Engage with palaeontologists from the Devonian Ecosystems Project who will answer your questions about Devonian life, as well as endeavouring to answer more general questions about fossils, evolution and the history of life.
Please either attend the lecture on Waterloo Farm beforehand, or spend 45 minutes in the Waterloo Farm free-to-visit gallery as preparation for this session – so that you can dig deeper in the Q&A session.
This is a 'pay what you can' event.
There is a donation box on site, as well as snapscan.
About the Artists
Dr Rob Gess
Dr Rob Gess, a research associate of the Albany Museum, is the lead researcher on the world-renowned (360 million year old) Waterloo Farm site outside Makhanda - from which he has, over decades, collected and identified more than 3000 specimens. With a background in Zoology, Botany and Geology he completed his MSc on Waterloo Farm under the mentorship of Dr Norton Hiller and Dr Jaques van Heerden and a PhD on aspects of its vertebrate taxonomy at Wits University under the mentorship of Prof Mike Coates of the University of Chicago and Prof Bruce Rubidge of Wits. He is passionate about his research including aspects relating to evolution, ecology and biogeography. His research is funded by the Millennium Trust and GENUS (the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences).
- Venue: Old Priests' House
- Location: Beaufort street
- Programme type: Albany Museums
- Genre: ArtTalk
- Duration: 60 minutes
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