Graham Woollard

Graham Wollard has been successfully presenting Earth Science workshops to schools since 1990, as The Rock Man, and has recently become part of the Portals Team. He always had an insatiable appetite for everything pre-historic which was further endorsed when, as a young computer engineer, he was employed within the field of rock and mineral extraction.

Graham has added to the collections of many establishments notably a fossil crocodile(Metriorynchus brachyrincus) from the Jurassic Period of 150 million years ago. It was a Sea crocodile that once swam around what is now Peterborough. 

He also discovered a new and very important fossil species now named after him, an Aphid (Penaphis woollardii), important in that it is a very ancient species and possibly the earliest of the Cretaceous period 132 to 127 million years ago, now in the safe keeping of Brighton Museum. 
 
Among the many projects that Graham has been involved with is the collection and recording of fossil fauna from the Pliocene Crags of Suffolk and an ongoing study of a pre historic Stone Age settlement in Essex.