Bruno Yaron, D.Sc.Prof.Emeritus Research Interests: - Contaminants behavior in the soil environment- Contaminants impacts on soil-subsurface change- Soil Anthropogenic Formation Adviser The Weizmann Institute of SciencesEnvironmental Sciences and Energy Research Phone: +972-8-934-4230Fax: +972-8-934-4124Rehovot,Israel Positions2002-present: Adviser , Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel: 1995-2001 Soil Scientist (Prof. Emeritus), Institute of Soil and Water, ARO-Bet Dagan, Israel 1986-1994 Soil Scientist (Prof.), Institute of Soil and Water, ARO-Bet Dagan, Israel 1973-1977 1980-1986 Director, Institute of Soil and Water, ARO-Bet Dagan, Israel 1960-1973 Soil Scientist, Inst. of Soil and Water, ARO-Bet Dagan, Israel 1953-1960 Research Assistant, ICAR, Bucharest, Romania Visiting Assignments 2000, 1993, 1974,1966 - Visiting Soil Scientist: Station du Sol-INRA, Versailles, France 1989.1983 1979 - Visiting Fellow: St. Cross College, University of Oxford, UK1984 - Visiting Prof: University of California, Riverside, USA 1966-67 - Post Doctorate Fellow: Texas A & M University, College Station, USAAwards-Recognitions1979 Canada International Development Award1983 Fellow, American Society of Agronomy (elected)1989 Royal Society Fellowship, Oxford University 1990 Plenary Opening Lecture, 14 International Congress, IUSS, Kyoto Japan2006 One of the 10 most relevant papers published (together with D. H. Yaalon,Soil Sci 102:272 - 277) in the journal Soil Science during 90 years of existence, reproduced in a special anniversary issue (Soil Sci S171:154 - 159) PublicationsBooksYaron B., Danfors E., Vaadia Y. (Eds.) Arid Zone Irrigation (1973) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 349 pp. Hadas A., Swartzenbruder D., Rijtema P.E., Fuchs M., Yaron B (eds) Physical Aspects of Soil Water and Salts in Ecosystems (1973) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 460 pp.Yaron B., Dagan G., Goldshmid J. (Eds.) Pollutants in Porous Media (1984) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 295 pp. Gerstel Z., Chen Y., Mingelgrin U., Yaron B. (Eds.) Toxic Organic Chemicals in Porous Media (1989) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 313 pp.Saltzman S., Yaron B. (Eds.) Pesticides in Soils (1986) Van Nostrand, New York, 342 pp.Tanji K.K., Yaron B. (Eds.) Management of Water Use in Agriculture (1994) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 313 pp. Yaron B., Calvet R., Prost R. (1996) Soil Pollution-Processes and Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 320 pp.Berkowitz B., Dror I., Yaron B. (2008) Contaminant Geochemistry ג€" Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 412 pp. Yaron B.,Dror I.,Berkowitz B. (2012) "Soil Subsurface Change-Chemical Pollutant Impact", Springer- Verlag Heidelberg, 366pp Research and Review Papers (from 2000) Dror I., Prost R., Yaron B. (2000) Behavior of neat and enriched volatile petroleum hydrocarbons mixtures in the subsurface during leaching Land Contamination & Reclamation 8:341-348 Dror I., Rubin H., Braester C., Gerstl Z., Yaron B. (2000) In situ effect of soil amendments on the dynamic of kerosene attenuation Land Contamination & Reclamation 8:349-357Dror I., Rubin H., Braester C., Gerstl Z., Yaron, B. (2001) Persistence of a petroleum hydrocarbon mixture in soil profile during leaching: a field experiment. In: R. Lipnick et al. (Eds.) Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals: Fate and Exposure. ACS Books, 70-84 Dror I., Gerstl Z., Yaron B. (2001) A field experiment on redistribution and dissipation of residual kerosene in soil subsurface during leaching Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 48:305-323 Prost, R., Yaron, B. (2001) Use of modified clays for controlling soil environmental quality Soil Science 166:880-895 Dror I., Gerstl, Z., Prost, R..Yaron, B. (2002) Abiotic behavior of entrapped petroleum products in the subsurface during leaching Chemosphere 49:1375-1388 Dror I., Amitay T., Yaron B., Berkowitz B. (2003) Salt-Pump mechanism for intrusion of marine contaminants into coastal aquifers Science 300:950. Dror I., Yaron B., Berkowitz B. (2003) Response to Comment on "Salt-Pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into Coastal Aquifers" Science 302:784 Yaalon D.H.., Yaron B. (2006) Framework for man-made soil changes - an outline of metapedogenesis Soil Science 171:S154-159 (reproduced in a special anniversary issue from 1966 Soil Science 102:272-277) Yaron B., Dror I., Berkowitz B. (2008) Contaminant induced irreversible changes in properties of the soil-vadose-aquifer zone: an overview, Chemosphere 71:1409-1321Yaron B., Dror I., Berkowitz B. (2009) Chemical contaminants as factor of soil-subsurface metagenesis IUSS Bulletin 115:11-12 Yaron B., Dror I., Berkowitz B. (2010) Contaminant geochemistry - a new perspective, Naturwiessenschaften 97:1-17 Updated May 2010