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Research Interests
Fluid dynamics; snow and ice mechanics; glaciology; icy satellites; applied mathematics
Education
- BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 2012
- MASt, Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge University 2013
- PhD, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University 2017
Selected Publications
- Colin R. Meyer, Christian Schoof, and Alan W. Rempel (2023). A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe
. J. Fluid Mech.
doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.366
- Jacob J. Buffo, Lujendra Ojha, Colin R. Meyer, Ken Ferrier, and Marisa C. Palucis (2022). Revisiting subglacial hydrology as an origin for Mars' valley networks . Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117699
- Jacob J. Buffo, Colin R. Meyer, and James R. G. Parkinson (2021). Dynamics of a Solidifying Icy Satellite Shell
. J. Geophys. Res.
doi: 10.1029/2020JE006741
- Colin R. Meyer, Kaitlin M. Keegan, Ian Baker, and Robert L. Hawley (2020). A model for French press experiments of dry snow compaction . Cryosphere. doi: 10.5194/tc-14-1449-2020
- Brent M. Minchew, Colin R. Meyer, Samuel S. Pegler, et al. (2019). Comment on "Friction at the bed does not control fast glacier flow." Science . doi: 10.1126/science.aau6055
- Colin R. Meyer, Anthony S. Downey, and Alan W. Rempel (2018). Freeze-on limits bed strength beneath sliding glaciers. Nat. Comms. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05716-1
- Colin R. Meyer and Ian J. Hewitt (2017). A continuum model for meltwater flow through compacting snow. Cryosphere . doi: 10.5194/tc-2017-128
- Colin R. Meyer, Matheus C. Fernandes, Timothy T. Creyts, and James R. Rice (2016). Effects of ice deformation on Röthlisberger channels and implications for transitions in subglacial hydrology . J. Glaciol. doi: 10.1017/jog.2016.65