Publications

Journal Publications

  1.  Nath, J., I. Dror, P. Landa, K. Motkova, T. Vanek and B. Berkowitz (2019) Isotopic labeling for sensitive detection of nanoparticle uptake and translocation in plants from hydroponic medium and soil, Environmental Chemistry, in press.
  2. Nissan, A. and B. Berkowitz (2019) Anomalous transport dependence on Péclet number, porous medium heterogeneity, and a temporally-varying velocity field, Physical Review E, 99, 033108, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.99.033108.
  3. Goykhman, N., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2019) Transport of platinum-based pharmaceuticals in water-saturated sand and natural soil: carboplatin and cisplatin species, Chemosphere, 219, 390-399, doi:/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.005.
  4. Ben-Zvi, R., S. Jiang, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2019) Finite Element Method solution of Non-Fickian transport in porous media: The CTRW-FEM Package, Groundwater, doi:10.1111/gwat.12813, in press.
  5. Ringering, K., Y. Kouhail, Y. Yecheskel, I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2019) Mobility and retention of indium and gallium in saturated porous media, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 363, 394-400, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.09.079.
  6. Li, P. and B. Berkowitz (2018) Controls on interactions between resident and infiltrating waters in porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 121, 304-315, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.09.002.
  7. Nath, J., I. Dror, P. Landa, T. Vanek, I. Kaplan-Ashiri and B. Berkowitz (2018) Synthesis and characterization of isotopically-labeled silver, copper and zinc oxide nanoparticles for tracing studies in plants, Environmental Pollution, 242, 1827-1837, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.084.
  8. Goykhman, N., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2018) Transport of oxaliplatin species in water-saturated natural soil, Chemosphere, 208, 829-837, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.06.015.
  9. Nissan, A. and B. Berkowitz (2018) Inertial effects on flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, Physical Review Letters, 120, 054504, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.054504.
  10. Yecheskel, Y., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2018). Silver nanoparticle (Ag-NP) retention and release in partially saturated soil: Column experiments and modelling, Environmental Science: Nano, 5, 422-435, doi:10.1039/C7EN00990A.
  11. Ben-Zvi, R., A. Nissan, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2018) A continuous time random walk (CTRW) integro-differential equation with chemical interaction, The European Physical Journal B, 91, 15, doi:10.1140/epjb/e2017-80417-8.
  12. Stepka, Z., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2018). The effect of nanoparticles and humic acid on technology critical element concentrations in aqueous solutions with soil and sand, Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 1083-1091, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.170.
  13. Hassane Maina, F., P. Ackerer, A. Younes, A. Guadagnini and B. Berkowitz (2018). Benchmarking numerical codes for tracer transport with the aid of laboratory-scale experiments in 2D heterogeneous porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 212, 55-64, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2017.06.001.
  14. Nissan, A., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2017). Time-dependent velocity-field controls on anomalous chemical transport in porous media, Water Resources Research, 53, 3760-3769, doi:10.1002/2016WR020143.
  15. Kalidhasan, S., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2017). Atrazine degradation through PEI-copper nanoparticles deposited onto montmorillonite and sand, Scientific Reports, 7, 1415, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01429-5.
  16. Ben-Zvi, R., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2017). Two-dimensional Finite Element Method solution of a class of integro-differential equations: Application to non-Fickian transport in disordered media, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 112(5), 459-478,  doi:10.1002/nme.5524.
  17. Goeppert, N., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2017). Spatial and temporal distribution of free and conjugated estrogens during soil column transport, CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water, 45(2), 1600048, doi:10.1002/clen.201600048.
  18. Kalidhasan, S., M. Ben-Sasson, I. Dror, R. Carmieli, E. M. Schuster and B. Berkowitz (2016). Oxidation of aqueous organic pollutants using a stable copper nanoparticle suspension, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 95, 343-352, doi:10.1002/cjce.22652.
  19. Dror. I., B. Yaron and B. Berkowitz (2016). Microchemical contaminants as forming agents of anthropogenic soils, AMBIO, 46, 109-120, doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0804-7.
  20. Hansen, S. K., B. Berkowitz, V. V. Vesselinov, D. O'Malley and S. Karra (2016). Push-pull tracer tests: Their information content and use for characterizing non-Fickian, mobile-immobile behavior, Water Resources Research, 52, 9565-9585, doi:10.1002/2016WR018769.
  21. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror, S.K. Hansen and H. Scher (2016). Measurements and models of reactive transport in geological media, Reviews of Geophysics, 54, 930-986, doi:10.1002/2016RG000524.
