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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
  • 2016 - Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Shmuel Assouline is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research covers a significant range of subfields including global and planetary change, soil science, civil and structural engineering, water science and technology, and plant science.

Their main topics of investigation focus on soil erosion and sediment transport, soil and unsaturated flow, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, landslides and related hazards, and soil moisture and remote sensing.

Publication venues where Shmuel Assouline has frequently published include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • CATENA
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Shmuel Assouline include:

  • Mitigating risks and maximizing sustainability of treated wastewater reuse for irrigation (2023), Water Research X
  • What Can We Learn From the Water Retention Characteristic of a Soil Regarding Its Hydrological and Agricultural Functions? Review and Analysis of Actual Knowledge (2021), Water Resources Research
  • Chilling induces sugar and ABA accumulation that antagonistically signals for symplastic connection of dormant potato buds (2023), Plant Cell & Environment
  • Frequency analysis of storm-scale soil erosion and characterization of extreme erosive events by linking the DWEPP model and a stochastic rainfall generator (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Mitigating the Impact of Irrigation With Effluent Water: Mixing With Freshwater and/or Adjusting Irrigation Management and Design (2020), Water Resources Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Assouline include:

  • Tal Svoray
  • Tamir Kamai
  • Kfir Narkis
  • Francesco Marra
  • Eli Argaman

Assouline has been recognized within the scientific community by receiving honors such as the Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America in 2019 and the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award from the American Society of Agronomy in 2016.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Characteristic lengths affecting evaporative drying of porous media

    Peter Lehmann;Shmuel Assouline;Dani Or

  • Effects of rainfall intensity and slope gradient on the dynamics of interrill erosion during soil surface sealing

    S. Assouline;M. Ben-Hur

  • Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity

    Jan W. Hopmans;A.S. Qureshi;I. Kisekka;R. Munns;R. Munns

  • A conceptual model of the soil water retention curve

    S. Assouline;D. Tessier;A. Bruand

  • Rainfall-Induced Soil Surface Sealing: A Critical Review of Observations, Conceptual Models, and Solutions

    S. Assouline

  • Infiltration into soils: Conceptual approaches and solutions

    Shmuel Assouline

  • Evaporation from a small water reservoir: Direct measurements and estimates

    J. Tanny;S. Cohen;S. Assouline;F. Lange

  • Effect of Compaction on Soil Physical and Hydraulic Properties: Experimental Results and Modeling

    S. Assouline;D. Tessier;J. Tavares-Filho

  • Balancing water scarcity and quality for sustainable irrigated agriculture

    Shmuel Assouline;David Russo;Avner Silber;Dani Or

  • The effects of microdrip and conventional drip irrigation on water distribution and uptake

    S. Assouline

  • Conceptual and Parametric Representation of Soil Hydraulic Properties: A Review

    Shmuel Assouline;Dani Or

  • Modeling the Relationship between Soil Bulk Density and the Water Retention Curve

    S. Assouline

  • The concept of field capacity revisited: Defining intrinsic static and dynamic criteria for soil internal drainage dynamics

    Shmuel Assouline;Dani Or

  • Modeling the dynamics of seal formation and its effect on infiltration as related to soil and rainfall characteristics

    S. Assouline;Y. Mualem

  • Modeling the Relationship between Soil Bulk Density and the Hydraulic Conductivity Function

    S. Assouline

  • A model for soil relative hydraulic conductivity based on the water retention characteristic curve

    S. Assouline

  • Infiltration from the Pedon to Global Grid Scales: An Overview and Outlook for Land Surface Modeling

    Harry Vereecken;Lutz Weihermüller;Shmuel Assouline;Jirka Šimůnek

  • The role of soil-surface sealing, microtopography, and vegetation patches in rainfall-runoff processes in semiarid areas

    L. Chen;S. Sela;T. Svoray;S. Assouline

  • Effects of a shading screen on microclimate and crop water requirements

    Markus Möller;Shmuel Assouline

  • Evaporation from three water bodies of different sizes and climates: Measurements and scaling analysis

    Shmuel Assouline;Scott W Tyler;Josef Tanny;S. Cohen

  • Rainfall induced soil seal (A) A critical review of observations and models

    Y. Mualem;S. Assouline;H. Rohdenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Dani Or
Dani Or University of Nevada Reno
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Shabtai Cohen
Shabtai Cohen Agricultural Research Organization
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
Peter Lehmann
Peter Lehmann ETH Zurich
Meni Ben-Hur
Meni Ben-Hur Agricultural Research Organization
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
John S. Selker
John S. Selker Oregon State University
Jan W. Hopmans
Jan W. Hopmans University of California, Davis
Scott W. Tyler
Scott W. Tyler University of Nevada Reno

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