ARIE NADLER
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Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
The Agricultural Research Organization
P.O.B. 6 Bet Dagan 50250 Israel
tel. 972-3-968-3865
fax 972-3-960-4017
e-mail: vwnad@volcani.agri.gov.il
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Education and Additional Training
l964 - l967 B.Sc. in Chemistry. Major: Chemistry, Physics.at Hebrew University,
Faculty of Natural Sciences Jerusalem, Israel.
l967 - l969 M.Sc in Physical Chemistry, at the Hebrew University,Faculty of
Natural Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel.
l970 - l976 Ph.D. in Geochemistry at Isotopes Dept., The Weizmann Institute
of Science, Rehovot, Israel.Title of Thesis: Changes in chemical composition
of fresh water and sea water in contact with common sedimentary rocks, in nature
and in the laboratory.
1981 - 1982 Sabbatical leaves: at U.S. Salinity Lab. California, with Prof
R. D. Rhoades
1987 - 1988 Sabbatical leaves: at the University of California, Riverside,
CA with Prof. J. Letey.
1993 - 1994 Sabbatical leaves: at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
with Prof B. D. Kay.
1999 - 2000 Sabbatical leaves: at HortResearch Palmerston North, New Zealand,
, with Prof B. Clothier.
Positions held and Academic status 
l968 - l969 Research assistant, Physical Chemistry Dept., Hebrew Univ.,Jerusalem, Israel.
l969 - l970 Research assistant, Inorganic Chemistry Dept., Hebrew Univ.,Jerusalem, Israel.
l970 - l976 Research assistant, Isotopes Department, Weizmann Institute,Rehovot.
l98l - l982 Visiting Soil Scientist, U. S. S. L. Riverside, CA. U.S.A.
l987 - l988 Visiting Soil Scientist, UCR, CA. U.S.A.
1993 - 1994 Visiting Prof. ,L.R.S., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
1994 Visiting Prof. Dept. of Plants, Soils, And Biomet, Utah state Univ.,Logan, Utah, USA.
1998 Visit in Spain in the framework of bilateral agreement between Israel
andSpain.
1998 Sent by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ State of Israel, to Cairo,
Egypt, Key Speaker in the third conference of “On Farm Irrigation and
Agro-climatology”
2000 Invited lecturer and Chairman of session on Monitoring salt load in:
“Is sodic soil gypsum amelioration an inevitable, irreversible hazard
to soil properties, under arid conditions?” in “Sodicity Issues
in Agricultural industries – Current research and future directions, Feb
28th-March 1st, ISIA, Tatura, Victoria, Australia.
2000 - invited for three weeks to ISPAIM, CNR, San Sebastian al Vesuvio.
2001 – Invited lecturer by Italian CNR in “Managing Water Demand
through Pricing: Research Issues and Lessons learned.” In Telese Italy.
2001 – Speaker and Member in Foreign Office Delegation to Poland- Israel
Panel for irrigation waters, Warsaw, Poland.
2002 - Invited for three weeks to ISPAIM, CNR, San Sebastian al Vesuvio, by
Prof. A. Basile, to be a partner in a EU project for controlling nitrate contamination
by TDR, in the north of Italy.
2003, March-May, Invited by Fellowship for Research for two months in the
Biotron Institute, Kyushu University, Fokuoka, Japan; Hosted by Prof. J. Chikushi.
Training Experience 
l968 - l969 Instructor, Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
l969 - l970 Instructor, Laboratory in Inorganic Chemistry, Hebrew Univ.,Jerusalem, Israel.
l972 - l974 Teacher of Chemistry, High School, Tichon Meshutaff, ShaarHanegev, Israel.
l970 - l975 Instructor and lecturer, Chemistry and Physical Chemistry,Faculty of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
1990 - 1992 Introductory Course to "Physico-Chemical Systems"(incl.laboratory) 'Everyman's University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1992 - 1993 Guidance of Dr. J. H. Torrento from Spain, "Polymer effect
onWater retention".
