Dr. David Franzi

Current teaching responsibilities:

• GEL 101 Physical Geology
• GEL 341 Geomorphology
• GEL 346 Environmental Geotechnology

Other courses taught at SUNY Plattsburgh:

• GEL 100 Earth Science
• GEL 102 Evolution of the Earth
• GEL 324 Sedimentolog y
• GEL 343 Principles of Hydrology
• GEL 351 Fluvial Geomorphology
• GEL 441 Ground Water Hydrogeology
• GEL 440 Geology Seminar
• GEL 446 Applied Environmental Geology

• Deglaciation of northeastern North America
• Pleistocene–Holocene climate change in the Adirondack Mountains and Champlain Valley
• Nonpoint source runoff from agricultural areas in the Champlain Valley
• Hydrogeology of wetlands and forest ecosystems
• Applications of LiDAR and Geographic Information Systems technology
• Geological teaching methodologies
• Reservoir sedimentation
• Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Potsdam sandstone and Altona Formation 

• Dalton, A.S., et al., accepted for 2020, An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex: Quaternary Science Reviews.

• Landing, E., Salad Hersi, O., Amati, L., Westrop., S., and Franzi, D.A., 2019, Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive-margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben: Comment: Geological Society of America Bulletin, March/April 2019, v.131, no.3/4, p.695–698.

• Franzi, D.A., Ridge, J.C., Pair, D.L., DeSimone, D., Rayburn, J.A. and Barclay, D.J., 2016, Post–Valley Heads deglaciation of the Adirondack Mountains and adjacent lowlands: The Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, V.21, p.119–146.

• Franzi, D.A. (ed.), 2015, Geology of the Northeastern Adirondack Mountains and Champlain–St. Lawrence Lowlands of New York, Vermont and Quebec: Field Trip Guidebook, New York State Geological Association, 87th Annual Meeting, Plattsburgh, New York, 359p.

• Fleisher, P.J., Tweed, F., Franzi, D.A., and Dawson, M., 2015, Dynamic Iceland – Field Experience; GSA GeoVenture, Geological Society of America, 103p.

• Franzi D.A., Barclay, D.J., Kranitz, R., and Gilson, K., 2015, Quaternary deglaciation of the Champlain Valley with specific examples from the Ausable River valley, in Franzi, D.A., (ed.), Geology of the Northeastern Adirondack Mountains and Champlain–St. Lawrence Lowlands of New York, Vermont and Quebec: Field Trip Guidebook, New York State Geological Association, 87th Annual Meeting, Plattsburgh, New York, p.162–190.

• Fuller, R.D., Franzi, D.A., Kramer, S., and Young, E., 2015, Non-point source pollution in the Little Chazy River, New York, in Franzi, D.A., (ed.), Geology of the Northeastern Adirondack Mountains and Champlain–St. Lawrence Lowlands of New York, Vermont and Quebec: Field Trip Guidebook, New York State Geological Association, 87th Annual Meeting, Plattsburgh, New York, p.191–208.

• Feranec, R., Franzi, D.A., and Kozlowski, A., 2014, A new record of ringed seal (Pusa hispida) from the late Pleistocene Champlain Sea and comments on its age and paleoenvironment: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, V.34, No.1, p.230–235.

• Cronin, T.M., Rayburn, J. A., Guilbault, J.-P., Thunell, R., Franzi, D. A., 2012, Stable isotope evidence for glacial lake drainage through the Saint Lawrence Estuary, eastern Canada, ~13.1–12.9 ka: Quaternary International, James Teller Commemorative Volume, V.260, p.3248–3257.

• Rayburn, J.A., Cronin, T.M., Franzi, D.A., Knuepfer, P.L.K., and Willard, D., 2011, Timing and duration of glacial lake discharges and the Younder Dryas climate reversal: Quaternary Research, V.75, p.541–551.

• Williams, J.H., Reynolds, R.J., Franzi, D.A., Romanowicz, E.A., and Paillet, F., 2010, Hydrogeology of the Potsdam Sandstone in Northern New York: Canadian Water Resources Journal, V.54, No.4, p.399–416.

• Franzi, D.A., 2010, Physiography and geology of Essex County, New York, in Smith, G. (ed.), Soil Survey of Essex County, New York: Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, p.10–18.

• Landing, E., Amati, L., and Franzi, D.A., 2009, Epeirogenic transgression near a triple junction: the oldest (latest Early–Middle Cambrian) marine onlap of cratonic New York and Quebec: Geological Magazine, V.146, No.4, p.552–566.

• Franzi, D.A., Koteff, C., and Wittkop, C., 2008, Surficial Geology of the Concord, New Hampshire Quadrangle: New Hampshire Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Services, Geo-150-024000-SMAP

• Landing, E., Franzi, D.A., Hagadorn, J.W., Westrop, S.R., Kröger, B., and Dawson, J.C., 2007, Cambrian of East Laurentia—Field workshop in eastern New York and Vermont, in Landing, E., (ed.), Ediacaran–Ordovician of east Laurentia, S.W. Ford Memorial Volume: New York State Museum Bulletin 510, p.25–71.

• Franzi, D.A., Rayburn, J.A., Knuepfer, P.L.K., and Cronin, T.M., 2007, Late Quaternary history of northeastern New York and adjacent parts of Vermont and Quebec: 70th Reunion of the Northeast Friends of the Pleistocene, Plattsburgh, New York, 73p.

• Rayburn, J.A., Franzi, D.A., Knuepfer, P.L.K., 2007, Evidence from the Lake Champlain Valley for a later onset of the Champlain Sea, and implications for late glacial meltwater routing to the North Atlantic, in Lewis, C.F.M., and Teller, J.T. (Eds), Late Quaternary North American Meltwater and Floods to the Atlantic Ocean: Evidence and Impacts: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 246, p.62–74.