The Garden Route has one of the highest density and diversity of Pleistocene fossil footprints globally. Insights from the trackway record of the past 200,000 years provide an idea of the transformation of coastal lifestyles that can occur in the future, even within a lifetime.
Each session consists of 20-minute presentations, followed by a joint Q&A session of 15 minutes.
ABOUT MARK DIXON
Mark owns and operates a guided nature tour business which enables him to get outdoors most of the time. An avid birder and ecologist, he has participated in citizen science research projects in ornithology. From his passion for marine biology, he established the Strandloper Project, a marine citizen science non-profit organisation that focuses on ghost fishing, ocean plastic waste, climate change and marine fauna. By chance, he joined the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, through which he added ichnology, the study of fossil trackways, to his fields of interests. The annual Strandloper Project coastal research expedition, in addition to collecting valuable data on ocean plastic waste, provides an ideal opportunity to search for fossil footprints along the coastline.
Sat, 12 Jul - Sat, 12 Jul
R300.00
100 Tickets Available