Publications

Our work spans hydrogeophysics, soil-plant interactions, and contaminant transport. Selected peer-reviewed publications are listed below.

2026

  1. Ivan, V., Mary, B., Peruzzo, L., Schwartz, N., Ghinassi, M., and Cassiani, G. (2026). Distinguishing water salinity, water saturation and clay content using spectral induced polarization: a tool for monitoring arid soil conditions. Geophysical Journal International, 245(1), ggag038.
  2. Mao, D., Ma, X., Chao, C., Schwartz, N., Liu, S., Li, J., Furman, A., Zhang, J., and Meng, J. (2026). Integrating spectral induced polarization with reactive transport modeling to quantify nitrate remediation capacity of ZVI-AC permeable reactive barriers. Water Resources Research, 62(2), e2025WR042370.

2025

  1. Altzitser, S. S., Mishael, Y. G., and Schwartz, N. (2025). Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils: the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses. SOIL, 11, 95-104. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-95-2025
  2. Ma, X., Schwartz, N., Chao, C., Li, J., Xia, T., Furman, A., and Mao, D. (2025). Unveiling spectral induced polarization responses of ZVI-AC-Sand mixtures in groundwater remediation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030107.
  3. Gottlieb, J., Ochman, D., Huang, C. W., Domec, J. C., Schwartz, N., and Hartzell, S. (2025). Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models. iScience, 28(8), 113139.
  4. Sakar, C., Tsukanov, K., Schwartz, N., and Moreno, Z. (2025). A physics-informed neural network workflow for forward and inverse modeling of unsaturated flow and root water uptake from hydrogeophysical data. Journal of Hydrology, 134675.

2024

  1. Sakar, C., Schwartz, N., and Moreno, Z. (2024). Physics-informed neural networks trained with time-lapse geo-electrical tomograms to estimate water saturation, permeability and petrophysical relations in heterogeneous soils. Water Resources Research, 60, e2024WR037672.
  2. Cohen, M., Schwartz, N., and Rosenzweig, R. (2024). Identification of parameter importance for benzene transport in the unsaturated zone using global sensitivity analysis. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(7), 1585-1604.
  3. Ma, X., Zhang, J., Schwartz, N., Li, J., Chao, C., Meng, J., and Mao, D. (2024). Characterizing landfill extent, composition, and biogeochemical activity using electrical resistivity tomography and induced polarization under varying geomembrane coverage. Geophysics, 89(4), E151-E164.

2023

  1. Tsukanov, K., and Schwartz, N. (2023). The influence of roots on soil electrical signature. Rhizosphere, 25, 100670.
  2. Bacher, H., Montagu, A., Herrmann, I., Walia, H., Schwartz, N., and Peleg, Z. (2023). Stress-induced deeper rooting introgression enhances wheat yield under terminal drought. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(16), 4862-4874.

2022

  1. Abdalla, M., Ahmed, M. A., Cai, G., Wankmuller, F., Schwartz, N., Litig, O., Javaux, M., and Carminati, A. (2022). Stomatal closure during water deficit is controlled by below-ground hydraulics. Annals of Botany, 129(2), 161-170.
  2. Mellage, A., Zakai, G., Efrati, B., Pagel, H., and Schwartz, N. (2022). Paraquat sorption- and organic matter-induced modifications of soil spectral induced polarization signals. Geophysical Journal International, 229(2), 1422-1433.

2021

  1. Tsukanov, K., and Schwartz, N. (2021). Modeling plant roots spectral induced polarization signature. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(5).
  2. Paporisch, A., Bavli, H., Strickman, R. J., Neumann, R. B., and Schwartz, N. (2021). Root exudates alters nutrient transport in soil. Water Resources Research, 57(10), e2021WR029976.
  3. Tsukanov, K., Assa, I., and Schwartz, N. (2021). Modeling and experimental study of the effect of pore water velocity on the spectral induced polarization signature in porous media. Water Resources Research, 57.
  4. Hendel, E., Bacher, H., Oksenberg, A., Walia, H., Schwartz, N., and Peleg, Z. (2021). Deciphering the genetic basis of wheat seminal root anatomy uncovers ancestral axial conductance alleles. Plant, Cell and Environment, 44(6), 1921-1934.

2020

  1. Tsukanov, K., and Schwartz, N. (2020). Relationship between wheat root properties and its electrical signature using the spectral induced polarization method. Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), e20014.
  2. Gal, A., Hendel, E., Peleg, Z., Schwartz, N., and Sade, N. (2020). Measuring the hydraulic conductivity of grass root systems. Current Protocols in Plant Biology, 5(2), e20110.
  3. Schwartz, N., Levy, L., Carmeli, B., and Radian, A. (2020). Spectral induced polarization of clay-oxide hybrid particles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 577, 173-180.

2019

  1. Kessouri, P., Furman, A., Huisman, J. A., Martin, T., Mellage, A., Ntarlagiannis, D., Bucker, M., Ehosioke, S., Fernandez, P., and Flores-Orozco, A. (2019). Induced polarization applied to biogeophysics: recent advances and future prospects. Near Surface Geophysics, 17(6), 595-621.

2018

  1. Golan, G., Hendel, E., Mendez Espitia, G. E., Schwartz, N., and Peleg, Z. (2018). Activation of seminal root primordia during wheat domestication reveals underlying mechanisms of plant resilience. Plant, Cell and Environment, 41(4), 755-766.

2016

  1. Schwartz, N., Carminati, A., and Javaux, M. (2016). The impact of mucilage on root water uptake: a numerical study. Water Resources Research, 52(1), 264-277.

2014

  1. Schwartz, N., and Furman, A. (2014). On the spectral induced polarization signature of soil organic matter. Geophysical Journal International, 200(1), 589-595.
  2. Schwartz, N., Shalem, T., and Furman, A. (2014). The effect of organic acid on the spectral-induced polarization response of soil. Geophysical Journal International, 197(1), 269-276.

2013

  1. Shefer, I., Schwartz, N., and Furman, A. (2013). The effect of free-phase NAPL on the spectral induced polarization signature of variably saturated soil. Water Resources Research, 49(10), 6229-6237.

2012

  1. Schwartz, N., and Furman, A. (2012). Spectral induced polarization signature of soil contaminated by organic pollutant: experiment and modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B10).
  2. Schwartz, N., Huisman, J. A., and Furman, A. (2012). The effect of NAPL on the electrical properties of unsaturated porous media. Geophysical Journal International, 188(3), 1007-1011.