1991 - 1992 Lecturer at the international irrigation course.
Editorial Responsibilities
Served as a reviewer for the J. of Soil Sci., Irrigation Science , Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. , Soil Sci., Cand. J. Soil Sci., and J. Soil and Water Conser, Australian J. of Soil Res. Small Business Innovation Research, USA Dept of Agriculture
Research Interests
Monitoring water and salts levels in the soil profiles.
Relating water status in soil and plants.
Soil conditioners effect on soil structure and stability.
Developing measuring equipment.
Direct application of the TDR technology in trees stems for water
and salinity stress monitoring.
Selected Recent publications
- Nadler, A., Lapid Y. (1996) An improved capacitance sensor for in-situ
monitoring of soil moisture. Australian J. of Soil Res. 34 361-368
- Nadler, A., (1998) Comments and Letters to the Editor related to the"Comparison
of three methods to calibrate TDR for monitoring solute movement in undisturbed
soil" by Mallatnts et al. 1996. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62: 489-490
- Nadler, A. (1997) Discrepancies between soil solute concentration estimates
obtained by TDR and aqueous extracts. Australian J. of Soil Res. 35 ,527-537
- Nadler, A., Heuer, B. (1997) Soil moisture levels and their relation to
Water Potential of cotton leaves. Australian J. of Soil Res. 35 48 , 923
- 932
- Nadler, A., Erner, Y. (1998) Salt accumulation in a saline-water irrigated
orchard: the 4P technique revisited. Australian J. of Soil Res. 36, 473-484.
- Nadler, A. (1999) Letter To The Editor: "Comments on 'Measurement
of volumetric water content by TDR in saline soils. by G. C. L. Wyseure
et al., 1997 European J. Of Soil Science. 50: 181-183.
- Nadler, A., Gamliel, A, Peretz, I. (1999) Practical aspects of salinity
effect on TDR-measured Water-content: A field study. Soil Sci. Soc. Am.
J. 63: 1070-1076.
- Alvaro Pires da Silva, Arie Nadler, and B. D. Kay (2001) Factors Contributing
to Temporal Stability in Spatial Patterns of Water Content in the Tillage
Zone. Soil and Tillage Research, 58, 207-218
- Iris Vogeler, Steve Green, Arie Nadler, and Celine Duwig. (2001) Measuring
Transient solute transport through the Vadoze Zone using time domain reflectometry.
Australian Journal of Soil Research, 39: 1359-1369
- Arie Nadler, and A. L. Ward. (2001) Using the formation factor to calibrate
TDR for water content and salinity measurements in drip irrigated fields.
TDR-2001, Second international symposium and Workshop on Time Domain Reflectometry
for innovative Geotechnical Applications. Northwestern University Evanston,
Ill. , 291-303.
- Arie Nadler. (2001). Letter to the Editor regarding: “Influence
of soil properties on electrical conductivity under humid water regimes.”
by Auerswald, K., S. Simon, and H. Stanjek, in Soil Science, 2001, 166:
382-390
- Arie Nadler, S. R. Green, I. Vogeler, and B. E. Clothier. 2002. Laboratory
Horizontal and vertical TDR measurements of soil water content and Electrical
conductivity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66: 735-743.
- Arie Nadler. 2002. Comments on: The effect of soil electrical conductivity
on moisture determination using time domain reflectometry in sand soil (Sun
et el., Can.J. Soil Sci. 80: 13-22), Cand. J. of Soil Sci., 82: 389-390.
- Arie Nadler, Eran Raveh, Uri Yermiyahu, S. R. Green. 2003. Evaluation
of TDR Use to Monitor Water Content in Stem of Lemon Trees and Soil and
Their Response to Water Stress. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67: 437-448.
- Arie Nadler. 2003. Relations between soil and tree stem water content
and bulk electrical conductivity under salinizing irrigation. Soil Sci.
Soc. Am. J. 68: 779-783.