Francis Nimmo

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

office number: A219 Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg.
tel. +1-831-459-1783
fax. +1-831-459-3074
fnimmo@ucsc.edu

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
  • Pluto!

• Published Papers, Submitted Manuscripts and Popular Press Coverage

• Graduate Student(PhD) Opportunities

• Current/Former grad students and post-docs

• CV and Awards

• Class Pages

• EART265 Order of Magnitude Estimation Winter 2023
• EART290Q Physics of the Outer Solar System Winter 2020
• EART111 Mathematical Methods for Earth Scientists Fall 2019
• EART163 Planetary Surfaces Spring 2019
• EART191B Planetary Capstone Spring 2017
• EART290C Numerical methods in planetary sciences Winter 2017
• EART164 Planetary Atmospheres Spring 2013
• EART290C Topics in Geophysics Spring 2011
• EART290Q Physics of Planet Formation Winter 2011
• EART162 Planetary Interiors Spring 2010
• EART290Q Physics of the Outer Solar System Spring 2009
• EART160 Planetary Sciences Winter 2009

• UCSC Planetary Group home page

• UCSC Astrobiology Initiative

• Lecture notes from the 2020 USTC Summer School in Planetary Sciences (China) on the structure and evolution of rocky and icy planetary bodies

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

• AGU Advances Editor

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

• Miscellaneous

Last updated 25th Aug 2020

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