Department for Agro-Foresty Sistems Management
School of Agricultural, Foresty, Food and Enviromental Sciences (SAFE)
Hydraulics and Hydrology Division
Current research focuses on measuring and modeling water and solute transport
in unsaturated heterogeneous and layered porous media.
Specific topics include as follows:
- Modeling water flow in soils with bimodal pore size distribution;
- Measuring and modeling nitrogen and pesticide
- leaching in the vadose zone;
- Upscaling of soil hydrological parameterizations;
- Modeling overland flow at basin scale;
- Evaluating effects of marginal water
- resources on soil hydrological behavior;
- Assessing groundwater vulnerability at basin scale.
- STAR models for soil water status analysis;
- Translating environmental xenobiothics fate models across scales;
- Flow and entrapment of nonaqueous phase liquids in heterogenous porous media;
- Measuring principal controls on free trace metal concentrations in soil solutions;
- Using fractal models for upscaling from the soil core to the field scale.
- Water and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media;
- Spatial variability of soil hydraulic properties;
- Water quality management;
- Reusing of waste water in agricultural irrigation;
- Remediation of contaminated soils by heavy metal and hydrocarbon.