Cameron Penn-Clarke

Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand

I am a senior researcher based at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand with previous employment as a Scientist at the Council for Geoscience. Additionally, I am a stratigrapher with the South African Committee for Stratigraphy and an associate stratigrapher with the Subcommission for Devonian Stratigraphy (International Union for Stratigraphy) where I am the South African representative. My research interests are focused towards understanding palaeoenvironments, palaeoecology and palaeogeography of Devonian high latitude (subpolar-polar) regions, as well as the proxies for palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological change through time in these regions. As such, I am specialised in sedimentology, invertebrate palaeontology, lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, ichnology, tectonics and geochronology. I also "dabble" in historical geology with focus on documentation of pre- and early-colonial interest in fossils from the Cape Supergroup as well as promotion of geo- and palaeoheritage of the Cederberg.

Experience

2023–present

Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2018–2022

Scientist, Council for Geoscience
2017–2022

Honorary Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2017–2018

Postdoctoral research associate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2018–2018

Research fellow, Durham University

Education

2017

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Ph.D. Geosciences
2012

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, B.Sc. (Hons) Geology and Palaeontology
2011

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, B.Sc. Geology and Zoology

Professional Memberships

Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy
South African Committee for Stratigraphy
Palaeontological Society of southern Africa
Geological Society of South Africa

Honours

Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa