My work is collaborative by design. Reconstructing the environmental history of southern Africa’s biodiversity hotspots needs palynology, geochemistry, sedimentology, archaeology, ecology and quantitative climate modelling, and no single group holds all of that.

• Dr Brian Chase, CNRS / University of Montpellier, France
• Professor Michael Meadows, University of Nanjing University, China
• Professor Marc Humphries, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Dr Saúl Manzano, University of León, Spain
• Dr Kenwinn Wiener, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Dr Irene Esteban, University of Valencia, Spain
• Dr Adele Julier, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
• Dr Andrew Carr and Professor Arnoud Boom, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
• Dr Manuel Chevalier, Data Sharp Academy, Germany
• Professor J. Tyler Faith and Proffessor Mitchell Power, University of Utah, United States
• Professor Justin Pargeter, New York University, United States
• Professor Alex Mackay, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Professor Teresa Steele, University of California Davis, United States
• Professor Andy Herries and Dr Matthew Meredith-Williams, La Trobe University, Australia