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Michael Mellon

Phone: 303-492-1711
Email: Michael.Mellon at lasp.colorado.edu
WWW: None


Interests

The history of water on Mars, the martian permafrost, surface-atmosphere interactions and the martian climate. Periglacial geology and geophysics on Earth and Mars. Searching for subsurface water on Mars. Antarctic analogs to martian geomorphology. Laboratory research in transport processes in frozen soils, including gas diffusion, solute migration, electromagnetic propagation and the effects of water vapor, ice, and adsorbate on transport physics. Remote sensing and thermophysical properties of planetary regoliths, with specific emphasis on martian surface material. Planetary surface temperature behavior and geothermal heat flow.

Publications

  • Publications by Michael Mellon in the LASP Database
  • Select publications