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2026

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Engineering and Technology

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91
Citations
27501
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252
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Environmental Sciences

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99
Citations
49880
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387
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170

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Dani Or is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on environmental engineering and civil and structural engineering within these broader fields of study.

Their work covers a variety of interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, soil science, and ecology. The scientist's major topics of investigation include soil and unsaturated flow, soil moisture and remote sensing, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, and landslides and related hazards.

Recent publications by Dani Or include:

  • Natural and managed soil structure: On the fragile scaffolding for soil functioning, 2020, Soil and Tillage Research
  • The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter Lehmann
  • Sara Bonetti
  • Tomislav Hengl
  • Samuel Bickel
  • Surya Gupta

Dani Or has consistently contributed to several publication venues throughout their career, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist has been recognized by their peers through awards such as the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) awarded in 2010 and Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) awarded in 2004.

Best Publications

  • 2.4 Particle-Size Analysis

    Glendon W. Gee;Dani Or

  • A Review of Advances in Dielectric and Electrical Conductivity Measurement in Soils Using Time Domain Reflectometry

    D. A. Robinson;S. B. Jones;J. M. Wraith;D. Or

  • Adsorption and capillary condensation in porous media: Liquid retention and interfacial configurations in angular pores

    Markus Tuller;Dani Or;Lynn M. Dudley

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Physical constraints affecting bacterial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media – a review

    D. Or;D. Or;Barth F. Smets;J.M. Wraith;Arnaud Dechesne;Arnaud Dechesne

  • Characteristic lengths affecting evaporative drying of porous media

    Peter Lehmann;Shmuel Assouline;Dani Or

  • Time domain reflectometry measurement principles and applications

    Scott B. Jones;Jon M. Wraith;Dani Or

  • Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil.

    Robin Tecon;Dani Or

  • Water films and scaling of soil characteristic curves at low water contents

    Markus Tuller;Dani Or

  • Advances in Soil Evaporation Physics—A Review

    Dani Or;Peter Lehmann;Ebrahim Shahraeeni;Nima Shokri

  • Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

    Markus Berli;Dani Or

  • Historical increase in agricultural machinery weights enhanced soil stress levels and adversely affected soil functioning

    Thomas Keller;Thomas Keller;Maria Sandin;Tino Colombi;Rainer Horn

  • Hydraulic conductivity of variably saturated porous media: Film and corner flow in angular pore space

    Markus Tuller;Dani Or

  • Liquid Retention and Interfacial Area in Variably Saturated Porous Media: Upscaling from Single Pore to Sample Scale Model

    Dani Or;Markus Tuller

  • Root zone solute dynamics under drip irrigation: A review

    Khumoetsile Mmolawa;Dani Or

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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  • Temperature effects on soil bulk dielectric permittivity measured by time domain reflectometry: A physical model

    Dani Or;Jon M. Wraith

  • Quantifying the role of vegetation in slope stability: a case study in Tuscany (Italy).

    M. Schwarz;M. Schwarz;F. Preti;F. Giadrossich;P. Lehmann

  • Temperature effects on soil bulk dielectric permittivity measured by time domain reflectometry: Experimental evidence and hypothesis development

    Jon M. Wraith;Dani Or

  • Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes – from a bundle of roots to tree stands

    M. Schwarz;M. Schwarz;P. Lehmann;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Root distribution and water uptake patterns of corn under surface and subsurface drip irrigation

    Eugenio F. Coelho;Dani Or

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Lehmann
Peter Lehmann ETH Zurich
Scott B. Jones
Scott B. Jones Utah State University
Markus Tuller
Markus Tuller University of Arizona
Denis Cohen
Denis Cohen New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Shmuel Assouline
Shmuel Assouline Agricultural Research Organization
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Simone Fatichi
Simone Fatichi National University of Singapore
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark

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