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Irrigation and Plant Environment

The M.Sc. program in Irrigation and Plant Environment is a two-year program.

The chairperson of the teaching committee is: Dr. Gilboa Arye.

Students are required to complete the following courses during the two-year program:

Subject Credits​

​A. Mandatory Course: Writing a Scientific Paper

 ​2

B.   Core Courses within the Track of Study

 15​

​C.   Departmental and student seminars - Mandatory Courses

 ​1

​D1. Elective Courses within the track of study

D2. Elective courses for students who are in their second year of studies with the approval of their supervisor.​

 ​12

​Thesis Writing

 12​

​Total

 42​

This course should be taken in the 2nd or 3rd semester of your degree.

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-0153 Dr. Scott Hansen and Dr. Christopher J. Arnusch Writing a Scientific Paper 2

Students are required to take 15 credits from the core courses

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-2005 Prof. Yonathan Ephrath&Dr. Gilad Gabay

Plant Physiology under Stress

 2
001-2-2006

Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch&Dr. Ran Erel

Mechanistic Approach to Plant Nutrition

 2
001-2-2035 Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch

Crop Irrigation Regimes

 3
001-2-2038 Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch

Soil Physics

 3
001-2-2203 Dr. Gilboa Arye

Adsorption and Reactivity of Chemicals in Soils

 3
001-2-2204 Dr. Gilboa Arye

Agricultural and Environmental Aspects in Soil Sciences

 3
001-2-5030 Prof. Nurit Agam

Hydrometeorology

 3

Students are required to attend 4 Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-2222 Please check the university course file

Departmental Seminar

 0

Students are required to present two seminars (one student seminar per year).

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-2666 Please check the university course file

Student Seminar (first year)

 0.5
001-2-2667 ​

Student Seminar (second year)

 0.5

In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-9991  

Thesis Writing A

 6
002-2-9992  

Thesis Writing B

 6

Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue their studies for a fifth semester must register for the following course:

Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-1000  

Thesis Writing – Continuation

 0
Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-0022 Dr. Anat Bernstein

Stable Isotope Application in Contaminant Hydrology

 2
001-2-1103 Prof. Hadas Hawlena

​Introduction to Dryland Ecology

 4
001-2-1200 ​Prof. Simon Barak & Dr. Buzi Raviv

BGU Radio Academy – Podcast production course

 2

​001-2-2039

 Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch and Prof. Jirka Šimůnek

Advanced Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Porous Media

 2

001-2-2043

 Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch

Plant Stress Indications: Methods and Instrumentation

 2

001-2-2059

 Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch

Carbon Metabolism and Photosynthesis in a Changing Environment

 2

001-2-2067

 Prof. Jhonathan Ephrath

Understanding and Modeling of Agricultural Systems

 2

001-2-2075

 Prof. Ilya Gelfand

Terrestrial Biogeochemsitry

 3

001-2-2077

 Prof. Aaron Fait

Grape and Wine Science

 2.5

001-2-2205

 Prof. Ido Regev

Modeling in the Earth and Plant Science

 3

001-2-2301

 Prof. Nurit Agam

Guided Reading Course on Calculating the Aridity Index from Meteorological Time Series

 2

001-2-2302

 Prof. Ilya Gelfand

Guided Reading on Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry

 2

001-2-3036

 Prof. Bertrand Boeken

Agroecology

 2.5

001-2-3047

 Prof. Merav Seifan

Global Changes and the biodiversity crisis

 2

001-2-3086

 Prof. Hadas Hawlena

​Microbial Ecology from the Ecologist Point of View

 3

001-2-4028

 Prof. Arnon Karnieli

Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Rangelands, and Forestry (NO PRE-REQUISITES NEEDED)

 3

001-2-4065

 Dr. Victor Yashunsky

Data-Based Research with Python

 3

001-2-5004

 Dr. Elad Levintal and Tuvia Turkeltaub

Field Methods in Hydrology

 3

001-2-5005

 Prof. Amit Gross, Prof. Zeev Ronen

Laboratory Methods for Environmental Studies

 3

001-2-5012

 Prof. Zeev Ronen

Biodegradation Process of Synthetic Organic Compound in Water Soil

 2

001-2-5026

 Prof. Ali Nejidat

Nitrogen Transformations and Environmental Quality

 2

001-2-5029

 Prof. Noam Weisbrod

Rural Water Development

 2

001-2-5041

 Dr. Menachem Sklartz

Practical Bioinformatics for Environmental Studies

 3

001-2-5055 Course 5074 will replace course 5055 starting Nov 3, 2024

 Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch & Prof. Ofer Dahan

Operation and Analysis of Environmental Monitoring Systems

 1

001-2-5074

 Dr. Elad Levintal

Envirotech - do it yourself sensors for environmental research

 3

001-2-5075 Fall

001-2-5076 Spring

 Dr. Elad Levintal

Do-it-yourself sensors for environmental research - advanced course

 3

001-2-6002

 Dr. Aviva Peeters

Theory and Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

 3
Course # Lecturer Subject Credits
001-2-2054 Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch

Guided Reading on Topics in the Ecophysiology of Desert Plants

 2
​​001-2-2060 ​Dr. Nina Kamennaya and guest lecturers ​​History of the landuse, agriculture and domestication ​2
​001-2-2081 ​Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan and Dr. Tamir Caras ​UAVs for environmental and agriculture research ​3
001-2-2173 Prof. Noemi Tel-Zur

Guided Reading on Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics

 2
001-2-3021 Prof. Itamar Giladi

Biostatistics

 3
001-2-3079 Prof. Ariel Novoplansky

Scientific Presentation

 2