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David Russo is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans both broader disciplines and more specialized subfields, including Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Biomaterials.

The main topics addressed by Russo's research include Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Irrigation Practices and Water Management, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Clay Minerals and Soil Interactions.

Russo has published multiple papers with notable venues including Water Resources Research and Biogeosciences. Key recent publications include:

  • "Hydraulic Issues Concerning Injection of Harvested Rainwater to the Subsurface Through Drywells: Insight From Numerical Simulations of Flow in a Realistic Combined Vadose Zone-Groundwater Flow System," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "The effect of static chamber base on N 2 O flux in drip irrigation," 2022, Biogeosciences
  • "Drywell Infiltration Performance: Tests, Monitoring, Simple, and Detailed Models," 2025, Water Resources Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Daniel Kurtzman, Uri Nachshon, Shahar Baram, Asher Bar-Tal, and Alon Gal. These collaborations span multiple studies and enable a multidisciplinary approach to environmental and agricultural challenges.

The venues where Russo publishes indicate a focus on water resource management and environmental sciences, reflecting research contributions that intersect technical engineering with applied agricultural and environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • Determining soil hydraulic properties by parameter estimation: On the selection of a model for the hydraulic properties

    David Russo

  • Soil Hydraulic Properties as Stochastic Processes: I. An Analysis of Field Spatial Variability1

    David Russo;Eshel Bresler

  • Evaluation of volatilization by organic chemicals residing below the soil surface

    William A. Jury;David Russo;Gary Streile;Hesham El Abd

  • Statistical analysis of spatial variability in unsaturated flow parameters

    David Russo;Moshe Bouton

  • Balancing water scarcity and quality for sustainable irrigated agriculture

    Shmuel Assouline;David Russo;Avner Silber;Dani Or

  • Catchment travel time distributions and water flow in soils

    A. Rinaldo;A. Rinaldo;K. J. Beven;K. J. Beven;Enrico Bertuzzo;L. Nicotina

  • Analyses of infiltration events in relation to determining soil hydraulic properties by inverse problem methodology

    David Russo;Eshel Bresler;Uri Shani;Jack C. Parker

  • Stochastic analysis of simulated vadose zone solute transport in a vertical cross section of heterogeneous soil during nonsteady water flow

    David Russo

  • Stochastic modeling of macrodispersion for solute transport in a heterogeneous unsaturated porous formation

    David Russo

  • Design of an Optimal Sampling Network for Estimating the Variogram

    David Russo

  • A theoretical study of the estimation of the correlation scale in spatially variable fields: 1. Stationary fields

    David Russo;William A. Jury

  • On the spatial variability of parameters of the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

    David Russo;Itay Russo;Asher Laufer

  • Scaling soil hydraulic properties of a heterogeneous field.

    David Russo;Eshel Bresler

  • Estimation of finite difference interblock conductivities for simulation of infiltration into initially dry soils

    Jacob Zaidel;David Russo

  • Optimal spatial sampling design for the estimation of the variogram based on a least squares approach

    Patrick Bogaert;David Russo

  • NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARTIALLY SATURATED HETEROGENEOUS SOIL

    David Russo;Jacob Zaidel;Asher Laufer

  • Water Uptake by Seeds as Affected by Water Stress, Capillary Conductivity, and Seed‐Soil Water Contact. I. Experimental Study1

    A. Hadas;D. Russo

  • The spatial variability of water and solute transport properties in unsaturated soil: I. Analysis of property variation and spatial structure with statistical models

    William A. Jury;David Russo;Garrison Sposito;Hesham Elabd

  • Numerical analysis of solute transport during transient irrigation: 1. The effect of hysteresis and profile heterogeneity

    David Russo;William A. Jury;Greg L. Butters

  • Stochastic analysis of solute transport in partially saturated heterogeneous soil: 1. Numerical experiments

    David Russo;Jacob Zaidel;Asher Laufer

  • Effect of Field Variability in Soil Hydraulic Properties on Solutions of Unsaturated Water and Salt Flows1

    David Russo;Eshel Bresler

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldo Fiori
Aldo Fiori Roma Tre University
William A. Jury
William A. Jury University of California, Riverside
Gedeon Dagan
Gedeon Dagan Tel Aviv University
Asher Bar-Tal
Asher Bar-Tal Agricultural Research Organization
Shmuel Assouline
Shmuel Assouline Agricultural Research Organization
Noam Weisbrod
Noam Weisbrod Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Garrison Sposito
Garrison Sposito University of California, Berkeley
Enrico Bertuzzo
Enrico Bertuzzo Ca Foscari University of Venice

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