Colin R. Meyer

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Academic Cluster
Changing Polar Regions

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Fluid dynamics; snow and ice mechanics; glaciology; icy satellites; applied mathematics

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

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