Liberal Arts and Sciences
Florida Planets Lab
Led by Stephen Elardo · Geological Sciences
What we study
Dr. Elardo studies how rocky planets form and evolve using lab experiments and analyzing planetary materials. He focuses on planetary differentiation, crust formation, and lunar geology.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- No organisms (data only)
- No coding
- Project
- 1
Current projects
Trace Element Partition Coefficients Between Major Minerals in Lunar Magma Ocean Liquids and Magnesian Suite Parental Melts
The lab studies how tiny amounts of elements split between minerals and molten rock during the Moon’s early formation. The student ran high‑temperature experiments to measure these splits for different melt compositions.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 87
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
How to reach out
Stephen Elardo hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.