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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yoram Rubin is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies in the intersection of environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions to groundwater flow and contamination studies as well as hydrology and watershed management.

Their work encompasses several specialized subfields including environmental engineering, water science and technology, safety, risk, reliability and quality, management, monitoring, policy and law, and soil science.

Yoram Rubin has published research extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Engineering Geology
  • Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • The R Journal
  • Ground Water
  • Advances in Water Resources

Their research topics cover a broad range of subjects such as:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Geotechnical engineering and analysis
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Rock mechanics and modeling

Recent notable publications authored or co-authored by Yoram Rubin include:

  • Stochastic modeling of groundwater drawdown response induced by tunnel drainage, 2022, Engineering Geology
  • A vulnerability assessment method to evaluate the impact of tunnel drainage on terrestrial vegetation under various atmospheric and climatic conditions, 2020, Advances in Water Resources
  • A framework for assessing tunnel drainage-induced impact on terrestrial vegetation, 2022, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • exPrior: An R Package for the Formulation of Ex-Situ Priors, 2021, The R Journal
  • Defining Hydrogeological Site Similarity with Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, 2022, Ground Water

Yoram Rubin has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Cagri Gokdemir
  • Xiaojun Li
  • Karina Cucchi
  • Falk Heße
  • Nura Kawa

Among the recognitions received, Yoram Rubin was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology

    Yoram Rubin

  • Soil moisture content estimation using ground-penetrating radar reflection data

    I.A. Lunt;S.S. Hubbard;Y. Rubin

  • A comparison of seven geostatistically based inverse approaches to estimate transmissivities for modeling advective transport by groundwater flow

    D. A. Zimmerman;G. de Marsily;G. de Marsily;C. A. Gotway;M. G. Marietta

  • Stochastic modeling of macrodispersion in heterogeneous porous media

    Yoram Rubin

  • Field‐scale estimation of volumetric water content using ground‐penetrating radar ground wave techniques

    Katherine R. Grote;Susan Sharpless Hubbard;Yoram N. Rubin

  • Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data

    M B. Kowalsky;Stefan A. Finsterle;John Peterson;Susan Hubbard

  • Groundwater uptake by woody vegetation in a semiarid oak savanna

    Gretchen R. Miller;Gretchen R. Miller;Xingyuan Chen;Yoram Rubin;Siyan Ma

  • Hydrogeological characterization of the South Oyster bacterial transport site using geophysical data

    Susan S. Hubbard;Jinsong Chen;John Peterson;Ernest L. Majer

  • Stochastic identification of transmissivity and effective recharge in steady groundwater flow: 2. Case study

    Yoram Rubin;Gedeon Dagan

  • Direct reservoir parameter estimation using joint inversion of marine seismic AVA and CSEM data

    G. Michael Hoversten;Florence Cassassuce;Erika Gasperikova;Gregory A. Newman

  • Estimating the hydraulic conductivity at the South Oyster Site from geophysical tomographic data using Bayesian techniques based on the normal linear regression model

    Jinsong Chen;Susan Hubbard;Yoram Rubin

  • A Stochastic Approach to the Problem of Upscaling of Conductivity in Disordered Media: Theory and Unconditional Numerical Simulations

    Yoram Rubin;J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández

  • Stochastic analysis of boundaries effects on head spatial variability in heterogeneous aquifers: 1. Constant head boundary

    Yoram Rubin;Gedeon Dagan

  • HYDRO_GEN: A spatially distributed random field generator for correlated properties

    Alberto Bellin;Yoram Rubin

  • Estimating flow parameter distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrological measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone

    Michael B. Kowalsky;Stefan Finsterle;Yoram Rubin

  • Hydrogeological parameter estimation using geophysical data: a review of selected techniques

    Susan S. Hubbard;Yoram Rubin

  • Flow and Transport in Bimodal Heterogeneous Formations

    Yoram Rubin

  • Mapping permeability in heterogeneous aquifers using hydrologic and seismic data

    Yoram Rubin;Gary Mavko;Jerry Harris

  • Stochastic analysis of boundaries effects on head spatial variability in heterogeneous aquifers: 2. Impervious boundary

    Yoram Rubin;Gedeon Dagan

  • Linear equilibrium adsorbing solute transport in physically and chemically heterogeneous porous formations. 1. Analytical solutions

    Alberto Bellin;Andrea Rinaldo;Willem Jan P. Bosma;Sjoerd E. A. T. M. van der Zee

  • Direct Reservoir Parameter Estimation Using Joint Inversion of Marine Seismic AVA & CSEM Data

    G. Michael Hoversten;Florence Cassassuce;Erika Gasperikova;Gregory A. Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Alberto Bellin
Alberto Bellin University of Trento
Gedeon Dagan
Gedeon Dagan Tel Aviv University
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Nowak
Wolfgang Nowak University of Stuttgart
Stefan Finsterle
Stefan Finsterle Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Donald W. Vasco
Donald W. Vasco Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christian Schmidt
Christian Schmidt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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