Yehouda Enzel

Yehouda is an arid region geomorphologist with interests in paleoclimate and landscape change over time driven by tectonics. We've worked with him in various sites in the Middle East and he has co-advised several students and mentored Ari Matmon. Yehouda likes to laugh.

Doctoral Degree

University of New Mexico, Ph.D., 1990

Email Address

yenzel@vms.huji.ac.il

Current Position and Contact Information (3/2008)

Professor of Earth Sciences
Institute of Earth Sciences and Department of Geography
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel 91904
+972 2 6586703

First-Authored Meeting Abstracts Based on UVM Research

Enzel, Y., Amit, R., Lekach, J., Porat, N., Grodek, T., Bierman, P., and Erel, Y., 2007, Impact of climatic change on an arid watershed: Nahal Yael, Israel: Evaluating Bull and Schick's 1979 model with new field data and IRSL ages from Nahal Yael: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 514. (download pdf)

Junior-Authored, Refereed Publications Based on UVM Research

Matmon, A., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., Bierman, P., Larsen, J., Porat, N., Amit, R., and Caffee, M., 2003, Complex exposure histories of chert clasts in the late Pleistocene shorelines of Lake Lisan, southern Israel: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 28, p. 493 - 506. (download pdf)

Matmon, A., Bierman, P., and Enzel, Y., 2002, Pattern and tempo of great escarpment erosion: Geology, v. 30, p. 1135-1138. (download pdf)

Gran, S., Matmon, A.S., Bierman, P.R., Enzel, Y., Caffee, M., and Rizzo, D., 2001, Displacement history of a limestone normal fault scarp northern Israel from cosmogenic 36Cl.: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 4247-4265. (download pdf)

Clapp, E.M., Bierman, P.R., Schick, A.P., Lekach, J., Enzel, Y., and Caffee, M., 2000, Sediment yield exceeds sediment production in arid region drainage basins: Geology, v. 28, p. 995-998. (download pdf)

Other Meeting Abstracts Based on UVM Research

Bierman, P.R., Nichols, K.K., Matmon, A., Enzel, Y., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., 2007, 10-Be shows that Namibian drainage basins are slowly, steadily and uniformly eroding: Quaternary International v. 167 - 168 p. 33. (download pdf)

Nichols, K.K., Bierman, P.R., Matmon, A., Enzel, Y., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2007, Namibia: Interesting landscapes but monotonous erosion rates: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 603. (download pdf)

Matmon, A., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., Bierman, P.R., Larsen, J., Amit, R., Porat, N., and Caffee, M., 2003, Cosmogenic and OSL dating of the late Pleistocene shorelines of Lake Lisan, southern Israel; two different histories: Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, v. 16, p. 228. (download pdf)

Gran, S., Matmon, A., Bierman, P., Enzel, Y., and Caffee, M., 1999, Calculating fault displacement rates, in-situ cosmogenic chlorine-36 concentrations of a limestone normal fault scarp, northern Israel: International Conference on Drainage basin Dynamics and Morphology, Jerusalem, Israel, p. 21. (download pdf)

Gran, S.E., Matmon, A., Bierman, P.R., Enzel, Y., and Caffee, M., 1999, Evidence for rapid, Holocene displacement on the Nahef East normal fault, northern Israel; a cosmogenic Cl-36 approach: Geological Society of America, 1999 annual meeting Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 31, p. 301-302. (download pdf)

Matmon, A., Bierman, P.R., Caffee, M.W., and Enzel, Y., 1999, How fast do rift escarpments retreat?: Geological Society of America, 1999 annual meeting Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 31, p. 445. (download pdf)

Gran, S.E., Matmon, A., Bierman, P.R., Enzel, Y., and Caffee, M., 1998, Calculating fault displacement rates, in-situ cosmogenic chlorine-36 concentrations of a limestone normal fault scarp, northern Israel: Geological Society of America, 1998 annual meeting, abstracts with programs Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 30, p. 142-143. (download pdf)