Research Interests:
Efficient use of marginal water, remediation techniques, and the environmental risks associated with contaminated water resources (i.e. aquaculture effluents, wastewater, contaminated groundwater).
Current Academic Activities:
These include the use of shockwave manipulation to clean local contamination of groundwater; re-use of graywater for irrigation; development of management practice for the extraction of nutrients for use in organic agriculture; and issues related to the nitrogen cycle in aquaculture (i.e. nitrite toxicity in saline water and enhancement of biofiltration units for intensive recirculated aquaculture).
Research Projects for M.Sc.:
Environmental Contamination Of Aquatic Systems & Remediation Techniques
1) Nutrients Cycling In Earthen Ponds
Balance approach for nutrients cycling in earthen ponds and the release of
nutrients from earthen ponds systems into the environment.
2) Effluent Management & Environmental Assessment
Management practices to improve effluent quality by chemical and microbial
means
Minimization of effluent loads from inland aquatic operations on the
environment, mainly streams, rivers, and reservoirs
Assessment of effluent load on the environment.
3) Remediation Methods of Surface & Ground Water
Use of bacterial and enzyme inoculates to improve quality of pond water and
groundwater
Use of shockwave manipulation to clean local contamination of groundwater
Re-use of graywater for irrigation.
Hydrology of Aquatic Systems
1) Hydrology of earthen ponds
Balance approach and the water cycle in earthen ponds.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology
Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
BGU, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
Telephone: +972-8-6596896
Fax: +972-8-6596831
E-mail: amgross@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
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