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Colin R. Meyer
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Academic Cluster: Arctic Engineering in a Period of Climate Change
The ice mechanics group: (left to right) PhD student Brita Horlings; Postdoc Jacob Buffo; Postdoc Aleah Sommers
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
Research Interests
Fluid dynamics; snow and ice mechanics; glaciology; icy satellites; applied mathematics
Selected Publications
- Pierce Hunter, Colin R. Meyer, Brent M. Minchew, Marianne Haseloff, and Alan W. Rempel (2021). Thermal controls on ice stream shear margins. J. Glaciol. 1–15. doi: 10.1017/jog.2020.118
- Colin R. Meyer, Kaitlin M. Keegan, Ian Baker, and Robert L. Hawley (2020). A model for French press experiments of dry snow compaction. Cryosphere, 14:1449–1458, 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, 363(6427) 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., 9(3242). 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, 11:2799-2813. 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. 62(234):750-762. doi: 10.1017/jog.2016.65
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