Colin R. Meyer

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

• Aleah Sommers, Colin R. Meyer, Kristin Poinar, Jessica Mejia, Mathieu Morlighem, Harihar
  Rajaram, Katarzyna L.P. Warburton, Winnie Chu (2024). Velocity of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier controlled both by terminus effects and subglacial hydrology with distinct realms of influence. Geophys. Res. Lett. doi: 10.1029/2024GL109168
• 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

Courses

• ENGS 34: Fluid Mechanics
• ENGS 100: Methods in Applied Mathematics I
• ENGS 150: Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

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