Einat Lev

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Office 54-610
Office phone: (1)-617-253-8872
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Journal articles

  • Lev, E., and B. H. Hager (2008), Anisotropic viscosity changes the thermal structure of mantle wedges at subduction zones, in revision

  • Grove, T., C. Till, E. Lev, E. Medard, N. Chatterjee, "Do kinematic variable and H2O transport control the formation and location of arc volcanoes?", Nature, in press, 2009

  • Lev, E., and B. H. Hager (2008), Prediction of anisotropy from flow models: A comparison of three methods, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q07014, doi:10.1029/2008GC002032. PDF HTML@G3

  • E. Lev and B. Hager, "Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities with anisotropic lithoespheric viscosity", Geophysical Journal International, 2008 PDF

  • E. Lev, M.D. Long, R.D. van der Hilst, "Seismic anisotropy from shear-wave splitting in Eastern Tibet reveals changes in lithospheric deformation", Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 251 (2006), pg. 293-304. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.018 PDF


Invited Seminars

I have been invited to give variations of my talk "Anisotropic viscosity in viscous flow models - implications for the earth's mantle" in the following seminars:

  • Boston University Solid Earth seminar, March 2009
  • DTM / Carnegie Institute, March 2009
  • LDEO geophysics seminar, Fenruary 2009
  • University of Colorado - Boulder, physics colloquium, March2009
  • Tectonics seminar, Stanford university, January 2009
  • Squishy Physics , Harvard university physics department, June 2008
  • Geophysics brownbag seminar, Princeton university, April 2008
  • Geophysics seminar, Tel-Aviv university, Tel-Aviv, Israel, September 2007
  • Geophysics seminar, Universite Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, September 2007
  • Geophysics seminar, IPG-Paris, Paris, France, September 2007
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, 2006

Conference presentations and posters

  • "Anisotropic viscosity in geodynamical flow models ”, Gordon Research Conference on Rock Deformation, Tilton, NH, August 2008. Slides (PDF) (INVITED)

  • "Anisotropic viscosity in viscous flow models - implications for the earth's mantle" , CIG meeting on numerical modeling of mantle convection and lithospheric dynamics, UC-Davis, July 2008 (INVITED)


  • E. Lev and B.H. Hager, “Anisotropic viscosity in geodynamical flow models ”, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 2007. Part of a special session dealing with rheological anisotropy in earth sciences (tectonophysics, joint with seismology, cryosphere, mineral physics).
  • E. Lev and B.H. Hager, “Anisotropic viscosity in geodynamical flow models – Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities as a test example”, International school of geophysics, September 2007, Carry-Le-Rouet, France Poster

  • E. Lev and B.H. Hager, “Anisotropic viscosity in geodynamical flow models – Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities as a test example”, Gordon Research Conference, June 2007, Mt. Holyoke college, MA. Poster

  • E. Lev, M.D. Long and R.D. van der Hilst, "Seismic anisotropy in Eastern Tibet from shear-wave splitting", Anisotropy meeting, Trest 2006: Poster Slides

  • E. Lev, M.D. Long and R.D. van der Hilst, "Seismic anisotropy in Eastern Tibet from shear-wave splitting", AGU Fall meeting, San-Francisco, 2005. [Received Best Student Presentation Award].

  • E. Lev and B.H. Hager, "Mixing of Differentiated Oceanic Crust in a Convecting Mantle with Depth and Temperature Dependent Properties", Erice 2005: Poster Slides