Research Expertise and Interest

risk assessment, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, geostatistics

Research Description

Yoram Rubin is a Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Rubin’s research focuses on the characterization of geologic media using remote sensing and geophysical techniques for environmental and agricultural applications. He is a recipient of the prestigious Henry Darcy Medal awarded by the European Geophysical Union in 2015, the Hydrologic Science Award from the American Geophysical Union in 2004, and the Goldschmidt Award from the Annual Award of the Israeli Hydrological Society in 1988, among other notable accomplishments.