Dr Paul Oliver is Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates in the Biodiversity & Geosciences Program at Queensland Museum.
As curator, Paul believes his most important role is to demonstrate the value of museum collections for understanding and conserving biodiversity. To do this, Paul uses a wide range of approaches (fieldwork, genetics, external morphology, CT scanning) to identify and describe new species, understand their evolutionary history and identify species and areas of conservation concern. Paul's work focuses on frogs, reptile and birds and across Australia, Melanesia and Indonesia. Paul is particularly interested in looking at ways that data on species with tiny distributions (short-range endemics) can be synthesised to ensure their conservation.
Paul has described over 60 new species and published over one hundred papers, and collaborates with researchers, managers and students from across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America.
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