  22. Edery, Y., S. Geiger and B. Berkowitz (2016). Structural controls on anomalous transport in fractured porous rock, Water Resources Research, 52, 5634-5643, doi:10.1002/2016WR018942.
  23. Naftaly, A., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2016). Measurement and modeling of engineered nanoparticle transport and aging dynamics in a reactive porous medium, Water Resources Research, 52, 5473-5491, doi:10.1002/2016WR018780.
  24. Ben-Zvi, R., H. Scher, S. Jiang and B. Berkowitz (2016). One-dimensional finite element method solution of a class of integro-differential equations: Application to non-Fickian transport in disordered media, Transport in Porous Media, 115, 239-263, doi:10.1007/s11242-016-0712-0.
  25. Edery, Y., G. M. Porta, A. Guadagnini, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2016) Characterization of bimolecular reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 115, 291-310, doi:10.1007/s11242-016-0684-0.
  26. Yecheskel, Y., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2016). Transport of engineered nanoparticles in partially saturated sand columns, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 311, 254-262, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.03.027.
  27. Yaron, B., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2016). Engineered nanomaterials as a potential metapedogenetic factor: A perspective, Catena, 146, 30-37, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2016.02.003.
  28. Menahem, A., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2016). Transport of gadolinium- and arsenic-based pharmaceuticals in saturated soil under various redox conditions, Chemosphere, 144, 713-720, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.09.044.
  29. Raveh-Rubin, S., Y. Edery, I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2015). Nickel migration and retention dynamics in natural soil columns, Water Resources Research, 51, 7702-7722, doi:10.1002/2015WR016913.
  30. Naftaly, A., Y. Edery, I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2015). Visualization and analysis of nanoparticle transport and ageing in reactive porous media, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 299, 513-519, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.07.043.
  31. Goeppert, N., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2015). Fate and transport of free and conjugated estrogens during soil passage, Environmental Pollution, 206, 80-87, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.06.024.
  32. Edery, Y., I. Dror, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2015). Anomalous reactive transport in porous media: Experiments and modeling, Physical Review E, 91, 052130, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.052130.
  33. Ciriello, V., Y. Edery, A. Guadagnini and B. Berkowitz (2015). Multimodel framework for characterization of transport in porous media, Water Resources Research, 51, 3384-3402, doi:10.1002/2015WR017047.
  34. Dror, I., B. Yaron and B. Berkowitz (2015). Abiotic soil changes induced by engineered nanomaterials: A critical review, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 181, 3-16, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2015.04.004.
  35. Hansen, S. K. and B. Berkowitz (2015). Integrodifferential formulations of the continuous-time random walk for solute transport subject to bimolecular A + B → 0 reactions: From micro- to mesoscopic, Physical Review E, 91, 032113, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.032113.
  36. Hansen, S. K. and B. Berkowitz (2014). Interpretation and nonuniqueness of CTRW transition distributions: Insights from an alternative solute transport formulation, Advances in Water Resources, 74, 54-63, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.07.011.
  37. Kapetas, L., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2014). Evidence of preferential path formation and path memory effect during successive infiltration and drainage cycles in uniform sand columns, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 165, 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.06.016.
  38. Hansen, S. K., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2014). First-principles derivation of reactive transport modeling parameters for particle tracking and PDE approaches, Advances in Water Resources, 66, 146-158, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.04.007.
  39. Edery, Y., A. Guadagnini, H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2014). Origins of anomalous transport in disordered media: Structural and dynamic controls, Water Resources Research, 50, 1490-1505, doi:10.1002/2013WR015111.
  40. Goeppert, N., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2014). Detection, fate and transport of estrogen family hormones in soil, Chemosphere, 95, 336-445, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.09.039.
  41. Frenk, S., T. Ben-Moshe, I. Dror, B. Berkowitz and D. Minz (2013). Effect of metal oxide nanoparticles on microbial community structure and function in two different soil types, PLoS ONE, 8(12): e84441, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084441.
  42. Ciriello, V., A. Guadagnini, V. Di Federico, Y. Edery and B. Berkowitz (2013). Comparative analysis of formulations for conservative transport in porous media through sensitivity-based parameter calibration, Water Resources Research, 49, 5206-5220, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20395.
  43. Yecheskel, Y., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2013). Catalytic degradation of brominated flame retardants by copper oxide nanoparticles, Chemosphere, 93, 172-177,doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.05.026.
  44. Nowamooz, A., G. Radilla, M. Fourar and B. Berkowitz (2013). Non-Fickian transport in transparent replicas of rough-walled rock fractures, Transport in Porous Media, 98, 651-682, doi:10.1007/s11242-013-0165-7.
