colin r meyer
@colinrmeyer.bsky.social
fluids, ice, snow mechanician. asst prof at Dartmouth College
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A great explainer on @dgrau13.bsky.social’s recent paper finding simple equations describing the size of melt lakes on ice sheets doi.org/10.1038/s414...
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A great explainer on @dgrau13.bsky.social’s recent paper finding simple equations describing the size of melt lakes on ice sheets doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene! 🧊😲
What a surprise! (nope) 🙃
Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What a surprise! (nope) 🙃
Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene! 🧊😲
What a surprise! (nope) 🙃
Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What a surprise! (nope) 🙃
Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What humans do to change climate matters much, much more than natural climate variations in determining future ice loss from Greenland 👉 Read about the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS) Project in our paper out now in The Cryosphere doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
The Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS): simulating the future of Greenland under climate variability
Abstract. The Greenland ice sheet has lost ice at an increasing pace over recent decades, driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and internal variability in the climate system. In proj...
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What humans do to change climate matters much, much more than natural climate variations in determining future ice loss from Greenland 👉 Read about the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS) Project in our paper out now in The Cryosphere doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
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New paper from GLACIOME project: laboratory experimental constraints on iceberg mélange rheology led by Kavinda Nissanka from @emoryuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...
September 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New paper from GLACIOME project: laboratory experimental constraints on iceberg mélange rheology led by Kavinda Nissanka from @emoryuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Cool new library for physics-informed neural networks for glaciology problems, led by Gong Cheng @dartmouthears.bsky.social gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
A Python library for solving ice sheet modeling problems using physics-informed neural networks, PINNICLE v1.0
Abstract. Predicting the future contributions of the ice sheets to sea-level rise remains a significant challenge due to our limited understanding of key physical processes (e.g., basal friction, ice ...
gmd.copernicus.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Cool new library for physics-informed neural networks for glaciology problems, led by Gong Cheng @dartmouthears.bsky.social gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
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Roadtripping to the beach this weekend and listening to this great podcast with @natalyagomez.bsky.social on @colinrmeyer.bsky.social’s Snow and Ice pod 🧊🧊 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
natalya gomez
Podcast Episode · snow & ice pod · 08/27/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Roadtripping to the beach this weekend and listening to this great podcast with @natalyagomez.bsky.social on @colinrmeyer.bsky.social’s Snow and Ice pod 🧊🧊 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Thrilled for this paper @natcomms.nature.com led by @dgrau13.bsky.social, PhD Candidate @gtsciences.bsky.social, putting forward the first physics-based parameterizations for the area and depth of supraglacial lakes 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Predicting mean depth and area fraction of Antarctic supraglacial melt lakes with physics-based parameterizations - Nature Communications
This study uses the physics of bumpy surfaces to derive simple equations that predict the size of lakes that form from melt on the surface of ice sheets, finding that there are fundamental limits on t...
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Thrilled for this paper @natcomms.nature.com led by @dgrau13.bsky.social, PhD Candidate @gtsciences.bsky.social, putting forward the first physics-based parameterizations for the area and depth of supraglacial lakes 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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When the world gets you down, let the joyful wisdom of Tadashi Tokieda brighten your day.
youtu.be/pkfDYOZ1p4Y?...
youtu.be/pkfDYOZ1p4Y?...
Toy models, Tadashi Tokieda | LMS Popular Lectures 2008
YouTube video by London Mathematical Society
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May 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
When the world gets you down, let the joyful wisdom of Tadashi Tokieda brighten your day.
youtu.be/pkfDYOZ1p4Y?...
youtu.be/pkfDYOZ1p4Y?...
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My first thing, pretty much, pretty pleased with it eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Tidal flexure reveals effective elasticity in grounding zones on the Ross Ice Shelf
eartharxiv.org
April 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My first thing, pretty much, pretty pleased with it eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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📣 Our new paper is out in Nature Communications!
Subglacial water—often overlooked—can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subglacial water—often overlooked—can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subglacial water amplifies Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise - Nature Communications
Hidden water beneath Antarctica’s ice can accelerate ice loss, potentially raising sea levels by over 2 meters by 2300. These findings highlight the urgent need to incorporate evolving subglacial hydr...
www.nature.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
📣 Our new paper is out in Nature Communications!
Subglacial water—often overlooked—can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subglacial water—often overlooked—can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to join us at Dartmouth College. The focus of the project is on snow sintering. Together we will develop new models for snow evolution on the surface of glaciers. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
March 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to join us at Dartmouth College. The focus of the project is on snow sintering. Together we will develop new models for snow evolution on the surface of glaciers. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
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Here's more from @jtemple.bsky.social on what the stakes of a Thwaites glacier collapse are and why this initiative is so important
Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”
Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve sea-level rise forecasts and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.
www.technologyreview.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here's more from @jtemple.bsky.social on what the stakes of a Thwaites glacier collapse are and why this initiative is so important
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A new #ScienceReview provides a preview of what the Arctic region may look like in a warmer world. https://scim.ag/41rrYuF
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A new #ScienceReview provides a preview of what the Arctic region may look like in a warmer world. https://scim.ag/41rrYuF
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The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise is out! Herculean effort bringing together >200 estimates of glacier loss outside the ice sheets. Bottom line is 273 gigatonnes per year of ice loss since the year 2000! 😲
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise is out! Herculean effort bringing together >200 estimates of glacier loss outside the ice sheets. Bottom line is 273 gigatonnes per year of ice loss since the year 2000! 😲
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com
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For Valentine’s Day 💙💙 we honored my favorite glaciological love story, Julia and Hans Weertman, by regelating some ice in class while deriving the regelation velocity from first principles
February 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
For Valentine’s Day 💙💙 we honored my favorite glaciological love story, Julia and Hans Weertman, by regelating some ice in class while deriving the regelation velocity from first principles
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Come work with us at Arête Glacier Initiative! 👇
We are seeking a full-time Executive Director (equivalent to CEO) to help lead and grow Arête, a mission-driven non-profit cofounded by Colin Meyer @colinrmeyer.bsky.social and me.
drive.google.com/file/d/12svQ...
We are seeking a full-time Executive Director (equivalent to CEO) to help lead and grow Arête, a mission-driven non-profit cofounded by Colin Meyer @colinrmeyer.bsky.social and me.
drive.google.com/file/d/12svQ...
Executive Director - Arête Glacier Initiative.pdf
drive.google.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Come work with us at Arête Glacier Initiative! 👇
We are seeking a full-time Executive Director (equivalent to CEO) to help lead and grow Arête, a mission-driven non-profit cofounded by Colin Meyer @colinrmeyer.bsky.social and me.
drive.google.com/file/d/12svQ...
We are seeking a full-time Executive Director (equivalent to CEO) to help lead and grow Arête, a mission-driven non-profit cofounded by Colin Meyer @colinrmeyer.bsky.social and me.
drive.google.com/file/d/12svQ...
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Accepted in Journal of Glaciology! Work co-led with @subglacial.bsky.social testing glacier slip theory in the lab. We characterize new slip behaviors on short forcing timescales, while also finding theoretical models are reasonable over longer periods.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Experimental constraints on transient glacier slip with ice-bed separation
PDF | Fast glacier motion is facilitated by slip at the ice-bed interface. For slip over rigid beds, areas of ice-bed separation (cavities) can exert... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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February 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Accepted in Journal of Glaciology! Work co-led with @subglacial.bsky.social testing glacier slip theory in the lab. We characterize new slip behaviors on short forcing timescales, while also finding theoretical models are reasonable over longer periods.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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❄️ Check out this fabulous new paper by Sarah Wells-Moran seeking to constrain the stresses at which ice fractures - it's a fun read by a particularly awesome scientist! 🧊 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fracture criteria and tensile strength for natural glacier ice calibrated from remote sensing observations of Antarctic ice shelves | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
Fracture criteria and tensile strength for natural glacier ice calibrated from remote sensing observations of Antarctic ice shelves
www.cambridge.org
January 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
❄️ Check out this fabulous new paper by Sarah Wells-Moran seeking to constrain the stresses at which ice fractures - it's a fun read by a particularly awesome scientist! 🧊 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Introducing the Cryosphere Publication feed!
🥼❄️ ⚒️
A feed that brings you cryosphere publications.
Posts will appear if they...
- include cryosphere keywords accompanied by a doi, arxiv, or pubmed link
- links from (some) cryosphere-related journals
bsky.app/profile/did:...
🥼❄️ ⚒️
A feed that brings you cryosphere publications.
Posts will appear if they...
