Rate My Professor Bree Morgan

Dr Bree Morgan is a Lecturer in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University. She is an environmental geochemist whose research aims to better understand how matter and energy cycle through Earth's surface systems to support innovative solutions for environmental challenges. Her primary academic interests encompass sediment geochemistry, trace element mobility and availability, CO₂ sequestration, and mineral weathering. Morgan's scholarly impact is evidenced by 881 citations on Google Scholar. She has extensive professional experience in environmental research, teaching, government advisory roles, and consulting across Western Australia and the eastern states of Australia.

Morgan holds a first-class Honours degree in Land and Water Management from the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD from 2009 to 2012 at Southern Cross University in the Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy group under Prof Ed Burton, investigating sulfur geochemistry as a driver of trace element, rare earth element, and metal release from coastal acid sulfate soils. Post-PhD, she undertook a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2012-2015) with CSIRO's Mineral Resources unit. From 2015 to 2024, she served in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, progressing to Senior Lecturer; she also held Lecturer and Research Associate positions at Monash University (2015-2017) and a Senior Associate role at WSP (2024). Key publications include "Magnesite formation during nesquehonite decomposition in the presence of substrate salts" (American Mineralogist, 2025), "Making Salt from Water: The Unique Mineralogy of Alkaline Lakes" (Elements, 2023), "Rare-earth elements trace the legacy of sulfuric dredge spoils on sediments in a Ramsar wetland" (Science of the Total Environment, 2018), "Non-classical crystallization of very high magnesium calcite and aragonite" (Sedimentology, 2022), and "Micro- and Nanoscale Identification of Rare Earth Element–Mineral Associations in REE-Rich Carbonatite Using NanoSIMS" (ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018).