Faculty & Staff

Prof. Brian Berkowitz

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Berkowitz, B., J. Bear and C. Braester (1988).  Continuum models for contaminant transport in fractured porous formations, Water Resources Research, 24(8), 1225-1236.
  2. Berkowitz, B. and Y. Bachmat (1988).  A scale-dependent equation for solute transport in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 3(2), 199-205.
  3. Ben-Zvi, M., B. Berkowitz and S. Kesler (1988). Pre-posterior analysis as a tool for data evaluation: Application to aquifer contamination, Water Resources Management, 2, 11-20.
  4. Ronen, D., B. Berkowitz and M. Magaritz (1989). The development and influence of gas bubbles in phreatic aquifers under natural flow conditions, Transport in Porous Media, 4(3), 295-306.
  5. Berkowitz, B. (1989). Boundary conditions along permeable fracture walls: Influence on flow and conductivity, Water Resources Research, 25(8), 1919-1922.
  6. Dax, A. and B. Berkowitz (1990). Column relaxation methods for least norm problems, SIAM - Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 11(5), 975-989.
  7. Berkowitz, B. and D. Ronen (1990). Can contaminated fractured porous aquifers be restored? Naturwissenschaften, 77(9), 431-433.
  8. Berkowitz, B. and C. Braester (1991). Solute transport in fracture channel and parallel plate models, Geophysical Research Letters, 18(2), 227-230.
  9. Berkowitz, B. and M. Ben-Zvi (1991). An algorithm and Pascal program for geostatistical mapping, Computers and Geosciences, 17(4), 489-503.
  10. Drory, A., I. Balberg, U. Alon and B. Berkowitz (1991). Analytic derivation of percolation thresholds in anisotropic systems of permeable objects, Physical Review A, 43(12), 6604-6612.
  11. Balberg, I., B. Berkowitz and G. Drachsler (1991). Application of a percolation model to flow in fractured hard rocks, Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(B6), 10015-10021.
  12. Berkowitz, B. and C. Braester (1991). Dispersion in sub-representative elementary volume fracture networks: Percolation theory and random walk approaches, Water Resources Research, 27(12), 3159-3164.
  13. Rophe, B., B. Berkowitz, M. Magaritz and D. Ronen (1992). Analysis of subsurface flow and formation anisotropy in a fractured aquitard using transient water level data, Water Resources Research, 28(1), 199-207.
  14. Rosenthal, E., G. Weinberger, B. Berkowitz, A. Flexer and J. Kronfeld (1992). The Nubian sandstone aquifer in the central and northern Negev, Israel: Delineation of the hydrogeological model under conditions of scarce data, Journal of Hydrology, 132(1-4), 107-135.
  15. Berkowitz, B., M. Ben-Zvi and J. Berkowitz (1992). A spatial, time-dependent approach to estimation of hydrologic data, Journal of Hydrology, 135(1-4), 133-142.
  16. Berkowitz, B. and I. Balberg (1992). Percolation approach to the problem of hydraulic conductivity in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 9(3), 275-286.
  17. Ronen, D., B. Berkowitz and M. Magaritz (1993). Vertical heterogeneity in horizontal components of specific discharge: Case study analysis, Ground Water, 31(1), 33-40.
  18. Berkowitz, B. and I. Balberg (1993). Percolation theory and its application to groundwater hydrology, Water Resources Research, 29(4), 775-794.
  19. Kronfeld, J., E. Rosenthal, G. Weinberger, A. Flexer and B. Berkowitz (1993). The interaction of two major old water bodies and its implication for the exploitation of groundwater in the multiple aquifer system of central and northern Negev, Israel, Journal of Hydrology, 143(3-4), 169-190.
  20. Nicholl, M.J., S.W. Wheatcraft, S.W. Tyler and B. Berkowitz (1994). Is Old Faithful a strange attractor? Journal of Geophysical Research, 99(B3), 4495-4503.