- include cryosphere keywords accompanied by a doi, arxiv, or pubmed link
- links from (some) cryosphere-related journals
bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Introducing the Cryosphere Publication feed!
🥼❄️ ⚒️
A feed that brings you cryosphere publications.
Posts will appear if they...
- include cryosphere keywords accompanied by a doi, arxiv, or pubmed link
- links from (some) cryosphere-related journals
bsky.app/profile/did:...
🥼❄️ ⚒️
A feed that brings you cryosphere publications.
Posts will appear if they...
- include cryosphere keywords accompanied by a doi, arxiv, or pubmed link
- links from (some) cryosphere-related journals
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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One month until Christmas Eve 🎄🎅🏼
❄️ The chance for a white Christmas is decreasing across Europe.
📉 Here’s how the odds for a snowy Christmas Eve have changed in the latest climatological period (1991-2020) relative to 1951-1980.
🧵 (1/3)
❄️ The chance for a white Christmas is decreasing across Europe.
📉 Here’s how the odds for a snowy Christmas Eve have changed in the latest climatological period (1991-2020) relative to 1951-1980.
🧵 (1/3)
November 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM
One month until Christmas Eve 🎄🎅🏼
❄️ The chance for a white Christmas is decreasing across Europe.
📉 Here’s how the odds for a snowy Christmas Eve have changed in the latest climatological period (1991-2020) relative to 1951-1980.
🧵 (1/3)
❄️ The chance for a white Christmas is decreasing across Europe.
📉 Here’s how the odds for a snowy Christmas Eve have changed in the latest climatological period (1991-2020) relative to 1951-1980.
🧵 (1/3)
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@leighstearns.bsky.social shining bright at #AGU24 telling the fascinating story of changes at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier Greenland since the 1940s. Advance and thickening up to the 1980s followed by retreat and thinning, all in response to warming atmosphere and ocean and adding to sea level rise
December 13, 2024 at 7:46 PM
@leighstearns.bsky.social shining bright at #AGU24 telling the fascinating story of changes at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier Greenland since the 1940s. Advance and thickening up to the 1980s followed by retreat and thinning, all in response to warming atmosphere and ocean and adding to sea level rise
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Subglacial sediments migrate UP into temperate ice. From Ethan Pierce of @colorado.edu at #AGU24
December 10, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Subglacial sediments migrate UP into temperate ice. From Ethan Pierce of @colorado.edu at #AGU24
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We spend a few months on the Juneau Icefield each summer conducting glacier, geophysics, Polar engineering, geoscience, & climate related research with the Juneau Icefield Research Program. We are open to other scientists joining our team so reach out if you are interested!
November 11, 2024 at 2:41 AM
We spend a few months on the Juneau Icefield each summer conducting glacier, geophysics, Polar engineering, geoscience, & climate related research with the Juneau Icefield Research Program. We are open to other scientists joining our team so reach out if you are interested!
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WOOHOO! 🥳
We’re a little over 7 years old and #EarthArXiv has reached 5000 pre- and post-prints! Thanks to all of those who have supported us over the years 🤗
Check out EarthArxiv for yourself at: eartharxiv.org and learn more about us here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthAr...
We’re a little over 7 years old and #EarthArXiv has reached 5000 pre- and post-prints! Thanks to all of those who have supported us over the years 🤗
Check out EarthArxiv for yourself at: eartharxiv.org and learn more about us here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthAr...
October 28, 2024 at 7:59 AM
WOOHOO! 🥳
We’re a little over 7 years old and #EarthArXiv has reached 5000 pre- and post-prints! Thanks to all of those who have supported us over the years 🤗
Check out EarthArxiv for yourself at: eartharxiv.org and learn more about us here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthAr...
We’re a little over 7 years old and #EarthArXiv has reached 5000 pre- and post-prints! Thanks to all of those who have supported us over the years 🤗
Check out EarthArxiv for yourself at: eartharxiv.org and learn more about us here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthAr...
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Hey #energysky, I decided to record all the lectures in my Sustainability Issues in Energy class this fall. I am posting them to my YouTube channel every Friday. Follow along here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🔌💡
E S 369N fall 2024 - YouTube
Lectures from my class Engineering Studies 369N: Sustainability Issues in Energy, recorded fall semester 2024
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September 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Hey #energysky, I decided to record all the lectures in my Sustainability Issues in Energy class this fall. I am posting them to my YouTube channel every Friday. Follow along here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🔌💡