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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
- 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. 126. 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, 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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