Ian Brown and bones. - CONTRIBUTED
IAN C. Brown, here studying original fossil manatee bones in the University of the West Indies Geology Museum's (UWIGM) collection, has been curator of the museum since 1997. He is a geologist and a graduate of the UWI.
Mr. Brown has spent much of his professional life working in museums. Prior to his appointment as curator at the UWIGM he was a technical assistant at the Science Learning Centre, a science museum for children, formerly located on the UWI, Mona campus and operated by the ICWI Group Foundation. Mr. Brown has also received formal training in the Management of Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. He has co-authored several papers on the UWIGM collections, as well as aspects of Jamaican geology.
Mr. Brown is currently a part-time graduate student at the UWI, Mona. He is a past president of the Geological Society of Jamaica and has membership with the International Council of Museums, the ICOM International Committee for University Museums and Collections, the Geological Curator's Group (London) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (U.S.A.).
