Senior Scientist
   Dept. of Environmental Science and Energy Research
   Weizmann Institute of Science
   76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
   E-mail: einata@wicc.weizmann.ac.il
  Tel.: 972-8-9344228  Fax: 972-8-9344124

Education

Ph.D. in Marine Geology and Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1996

Doctoral Thesis: Solid-fluid interactions in porous media: processes that form rocks.'' Advisors: Prof. Daniel H. Rothman (MIT) and Dr. Peter B. Kelemen (WHOI)

Honors and Awards

1999, Allon Fellowship, AGU award for excellence in refereeing

1998, Storke-Doherty Lectureship.

1996, Lamont Post-doctoral Fellowship.

1989, Deans list, Tel-Aviv University.

1989, Magna cum Laude, Tel-Aviv University.

Research Interests

Effects of micro-scale processes (chemical and physical) on geological, geophysical and hydrological phenomena. Fluid flow in reactive porous media. Melting and magma dynamics. Diagenesis of sedimentary rocks. Pressure solution. Dynamics of granular materials. Friction and fault evolution. Landslides.

Employment

8/2000-present

Senior scientist in the dept of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research of the Weizmann Inst. of Science

1/2000-8/2000

Joint appointment, assist. prof. in the Dept of Applied Math and Physics, and the Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Columbia   Univ.

1998 - 1999:

Storke-Doherty Lecturer, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Post-doctoral Fellow, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Research assistant, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

 Teaching assistant in Chaos and Complexity, MIT, Cambridge, MA. An introduction to the theory and phenomenology of dissipative systems.

Research assistant, Dept. of Geophysics, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

1999: Planning committee of LDEO

1998: Organizing Lamont Earth Science Colloquium series

1998: Salary support committee LDEO

1998: Co-organizer of ``Physics of landslides and avalanches'' session, AGU spring meeting, Boston, 1998.

1997: Organized SG&T seminar series

1997: Advised a physics undergraduate student in thesis on ``Experimental studies of landslide motion''

Professional societies

American Geophysical Union

Funded Projects

[NSF EAR98-04855] ``The physics of gouge-filled fault zones'' (with Dave Sparks), $183,000, (1998).

[NSF EAR98-04838] ``Diagenesis and Experimental Seal Formation'' (with Chris Scholz), $190,000, (1998).

[NSF RIDGE OCE95-30307] ``Causes and consequences of flow organization during melt transport'' (with Marc Spiegelman), $270,769, (1996).

Publications
Aharonov E. and D. Sparks ``Simulations of Shear in Gouge zones'', in Proceedings of The 2nd ACES workshop on Earthquake simulations''} to appear, (2001) .

Sparks D. and E. Aharonov ``Anatomy of a slip event in an idealized fault gouge'', Proceedings of The 2nd ACES workshop on Earthquake simulations'', to appear, (2000).

 Sparks D and Aharonov E, "StickSlip motion in granular layers", in  review, JGR, 2001

Spiegelman M., E. Aharonov, and P. Kelemen `` The Compaction Reaction: Magma Channel Formation by Reactive Flow in Deformable Media'',
JGR, 2001.

Anders, M, Aahornov E. and Walsh J, " Stratified granular media beneath large slide blocks: Implications fro mode of implacment", Geology, 28,
11, pg. 971-974, (2000)

Aharonov, E., and D. Sparks `` Rigidity Phase Transition in Granular Packings'', Physical Review E, 60, 6890-6896, (1999).

Aharonov, E., E. Tentheroy, and C. Scholz ``Precipitation sealing and diagenesis: 2.Theoretical analysis'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 23,969-23,981, (1998).

Tentheroy E., C. Scholz, E. Aharonov, and A. Leger ``Precipitation sealing and diagenesis: 1.Experimental results'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 23,951-23,968, (1998).

Kelemen, P., and E. Aharonov, ``Periodic formation of magma fractures and generation of layered gabbros in the lower crust beneath oceanic spreading centers'', in Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, Geophysical Monograph v. 106, AGU Monographs, (1998).

Gal D., A. Nur, and E. Aharonov ``Stability of pressure solution surfaces'', Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 1237-1240, (1998).

Aharonov, E., M. Spiegelman and P. Kelemen ``3D flow and reaction in porous media (with implications for the Earth's mantle and sedimentary basins)'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 14,821-14,831, (1997).

