Alison Park
Co-Founder - Emanya
Preparator
April 2024 - Present
Conservation Consultant and Team Leader - Mammoth Graveyard Excavation
August - September 2023 & July - August 2024/2025
Cerney Wick, United Kingdom
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Leading and consulting the conservation team
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Plaster jacketing of fragile specimens
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Conservation and consolidation of Pleistocene and Jurassic fossils
Lab Manager - Yorkshire Natural History Museum/Neo Jurassica
June 2023 - April 2024
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Fossil preparation for clients, examples can be found in my portfolio
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Running fossil preparation public labs
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Running educational workshops
Volunteer Preparator - Iziko South African Museums
February - December 2022
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Preparation of small to very small fossil specimens from the Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup, South Africa. Specimens included Permian synapsids and procolophonids, as well as Triassic cynodonts and even a fish
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Field work in the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa - October 2022
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Excavation and conservation
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Learning under the guidance of R. M. H. Smith, Claire Browning and Frederik Wolvaardt
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Exhibition design
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Learning under guidance of Amy Sephton, Chief Curator of Exhibitions Design and Production at Iziko
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Online Courses
2022
Databasing (Specifi 7) - practical and certified
2023
University of Alberta
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Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds
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Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles
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Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution
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Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology
