Hendrik Lenferink

Geophysics

Phone: 3-5810

Address:
54-712
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA

Email: hendrik@mit.edu

Interests

Measurement of the strength of water ice-bearing planetary materials in laboratory experiments at high pressures and extreme temperatures, including but not limited to ice-sand mixtures and ice-clathrate mixtures. The former serve as an analog for Martian soils and the latter for subsurface solids on the Saturnian moon Enceladus – a 300-km-wide icy world jetting geysers near its south pole that form Saturn’s E-ring. Multi-material flows in general float my boat and I relish my attempts to understand them.

Research Advisor/Academic Advisor:

William Durham