Talk:Noam Weisbrod

Edit request 15-JAN-2018

Please add these references, in order to improve it and in order to remove the verification tag.

• Noam Weisbrod is a Professor of Hydrology in the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), which is part of the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research:

Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Blaustein_Institutes_for_Desert_Research

• Weisbrod has been involved in various international missions and evaluation panels to assess local water realities, in places like Chile, Inner Mongolia, Namibia[1] and the Galapagos Islands.

Mission to Inner Mongolia: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bidr/Pages/news/chinese_collab.aspx

Mission to the Galapagos islands: https://aabgu.org/bgu-researchers-head-team-to-preserve-galapagos-national-park/

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Y Substantive rewrite of article Please read the information below carefully for a description of the changes made. These have been carried out in order to bring the article more in line with Wikipedia standards.

Findings:

• The main text of the article included properly paraphrased sections taken from academic papers written by the subject. Because of this, much of that text was of a highly technical nature.
• Mixed in with these technical descriptions of papers was additional text of a promotional nature, which brought about the addition of a COI template in Jan 2018. This promotional text raised concerns that materials added to the section were done so by an editor who may be close to the subject.

Changes:

1. The section of the article containing mostly information on Mr. Weisbrod's academic papers has been changed to a list, per MOS:EMBED.
   1. This list has been placed under subheadings based on designations informed by the previous version's abstract-paraphrased text.
2. The Refimprove and COI templates have been removed.
3. The lead section and information under Career is unchanged.
4. Additional information which was promotional in tone or otherwise irrelevant to the subject and his fields of study has been removed.

If any of the changes made to this article include information which is incorrect, please advise as soon as possible, by changing the request edit template parameter from "ans=yes" to "ans=no". Also, please be sure to sign any posts made to the talk page by adding 4 tildes ~~~~ at the end of your post. Regards, Spintendo ᔦᔭ 14:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Request edit on 1 February 2018

Hi all I want to add this information about Noam:

Education Weisbrod earned his undergraduate (1990) and graduate degrees (MSc, with distinction: 1993; PhD: 1999) from the Department of Soil and Water Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Master’s thesis, written under the supervision of the late Prof. Ronit Nativ, dealt with the hydrogeology of the Israeli Coastal aquifer. Prof. Daniel Ronen and Prof. Eilon Adar joined Prof. Nativ as co-advisors of Weisbrod’s PhD thesis, titled The Interface between Fracture Surfaces and Aqueous Solutions in Unsaturated Chalk: Physical, Chemical and Colloid-Generating Processes. In 1999 he joined the Department of Bioengineering at Oregon State University as a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. John Selker group, carrying out research on flow and transport processes in saline soils. He also explored colloidal transport in heterogeneous soils and combined laboratory work with field experiments and the Hanford site.

Career In 2000, Weisbrod became Research Assistant Professor (Senior Researcher) in Department of Bioengineering at Oregon State University, and the following year he also joined the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the same university as a Courtesy faculty member. In 2002 he returned to Israel where he joined the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev first as a Lecturer (Assistant professor); then as a Senior Lecturer (2006), Associate Professor (2009) and Full Professor (2013). During the summer of 2012, he held a Visiting Professorship at the Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu, China in the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment. Inside Ben Gurion University, he has held numerous positions in the academic administration: from 2009 to 2015 he was the Head for the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology at the ZIWR, and he also served as the Director of the Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation (2013-2015); he has been an elected member of BGU’s Academic Senate since 2010. In 2015 he was elected as the director of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research.

Thank youZahira Cohen (talk) 09:55, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Reply 02-FEB-2018

It looks like we're missing the references, so if you could go ahead and add those, that would be great. When ready, reactivate the template by changing the ans=yes parameter to ans=no Regards, Spintendo ᔦᔭ 11:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Change in the first paragraph

I would like to change the end of the first paragraph to: He has served as director of the ZIWR from 2015 to 2018 and is currently Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (appointed August 2018).

References:

http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bidr/Pages/from-director.aspx Maybe this ref for the date: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenGurionUniversity/posts/?ref=page_internal Thanks! Zahira Cohen (talk) 17:17, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Reply 27-FEB-2019

  Edit request implemented    Spintendo  05:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)