• Rafael Cottom
  • Position: PhD Student
  • Office: WL 203
  • Research Interests: icy moons, planetary geophysics, glaciology, astrobiology
  • Cottom_Rafael_CV_3.pdf

Research Interest Statement

I use geophysical modeling to study ice-ocean interactions on Europa, particularly fracture-mediated exchange between the deep ocean and the shallow subsurface. I am also interested in a range of other surface and interior processes on other rocky bodies in the solar system and beyond.