Dr. Kurtzman's area of expertise is hydrological research. While a student, Dr. Kurtzman was in charge of parameter estimation through hydraulic and tracer tests in groundwater-contamination research. He also has experience in groundwater hydrology, physics, GIS, physical chemistry, air pollution, wind effects, environmental engineering, and climatic database research and development.

Education

B.Sc., Magna Cum Laude, Atmospheric Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1993

M.S., Magna Cum Laude, Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997

Ph.D. Hydrogeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005

Awards and Honorary Societies

Fellowship—The Rieger Foundation, Jewish National Fund Program for Environmental Studies, 2003

Fellowship—The Baron de Hirsch Foundation, for studies in the U.S., used to fund a visit to Golder Associates Inc. (Seattle branch) and work with Dr. William Dershowitz, 2002

Scholarship, The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research—Scientific Cooperation Scholarship Program, 2001

Selected Publications

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2005, Lessons learnt from discrete fracture network modeling of multi-borehole pumping and tracer tests in fractured chalk (abs.), in Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Israel Geological Society, Mashabim (Mashabei Sade), Israel, April 5–7, p. 53.

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2004, A fractured-chalk field laboratory for flow and transport studies on the 10- to 100-m scale (ext. abs.), in Proceedings, 2nd International Symposium on Dynamic of Fluids in Fractured Rock, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, February 10–12, p. 19–24.

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2004, The conceptualization of a channel network through macroscopic analysis of pumping and tracer tests in fractured chalk (abs.), in Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Israel Geological Society, Hagosherim, Israel, March 23–25, p. 66.

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2004, The conceptualization of a channel network through macroscopic analysis of pumping and tracer tests in fractured chalk (abs.), in Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, November 7–10, [Abstract].

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2003, A fractured-chalk field laboratory for flow and transport studies on the 10- to 100-m scale (ext. abs.), in Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association for Water Resources, Neve Ilan, Israel, October 23, p. 96–99.

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2003, Results from an intermediate-scale study area located at the confluence of the Naim and Hovav washes, in Contaminant transport, monitoring and remediation strategies in fractured chalk in the Northern Negev—Frac Flux Project: Annual Report for the 2nd year, p. 69–82.

Kurtzman, Daniel, Nativ, Ronit, and Adar, E. M., 2002, Aquitard characterization through fracture observations on different scales (abs.), in NATO Advanced Study Institute in Hydrogeophysics: Improved subsurface characterization using integrated hydrogeological and geophysical data, Trest, Czech Republic, July 17–27.

Kurtzman, Daniel, and Kadmon, R., 1999, Mapping of temperature variables in Israel: a comparison of different interpolation methods: Climate Research, v. 13, p. 33–43.

Contact

Daniel Kurtzman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 475-9527

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November 2005