Lloyd Spencer Davis

Lloyd is the creative mind behind Adelie Productions. He has a PhD in Zoology from the University of Alberta, Canada, and he has been a scientist and university lecturer for over twenty years. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and, as a scientist, he has won numerous awards, including:
• a Fulbright Award
• a Prince and Princess of Wales Scientific Award, and
• an Anzac Fellowship.

He is, or has been, the New Zealand representative on international scientific committees dealing with subjects from Antarctica to Animal Behaviour, from Penguins to the whole area of Ornithology. He is the senior editor of the landmark text Penguin Biology (Academic Press, San Diego) and the senior author of the treatise Penguins (Poyser, AC Black/Helm, London and Yale University Press, New Haven).

However, Lloyd's first love is the popularization of science and he has attempted to do that with his popular writing and filmmaking. His interest in photography supplements the writing and also helps keep him in tune with nature.

He established and was the Director of the world's first university-based course devoted to natural history filmmaking. Currently he holds the inaugural Stuart Chair in Science Communication at the University of Otago and is the Director of New Zealand's first centre devoted to science communication. He has received an award from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology recognizing his service in communicating science to the public.

His current projects include a book to follow on from Looking for Darwin, a large format film about penguins, and a film about Ansel Adams.