William Jury

Distinguished Professor of Soil Physics & Soil Physicist, Emeritus

My principal research interests are: measurement and modeling of organic and inorganic chemical movement and reactions in field soils; development and testing of organic chemical screening models; characterization volatilization losses of organic compounds. At present, I am conducting research in field measurement and modeling of preferential flow of chemicals, chemical transport at low water content, unstable flow of water in soil, global water management, and sequential reuse of agricultural drainage water.

Jury, W. and R. Horton. 2004. Soil Physics. 6^th Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 390 p.
Jury, W.A., G. Sposito, and R.E. White. 1986. The transfer function model of solute transport through soil. I. Fundamental theory. Water Resour. Res. 22:243-247.
Ellsworth, T.J., W.A. Jury, F.E. Ernst and P.J. Shouse. 1991. Three dimensional field study of solute transport through unsaturated, layered porous media, 1. Methodology, mass recovery and mean transport 2. Dispersion modeling. Water Resour. Res. 27: 951-982.
Jury, W.A., A. Tuli, and J. Letey. 2003. Effect of travel time on management of a sequential reuse drainage operation. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 67(4):1122-1126, 2003 Jul-Aug.
Jury, W.A. and H.J. Vaux, Jr. 2007. The Emerging Global Water Crisis: Managing Scarcity and Conflict between Water Users. Adv. Agron. Vol. 95 (in press) 124 MS pages.

UC Riverside Graduate Student Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 1981
UC Riverside Faculty Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 1986
Fellow, Soil Science Society of America, 1988
Soil Science Research Award of the Soil Science Society of America, 1989
Guest Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z�rich, 1989
Dupont Research Lecturer, University of Delaware, 1991
Environmental Quality Research Award of the Agronomy Society of America, 1992
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1996
Appointment, Water Science and Technology board, National Research Council, 1998-
US Dept. of Agriculture Secretary’s Honor Award for Environmental Protection 1999
Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award of the Soil Science Society of America 1999
Member, National Academy of Sciences 2000-
UCR Commencement Speaker, June 2000
Pierre Lecturer, Iowa State University, 2001
Faculty Research Lecturer 2002
Inaugural Member UCR Academy of Distinguished Teaching 2005