Abigail Smith is a professor in marine sciences at Otago University in Dunedin.

[1] Smith grew up in Maine[2] and did her undergraduate studies at Colby College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] before emigrating to New Zealand to study for a PhD at Waikato University with a thesis entitled 'Aspects of the sedimentology of New Zealand bryozoans and mixed carbonate-clastic deposits : a contribution to the temperate shelf carbonate model.

'[3] Smith's research relates to the formation of skeletons' marine micro-flora and their deposition on the seafloor as sediment.

[4] Smith's notable students include Tuifuisaʻa Patila Amosa.

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