Marion Bamford

Marion Kathaleen Bamford is a Zimbabwean paleobotanist, and is a professor at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Marion was born in Zimbabwe. She received her PhD, MSc, and BSc (Honors) at University of the Witwatersrand.

At University Of The Witwatersrand, she gives lectures about paleobotany to undergraduate students, and researches fossil woods, as well as leaf fossils, seed pollen, phytolith, and stems from the Permian period to the Holocene period. She has published more than 100 journal papers, and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of South Africa.