AVI (ABRAHAM) SHAVIV
Millstone / St. Louis Chair in Environmental Engineering
Faculty of CIVIL & ENV. ENGN.
TECHNION-IIT, HAIFA
agshaviv@tx.technion.ac.il
Fields of activityEnvironmental soil &
physical chemistry;
Water/effluent reuse; Soil
fertility;
Env. sustainability
Soil and Environmental Physical-Chemistry: N-dynamics, Pdynamics - modeling; processes (effluent irrigation);
Environmentally friendly fertilization approaches;
FTIR spectroscopy & Stable N-isotopes to investigate Ntransformations & NOx Emissions; Availability Indices of N
under effluent irrigation or solid-waste/ manure application
09-2012-12-2014: Director of Grand Water Research Institute – GWRI; Former Head, Dept. of Environmental, Water
and Agricultural Engineering; Faculty of CEE; Technion-IIT (2007-2011).
Avi guided 29 MSc and 7 PhD students and five Post-doctorates and continues to be active in supervising. He published >80
articles in international journals and presented in more than 50 international meetings (>25 as invited speaker). Teaching:
“Intro. to soil chemistry”; “Soil Chemistry, Agrochemicals and Pollution" and "Use of treated wastewater". Recent academic
nominations- Member of Technion Academic Committee; Chair of the "Water Forum" nominated by Shamuel Neeman
Institute-Technion; Nominated Scientific Israeli delegate at the EU-FP7 "Environment and Global Warming Committee";
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (last 10 years)
- Shaviv, et. al., 2003. IR Fiberoptic Systems for In Situ and Real Time Monitoring of Nitrate in Water and Environmental
Systems. Envir. Sci. & Tech. 37:2807-2812.
- Shaviv, A. Smadar Raban, and E. Zaidel. 2003. Model of diffusion release from polymer coated granular fertilizers. Envir.
Sci. & Tech. 37:2251-2256.
- Master, Y., U. Shavit and A. Shaviv. 2004. Modified Isotope Pairing Technique to Study N Transformations in Polluted
Aquatic Systems. Envir. Sci. & Tech. 39:1749-1756.
- Kremen, A., J. Bear, U., Shavit and A. Shaviv. 2005. A model demonstrating the potential for coupled nitrification
denitrification in aggregated soil. Envir. Sci. & Tech. 39: 4180-4188.
- Shaviv, A. 2005. Concepts for Environmental Friendly Nitrogen Fertilization. Life Sciences, (Series C of Science in China),
48(Spec. Issue), 937-947.
- Du Changwen, Jianmin Zhou, A. Shaviv. 2006. Factors affecting release characteristics from compound N-P-K coated-crfs.
Journal of Polymers and The Environment 14 (3): 223-230.
Linker, R and A. Sahviv. 2006. Nitrate Determination using Anion Exchange Membranes and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy.
Applied Spectroscopy 60 (9): 1008-10126.
- Levin, Anna. Indelman P. and A. Shaviv. 2007. Influence of Root Resistivity on Plant Water Uptake Mechanism, Part I:
Numerical Solution", Transport in Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media (2007), 70(1), 81-95.
- Du, C.; Linker, R.; Shaviv, A.. 2008. Identification of agricultural Mediterranean soils using mid-infrared photoacoustic
spectroscopy. Geoderma, 143(1-2), 85-90.
- Du Changwen, Raphael Linker, Avi Shaviv and Zhou Jianmin. 2009. In Situ Evaluation of Net Nitrification Rate in Terra
Rossa Soil Using FTIR-ATR 15N Tracing Technique. Applied Spectroscopy, 63(10):1168-1173.
- Zohar, I, A. Paytan and A. Shaviv. 2010. A Method for the Analysis of Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Various Soil
Phosphate Fractions. Envir. Sci. & Tec., 44(19), 7583-7588.
- Nedal Massalha, Abraham Shaviv and Isam Sabbah. 2010. Modeling the effect of immobilization of microorganisms on the
rate of biodegradation of phenol under inhibitory conditions. Water Research, Volume 44, Issue 18, October 2010, Pages 52525259;
- Hagin, J.; Khamis, M.; Manassra, A.; Abbadi, J.; Qurie, M.; Bulad, A.; Al Hadidi, L.; Semiat, R.; Shaviv, A.; Katz, I.;
Dosoretz, C.; Blonder, O. 2010. Treatment and use of wastewater for agricultural irrigation Palestinian-Jordanian-Israeli
project. Proceedings - International Fertiliser Society (2010), 680, 1-23.
Alfiya, Y., O. Damti, A. Stoler-Katz, A. Zoubi, A. Shaviv, and E. Friedler. 2012. Potential impacts of on-site greywater reuse
in landscape irrigation. Water Science and Technology. Water Science and Technology (2012), 65(4), 757-764.
Kot , F. S., R. Farran, M. Kochva, and A. Shaviv. 2012. Boron in humus and inorganic components of Hamra and Grumosol
soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater. Soil Research, 50, 30–43.
- Kira, Oz, Rphael Linker and Avi Shaviv. 2014. A Novel method combining FRIT-ATR spectroscopy and stable isotopes to
investigate the kinetics of nitrogen transformations in soils. Soil Sci. Soc. A.J., 78(1)54-60.
- Dubowski Y., D. Harush, A. Shaviv, L. Stone, R. Linker. 2014. Real time monitoring of N2O emissions from agricultural
soils using FTIR spectroscopy. Soil Sci. Soc. A.J., 78(1)61-69.
- Myrold, Dave and Avi Shaviv. 2014. A Collection of Papers from “Advanced Methods for Investigating Nutrient Dynamics
in Soils and Ecosystems. Soil Sci. Soc. A.J., 78(1)1-2.
- Iris Zohar, Barbara Cade-Menun, Adina Paytan and Avi Shaviv. 2014. Phosphorus Transformations from Wastewater to
Irrigated Soil: A 31P NMR Study. Soil Sci. Soc. A.J., 78 (6):1884-1892.
- Friedler E., Alfiya Y.1, Shaviv A., Gilboa Y., Raize O. 2015. A continuous active monitoring approach to identify crossconnections between potable-water and effluent distribution systems. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Env.
Monitoring & Asses. 187 (3):131.
CONFERENCES
Invited/Plenary Talks: International Meetings (selected)
-“Environmentally friendly application of nitrogen in non-fertigated Mediterranean soils: practical results and modeling
efforts” . 6Th Int. Meeting on Soils with Mediterranean Type of Climate – IMSMTC, Barcelona, July 1999.
- “Improvement of fertilizer efficiency – Product Processing, Positioning and Application Methods”. In: Fertilizer & Resource
Management for Food Security, Quality and & Environment - Int. Fertilizer Society, March, 2001, Lisbon, Portugal.
- “Optimizing Nutrient Use Efficiency”. Int.l Potash Institute Golden Gubille – “Feed the Soil to feed the people –the role of
potash in sustainable agriculture”; Basel, October 2002.
- “Long term effects of irrigation with reclaimed effluents: Agronomic and Environmnetal Aspects” Workshop- ChinaUK-Israel on "Sustainable Agriculture Development in China, EU and Israel" 26-28 March, 2003, Beijing.
- “Optimizing Fertilizer Use Efficiency” Workshop- China-EU-Israel on "Sustainable Agriculture Development in China,
UK and Israel" 26-28 March, 2003, Beijing.
- "The Nitrogen cycle in Israeli agro-ecosystems"; DIARP workshop on "The Application of Novel Isotopic Methods for the
Identification and Quantification of Nitrous Oxide Emission Pathways from Agro-Ecosystems", Altera, Wageningen, The
Netherlands March 2007.
- "Sustainable re-use of reclaimed wastewater in Israeli agriculture". Water Tribune – Expo Zaragoza, Spain – Thematic week
of Water and Land: Agriculture, Land Development and Landscape. June 2008.
- "Sustainable Re-use of Reclaimed Wastewater in Agriculture – Current Experience and Future Challenges". WaterTech
Central Asia: The 1st Central Asian International Water Technology Exhibition and Conference. Almaty, Kazakhstan,
September 2008.
- "Sustainable use of reclaimed wastewater - The Israeli Experience". Yangling International Agri-Science Forum, Northwest
A&F University, Shaanxi Province, China, November 2009.
- “Challenges of assuring clean water and securing food production under increasing water scarcity”; International Water
Symposium, Rotary Int. District 2490, Israel, Watec-2013, Tel-Aviv, October 2013.
- ““Sustainable re-use of reclaimed wastewater for irrigation – The Israeli Experience”; Special Invited Presentation at School
of Natural Resources, DOUC Universita Catolica, Santiago, Chile, 7-10-2013.
- “Options for Confronting Water Security and Food Scarcity Challenges in a World of Climate Change and Land and Water
Resources Degradation”; + “Sustainable re-use of reclaimed wastewater for irrigation – The Israeli Experience”; International
Seminar- Uso Racional de Aqua – Rational Use of Water; Universidad Sur-colombia; Huila, Colombia; 12-15 November 2014.
Invited Series of Lectures
- Series of lectures to students and academic staff of Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India (26 February to 5th Match
2012); main topics: a. Use of reclaimed wastewater in Israel; b. Water research activity at Technion-IIT;
- Series of lectures to students and academic staff of Northwest A&F University, Yangling (XIAN), Shaanxi, China, on “
Efficient Use of Water and Wastewater in Agriculture”, 1-8th September, 2013.
- Lecture for special course - "Water scarcity, solutions, and trade-offs" the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs' at
Northeastern University, Boston, 5th February, 2014.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL EVENTS (RECENT):
8. Chair of the Dahlia Greidinger International Symposium on "Crop Production in the 21st Century: Global Climate Change,
Environmental Risks and Water Scarcity" to be held in Technion, Haifa, March 2009. Funded by BARD/MARD (40,000$)
and The Dahlia Greidnger Memorial Fund. http://dgsymp09.technion.ac.il/
9. Chair of WATER FORUM (Samuel Neeman Insitute) – first forum meeting on: "Managements Policy of Israeli Reclaimed
Wastewater Resources", March, 8th 2010, GWRI, Technion. http://www.neaman.org.il/news/event_item.asp?fid=1010
10. Co-Chair of the Dahlia Greidinger International Symposium on "Sensing in Agriculture", Held March 2011, Technion,
Haifa, Israel.
http://agri-sensing.technion.ac.il/;
11. Chair of WATER FORUM (Samuel Neeman Insitute) – second forum meeting on: "Water and Agriculture", March, 8th
2011, GWRI, Technion.
12. Chair of the Dahlia Greidinger International Symposium on “Advanced methods for investigating nutrient dynamics in
soils” to be held March 2013, Technion-IIT, Haifa. http://dgsymp13.technion.ac.il/ ;
13. Coordinator and Chair of session – “Irrigation Technology for Food Security”; Watec-2013,
http://www2.kenes.com/watec-israel/Conference/Documents/watec%20program%20october%2020.pdf
14. Special event- WETSKILLS Israel 2013 - Dutch and Israeli Students Offer Solutions to Water Issues in Israel;
http://www.technion.ac.il/en/2013/12/wetskills-israel-2013-3/