  45. Edery, Y., A. B. Kostinski, S. N. Majumdar and B. Berkowitz (2013). Record-breaking statistics for random walks in the presence of measurement error and noise, Physical Review Letters, 110, 180602, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.180602.
  46. 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, 97, 295-315, doi:10.1007/s11242-013-0125-2.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.018.
  50. 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, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.026.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. Sagee, O., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Transport of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in soil, Chemosphere, 88, 670-675, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.018.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. 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.
  59. Edery, Y., H. Scher and B. Berkowitz (2011). Dissolution and precipitation dynamics during dedolomitization, Water Resources Research, 47, W08535, doi:10.1029/2011WR010551.
  60. 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.
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. Scher, H., K. Willbrand and B. Berkowitz (2010). Transport equation evaluation of coupled continuous time random walks, Journal of Statistical Physics, 141, 1093-1103, doi:10.1007/s10955-010-0088-4.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (2010). Anomalous transport in correlated velocity fields, Physical Review E, 81, 011128, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011128.
  70. 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.]
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  82. 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.
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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]
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
  96. Cortis, A. and B. Berkowitz (2005). Computing "anomalous" contaminant transport in porous media: The CTRW Matlab toolbox, Ground Water, 43(6), 947-950, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00045.x.
  97. 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.
  98. Emmanuel, S. and B. Berkowitz (2005). Mixing-induced precipitation and porosity evolution in porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 28, 337-344.
  99. 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.
  100. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2004). Dedolomitization and flow in fractures, Geophysical Research Letters, 31(24), L24501, doi:10.1029/2004GL021594.
  101. 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.
  102. 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.
  103. 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).
  104. 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.
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. Emmanuel, S., A. Cortis and B. Berkowitz (2004). Diffusion in multicomponent systems: a free energy approach, Chemical Physics, 302, 21-30.
  108. 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, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2003.11.002.
  109. Margolin, G. and B. Berkowitz (2004). Continuous time random walks revisited: First passage time and spatial distributions, Physica A, 334, 46-66.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. Singurindy, O. and B. Berkowitz (2003). Flow, dissolution, and precipitation in dolomite, Water Resources Research, 39(6), 1143, doi:10.1029/2002WR001624.
  113. 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.
  114. 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.
  115. Dror, I., T. Amitay, B. Yaron and B. Berkowitz (2003). Salt-pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into coastal aquifers, Science, 300(5621), 950.
    Also: Reply to Comment, Science, 302(5646), 784c, 2003 (contains new material).
  116. 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.
  117. 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.
  118. 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.
  119. Berkowitz, B. (2002). Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review, Advances in Water Resources, 25(8-12), 861-884.
  120. Scher, H., G. Margolin and B. Berkowitz (2002). Towards a unified framework for anomalous transport in heterogeneous media, Chemical Physics, 284, 349-359.
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. Margolin, G. and B. Berkowitz (2002). Spatial behavior of anomalous transport, Physical Review E, 65, 031101, 1-11, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031101.
  127. 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.
  128. 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.
  129. 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.
  130. 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.
  131. 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.
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. 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.
  135. 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.
  136. 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.
  137. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (2000). Buoyancy-driven dissolution enhancement in rock fractures, Geology, 28(11), 1051-1054.
  138. 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.
  139. Berkowitz, B., O. Bour, P. Davy, and N. Odling (2000). Scaling of fracture connectivity in geological formations, Geophysical Research Letters, 27(14), 2061-2064.
  140. Adler, P.M. and B. Berkowitz (2000). Effective medium analysis of random lattices, Transport in Porous Media, 40(2), 145-151.
  141. 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.
  142. 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.  Correction: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104(36), 8762.
  143. Berkowitz, B., H. Scher and S.E. Silliman (2000). Anomalous transport in laboratory- scale, heterogeneous porous media, Water Resources Research, 36(1), 149-158, doi:10.1029/1999WR900295.  Correction: Water Resources Research, 36(5), 1371.
  144. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (1999). Three-dimensional flow measurements in rock fractures, Water Resources Research, 35(12), 3955-3959.
  145. 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.
  146. Kosakowski, G. and B. Berkowitz (1999). Flow pattern variability in natural fracture intersections, Geophysical Research Letters, 26(12), 1765-1768.
  147. 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.
  148. 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.
  149. Oron, A.P. and B. Berkowitz (1998). Flow in fractures: The local cubic law assumption reexamined, Water Resources Research, 34(11), 2811-2825.
