Dr Sue Turner - Queensland Museum Staff
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PhD, Mus. Dipl. UK |
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Sue specialises in Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic (ancient) fishes especially sharks and shark ancestors and the use of fish microfossils to date rocks and understand the past geographies of our planet. She has recently been an Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellow and is now Australian representative on the UNESCO-IUGS Scientific Board for IGCP (see below). In the past 10 years she has coordinated fish microfossils research worldwide through the auspices of a UNESCO geological co-operation project (IGCP) for which she has been co-leader and Australian leader. Her palaeontological work has taken her to many countries and she conducts research into the fossil fishes worldwide including Australia, Antarctica, Bolivia, Iran, China, the USA and Canada, Ireland and the UK. Recent discoveries of importance include the first Carboniferous amphibians from the southern hemisphere which came from central Queensland. She has published over 200 scientific papers and articles and is working on a book on her speciality and is on the editorial board of the scientific journals, Modern Geology and Geobios. In 1998 she was been awarded a prestigious DAAD (German Academic Foundation) Fellowship to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Hannover in Germany for 5 months (Oct. 1998-Feb 1999). |
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