Morag is a Panel Tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and has given plenary lectures for the Science Summer Programme, as well as running hands on interactive practical classes to introduce the interested to the wonders of the Earth’s rocky story. This year she is running a double course as part of the International Summer Programme, presenting the mysteries of the Earth: from Micro to Macro as well as a short course introducing the forcings and feedbacks controlling Earth’s energy budget and our climate history.
Dr Morag Hunter is a field scientist. She specialises in regional geology and geological mapping, working on large-scale changes in environment through geological time, both tectonic and climatic. She worked as a research scientist for the British Antarctic Survey for 12 years before re-joining the University where she co-ordinated the undergraduate teaching programme in the Earth Sciences department. She is currently conducting research in the western Andes of Peru, to look at chemical weathering and its effect on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
She is Director of Studies in Physical Natural Sciences at Girton and Downing Colleges, Cambridge, as well as Director of Studies in Earth Sciences at Homerton and Lucy Cavendish colleges. She is a departmental teaching fellow in the Earth Sciences Department and is heavily involved in first- and second-year teaching. She has led natural history tours to the Azores and Iceland as part of the ACE Cultural Tours programme.
Morag’s teaching style is a mix of multimedia presentations, with plenty of hands-on practical study of real specimens of rocks, minerals and fossils and lab or museum visits as appropriate. Through the courses she teaches, Morag hopes to share her enthusiasm of the natural world and that students come away with an understanding of the amazing forces that drive the process behind it.
