Peter Cattermole

Peter Cattermole is a retired geologist who spent twenty-five years in academia at two British universities, during which time he was for a while a Principal Investigator with NASA’s Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program. After leaving academia he ran a portfolio of scientific tours around every continent save for Antarctica. He has lectured on cruise ships for over forty years and continues to do so now, occasionally. He has written twenty scientific books, some in collaboration with Sir Patrick Moore who was a close friend.

Prior to entering university, he worked as a forester, a draftsman, a museum curator, and a climbing instructor. In between academic posts he was for a while a master at a famous public school. He and his wife Jack now divide their time equally between Yorkshire and Andalucia, having between them shepherded five children through a colourful adolescence. They both enjoy walking, exploring new places, painting, good wine and food. He has a lifelong interest in mountaineering, astronomy, volcanoes, and music, and plays the piano on most days. Life at the end of the pista is his first non-scientific work.