  21. Drory, A., I. Balberg and B. Berkowitz (1994). Random-adding determination of percolation thresholds in interacting systems, Physical Review E, 49(2), R949-R952.
  22. Berkowitz, B., C. Naumann and L. Smith (1994). Mass transfer at fracture intersections: An evaluation of mixing models, Water Resources Research, 30(6), 1765-1773.
  23. Berkowitz, B. and S.M. Farouq Ali (1994). An analysis of two automatic history-matching procedures for estimation of subsurface reservoir properties, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 43(3-4), 239-247.
  24. Yechieli, Y., D. Ronen, B. Berkowitz, W.S. Dershowitz and A. Hadad (1995). Aquifer characteristics derived from the interaction between water levels of a terminal lake (Dead Sea) and an adjacent aquifer, Water Resources Research, 31(4), 893-902.
  25. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1995). On characterization of anomalous dispersion in porous and fractured media, Water Resources Research, 31(6), 1461-1466.
  26. van Rijn, J., N. Fonarev and B. Berkowitz (1995). Anaerobic treatment of intensive fish culture effluents: Digestion of fish feed and release of volatile fatty acids, Aquaculture, 133, 9-20.
  27. Berkowitz, B. (1995). Analysis of fracture network connectivity using percolation theory, Mathematical Geology, 27(4), 467-483.
  28. Berkowitz, B. and R. Knight (1995). Continuum percolation conductivity exponents in restricted domains, Journal of Statistical Physics, 80(5/6), 1415-1423.
  29. Yechieli, Y., D. Ronen and B. Berkowitz (1995). Are sedimentary salt layers always impermeable? Geophysical Research Letters, 22(20), 2761-2764.
  30. Drory, A., I. Balberg and B. Berkowitz (1995). Application of the central- particle-potential approximation for percolation in interacting systems, Physical Review E, 52(4), 4482-4494.
  31. Berkowitz, B. and J. Zhou (1996). Reactive solute transport in a single fracture, Water Resources Research, 32(4), 901-913.
  32. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1996). Influence of embedded fractures on contaminant diffusion in geological formations, Geophysical Research Letters, 23(9), 925-928.
  33. Berkowitz, B. and A. Hadad (1997). Fractal and multifractal measures of natural and synthetic fracture networks, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(B6), 12,205-12,218.
  34. Drory, A., B. Berkowitz, G. Parisi and I. Balberg (1997). Theory of continuum percolation III. Low density expansion, Physical Review E, 56(2), 1379-1395.
  35. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1997). Anomalous transport in random fracture networks, Physical Review Letters, 79(20), 4038-4041.
  36. Berkowitz, B. and R.P. Ewing (1998). Percolation theory and network modeling applications in soil physics, Surveys in Geophysics, 19(1), 23-72.
  37. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (1998). Precipitation and dissolution of reactive solutes in fractures, Water Resources Research, 34(3), 457-470.
  38. Ewing, R.P. and B. Berkowitz (1998). A generalized growth model for simulating initial migration of dense non-aqueous phase liquids, Water Resources Research, 34(4), 611-622.
  39. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1998). Theory of anomalous chemical transport in fracture networks, Physical Review E, 57(5), 5858-5869.
  40. Dahan, O., R. Nativ, E. Adar and B. Berkowitz (1998). A measurement system to determine water flux and solute transport through fractures in the unsaturated zone, Ground Water, 36(3), 444-449.
  41. Berkowitz, B. and P.M. Adler (1998). Stereological analysis of fracture network structure in geological formations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(B7), 15,339-15,360.
  42. Margolin, G., B. Berkowitz and H. Scher (1998). Structure, flow, and generalized conductivity scaling in fracture networks, Water Resources Research, 34(9), 2103-2121.
  43. Yechieli, Y., I. Gavrieli, B. Berkowitz and D. Ronen (1998). Will the Dead Sea die? Geology, 26(8), 755-758.
  44. Oron, A.P. and B. Berkowitz (1998). Flow in fractures: The local cubic law assumption reexamined, Water Resources Research, 34(11), 2811-2825.
