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Daniel (Dani) Kurtzman, Ph.D.  (Researcher)
Soil, Water and Environmental SciencesEnvironmental Physics and Irrigation
CV  Research Interests / Job description  
Telephone Tel: 972-3-9683798
Cellphone Cell: 972-50-6220118
Fax Fax: 972-3-9604017
Email Email:   daniel@volcani.agri.gov.il
Office location Office location: Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences Bldg. room 207
Institute for Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
Volcani Research Center
P.O. Box 6 Bet Dagan 50-250 Israel

Research Hydrologist

Research Interests / Job description
Influence of agricultural practices on water resources
Percolation in deep vadose zones and groundwater recharge
Groundwater hydrology – field tests, data analysis and modeling
Flow and transport in fractured and porous media
Characterization of fractured carbonate aquifers

   

Journal Publication       

Kurtzman, D. and R. Kadmon, 1999. Mapping of temperature variables in Israel: a comparison of different interpolation methods: Climate Research, v. 13, p. 33-43.

Kurtzman, D., R. Nativ and E. Adar, 2005a. Correlating fracture trends and hydraulic head using semivariogram cloud analysis. Ground Water, v. 43, p. 250-258.

Kurtzman, D., R. Nativ and E. Adar, 2005b. The conceptualization of a channel network through macroscopic analysis of pumping and tracer tests in fractured chalk. Journal of Hydrology, v. 309 p. 241-257.

Kurtzman, D., R. Nativ and E. Adar, 2007. Flow and Transport Predictions during Multi-Borehole Tests in Fractured Chalk Using Discrete Fracture Network Models. Hydrogeology Journal v. 15 p.1629-1642.

Kurtzman, D. and B. R. Scanlon, 2007. El Nino Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation impacts on precipitation in southern and central US: evaluation of spatial distribution and predictions. Water Resources Research, 43,W10427, doi:10.1029/2007WR005863.

Kurtzman, D., J. W. Jennings Jr. and F. J. Lucia, 2007. Dissolution vugs in fractured carbonates: a complication? Or perhaps a key for simplifying reservoir characterization. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L20409, doi:10.1029/2007GL031229

Kurtzman D., El Azzi J. A., Lucia J. F., Bellian J., Zahm C., and X. Janson. 2009. Improving Fractured Carbonate-Reservoir Characterization with Remote Sensing of Beds, Fractures, and Vugs.Geosphere. 5; no. 2; p. 126-139; doi: 10.1130/GES00205.

Kurtzman D., Navon S. and E. Morin, 2009. Improving interpolation of daily precipitation for hydrologic modeling: spatial patterns of preferred interpolators. Hydrological Processes 23, 3281-3291

Scanlon B.R., Nicot, J.P., Reedy, R.C., Kurtzman, D., Mukherjee, A., and Nordstrom, D.K. 2009. Elevated Naturally Occurring Arsenic Contamination in a Semiarid Oxidizing System, Southern High Plains Aquifer, Texas, USA. Applied Geochemistry 24:2061-2071.

Magal E, Weisbrod N., Yakirevich A., Kurtzman D. and Y. Yechieli. 2010. A line source tracer test - a better method for assessing high groundwater velocity.  Ground Water, 48: 892-897

Kurtzman, D., Netzer L., Weisbroad N. Graber E. R.  and D. Ronen. 2011. Steady-state homogenous approximations of vertical velocity from EC profiles. Ground Water, 49: 275-279.

Netzer L., Weisbrod N., Kurtzman D., Nasser A., Graber E. R. and D. Ronen. 2011. Observations on vertical variability in groundwater quality: implications for aquifer management. Water Resources Management 25:1315-1324

Kurtzman, D. and B. R. Scanlon. 2011. Groundwater recharge through Vertisols: irrigated cropland versus natural land, Israel. Vadose Zone Journal 10: 662-674. doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0109

קורצמן ד., 2011. הקרקע, האזור הלא רווי והמלחת מי התהום בדרום-מזרח אקוויפר החוף

Baram, S., Kurtzman, D. and Dahan, O. 2012. Water percolation through a clayey vadose zone. Journal of Hydrology 424-425: 165-171

Kurtzman D., Netzer L., Weisbrod N., Nasser A., Graber E. R., and D. Ronen. 2012. Characterization of deep aquifer dynamics using principal component analysis of sequential multilevel data.  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16, 761-771

Baram, S, Arnon S, Ronen Z, Kurtzman D, and O. Dahan. 2012. Infiltration Mechanism Controls Nitrification and Denitrification Processes under Dairy Waste Lagoons. J. Environ. Qual. 41:1623-1632

Russo, D., A. Laufer, R. H. Shapira, and D. Kurtzman. 2013. Assessment of solute fluxes beneath an orchard irrigated with treated sewage water: A numerical study, Water Resour. Res., 49, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20085

שפירא ר. וקורצמן ד., 2013. הפחתת שטפי חנקה למי תהום מתחת לפרדסים על סמך הדמיות דישון במודלים מכויָלים. אקולוגיה וסביבה 4(1) 50-55.    

 

Baram S., Ronen Z., Kurtzman D. ,  Kulls C., and O. Dahan. 2013. Desiccation-crack-induced salinization in deep clay sediment. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17, 1533-1545

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