I am currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy [1] where vulcanos and melting ice play some role in survival on mars. And in general it's a great read.
The Mars Trilogy – and especially Red Mars – has to be some of the best hard sci-fi ever written.
Unfortunately the paper seems well hidden away behind Elsevier's paywall. But I noticed there's another 2008 paper by some of the same authors on the same topic:
I remember wanting to to be an astronaut as a kid, and I was fascinated by space and was back then constantly making up elaborate, naive plans in my head on how Mars colonization could be effortlessly made possible. This brings me back to that time, and is a great read, too. Thanks!