  45. Dijk, P.E., B. Berkowitz and P. Bendel (1999). Investigation of flow in water-saturated rock fractures using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), Water Resources Research, 35(2), 347-360.
  46. Shoshany, Y., M. Podolak, D. Prialnik and B. Berkowitz (1999). A Monte Carlo model for the flow of dust in a porous comet nucleus, Icarus, 137(2), 348-354.
  47. Kosakowski, G. and B. Berkowitz (1999). Flow pattern variability in natural fracture intersections, Geophysical Research Letters, 26(12), 1765-1768.
  48. Dahan, O., R. Nativ, E.M. Adar, B. Berkowitz and Z. Ronen (1999). Field observation of flow in a fracture intersecting unsaturated chalk, Water Resources Research, 35(11), 3315-3326.
  49. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (1999). Three-dimensional flow measurements in rock fractures, Water Resources Research, 35(12), 3955-3959.
  50. Berkowitz, B., H. Scher and S.E. Silliman (2000). Anomalous transport in laboratory- scale, heterogeneous porous media, Water Resources Research, 36(1), 149-158.  Erratum: 36(5), 1371.
  51. Margolin, G. and B. Berkowitz (2000). Application of continuous time random walks to transport in porous media, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104(16), 3942-3947.  Erratum: 104(36), 8762.
  52. Dahan, O., R. Nativ, E.M. Adar, B. Berkowitz and N. Weisbrod (2000). On fracture structure and preferential flow in unsaturated chalk, Ground Water, 38(3), 444-451.
  53. Adler, P.M. and B. Berkowitz (2000). Effective medium analysis of random lattices, Transport in Porous Media, 40(2), 145-151.
  54. Berkowitz, B., O. Bour, P. Davy, and N. Odling (2000). Scaling of fracture connectivity in geological formations, Geophysical Research Letters, 27(14), 2061-2064.
  55. Silliman, S.E. and B. Berkowitz (2000). The impact of biased sampling on the estimation of the semivariogram within fractured media containing multiple fracture sets, Mathematical Geology, 32(5), 543-560.
  56. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (2000). Buoyancy-driven dissolution enhancement in rock fractures, Geology, 28(11), 1051-1054.
  57. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (2001). The role of probabilistic approaches to transport theory in heterogeneous media, Transport in Porous Media, 42(1-2), 241-263.
  58. Kosakowski, G., B. Berkowitz and H. Scher (2001). Analysis of field observations of tracer transport in a fractured till, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 47(1), 29-51.
  59. Ewing, R.P. and B. Berkowitz (2001). Stochastic pore-scale growth models of DNAPL migration in porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 24(3-4), 309-323.
  60. Park, Y.-J., K.-K. Lee and B. Berkowitz (2001). Effects of junction transfer characteristics on transport in fracture networks, Water Resources Research, 37(4), 909-923.
  61. Berkowitz, B., G. Kosakowski, G. Margolin and H. Scher (2001). Application of continuous time random walk theory to tracer test measurements in fractured and heterogeneous porous media, Ground Water, 39(4), 593-604.
  62. Bonnet, E., O. Bour, N.E. Odling, P. Davy, I. Main, P. Cowie and B. Berkowitz (2001). Scaling of fracture systems in geological media, Reviews of Geophysics, 39(3), 347-383.
  63. Park, Y.-J., J.-R. de Dreuzy, K.-K. Lee and B. Berkowitz (2001). Transport and intersection mixing in random fracture networks with power law length distributions, Water Resources Research, 37(10), 2493-2501.
  64. Berkowitz, B. and D.P. Hansen (2001). A numerical study of the distribution of water in partially saturated porous rock, Transport in Porous Media, 45(2), 303-319.
  65. de Dreuzy, J.-R., P. Davy and B. Berkowitz (2001). Advective transport in the percolation backbone in two dimensions, Physical Review E, 64, 056305,1-4.
