Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Department Member, Natural History Department

Research Associate

About

My research interests include: the preparation of fossil and geological material; remedial and preventive conservation of fossil and geological material; fieldwork logistics; fossil narwhal and hyaena specimens; amber from glacial tills; collections management; historical photographs of geological sites no longer available; East Anglian erratics; East Anglian geology; early humans in the British Isles; mammoths; coprolites and other trace fossils; marine reptiles; and sustainability in the museum environment, particularly the conservation of energy.

I enjoy extreme palaeontological fieldwork: deserts, the Antarctic, caves, submarine and intertidal sites etc and have some relevant qualifications: PADI Open Water scuba diving and Advanced Medicine for Remote Foreign Travel. Also, I enjoy the challenges of difficult and/or large specimens like excavating and lifting a fragile sub-fossil blue whale skull.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, committee member of the Geological Society of Norfolk, Associate Member of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project, and member of; the Natural Sciences Collections Association, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the Shropshire Geological Society, the British Artist Blacksmiths Association, Museums Association and the Institute of Conservation.

Contact Information

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