Dr Alex Cook - Queensland Museum Staff
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BSc, PhD |
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Alex Cook was trained in Wollongong and Townsville and has been at the Museum since 1992. He has worked extensively in the Great Artesian Basin, and has a research interest in fossil molluscs, fossil reefs and the palaeontology of Cretaceous faunas in Queensland. The author of over 25 papers and books, he is the Senior Curator of the Palaeontology section at the Museum Alex previously worked as a full time tutor at James Cook University in Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology. Prior to that he has been a research assistant, storeperson, nerdy student with a pocket protector and a small child with a passion for rocks and fossils living in a small town with nothing else to do but look at rocks. In his spare time he is either reading late 19th - early 20th Century literature, defeating the evil aliens that live on the hard drive of his home computer, or surfing the internet. |
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