Contact:
benasher@bgu.ac.il
Tel. Office ++972-8-659 6747
Born: 1938, Israel. 
Ph. D. 1973, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University. Full Professor. 

Research Interest:

Multi-dimensional water, solids and heat transport; General mass
transport for trickle irrigation; Hydrologic water balance of large watersheds, irrigated
agriculture, and agriculture; Micrometeorology.

Research Projects:

Generating new techniques to control desertification and salinization effects in Mediterranean basins (with Turkey, Spain and Portugal). European Commission - Science, Research and Development, Euro-Mediterranean S&T Cooperation.
Control of Salination and Combating Desertification Effects in the Mediterranean Region. European Commission - Science, Research and Development.
Soil Moisture Monitoring for Global Change Detection, Monitoring and
Assessment in Israel. EU German (PIK and GFZ) -Israel Project
Development of Algorithm for Automatic control of Microclimate in Green Houses MOS.
The Katif Research Center for Coastal Deserts Development.

Courses Taught:

Applied Soil Physics, BGU.

Recent Publications:

Ben-Asher J. and P.R. Berliner. 1994. Runoff Irrigation In: K.K. Tanji and B. Yaron Eds. Advances Series in Ag. Sciences 22, pp. 126-154.

Resnick S.D., J. Ben-Asher, A. Dodi and M.H. Diskin 1996 Hydrologic Balance Studies of Semi Arid and Arid watersheds. In: A.S. Issar and S.D. Resnick (eds.) Runoff infiltration and subsurface flow of water in arid and semi arid regions, pp.1-41.

Ben-Asher, J., 1994. A mathematical model of integrated water and solute uptake by roots under saline and toxic conditions. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 345-349.

Ben-Asher, J. 1995. Soil and water contamination in arid coastal zones. In: Tsiortiis N. (ed.) Water resources management under drought or water shortage condition, pp. 235-240. Rotterdam, Bolkema.

Ben-Asher J. 1997. A simplified model of soil and water contamination due to nitrate fertilization. In: Shaviv A. and J. Mordvedt (eds.). Proceeding of the Dahlia Gredinger international symposium on fertilizer and environment, pp. 120-126, Haifa Israel.

Horovitz Mizrahi S., J. Ben-Asher, A. Amiel, J. B. Laronne and Y. Shevach. 1998. Contamination of ground water and its implication on agroproductivity in coastal deserts. The case coastal gaza strip. In the Portuguese national committee on irrigation and drainage. In: Proceeding of the first inter-regional conference on environment-water innovative issues in irrigation and drainage, pp. 71-81. Lisbon Portugal.

Alekperov C. J. Ben-Asher, J. Ephrath and M. Silberbush and E. Dayan. 1997. Comparison of two drip water supplys systems under controlled environment. In: J.C. Refgaard and E.A. Karalis (eds.) Operational water management, Bolkema, Rotterdam pp. 379-382.

Ben-Asher J. and E. Pacardo. 1997. K uptake by root system grown in saline soil: A conceptual model and experimental results. In: Food and security in: A.E. Johanson (ed.). The WANA region , The essential need for balanced fertilization, pp 353-360, International Potash Institute, Basel, Switzeland.

Beltrao J., and J. Ben-Asher. 1997. The effect of salinity on corn yield using ceres maize model. Irrigation and Drainage Systems 2: 173-176.

De-Malach J., J. Ben-Asher, M. Sagih and A. Alert. 1996. Double Emitter Source (DES) for salinity and fertilization experiments. Agron. J. 89:1421-1424.

Qiu Guo Yu, J. Ben-Asher, Tomohisa Yano, and Kazuro Momii, 1999. Estimation of soil evaporation using the differential temperature method. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63 (6): 1608-1614.