Francis Nimmo

Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz CA 95064
USA

Some photos of the UCSC campus (PDF format) #1 #2 #3 . . . and of the recent Lassen field trip

• Research Interests: understanding the structure and evolution of rocky and icy planets, in particular
  

  • Icy Satellites
  • Building Planets
  • The Moon
  • Mars

• Recent Publications, Submitted Manuscripts and Popular Press Coverage

• Graduate Student(PhD) Opportunities

• Current/Former grad students and post-docs

• CV and Awards

• Recent Classes Taught

• EART164 Planetary Atmospheres Spring 2013
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists (Graduate Version) Winter 2013
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists Fall 2012
• EART164 Planetary Atmospheres Spring 2012
• EART265 Order of Magnitude Estimation Winter 2012
• EART290C Topics in Geophysics Spring 2011
• EART290Q Physics of Planet Formation Winter 2011
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists Fall 2010
• EART162 Planetary Interiors Spring 2010
• EART265 Order of Magnitude Estimation Winter 2010
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists Fall 2009
• EART290Q Physics of the Outer Solar System Spring 2009
• EART160 Planetary Sciences Winter 2009
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists Fall 2008

• Centre for the Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets (CODEP)

• Lecture notes from the 2012 CPS Planetary Summer School (Kobe, Japan) on the evolution of rocky and icy planetary bodies

• JGR-Planets Associate Editor

• PhD Thesis ``Volcanism and Tectonics on Venus''

• Miscellaneous

Last updated 22 Jan 2013

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