Facilities

All the research facilities of the BIDR are open within the framework of this program. The BIDR is divided into departments that deal with a variety of topics, as follows:

• Desert Ecology
  Animal and plant at all levels of organization.
• Dryland Agriculture
  Irrigation of field crops, greenhouse management, water harvesting, plant introduction, agricultural meteorology, root physiology, agroforestry, range management and animal physiology.
• Dryland Biotechnologies
  aquaculture, biostress, cellular and molecular biology of plants in controlled environments, desert plant biotechnology, microalgal biotechnology, tissue culture and propagation.
• Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
  Hydrological processes, modeling of transport processes, environmental and water resources engineering, microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, aquifer bioremediation, climate change.
• Desalination & Water Treatment
  Investigating and Developing new membranes and processes for desalination and treatment of all kinds of water.
• Man in the Desert
  Urban & regional planning in arid zones, energy & climate in desert architecture, anthropology, sociology, regional development, human geography, economic history.
• Solar Energy & Environmental Physics
  Solar energy utilization and applied optics, desert climate, remote sensing and modeling of desertification.