Andrea Casandra Alfaro is an American-New Zealand

aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. Nelu ...

and

marine ecology Marine ecosystems are the largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems and exist in waters that have a high salt content. These systems contrast with freshwater ecosystems, which have a lower salt content. Marine waters cover more than 70% of the sur ...

academic. She is currently a full professor at the

Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology ( AUT; ) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. AUT is New Zealand's third largest university i ...

Academic career

After a 2001

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

at the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

titled '' 'Ecological dynamics of the green-lipped mussel, Perna canaliculus, at Ninety Mile Beach, northern New Zealand,' '' Alfaro moved to

, rising to full professor. Much of her research is related to the ''Perna canaliculus''

New Zealand green-lipped mussel ''Perna canaliculus'', the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, also known as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, ''kuku'', and ''kutai'', is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). ''P. canaliculus'' has economic im ...

, an important species in New Zealand aquaculture industry, but she has projects throughout the Pacific, including many with students from the

Fiji National University Fiji National University is a public university in Fiji that was formally constituted on 15 February 2010 under the Fiji National University Act 2009. By 2019, student numbers at the University had grown to almost 27,000. While each of the co ...

Business career

Alfaro is also a director of Bluff Ltd, a company reestablishing

pāua Pāua is the Māori name given to four New Zealand species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (in which there is only one genus, ''Haliotis''). It is known in the United States and Aust ...

farming in Bluff. She also provides the company with scientific advice.

Selected works

* Alfaro, Andrea C., François Thomas, Luce Sergent, and Mark Duxbury. "Identification of trophic interactions within an estuarine food web (northern New Zealand) using fatty acid biomarkers and stable isotopes."

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science ''Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal on ocean sciences, with a focus on coastal regions ranging from estuaries up to the edge of the continental shelf. It's published by Elsevier on behalf of the Estuarine ...

70, no. 1-2 (2006): 271–286. * Alfaro, Andrea C. "Benthic macro-invertebrate community composition within a mangrove/seagrass estuary in northern New Zealand."

66, no. 1-2 (2006): 97–110. * Alfaro, Andrea C., Andrew G. Jeffs, and Robert G. Creese. "Bottom-drifting algal/mussel spat associations along a sandy coastal region in northern New Zealand."

Aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. Nelu ...

241, no. 1-4 (2004): 269–290. * Campbell, Kathleen A., Campbell S. Nelson, Andrea C. Alfaro, Sheree Boyd, Jens Greinert, Stephanie Nyman, Emmanuelle Grosjean et al. "Geological imprint of methane seepage on the seabed and biota of the convergent Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Box core and grab carbonate results."

Marine Geology Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, Geochemistry, geochemical, Sedimentology, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and ...

272, no. 1-4 (2010): 285–306.

References

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women academics New Zealand marine biologists University of Auckland alumni Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology 21st-century New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub