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Ofer Dahan is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research is concentrated in the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
  • Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Ofer Dahan has published research in several frequent venues such as Water Research, Water Resources Research, SOIL, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Recent papers by Ofer Dahan include:

  • Holistic approach for evaluation of landfill leachate pollution potential - From the waste to the aquifer (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • The impact of geomorphology on groundwater recharge in a semi-arid mountainous area (2021), Journal of Hydrology
  • Continuous monitoring of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) transformations along the waste-vadose zone - groundwater path of an uncontrolled landfill, using multiple N-species isotopic analysis (2022), Water Research
  • Continuous in-situ measurement of free extracellular enzyme activity as direct indicator for soil biological activity (2021), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Vadose Zone Monitoring as a Key to Groundwater Protection (2020), Frontiers in Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ofer Dahan include:

  • Hagar Siebner (4 publications)
  • Shlomi Arnon (4 publications)
  • Ilil Levakov (3 publications)
  • Zeev Ronen (3 publications)
  • Elad Yeshno (3 publications)

Their research contributions address various aspects of groundwater contamination, landfill environmental impacts, and monitoring techniques for soil and water quality. Their collaborations span multiple researchers involved in related environmental and hydrological fields.

Best Publications

  • Transport of testosterone and estrogen from dairy-farm waste lagoons to groundwater.

    Shai Arnon;Ofer Dahan;Sara Elhanany;Keren Cohen

  • Dynamics of Flood Water Infiltration and Ground Water Recharge in Hyperarid Desert

    Ofer Dahan;Boaz Tatarsky;Yehouda Enzel;Christoph Kulls

  • Water Recharge and Solute Transport Through the Vadose Zone of Fractured Chalk Under Desert Conditions

    Ronit Nativ;Eilon Adar;Ofer Dahan;Mebus Geyh

  • Water percolation through the deep vadose zone and groundwater recharge: Preliminary results based on a new vadose zone monitoring system

    Yaara Rimon;Ofer Dahan;Ronit Nativ;Stefan Geyer

  • Flood routing and alluvial aquifer recharge along the ephemeral arid Kuiseb River, Namibia.

    Efrat Morin;Tamir Grodek;Ofer Dahan;Gerardo Benito

  • Direct measurements of floodwater infiltration into shallow alluvial aquifers

    Ofer Dahan;Yuval Shani;Yehouda Enzel;Yoseph Yechieli

  • Water percolation through a clayey vadose zone

    S. Baram;D. Kurtzman;O. Dahan

  • Field observation of flow in a fracture intersecting unsaturated chalk

    Ofer Dahan;Ronit Nativ;Eilon M. Adar;Brian Berkowitz

  • Water salinization in arid regions—observations from the Negev desert, Israel

    Ronit Nativ;Eilon Adar;Ofer Dahan;Ilan Nissim

  • Examination of groundwater recharge with a calibrated/validated flow model of the deep vadose zone

    T. Turkeltaub;T. Turkeltaub;D. Kurtzman;G. Bel;O. Dahan

  • In situ monitoring of water percolation and solute transport using a vadose zone monitoring system.

    Ofer Dahan;Ruti Talby;Yoseph Yechieli;Eilon Adar

  • "Phytoscreening": the use of trees for discovering subsurface contamination by VOCs.

    A. Sorek;N. Atzmon;O. Dahan;Z. Gerstl

  • Perchlorate biodegradation in contaminated soils and the deep unsaturated zone

    Harel Gal;Zeev Ronen;Noam Weisbrod;Ofer Dahan

  • Soil-aquifer phenomena affecting groundwater under vertisols: a review

    D. Kurtzman;S. Baram;O. Dahan

  • Sequential biodegradation of TNT, RDX and HMX in a mixture.

    S. Sagi Ben Moshe;Z. Ronen;O. Dahan;N. Weisbrod

  • Large-scale infiltration experiments into unsaturated stratified loess sediments: Monitoring and modeling

    Haim Gvirtzman;Eyal Shalev;Ofer Dahan;Yossef H. Hatzor

  • Particle transport in unsaturated fractured chalk under arid conditions.

    Noam Weisbrod;Ofer Dahan;Eilon M Adar

  • Solute transport in the vadose zone and groundwater during flash floods

    Yanai Amiaz;Shaul Sorek;Yehouda Enzel;Ofer Dahan

  • On Fracture Structure and Preferential Flow in Unsaturated Chalk

    Ofer Dahan;Ronit Nativ;Eilon M. Adar;Brian Berkowitz

  • Real-time monitoring of nitrate transport in the deep vadose zone under a cropfield – implications for groundwater protection

    Tuvia Turkeltaub;Daniel Kurtzman;Ofer Dahan

  • Flexible Time Domain Reflectometry Probe for Deep Vadose Zone Monitoring

    Ofer Dahan;Eric V. McDonald;Michael H. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Zeev Ronen
Zeev Ronen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Noam Weisbrod
Noam Weisbrod Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gerardo Benito
Gerardo Benito Spanish National Research Council
Frédéric Nguyen
Frédéric Nguyen University of Liège
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain
Shlomi Arnon
Shlomi Arnon Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Alain Dassargues
Alain Dassargues University of Liège
Brian Berkowitz
Brian Berkowitz Weizmann Institute of Science
Alon Ben-Gal
Alon Ben-Gal Agricultural Research Organization

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