Platform Team
Norman Ragg
Platform co-leader; Senior Scientist and Team leader: Shellfish Aquaculture - Cawthron Institute
Physiology and climate change

Patrick Cahill
Platform co-leader; Research Scientist and Manager: Biosecurity and Aquatic Health - Cawthron Institute
Biosecurity

Zoë Hilton
ShARP Science Leadership Team; Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute
Shellfish physiology, bioenergetics and health

Julien Vignier
ShARP Science Leadership Team; Senior Scientist and Team Leader: Shellfish Hatchery Technology - Cawthron Institute
Hatchery techniques, ecotoxicology, cryopreservation, and triploidy

Leo Zamora
ShARP Science Leadership Team; Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute
Aquaculture diversification and new species development

Deborah Long
ShARP Platform administrator - Cawthron Institute

Alfonso Schmidt
Head of Bioimaging Facility, Hugh Green Technology Centre - Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
Bioimaging

Andrea Alfaro
Professor of Marine Ecology and Aquaculture - Auckland University of Technology

Anne Vignier (Rolton)
Senior Scientist and Ecotoxicology Leader- Cawthron Institute
Harmful algal blooms, ecotoxicology, flow cytometry, histopathology

Bailey Lovett
Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute
Biosecurity – invasion ecology and pest management

Brendon Dunphy
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences - University of Auckland
Ecophysiology




Hannah Appleton
Research Technician - Cawthron Institute

Hannah Greenhough
Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute, and PhD Candidate University of Otago
Harmful algal blooms and algal biotechnology



Joanna Copedo
Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute, and PhD Candidate - Auckland University of Technology
Histopathology

Jordan Elvy
Research Assistant - Cawthron Institute
Fish and shellfish physiology and feed conversion efficiency

Jolene Berry
Research Technician - Cawthron Institute


Kate Hutson
Senior Scientist and Team Leader: Aquatic Animal Health; Programme Leader: Emerging Aquatic Diseases - Cawthron Institute
Aquatic animal health and pathology

Kevin Heasman
Research Scientist and Team leader: Open Ocean Aquaculture - Cawthron Institute
Open ocean aquaculture


Leonie Venter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Auckland University of Technology
Aquaculture biochemistry and metabolomics


Malindi Gammon
Research Scientist - Cawthron Insitute
Biosecurity – invasion ecology and pest management


Matthew Reardon
Research Technician - Cawthron Institute
Pacific oyster hatchery production and breeding

Megan Scholtens
Research Scientist - Cawthron Institute
Genetics, genomics, selective breeding and data analysis



Paul South
Research Scientist and Team Leader: Algal Aquaculture - Cawthron Institute
Marine ecology, algal ecology and aquaculture



Te Rerekohu Tuterangiwhiu
Kaiārahi Rangahau Kaimōana - Cawthron Institute
