Paul Scofield, Ph.D.

Paul Scofield is the Curator of Natural History at Canterbury Museum and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury. With over 30 years of experience in conservation and avian palaeobiology, his work spans New Zealand and the Sub-Antarctic  but he has also worked throughout the in the Arctic, central Pacific and Caribbean. Paul is particularly fascinated by the intersection of biology, genomics, and palaeogeography. He has described more than 30 fossil species, co-authored significant works on the biology of moa, and authored two best-selling books on identifying New Zealand’s birds.