Dani Or
- Phone: (775) 682-5448
- Email: dor@unr.edu
- Building: WPEB
- Room: 421
- Website: Dr. Or's website
- Website: Dr. Or's Google Scholar Website
Summary
Dr. Or’s research focuses on mass and energy transport in porous media; mechanics of landslides and avalanches; evaporation from porous surfaces; and on biophysical processes and biological activity in soil. Dr. Or is a former editor-in-chief of the Vadose Zone Journal, a recipient of the Kirkham Soil Physics Award (2001), fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (2004), chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Flow and Transport (Oxford, UK, 2008) and fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2010). Dr. Or was selected as the Birdsall-Dreiss distinguished lecturer, a recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz International Fellow Award, selected for the 2014 Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a recipient of the 2017 European Geosciences Union John Dalton Medal, the Langbein Lecture of the AGU in 2018, elected for the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 and a Caltech Moore Scholar in 2023.
- Ph.D., Soil Science and Biometeorology (soil physics), Utah State University, Logan, 1990
- M.S. Soil and Water Sciences, cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1987
- B.A. Soil and Water Sciences, cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1985
- 2023 - present Nevada Engineering Distinguished Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
- 2020 - 2023 Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
- 2008 - 2020 Professor of Terrestrial Env. Physics, ETH - Zurich
- 2005 - 2008 Professor of Soil & Env. Physics, EPF - Lausanne
- 2002 - 2005 NU Chair Professor CEE/ENVE , University of Connecticut
- 2000 - 2002 Professor of Soil Physics, Utah State University
- 1997 - 2000 Associate Professor of Soil Physics, Utah State University
- 1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor of Soil Physics, Utah State University
- 1991 - 1992 Post-Doctorate (Civil Eng.), University of California, Berkeley
- 1990 - 1991 Post-Doctorate (Hydrologic Sci.), University of California, Davis
- Editor, Vadose Zone Journal (2010-2013)
- Editorial board of Vadose Zone Journal (2001-2010)
- Editorial board of Advances in Water Resources (2004-2009)
- Associate editor, Water Resources Research (1999-2002)
- American Geophysical Union
- Soil Science Society of America
- Moore Scholar, (Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences), Caltech, 2023
- Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2022
- Langbein Lecture, American Geophysical Union, 2018
- The European Geosciences Union John Dalton Medal, 2017
- Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA), 2014
- Selected 2013 Birdsall-Dreiss distinguished lecturer (Geological Society of America)
- Selected 2012 Boussinesq lecturer (Center for Hydrology and KNAW)
- Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2010
- Selected for the Nyle C. Brady Frontiers of Soil Science Lectureship, 2008
- Elected Chair 2008 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Flow & Transport in Permeable Media
- Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2005
- Elected Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, 2004
- Recipient of the SSSA Kirkham Soil Physics Award, 2001