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Meet the Team
Greetings. Molweni. Hallo daar.
We would like you to meet the individuals who have offered their time and expertise to make our online courses possible. The PalaeoLink platform would not exist without their continued effort, experience, and enthusiasm.
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Claire is the gracious host and co-founder of the PaleoLink program, she is the curator of Karoo Palaeontology collections at Iziko Museum. She works tirelessly bringing the hard work of the preparation team into the public eye through her research, exhibitions, and public engagement initiatives. With her many years of experience in South African geology and paleobiology, she will be featured in some videos explaining the research behind our fossil specimens.
Claire Browning
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Cindi is our patient Laboratory Manager, it is her magnificent laboratory that we will be filming our courses from. She will be keeping us safe, and grounded while we go about the creative chaos which is filming in a working laboratory.
Nolusindiso Mtalana
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Sibu has many years of experience at Iziko Museum preparing everything from Diictodons to Dinosaurs, has wealth of preparation knowledge and is highly skilled. You can marvel at his technique in the Introduction to Fossil preparation course.
Sibusiso Mtungata
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Shandré has been working at Iziko Museum since 2015 and has an eye for working with particularly delicate specimens. She is one of the talented preparators you can watch in action in our introductory course on Fossil Preparation.
Shandré Riddles
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Nyaniso prefers being out in the field and finding new fossils to prepare, but is one of the hard-working fossil preparators. He will be one of the technical staff sharing his skills in the Introduction to Fossil Preparation course.
Nyaniso Nofingxana
Sesethu is the videographer. She has produced wonderful video content during her time as an Iziko Exhibition and Design intern, her work is still on exhibition in the museum.
Sesethu Coto
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Robyn is our copywriter and graphic designer. She creates engaging content for our website and social media. She will be sharing her skills in her Paleoart course.
Robyn Symons
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Devonne is our backstage superhero. He has spent two years as an intern with Karoo Palaeontology and knowledge of the behind the scenes workings of the museum is invaluable to us.
Devonne Kortje
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Malcolm is an enthusiastic postgraduate student, that will be helping us create content for our Moodle page. Particularly our Introduction to Microfossils course.
Malcolm Fourie
We need you!
Teach. Learn. Volunteer
If you want to join our growing network of researchers, teachers, students and volunteers fill out the form so we can add you to our contact list. We are always looking for new collabrators.