  66. Dijk, P.E., B. Berkowitz and Y. Yechieli (2002). Measurement and analysis of dissolution patterns in rock fractures, Water Resources Research, 38(2), doi:10.1029/2001WR000246.
  67. Margolin, G. and B. Berkowitz (2002). Spatial behavior of anomalous transport, Physical Review E, 65, 031101, 1-11.
  68. Silliman, S.E., B. Berkowitz, J. Simunek and M. Th. Van Genuchten (2002). Fluid flow and solute migration within the capillary fringe. Ground Water, 40(1), 76-84.
  69. Scher, H., G. Margolin, Metzler, R., J. Klafter, and B. Berkowitz (2002). The dynamical foundation of fractal stream chemistry: The origin of extremely long retention times, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(5). doi:10.1029/2001GL014123.
  70. Vilensky, M.Y., B. Berkowitz and A. Warshawsky (2002). In situ remediation of groundwater contaminated by heavy and transition metal ions by selective ion exchange methods, Environmental Science and Technology, 36(8), 1851-1855.
  71. Thorenz, C., G. Kosakowski, O. Kolditz and B. Berkowitz (2002). An experimental and numerical investigation of saltwater movement in coupled saturated-partially saturated systems, Water Resources Research, 38(6), doi:10.1029/2001WR000364.
  72. Berkowitz, B., J. Klafter, R. Metzler, and H. Scher (2002). Physical pictures of transport in heterogeneous media: Advection-dispersion, random-walk and fractional derivative formulations, Water Resources Research, 38(10), 1191, doi:10.1029/2001WR001030.
  73. Scher, H., G. Margolin and B. Berkowitz (2002). Towards a unified framework for anomalous transport in heterogeneous media, Chemical Physics, 284, 349-359.
  74. Berkowitz, B. (2002). Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review, Advances in Water Resources, 25(8-12), 861-884.
  75. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2003). Evolution of hydraulic conductivity by precipitation and dissolution in carbonate rock, Water Resources Research, 39(1), 1016, doi:10.1029/2001WR001055.
  76. Wang, Y., C. Wang, A. Warshawsky and B. Berkowitz (2003). 8-Hydroxyquinoline-5-Sulfonic acid (HQS) impregnated on Lewatit MP 600 for cadmium complexation: Implication of solvent impregnated resins for water remediation, Separation Science and Technology, 38(1), 149-163.
  77. Berkowitz, B., O. Singurindy and R.P. Lowell (2003). Mixing-driven diagenesis and mineral deposition: CaCO3 precipitation in salt water - fresh water mixing zones, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(5), 1253, doi:10.1029/2002GL016208.
  78. Dror, I., T. Amitay, B. Yaron and B. Berkowitz (2003). Salt-pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into coastal aquifers, Science, 300(5621), 350.
    Also: Reply to Comment, Science, 302(5646), 784c, 2003 (contains new material).
  79. Dentz, M. and B. Berkowitz (2003). Transport behavior of a passive solute in continuous time random walks and multirate mass transfer, Water Resources Research, 39(5), 1111, doi:10.1029/2001WR001163, 2003.
  80. Levy, M. and B. Berkowitz (2003). Measurement and analysis of non-Fickian dispersion in heterogeneous porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 64(3-4), 203-226.
  81. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2003). Flow, dissolution, and precipitation in dolomite, Water Resources Research, 39(6), 1143, doi:10.1029/2002WR001624.
  82. Park, Y.-J., K.-K. Lee, G. Kosakowski and B. Berkowitz (2003). Transport behavior in three-dimensional fracture intersections, Water Resources Research, 39(8), 1215, doi:10.1029/2002WR001801.
  83. Margolin, G., M. Dentz and B. Berkowitz (2003). Continuous time random walk and multirate mass transfer modeling of sorption, Chemical Physics, 295(1), 71-80.
