Doctor Jake Atterby PhD

Earth Sciences
Learning & Community Development Officer, Lapworth Museum of Geology

Contact details

Telephone: 0121 414 6148
Email: j.atterby@bham.ac.uk

Address: Lapworth Museum of Geology
Aston Webb Building
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Jake Atterby is chiefly responsible for the Museum's Primary Learning Programme and Family Fun Days. He is the Museum's contact for the Birmingham Heritage Forum, and also undertakes production of social media content and volunteer supervision.

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Qualifications

PhD | Unravelling early teleost relationships: diversification at the dawn of the most successful fish radiation.

Publications

Atterby, J., Friedman, M., and Giles, S. 2024. Micro-CT Based Description of Dorsetichthys bechei (Actinopterygii: Teleostei): Cranial Anatomy of an Iconic Early Teleost. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.10.593503.

Cavicchini, I., Wilson, P. F., Giles, S., Atterby, J., Jones, A. S., Williams, M. A., and Clements, T. 2024. Investigating the impact of X-rays on decay: X-ray computed tomography as a non-invasive visualisation technique for sediment-based decay experiments. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.13.593831.

Syme, C., Atterby, J., and Monnin, V. 2023. From Fossils to Pixels: Palaeontologists Playing and Streaming Digital Games. Acta Ludologica 6 (1): 112–117.

Clements, T., Atterby, J., Cleary, T., Dearden, R. P., and Rossi, V. 2022. The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools. Geoscience Communication 5: 289–306. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-289-2022.

Greene, S. E., Antell, G. T., Atterby, J., Bhatia, R., Dunne, E. M., Giles, S., Groh, S. S., Hanson, E. M., Hilton, J., Knight, H., Kraftl, P., Morgan, E., Rhodes, I., Rockey, F. G. T., Singh, S., Stevenson, C. T., Sun, S., Warren, B. A., Wheeley, J. R., and Yamoah, K. A. 2021. Safety and Belonging in the Field: A Checklist for Educators. EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X53P6H.