Rien van Genuchten
Soil Physicist
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Formerly at: U.S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA, USA
Department of Earth Sciences
Utrecht University
Utrecht
The Netherlands
rvangenuchten@hotmail.com
Water flow and solute transport processes in soils and groundwater
Analytical and numerical modeling
Characterization and measurement of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties
Use on inverse methods to estimate flow and solute transport parameters
Crop salt tolerance; root water uptake
Preferential flow in macroporous soils and unsaturated fractured rock
Nonequilibrium transport of contaminants
Computer software development
Ph.D. 1975 Soil Physics New Mexico State University
M.S. 1971 Irrigation and Drainage Wageningen University, The Netherlands
B.S. 1968 Irrigation and Drainage Wageningen University, The Netherlands
2004-present Soil Physicist USDA-ARS U.S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA
1986-2003 Supervisory Soil Scientist & Research Leader USDA-ARS U.S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA
1987-2005 Adjunct Professor of Soil Physics Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA
1978-1986 Assistant, Associate and Full Research Soil Scientist Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA
1975-1978 Research Staff Member, Water Resources Program Department of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1968-1969 Assistant Hydrologist Ministry of Agriculture, Maintirano, Madagascar
Editor (2001-2006) and Co-Editor (2007-present), Vadose Zone Journal
Deputy Editor, Water Resources Research (1998-2000)
Associate Editor, Water Resources Research (1984-1990), Soil Science (1993-present), Advances in Water Resources (1995-present), Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics (1996-present), Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (1996-present), International Agrophysics (1992-present), Nordic Hydrology (2003-present)
Member various committees of the American Geophysical Union, the Soil Science Society of America, and other organizations
InterPore Honorary Membership Award (2012)
European Geosciences Union Dalton Medal (2010).
Dionys Štur Medal of Honor for Outstanding Achievements in the Natural Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (2005)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Hannover, Germany (2004)
Promoted to the Senior Scientific Research Service (2004)
Fellow AAAS (2003), AGU (1992), ASA (1991), SSSA (1988)
Technology Transfer Award, USDA, ARS (2001)
Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, Institute for Scientific Information, ISI (2001)
Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2001)
Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award, SSSA (1998)
Soil Science Research Award, SSSA (1996)
Distinguished Senior Scientist of the Year, USDA, ARS (1996)