Deidre Hunter

Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star production, and the shapes that are formed. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.

Education

Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[1]

Career

Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She joined Lowell Observatory in 1986. Hunter ran Lowell’s Native Americans Astronomy Outreach Program for 25 years, sharing astronomy with 4th-8th grade Navajo and Hopi teachers and their classes.

Awards and honors

Research

See also

References
  1. "Deidre Hunter".
  2. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 29 September 2020.


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