  84. Margolin, G. and B. Berkowitz (2004). Continuous time random walks revisited: First passage time and spatial distributions, Physica A, 334, 46-66.
  85. Dentz, M., A. Cortis, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2004). Time behavior of solute transport in heterogeneous media: Transition from anomalous to normal transport, Advances in Water Resources, 27(2), 155-173.
  86. Emmanuel, S., A. Cortis and B. Berkowitz (2004). Diffusion in multicomponent systems: a free energy approach, Chemical Physics, 302, 21-30.
  87. Cortis, A., C. Gallo, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2004). Numerical simulation of non-Fickian transport in geological formations with multiple-scale heterogeneities, Water Resources Research, 40, W04209, doi:10.1029/2003WR002750.
  88. Singurindy, O., B. Berkowitz and R. P. Lowell (2004). Carbonate dissolution and precipitation in coastal environments: Laboratory analysis and theoretical consideration, Water Resources Research, 40, W04401, doi:10.1029/2003WR002651.  Erratum: 41, W11701, doi:10.1029/2005WR004433.
  89. Berkowitz, B., S. E. Silliman and A. M. Dunn (2004). Impact of the capillary fringe on local flow, chemical migration, and microbiology, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 534-548.
  90. Cortis, A. and B. Berkowitz (2004). Anomalous transport in ''classical'' soil and sand columns, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 68, 1539-1548. Erratum: 69, 285 (2005).
  91. Dror, I., B. Berkowitz and S. M. Gorelick (2004). Effects of air injection on flow through porous media: Observations and analyses of laboratory-scale processes, Water Resources Research, 40, W09203, doi:10.1029/2003WR002960.
  92. Cortis, A., Y. Chen, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2004). Quantitative characterization of pore-scale disorder effects on transport in "homogeneous" granular media, Physical Review E, 70, 041108, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.70.041108.
  93. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2004). Dedolomitization and flow in fractures, Geophysical Research Letters, 31(24), L24501, doi:10.1029/2004GL021594.
  94. Dror, I., D. Baram and B. Berkowitz (2005). Use of nanosized catalysts for transformation of chloro-organic pollutants, Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 1283-1290.
  95. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2005). Mixing-induced precipitation and porosity evolution in porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 28, 337-344.
  96. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2005). The role of fractures on coupled dissolution and precipitation patterns in carbonate rocks, Advances in Water Resources, 28, 507-521.
  97. Cortis, A. and B. Berkowitz (2005). Computing "anomalous" contaminant transport in porous media: The CTRW Matlab toolbox, Ground Water, 43(6), 947-950.
  98. Amitay-Rosen, T., A. Cortis and B. Berkowitz (2005). Magnetic resonance imaging and quantitative analysis of particle deposition in porous media, Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 7208-7216.
  99. Dentz, M. and B. Berkowitz (2005). Exact effective transport dynamics in a one-dimensional random environment, Physical Review E, 72, 031110, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031110.  Erratum: Physical Review E, 81, 059901(E), 2010.
  100. Hornung, G., B. Berkowitz and N. Barkai (2005). Morphogen gradient formation in a complex environment: An anomalous diffusion model, Physical Review E, 72, 041916, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.041916. [Also featured in: Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 1 November 2005, http://www.vjbio.org]
  101. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2006). Suppression and stimulation of seafloor hydrothermal convection by exothermic mineral hydration, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243, 657-668, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.028.
  102. Ovdat, H. and B. Berkowitz (2006). Pore-scale study of drainage displacement under combined capillary and gravity effects in index-matched porous media, Water Resources Research, 42, W06411, doi:10.1029/2005WR004553.
  103. Berkowitz, B., A. Cortis, M. Dentz and H. Scher (2006). Modeling non-Fickian transport in geological formations as a continuous time random walk, Reviews of Geophysics, 44, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2005RG000178.
  104. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2006). An experimental analogue for convection and phase separation in hydrothermal systems, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 111, B09103, doi:10.1029/2006JB004351.