  150. Yechieli, Y., I. Gavrieli, B. Berkowitz and D. Ronen (1998). Will the Dead Sea die? Geology, 26(8), 755-758.
  151. Margolin, G., B. Berkowitz and H. Scher (1998). Structure, flow, and generalized conductivity scaling in fracture networks, Water Resources Research, 34(9), 2103-2121.
  152. 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.
  153. 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.
  154. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1998). Theory of anomalous chemical transport in fracture networks, Physical Review E, 57(5), 5858-5869.
  155. 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.
  156. Dijk, P.E. and B. Berkowitz (1998). Precipitation and dissolution of reactive solutes in fractures, Water Resources Research, 34(3), 457-470.
  157. Berkowitz, B. and R.P. Ewing (1998). Percolation theory and network modeling applications in soil physics, Surveys in Geophysics, 19(1), 23-72.
  158. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1997). Anomalous transport in random fracture networks, Physical Review Letters, 79(20), 4038-4041.
  159. 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.
  160. 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.
  161. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1996). Influence of embedded fractures on contaminant diffusion in geological formations, Geophysical Research Letters, 23(9), 925-928.
  162. Berkowitz, B. and J. Zhou (1996). Reactive solute transport in a single fracture, Water Resources Research, 32(4), 901-913.
  163. 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.
  164. Yechieli, Y., D. Ronen and B. Berkowitz (1995). Are sedimentary salt layers always impermeable? Geophysical Research Letters, 22(20), 2761-2764.
  165. Berkowitz, B. and R. Knight (1995). Continuum percolation conductivity exponents in restricted domains, Journal of Statistical Physics, 80(5/6), 1415-1423.
  166. Berkowitz, B. (1995). Analysis of fracture network connectivity using percolation theory, Mathematical Geology, 27(4), 467-483.
  167. 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.
  168. Berkowitz, B. and H. Scher (1995). On characterization of anomalous dispersion in porous and fractured media, Water Resources Research, 31(6), 1461-1466.
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. 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.
  172. Drory, A., I. Balberg and B. Berkowitz (1994). Random-adding determination of percolation thresholds in interacting systems, Physical Review E, 49(2), R949-R952.
  173. 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.
  174. 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.
  175. Berkowitz, B. and I. Balberg (1993). Percolation theory and its application to groundwater hydrology, Water Resources Research, 29(4), 775-794.
  176. 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.
  177. 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.
  178. 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.
  179. 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.
  180. 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.
  181. 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.
  182. 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.
  183. 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.
  184. Berkowitz, B. and M. Ben-Zvi (1991). An algorithm and Pascal program for geostatistical mapping, Computers and Geosciences, 17(4), 489-503.
  185. Berkowitz, B. and C. Braester (1991). Solute transport in fracture channel and parallel plate models, Geophysical Research Letters, 18(2), 227-230.
  186. Berkowitz, B. and D. Ronen (1990). Can contaminated fractured porous aquifers be restored? Naturwissenschaften, 77(9), 431-433.
  187. Dax, A. and B. Berkowitz (1990). Column relaxation methods for least norm problems, SIAM - Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 11(5), 975-989.
  188. Berkowitz, B. (1989). Boundary conditions along permeable fracture walls: Influence on flow and conductivity, Water Resources Research, 25(8), 1919-1922.
  189. 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.
  190. 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.
  191. Berkowitz, B. and Y. Bachmat (1988). A scale-dependent equation for solute transport in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 3(2), 199-205.
  192. Berkowitz, B., J. Bear and C. Braester (1988). Continuum models for contaminant transport in fractured porous formations, Water Resources Research, 24(8), 1225-1236.

Books

  1. Yaron, B., I. Dror and B. Berkowitz (2012). Soil-Subsurface Change: Chemical Pollutant Impacts, Springer, Heidelberg, 366 pp. 
  2. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror and B. Yaron (2008). Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment, Springer, Heidelberg, 412 pp.    Second Edition: 2014, 517 pp.

Book Publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Berkowitz, B., Editor (2001). Dispersion in Heterogeneous Geological Formations, Reprinted from Transport in Porous Media, 42(1-2), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  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., 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

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 and Patent No. 8,598,062); Germany (Patent No. 60 2006 042 909.6); Hong Kong (Patent No. HK1109888; United Kingdom (Patent No. EP1957695)
  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); Australia (Patent 2006313381); USA (Patent 8,580,711); China (Granted); India (Patent 269771) 
  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); USA (Patent 9,346,684)
  7. Berkowitz, B., I. Dror, M. Ben-Sasson and S. Kalidhasan, Copper nanoparticles for oxidation of pollutants, Application No. PCT/IL2015/050728 (Pub. No.: WO 2016/009432)