Nicholas DiFrancesco
PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Co-Director
Specialties
Mineralogy, Petrology, Planetary Science, STEM education
Education
PhD, GeoScience, Stony Brook University - 2018
MS, Science Teaching, Pace University – 2008
Research Interest
- Properties of lunar and martian silicate melts
- Petrology of glacial deposits in Central and Western New York
- Mineralogy of fluorescent syenite float deposits along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
- Development of inquiry-based Earth Science content for secondary education teachers
Courses Taught
- ERT 102 – Climate Change
- ERT 103 – Geology for Engineers
- ERT 308 – Geochemistry
- ERT 326 – Structural Geology and Global Tectonics
- ERT 405 – Economic Geology
- ERT 454 – Topics in Planetary Geosciences