Email: AFRANZESE@HOSTOS.CUNY.EDU
 
Office Number: A533

Office Tel: 718-518-4230

Courses Teaching:


CHE 105 – Introduction to General Chemistry
CHE 110 – Introduction to Chemistry
CHE 210 – General Chemistry I
ENGR 106 – Introduction to Earth and Atmospheric Science
ENV 110 – Environmental Science I
ENV 111 – Environmental Science I Laboratory

Areas of Interest:
  • General Chemistry, Geochemistry, General Geology, Earth & Environmental Science, Climate Science, Ocean Science, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanpraphy.
Current Research:
Agulhas Current system dynamics over the past 5 million years (IODP Expedition 361)
  • Aims: to assess the variability of the Agulhas Current and Agulhas Leakage, to reconstruct the dynamics of the Agulhas Current system, and to examine the relationship between Agulhas Leakage and deep ocean circulation under contrasting climatic regimes over the past 5 million years.
  • Measurements: major and trace element concentrations and radiogenic isotope ratios from fine grained terrigenous sediment deposited in the ocean south of Africa
Publications:
  • Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists. (2017) South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile). Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 361: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). http://dx.doi.org/​10.14379/​iodp.proc.361.2017
  • Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists. (2016) Expedition 361 Preliminary Report: South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile). International Ocean Discovery Program. http://dx.doi.org/​10.14379/​iodp.pr.361.2016
  • Katz, M.M., Cramer, B.S., Franzese A.M., Honisch, B., Miller, K.G., Rosenthal, Y., and Wright, J.D. (2010) Traditional and emerging geochemical proxies in foraminifera. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 40:165-192.
  • Franzese, A.M., Hemming, S.R., and Goldstein, S.L. (2009) Use of strontium isotopes in detrital sediments to constrain the glacial position of the Agulhas Retroflection. Paleoceanography 24: PA2217. doi:10.1029/2008PA001706
  • Siddall M., Anderson, R.F., Winckler, G., Henderson, G.M., Bradtmiller, L.I., McGee, D., Franzese, A., Stocker, T.F., and Müller, S.A. (2008) Modeling the particle flux effect on distribution of 230Th in the equatorial Pacific. Paleoceanography 23: PA2208. doi:10.1029/2007PA001556
  • Hemming, S.R., van de Flierdt, T., Goldstein, S.L., Franzese, A.M., Roy, M., Gastineau, G., and Landrot, G. (2007) Strontium isotope tracing of terrigenous sediment dispersal in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Implications for constraining frontal positions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8: Q06N13. doi:10.1029/2006GC001441
  • Franzese, A.M., Hemming, S.R., Goldstein, S.L., and Anderson, R.F. (2006) Reduced Agulhas Leakage at the LGM inferred from an integrated provenance and flux study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 250 72-88. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.002

Presentations:
  • Franzese, A.M., S.L. Goldstein, S.R. Hemming. “Changing Dust Provenance to the South Atlantic Since the Last Glacial Maximum and Implications for the Southern Hemisphere Wind Belts.” AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA. December 11-15, 2017. (Poster Presentation) 
  • Pearson, B., Franzese, A.M., and the Expedition 361 Scientists. “Using provenance of terrigenous sediment to reconstruct the Agulhas Leakage during the Early and Late Pleistocene.” AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA. December 11-15, 2017. (Poster Presentation) 
  • Babin, D.P., Hemming, S.R., Simon, M., Hall, I.R., Franzese, A.M., Goldstein, S.L., Cai, Y., Liu, T. Johns, M.A., Tejada, L. LeVay, L. and the Expedition 361 Scientists. “Terrigenous provenance follows climate variability at IODP Site U1474, southwestern Indian Ocean.” AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA. December 11-15, 2017. (Poster Presentation) 
  • Franzese, A.M. “Oceans of the Past: Unlocking their Secrets using Math.” 2nd Annual Mathematics Day. Hostos Community College, Brox, NY. March 21, 2017.
  • Franzese, A.M., Tejeda, L, and the Expedition 361 Scientists. “Calibrating elemental concentrations obtained by XRF scanning of deep-sea sediment cores.” CUNY Community College Faculty Development Workshop, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY. January 10, 2017. (Poster Presentation, Invited) 
  • Franzese, A.M. “Scientist at Sea.” within the President’s State of the College Event, Hostos Community College, Brox, NY. October 20, 2016.
  • Franzese, A.M., S.R. Hemming, S.L. Goldstein. “The Northern Extent of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind Belt since the Last Glacial Maximum Tracked via Sediment Provenance.” AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015. (Poster Presentation) 
  • Franzese, A.M. and S.L. Goldstein. “Assessing the role of the Subtropical Front in regulating Agulhas Leakage at the Last Glacial Termination.” AGU Chapman Conference on The Agulhas System (agu-cc12as). Cape Town, South Africa. October 8-12, 2012. (Poster Presentation) 
  • Franzese, A.M., S.R. Hemming, S.L. Goldstein. “Use of strontium isotopes in detrital sediments to constrain the glacial position of the Agulhas Retroflection.” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. February 22-26, 2010. (Invited)
  • Rosenthal, Y, A.M. Franzese, M. Feigenson. “Fidelity of ƐNd as a water mass proxy in foraminifera and authigenic oxides.” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. February 22-26, 2010. (Poster Presentation)
  • Franzese, A.M. “Paleoceanography of the Agulhas Current and Retroflection determined by radiogenic isotopes in sediments.” Department of Geosciences Colloquium, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. October 17, 2008. (Invited)
  • Franzese, A.M., S.R. Hemming, S.L. Goldstein, Strontium isotopes in detrital sediments constrain the glacial position of the Agulhas Retroflection, 18th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada. July 13-18, 2008. (Poster Presentation)
  • Franzese, A.M. “Reduced Agulhas Leakage at the LGM inferred from an integrated provenance and flux study.” Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. February 14, 2007. (Invited)
  • Franzese, A.M. “Reduced Agulhas Leakage at the LGM inferred from an integrated provenance and flux study.” Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium, Yale University, January 30, 2007. (Invited)

​Grants:
  • Franzese, A.M. “Assessing Agulhas Leakage using Terrigenous Sediment Provenance”, US Science Support Program, Post-Expedition Award for $14,991.90. (2016 – 2018).
  • Franzese, A.M. “Calibrating elemental concentrations obtained by XRF scanning of deep-sea sediment cores”, CUNY Community College Research Grant (CCRG) Mentored Undergraduate Research Program (MURG). Proposal # 1312 awarded for $7,500. (2016 – 2017).
  • Zahn, R., Hall, I., Schneider, R., Barker, S., Compton, J., Dupont, L., Flores, J.-A., Franzese, A., Goldstein, S., Hemming, S., Knorr, G., Marino, G., Mazaud, A., Peeters, F., Preu, B., Reichart, G.-J., Spiess, V., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Weldeab, S., and Ziegler, M. “Southern African Climates, Agulhas Warm Water Transports and Retroflection, and Interocean Exchanges - SAFARI”, Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Proposal 702-Full2 awarded in 2014 to fund Expedition 361 in 2016.
  • Franzese, A.M. “Did the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind Belt Shift Northwards during the LGM?”, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Climate Center Award Number UR008011-61 for $9392. (2013 – 2016). 
  • Franzese, A.M. “Paleo-hydrography south of Africa: Assessing the role of the Subtropical Front in regulating Agulhas Leakage at the Last Glacial Termination”, LDEO Climate Center Award Number UR007001-61 for $8420. (2011 – 2013). 
Website: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~franzese/index.htm