Natural Sciences Collections Association

Current Posts

• Curator of fossil arthropods and graptolites, Natural History Museum, London

Contact Details

Palaeontology Department, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD
E-mail: c.mellish@nhm.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)20 7942 5402

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Biology & Geology

Employment and experience

Natural History Museum in London (since the pre-Cambrian) working as curator on various taxonomic groups in Palaeontology and with a brief stint in the Conservation Unit before becoming Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Fortey (trilobites and graptolites).

An increasing part of my job became ICT-related and I ended up spending 2004 covering as IT manager for the Department of Palaeontology before switching back to curation in 2005. I’ve been the collections’ manager responsible for the fossil arthropods since 2008.

Member of other professional organisations

• SPNHC
• HOGG

Additional information

Particular projects of interest at the moment are:

• enhancement of our collection of bizarre spiny trilobites from the Devonian of Morocco
• enhancement of our small collection of giant trilobites from the Ordovician of Morocco
• curation of the fossil crab collections
• collection management of the amber collections