Abdallah Alaoui
Privatdozent Dr. habil.
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Address:

Centre for Development and Environment
University of Berne
CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland

+41-31-631 3059 (Phone)
+41-31-631 8544 (Fax)
abdallah.alaoui@cde.unibe.ch

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Research Interests

• SOIL PHYSICS AND SOIL MECHANICS
  Macropore flow. Structured soils. Soil-Plant-water interaction. Modelling flow and transport in unsaturated zone. Dynamic patterns of flow in soils. Soil compaction. Soil protection. Soil management.
  
  
• LAND USE AND SOIL MANAGEMENT
  Evaluation of the impact of land use and land cover on soil structure and flow processes. Importance of soils for agriculture and forestry, and for ecosystems functions. Modelling the effects of land use and climate changes on soil and water resources across scales.
  
  
• SOIL HYDROLOGY
  Up-scaling of soil hydrological processes at the temporal and spatial scales. Impact of climate changes on hydrology. Flood-process oriented modelling. Field determination and modelling of the water balance.
  
  

• PRIVAT DOCENT, May 2012
  Group of Hydrology, University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, since 2007
  Group of Hydrology, University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, 1999-2007
  Soil Science Section, University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• RESEARCH SCIENTIST, 1998
  Water and soil protection laboratory, Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 1993-1998
  Soil Science Section, University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.), 1998
  Soil Science Section, University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  
• TRAINING COURSE on the dual-porosity modelling of water and solutes transport (Prof. N. Jarvis) 1996
  Department of Soil Sciences, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
  
  
• TRAINING COURSE on the "Modelling of Solute Transport in Porous Media" (Prof. M. Th. van Genuchten), 1995
  Department of Soil Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
  
  
• TRAINING COURSE on the "Modelling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in the Subsurface" (Prof. Jacob Bear), 1994
  Institut fuer Hydromechanik und Wasserwirtschaft, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
  
  
• RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 1988-1993
  Center of Hydrogeology of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  
  
• POSTGRADUATE STUDENT, 1987-1990
  Center of Hydrogeology of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  
  
• MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GEOLOGY, 1982-1986
  Faculty of sciences, University of Fès, Morroko
  

• H2020 - Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience (iSQAPER). SFS-4-2014: Soil quality and function
  
  
• H2020 - Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe. SFS-2B: Assessing soil-improving cropping systems
  
  
• The ecological and socio-economic consequences of land transformation in alpine regions: an interdisciplinary assessment and VALuation of current changes in the Ursern Valley, key region in the Swiss central Alps. University of Basel – University of Bern (NFP)
  
  
• Mise au point d‘un dispositif simple de mesure de la capacité d‘infiltration et de la courbe caractéristique du sol. Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
  
  
• Compaction des sols agricoles: définition, méthodes d'investigation et recommendations. Université de Bern - Laboratoire de mécanique des sols, EPFL. Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)
  
  
• Caractérisation hydrodynamique des principaux types de sol en Suisse. Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)
  
  
• Bodenschutz beim Bau von Golfanlagen: Wirkung von Schürfkübelraupen auf die Bodenstruktur. AgroLab Swiss GmbH - Golf Verband - Migros
  
  
• Quantitative estimation of groundwater recharge through the unsaturated zone. Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)
  
  
• Evaluation of soil compaction using hydrodynamic variation of soil moisture. Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)
  

• ALAOUI A., GOETZ B. & DISERENS E. 2011. Hydrodynamic Comparison between Soil under Barley and Grassland. Nova Science Publishers Inc. Hauppauge (NY). In: Barley: Production, Cultivation and Uses, 217 - 231. Steven B. Elfson (Ed.) ISBN: 978-1-61209-745-9
  
  
• DISERENS E. & ALAOUI A. 2011. Contact Area of Agricultural Tyres, Estimaion. Encyclopedia of Agrophysics. Springer, 148 - 153. Glinski Jan; Horabik Jozef; Lipiec Jerzy (Eds.) ISBN: 978-90-481-3584-4
  
  

• MUELLER M., ALAOUI A., ALEWELL C. 2015. Water and solutes dynamics during rainfall events in headwater catchments in the Central Swiss Alps under the influence of green alder shrubs and wetland soils. Ecohydrology (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., FERCHER M., MUELLER M. 2015. Modelling the impact of land use changes on peak discharge in the Ursern Valley, Switzerland. (In prep.)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., SCHWILCH G. 2015. New Device, new challenge in soil hydrology. (In prep.)
  
  
• ALAOUI A. 2015. Modelling susceptibility of grassland soil to macropore flow. J. of Hydrology, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.016 (Full paper)
  
  
• BATTIATO A., ALAOUI A. & DISERENS E. 2015. Impact of normal and shear stresses due to wheel slip on hydrological properties of an agricultural clay loam: experimental and new computerized approach. J. of Agricultural Sci. (Full paper)
  
  
• MUELLER M., ALAOUI A., KUELLS Ch., LEISTERT H., MEUSBURGER K., CHRISTINE STUMPP Ch., WEILER M., ALEWELL C. 2014. Tracking water pathways in steep hillslopes by d18O soil depth profiles. Journal of Hydrology (Full paper)
  
  
• HOREL A., LICHNER L., ALAOUI A., CZACHOR, H., NAGY V., TOTH, E. 2014. Transport of iodide in structured clay-loam soil under maize during irrigation experiment analyzed using HYDRUS model. Biologia, DOI: 10.2478/s11756-014-0465-6 (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., WILLIMANN E., JASPER K., FELDER G., HERGER F., MAGNUSSON J. & WEINGARTNER R. 2013. Modelling the Effects of Land Use and Climate Changes on Hydrology in the Ursern Valley, Switzerland. Hydrol. Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9895 (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., SPIESS P., BEYELER M. & WEINGARTNER R. 2012. Up-scaling surface runoff from plot to catchment scale. Hydrology Research. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., LIPIEC J. & GERKE HH. 2011. A review of the changes in the soil pore system due to soil deformation: A hydrodynamic perspective. Soil and Tillage Research, 115-116: 1-15 (Full paper)
  
  
• DISERENS E., DEFOSSEZ P., DUBOISSETC A. & ALAOUI A. 2011. Estimation of the contact area of agricultural traction tyres. Biosystems Engineering, 110: 73-82 (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A. & DISERENS E. 2011. Changes in soil structure following passage of a tracked heavy machine. Geoderma, 163:283-290. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., CADUFF U., GERKE HH. & WEINGARTNER R. 2011. Preferential flow effects on infiltration and runoff in grassland and forest soils. Vadose Zone Journal, 10:367-377. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A. & GOETZ B. 2008. Dye tracer and infiltration experiments to investigate macropore flow. Geoderma, 144:279-286. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A. 2006. A method to evaluate the compaction effect on soil structure. BGS-SSP Bulletin, 28:21-25.
  
  
• ALAOUI A. & HELBLING A. 2006. Evaluation of soil compaction using hydrodynamic water content variation: comparison between compacted and non compacted soil. Geoderma, 134:97-108. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A. & EUGSTER W. 2004. Dual-porosity modeling of the groundwater recharge: Testing a quick calibration using in situ moisture measurements, Areuse River Delta, Switzerland. Hydrogeology Journal, 464-475, DOI: 10.1007/s10040-003-0288-y. (Full paper)
  
  
• ALAOUI A., GERMANN P., JARVIS N. & ACUTIS M. 2003. Dual-porosity and Kinematic Wave Approaches to assess the degree of preferential flow in an unsaturated soil. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48(3):455-472. (Full paper)
  
  
• GERMANN P., ALAOUI A. & RIESEN D. 2002. Drag force approach to the transport of colloids in unsaturated soils. Water Resources Research, 38(10):18(1-15). (Full paper)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. & EUGSTER W. 2001. Field determination of the water balance of the Areuse river delta (Switzerland), Hydrological Sciences Journal, 46(5):747-760. (Full paper)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. & GERMANN P. 1998. Kinematic wave approach to drainage flow and moisture distribution in a structured soil. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 43(4):561-578.(Full paper)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. GERMANN P., LICHNER L. & NOVAK V. 1997. Preferential transport of water and 131Iodide in a clay loam assessed with TDR-techniques and boundary-layer flow theory. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 4:813-822. (Full paper)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A., MÜLLER I. & CHRISTE R. 1993. Geophysical prospection in the Areuse delta (Switzerland): An application of the electro-magnetic VLF-resistivity multifrequency method. Hydrogeol., 1:47-52. (Abstract)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. & ROSSIER-HAEGI V. 1992. Evaluation of the groundwater recharge through the unsaturated zone : application to the experimental site of Colombier, Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Bull. du CHYN, 11:81-95. (Abstract)
  
  
• MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. & BOUZELBOUDGEN M. 1991. Hydrogeology of the Areuse plain. Bull. du CHYN, 10:99-106. (Abstract)
  
  
• ALLEMANN R. & MDAGHRI-ALAOUI A. 1991. Comparative evaluation of different artificial dyes in hydrogeology and methodology of analysis. Bull. du CHYN, 10:1-10. (Abstract)