Noel Ashton
We are most grateful to artist Noel Ashton for permitting
us to use his wonderful paintings of whales and dolphins (Cetacea). For more
on his art visit his website:
www.noelashton.com. |
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Toby
Austin
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Tristan
Bantock
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Paul Brock
Paul wrote the text and supplied most of the images
for the stick-insect
pages. |
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Margie
Cochrane
Margie was Collections Manager of the Iziko entomology collections in the
South African Museum. She worked
with Norman Larsen in producing and writing the
arachnid pages
and developed the beetle pages.
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Raghnild and Neil Crawford
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Stephen
Davis
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Callie de Wet
Contributed many wonderful bird and mammal photographs.
website
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Francois Dreyer
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Johann du
Preez
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Tony Faria
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Wayne Florence
Curator of Marine Invertebrates at Iziko SA Museum, and
specialist on bryozoans. Wayne has developed most of the content for the
marine invertebrate section of Biodiversity Explorer. |
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Philip
Fourie
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Martin
Goodey
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Neil
Gray
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Charles Griffiths
Zoologist, marine biologist, lecturer (at University of
Cape Town), author and wildlife photographer. He has let us use many of his
photographs, mainly of marine organisms and insects.
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Mike Grimes
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Johann
Grobbelaar
A well-known photographer and birder, Johann travels
southern Africa in search of rare and interesting
birds to
photograph and has contributed many bird photos to Biodiversity Explorer (see
list). |
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Denise Hamerton
Curator of terrestrial vertebrates in the
Iziko South African Museum. Denise has written the text for a number of the
mammal species pages.
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Trevor
Hardaker
Contributed many mammal and bird photographs. |
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Stephen King
Stephen pioneered the development of the first version of Biodiversity
Explorer in conjunction with Hamish Robertson. At the time, he was working at the
SA Museum as a volunteer. He is now a computer sciences teacher in
Yorkshire, England. |
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Norman Larsen
Norman wrote the text for the
arachnid pages
and has contributed many photographs, not only to the arachnids but to other
groups as well such as insects and mammals.
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Roger Middelton
Senior Lecturer in Biology, Department of
Sciences, Molepolole College of Education, Botswana. Wrote the page on the
Tardigrada (water bears or tardigrades). |
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Derek Ohland
Previously Senior Collections Manager of Earth Sciences collections
and also manager of the marine mammal collections in the Iziko South African
Museum (now retired). Derek wrote the text for the whale and dolphin pages.
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Jessica P.
Opfer
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Mike Picker
Zoologist, entomologist, lecturer (retired from University of Cape
Town), author and insect photographer. He and Charles Griffiths and Alan
Weaving let us to use photographs from Field Guide to Insects of South
Africa.
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Jeff Poklen
Jeff lives in the USA but has visited South Africa and
taken photographs of many bird species here, especially seabirds. His photos
can be found at
www.pbase.com/jpkln and he has generously let us draw on this collection
for Biodiversity Explorer. We have also used photos he has taken in the USA
of species that are vagrants here (e.g.
Hudsonian godwit)
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Hamish
Robertson
Previously Director of Natural History Collections, and later Director Research and Exhibitions in Iziko Museums of South Africa (now retired). Joint
founder of Biodiversity Explorer. Developed many web pages in various sections of the web site
and also contributed many of the photographs.
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David Robertson
David contributed images, mainly in the bird section.
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Duncan Robertson
Duncan assisted extensively with the incorporation of images into
Biodiversity Explorer, particulary for the bird and mammal sections. He
also contributed many photographs and wrote the text for most of the bird
species pages.
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Jim Scarff
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Andries
Steenkamp
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Lorinda
Steenkamp
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Peter Steyn
Well known bird photographer, author and specialist tour
guide. He kindly provided us with many beautiful and useful photographs
for the bird pages.
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Deano Stynder
Previously Curator of Cenozoic collections at the Iziko South African
Museum. Contributed to the page on
Homo sapiens (Human being).
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Kristian
Svensson
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Gwendolen Tee
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Simon van Noort
Curator of Entomology collections in Iziko Museums of South Africa. Developed
the Mantophasmatodea
section and has contributed text and images to other insect pages. Simon's
main contribution, however, has been the development of two major companion
websites to Biodiversity Explorer:
Figweb, covering figs and fig wasps of
the world, and Waspweb, covering the Hymenoptera of Africa south of the
Sahara. He is the current project manager for Biodiversity Explorer.
e-mail
svannoort@iziko.org.za |
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Johan van Rensburg
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Isidro Vila
Verde
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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Paul
Zaayman
Contributed photographs of birds. |
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