  105. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2007). Continuous time random walks and heat transfer in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 67, 413-430, doi:10.1007/s11242-006-9033-z.
  106. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2007). Effects of pore-size controlled solubility on reactive transport in heterogeneous rock, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06404, doi:10.1029/2006GL028962.
  107. Nelkenbaum, E., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2007). Reductive hydrogenation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons catalyzed by metalloporphyrins, Chemosphere, 68, 210-217, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.01.034.
  108. Kapiluto, Y., D. Yakir, P. Tans and B. Berkowitz (2007). Experimental and numerical studies of the 18O exchange between CO2 and water in the atmosphere-soil invasion flux, Geochimica Cosmica Acta, 71(11), 2657-2671, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.03.016.
  109. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2007). Phase separation and convection in heterogeneous porous media: implications for seafloor hydrothermal systems, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B05210, doi:10.1029/2006JB004804.
  110. Ovdat, H. and B. Berkowitz (2007). Pore-scale imbibition experiments in dry and prewetted porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 30, 2373-2386, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.05.011.
  111. Yaron-Marcovich, D., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2007). Behavior and stability of organic contaminant droplets in aqueous solutions, Chemosphere, 69, 1593-1601, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.05.056.
  112. Berkowitz, B., S. Emmanuel and H. Scher (2008). Non-Fickian transport and multiple-rate mass transfer in porous media, Water Resources Research, 44, W03402, doi:10.1029/2007WR005906.
  113. Holder, D., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2008). Numerical study of diffusion on a random-mixed-bond lattice, Physical Review E, 77, 031119, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031119.
  114. Yaron, B., I. Dror, and B. Berkowitz (2008). Contaminant-induced irreversible changes in properties of the soil-vadose-aquifer zone: An overview, Chemosphere, 71, 1409-1421, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.11.045.
  115. Dentz, M., H. Scher, D. Holder and B. Berkowitz (2008). Transport behavior of coupled continuous-time random walks, Physical Review E, 78, 041110, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041110.
  116. Ben-Moshe, T., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2009). Oxidation of organic pollutants in aqueous solutions by nanosized copper oxide catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 85, 207-211, doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2008.07.020.
  117. Edery, Y., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2009). Modeling bimolecular reactions and transport in porous media, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L02407, doi:10.1029/2008GL036381.
  118. Berkowitz, B., A. Cortis, I. Dror and H. Scher (2009). Laboratory experiments on dispersive transport across interfaces: The role of flow direction, Water Resources Research, 45, W02201, doi:10.1029/2008WR007342.
  119. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (2009). Exploring the nature of non-Fickian transport in laboratory experiments, Advances in Water Resources, 32, 750-755, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.05.004.
  120. Guadagnini, A., X. Sanchez-Vila, M. W. Saaltink, M. Bussini and B. Berkowitz (2009), Application of a mixing-ratios based formulation to model mixing-driven dissolution experiments, Advances in Water Resources, 32, 756-766, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.07.005.
  121. Nelkenbaum, E., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2009). Reductive dechlorination of atrazine catalyzed by metalloporphyrins, Chemosphere, 75, 48-55, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.11.074.
  122. Gouet-Kaplan, M., A. Tartakovsky and B. Berkowitz (2009). Simulation of the interplay between resident and infiltrating water in partially saturated porous media, Water Resources Research, 45, W05416, doi:10.1029/2008WR007350.
  123. Yaron, B., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2010). Contaminant geochemistry - a new perspective, Naturwissenschaften, 97, 1-17, doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0592-z. [See also: Yaron, B., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2009), Chemical contaminants as a factor of soil-subsurface metagenesis, Bulletin of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), #115, 11-12, November, 2009.]
  124. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (2010). Anomalous transport in correlated velocity fields, Physical Review E, 81, 011128, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011128.
  125. Scher, H., K. Willbrand and B. Berkowitz (2010). Transport in disordered media with spatially nonuniform fields, Physical Review E, 81, 031102, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.81.031102.
  126. Srinivasan, G., D.M. Tartakovsky, M. Dentz, H. Viswanathan, B. Berkowitz and B.A. Robinson (2010). Random walk particle tracking simulations of non-Fickian transport in heterogeneous media, Journal of Computational Physics, 229, 4304-4314, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2010.02.014.
  127. Edery, Y., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2010). Particle tracking model of bimolecular reactive transport in porous media, Water Resources Research, 46, W07524, doi:10.1029/2009WR009017.
  128. Ben-Moshe, T., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2010). Transport of metal oxide nanoparticles in saturated porous media, Chemosphere, 81, 387-393, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.07.007.
  129. Scher, H., K. Willbrand and B. Berkowitz (2010). Transport equation evalution of coupled continuous time random walks, Journal of Statistical Physics, 141, 1093-1103, doi:10.1007/s10955-010-0088-4.  
  130. Arye, G., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2011). Fate and transport of carbamazepine in soil aquifer treatment (SAT) infiltration basin soils, Chemosphere, 82, 244-252, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.09.062.
  131. Katz, G.E., B. Berkowitz, A. Guadagnini and M.W. Saaltink (2011). Experimental and modeling investigation of multicomponent reactive transport in porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 120/121, 27-44, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2009.11.002.
  132. Bijeljic, B., S. Rubin, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2011). Non-Fickian transport in porous media with bimodal structural heterogeneity, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 120/121, 213-221, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.05.001.  
  133. Gouet-Kaplan, M. and B. Berkowitz (2011). Measurements of interactions between resident and infiltrating water in a lattice micromodel, Vadose Zone Journal, 10, 624-633, doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0103.
  134. Edery, Y., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2011). Dissolution and precipitation dynamics during dedolomitization, Water Resources Research, 47, W08535, doi:10.1029/2011WR010551.
  135. Kuntz, B.W., S. Rubin, B. Berkowitz and K. Singha (2011). Quantifying solute transport at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Vadose Zone Journal, 10, 843-857, doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0130.
  136. Edery, Y., A. Kostinski and B. Berkowitz (2011). Record setting during dispersive transport in porous media, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L16403, doi:10.1029/2011GL048558.
  137. Fink, L., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Enrofloxacin oxidative degradation facilitated by metal oxide nanoparticles, Chemosphere, 86, 144-149, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.10.002.
  138. Ben-Moshe, T., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Copper oxide nanoparticle-coated quartz sand as a catalyst for degradation of an organic dye in water, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 223(6), 3105-3115, doi:10.1007/s11270-012-1093-9.
  139. Rubin, S., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Experimental and modeling analysis of coupled non-Fickian transport and sorption in natural soils, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 132, 28-36, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2012.02.005.
  140. Sagee, O., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Transport of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in soil, Chemosphere, 88, 670-675, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.055.
  141. Bianchi Janetti, E., I. Dror, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini and B. Berkowitz (2012). Estimation of single-metal and competitive sorption isotherms through Maximum Likelihood and Model Quality Criteria, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 76(4), 1229-1245, doi:10.2136/sssaj2012.0010.
  142. Dror, I., O. Merom Jacov, A. Cortis and B. Berkowitz (2012). Catalytic transformation of persistent contaminants using a new composite material based on nanosized zero-valent iron, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4, 3416-3423, dx.doi.org/10.1021/am300402q.
  143. Gouet-Kaplan, M., G. Arye and B. Berkowitz (2012). Interplay between resident and infiltrating water: Estimates from transient water flow and solute transport, Journal of Hydrology, 458-459, 40-50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.026.
  144. Ben-Moshe, T., S. Frenk, I. Dror, D. Minz and B. Berkowitz (2012). Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on soil properties, Chemosphere, 90, 640-646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.018.
  145. Edery, Y., A. Guadagnini, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2013). Reactive transport in disordered media: Role of fluctuations in interpretation of laboratory experiments, Advances in Water Resources, 51, 86-103, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.12.008.
