Long, T., and D. Or 2005, Aquatic habitats and diffusion constraints affecting microbial coexistence in unsaturated porous media, Water Resour. Res., 41, W08408, doi:10.1029/2004WR003796.

Ghezzehei, T.A. and D. Or, 2005, Liquid fragmentation and intermittent flow regimes in unsaturated fractured media, Water Resour. Res., 41(12) W12406, 10.1029/2004WR003834.

Or, D., M. Tuller, and R. Fedors. 2005. Seepage threshold into subterranean openings in fractured rock. Water Resour. Res. 41(5), W0502210.1029/2004WR003689.


Expertise of Dani Or:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
Topic HydrospherePrecipitation / Runoff
Topic PedosphereSoil Pollution and Restauration
Topic BiospherePlants
Topic Integrated SystemsHydrogeochemical Cycle
Topic EcosystemsTerrestrial Ecosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUseAgriculture, Forestry and Fishery
Topic TechnologyTechnical Environmental Protection
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Modeling
GeoForum Geo-TechnologyRock and Soil Mechanics
Geophysics
Hydrogeology
GeoForum Environmental-TechnologyGroundwater Protection

Specialties of Dani Or:
Modeling, measurement and interpretation of mass and energy flow and transformation in porous media; in situ characterization of soil hydraulic and mechanical properties; geophysical techniques for characterization of earth materials; modeling and measurement of soil structural dynamics affecting hydraulic properties; modeling interfacial pore scale processes affecting liquid organization and behavior in porous media; modeling intermittent and unstable flows in fractured rock and structured media using analytical and lattice Boltzmann methods; liquid behavior is porous media under reduced gravity for space exploration; quantitative tools to study physical constraints affecting biological activity in the vadose zone.

Last update: 5/10/17
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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