Tuifuisaʻa Patila Amosa
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Tuifuisaʻa Patila Malua Amosa is a Samoan oceanographer. She is Dean of Sciences at the National University of Samoa.[1]
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Alma mater | University of Otago |
Thesis | The Dissolution Kinetics of Calcium Carbonate in Seawater: Development and Application of an Automated pH-stat Method for the Measurement of Dissolution Rates (2015) |
Doctoral advisor | Abigail Smith Kim Currie Keith Hunter |
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Amosa was educated at Flinders University in Australia and the University of Otago in New Zealand,[2] graduating with an MSc in Environmental Science in 2007 and a PhD in Chemistry in 2015.[3] Her PhD was on ocean acidification.[4][5]
She has taught at the National University of Samoa for over 25 years.[2] In July 2021 she was promoted to senior lecturer in recognition of her regional research leadership in climate change.[6] She became President and Vice Chancellor of the National University of Samoa in 2023,[7] and also that year, 2023, she was promoted to be Professor of Environmental Science.[8]