Aharonov, E., A. Thompson, and D. H. Rothman ``Transport properties and diagenesis in sedimentary rocks: the role of micro-scale geometry'', Geology, 25, 547-550, (1997).

Aharonov, E. ``Solid-fluid Interactions: Processes that form rocks'', PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1996).

Aharonov, E. and Rothman, D., ``Growth of correlated pore-scale structures in sedimentary rocks'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 2973-2987, (1996).

Aharonov, E., Whitehead, J., Kelemen, P. and Spiegelman, M., ``Channeling instability of upwelling melt in the mantle'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 20,433-20,450, (1995).

Kelemen, P., Whitehead, J., Aharonov, E., and Jordahl, K., ``Experiments on flow focusing in soluble porous media: application to melt extraction from the mantle'', Journal of Geophysical Research , 100, 475-496, (1995).

Aharonov, E. and Rothman, D., ``Non-Newtonian flow (through porous media): a lattice Boltzmann method'', Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 679-682, (1993).

Meeting Presentations

Aharonov, E., and Sparks, D. `` The transition between frictional and collision dominated granular flow'',AGU spring meeting, Boston, MA, May 1998. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 79(17) ,332, (1998).

Aharonov, E, ``Transport properties and diagenesis: the role of micro-scale geometry'', 1998 symposium on fluid-rock interactions, Oslo, Norway, April, 1998.

Aharonov, E, ``The evolution of porous media due to coupled flow and reaction'', 1998 symposium on fluid-rock interactions, Oslo, Norway, April, 1998.

Tentheroy E., E. Aharonov, C. Scholz, and A. Leger ``Precipitation sealing and diagenesis: Experiments and Theory'', 2nd Gordon Conference on Rock Deformation, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, August 1997.

Aharonov, E., Spiegelman, M, and Kelemen, P., ``Coupled Flow and Reaction in porous media (with implications for the Earth's mantle and sedimentary basins)'', 2nd Gordon Conference on Rock Deformation, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, August 1997.

Galmudi D., Nur A. and Aharonov, E. ``Stability analysis of pressure solution surfaces'', 2nd Gordon Conference on Rock Deformation, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, August 1997.

Sparks D., Aharonov E., and C. Scholz , ``The development of fault zone features during shear, from discrete numerical models'', Symposium on Localization phenomena and dynamics of brittle and granular systems, Columbia University, NY, August 1997.

Aharonov, E., ``Flow and reaction in porous media: General results and implications for geological systems'' AGU fall meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 1996. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,, 77(46), 235, (1996).

Spiegelman M., Aharonov, E., and P. Kelemen, ``The compaction reaction: Magma channel formation by reactive flow in deformable media'' AGU fall meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 1996. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,, 77(46), 783, (1996).

P. Kelemen, Aharonov, E., K. Kuga, N. Shimizu, and J. Whitehead, ``Implications of gabbro sills in the crust/mantle transition zone of the Oman ophiolite'' AGU fall meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 1996. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union,, 77(46), 836, (1996).

Aharonov E. and D. Rothman, ``from grains to rocks: a mysterious transition'', V.M. Goldschimdt Conference, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, May 1995.

Aharonov E. and D. Rothman, ``Growth of correlated pore-scale structures in rocks'', V.M. Goldschimdt Conference, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, May 1995.

Aharonov, E., Whitehead, J., Kelemen, P., and Spiegelman, M. ``The reactive infiltration instability: Implications for focusing of melt beneath mid-ocean ridges.'' AGU fall meeting, San-Francisco, CA, December 1994. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 75(44), 744, (1994).

Aharonov, E., Whitehead, J. and Kelemen, P. ``Channeling instability of melt flowing through the reactive decompressing mantle'', 20th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Nice, France, June 1994.

Aharonov, E., and Rothman, D., ``Roughness in rocks'', 20th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Nice, France, June 1994.

Whitehead, J., Kelemen, P., Aharonov, E., and Jordahl, K., ``Channel formation or dispersion of melt in a partially soluble mantle'', AGU fall meeting, San-Francisco, California, December 1993. Abstracted in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union , 75, 684, (1993).

Aharonov, E., and Rothman, D., ``Non-Newtonian flow (through porous media): a lattice Boltzmann method'', NATO advanced research workshop on Pattern formation and lattice gas automata, Waterloo, Canada, June 1993.

Aharonov, E., and Rothman, D., ``A lattice Boltzmann model for non-Newtonian fluids'', 19th International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Taxco, Mexico, June 1992.