Tel Aviv University, Israel
Physics-based hydrology:
From the heterogeneous subsurface to dynamic catchments
A symposium in honor of Gedeon Dagan's 90'th birthday
Over the past decades, hydrology as a discipline has evolved in many ways. It is currently viewed as a key geoscience for understanding short and long term impact of global change. Within this broad discipline, hydrologists address a variety of water-related issues, from soil processes and vegetation, to surface- and groundwater, to biogeochemical transformation. In addition to the local scale processes, large-scale hydrology implies strong interactions between catchment dynamics and the climate system affecting both water quantity and quality. Resolving hydrological processes rigorously based on physics still poses serious challenges in spite of the significant progress. The main reason is that natural systems exhibit variability in space and time on multiple scales, requiring novel approaches that combine physics with probabilistic scaling concepts. It is only through physics-based bottom-up approaches combined with insightful synthesis of top-down approaches that hypotheses, theory and observations can converge.
The purpose of this conference is to help bridge knowledge gaps in hydrology by promoting dynamic approaches and process rigour in topics ranging from the heterogeneous subsurface to dynamic catchments. These are implemented in novel ways in order to enhance our process understanding and improve methods for engineering applications. Special focus will be given to stochastic subsurface hydrology in honor of the contributions by Gedeon Dagan throughout the many decades of his work.
Prof. Gedeon Dagan – Bio
Prof. Gedeon Dagan is a world renowned geohydrologist and one of the founders of Stochastic Hydrology. He has been contributing to the field for over 5 decades and still going strong! ISI has identified him as one of the 250 most cited scientists in the fields of Engineering and Ecology/Environment. He has received numerous awards and honors: The Horton Award of the Hydrology section (AGU), Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Doctor Honoris Causa of Pierre and Marie Curie University, The Stockholm Water Prize, AGU Horton Medal, Doctor Honoris Causa of Bucharest University, Doctor Honoris Causa, University "Frederico II", Napoli, Italy, Rothschild Prize, Elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and The Israel Prize in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Organizers
Avinoam Rabinovich - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Aldo Fiori - Universita Roma Tre, Italy
Gia Destouni - Stockholm Univeristy, Sweden
Daniel Tartakovsky - Stanford University, USA
Sabine Attinger - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Georg Teutsch - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Vladimir Cvetkovic - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Gerardo Severino - University of Naples, Italy
Alberto Bellin - University of Trento, Italy
David Russo - Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
Andrea Rinaldo - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ziv Moreno - Agricultural Research Organization, Israel