Murdock, Dr Duncan

Dr

Duncan Murdock

Stipendiary Lecturer in Earth Sciences

Email: duncan.murdock@oum.ox.ac.uk

Academic background

Duncan is a Collections Manager at Museum of Natural History, responsible for curation of the Museum’s mineralogy, petrology, fossil plants and Palaeozoic invertebrate fossil collections.

Teaching

Undergraduate: Geology for Earth Sciences including: Fundamentals of Geology; Sedimentology and Stratigraphy; Geological Mapping.

Research interests

Duncan’s research interests are focused on: using the fossil record to understand the early evolution of animals, in particular their skeletons; how decay and preservation bias our understanding of exceptionally preserved fossils; and, the anatomy and evolution of the first vertebrates.

Recent Publications

See https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/people/duncan-murdock