  146. Berkowitz, Y., Y. Edery, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2013). Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion with bimolecular reactions, Physical Review E, 87, 032812, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032812.
  147. Bianchi Janetti, E., I. Dror, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini, X. Sanchez-Vila and B. Berkowitz (2013). Mobility and interaction of heavy metals in a natural soil, Transport in Porous Media, in press.

Books

  1. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror and B. Yaron (2008). Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment, Springer, Heidelberg, 412 pp.
  2. Yaron, B., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Soil-Subsurface Change: Chemical Pollutant Impacts, Springer, Heidelberg, 366 pp.

Book Publications

  1. Bear, J. and B. Berkowitz (1987). Groundwater flow and pollution in fractured rock aquifers, in Developments in Hydraulic Engineering, Volume 4, pp. 175-238, P. Novak (ed.), Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd., New York.
  2. Berkowitz, B. (1994). Modelling flow and contaminant transport in fractured media, in Advances in Porous Media, Volume 2, pp. 395-449, Y. Corapcioglu (ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd., Amsterdam.
  3. Berkowitz, B., R. Nativ and E. Adar (2001). Evaluation of conceptual and quantitative models of fluid flow and chemical transport in fractured media, in Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone, pp. 115-147, U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
  4. Dahan, O., R. Nativ, E.M. Adar and B. Berkowitz (2001). Water flow and solute transport in unsaturated fractured chalk, in Flow and Transport Through Unsaturated Fractured Rock, pp. 183-196, D. D. Evans, T. J. Nicholson and T. C. Rasmussen (eds.), Geophysical Monograph 42, Second Edition, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
  5. Berkowitz, B., Editor (2001). Dispersion in Heterogeneous Geological Formations, Reprinted from Transport in Porous Media, 42(1-2), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  6. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (2005). Quantification of non-Fickian transport in fractured formations, in Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock, pp. 23-31, B. Faybishenko, P. A. Witherspoon, J. Gale (eds.), Geophysical Monograph 162, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
  7. Dror, I., T. Ben-Moshe and B. Berkowitz (2009). Use of nanoparticles for degradation of water contaminants in oxidative and reductive reactions, in Environmental Application of Nanoscale and Microscale Reactive Metal Particles, Chap. 2, pp. 23-37, doi:10.1021/bk-2009-1027.ch002, C.L. Geiger, K.M. Carvalho-Knighton (eds.), ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1027, American Chemical Society, doi:10.1021/bk-2009-1027.

Patents and Patent Applications

  1. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror and S. Dunn, Method for extracting and upgrading of heavy and semi-heavy oils and bitumens, USA (Patent No. 7,947,165; Patent No. 8,372,347), Peru (No. 001062-2005/OIN; Approved); Patent applications Canada (No. 2,519,736), Venezuela (No. 2005-001862)
  2. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror and A. Cortis, Zero valent metal composite, manufacturing, system and method using thereof, for catalytically treating contaminated water, Application No. PCT/IL2006/000010 (Pub. No. WO 2006/072944); USA (Patent No. 8,366,940)
  3. Berkowitz, B. and I. Dror, Catalytically treating water contaminated with halogenated organic compounds, Application No. PCT/IL2006/001292 (Pub. No. WO 2007/054936)
  4. Berkowitz, B. and I. Dror, Decreasing or preventing sub-surface geological matter contamination by agrochemicals, Application No. PCT/IL2006/001293 (Pub. No. WO 2007/054937)
  5. Berkowitz, B. and I. Dror, Decontaminating fluids and methods of use thereof, Application No. PCT/IL2007/000678 (Pub. No. WO 2007/141781)
  6. Berkowitz, B. and I. Dror, Methods and apparatuses for decreasing the CO2 concentration of a fluid, Application No. PCT/IL2007/001039 (Pub. No. WO 2008/026201); Russia (Approved)