Prof Richard N Holdaway

Dr Richard N Holdaway is a fixed-term Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, and a Joint Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 

Prof Holdaway’s research interests centre on extinction biology, especially the causes and effects of the late Quaternary extinctions on New Zealand and other South Pacific islands. This includes the effects of human settlement and introduction of commensal mammals over the past 4000 years.

He has ongoing programmes in avian systematics, now with a main focus on stable isotope palaeobiology.  A special interest is in applying palaeoecological information to current conservation problems.

Prof Holdaway is a past President of the New Zealand Ornithological Society, a past editor of their journal Notornis, and is widely published in the scientific and popular press.

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