UNSW Leaders in ScienceDr Emma Johnston
Senior Lecturer , School of Biological Earth and Environmental SciencesBiological Sciences Building, Room 554C
Phone: +61 2 9385 1825 - Fax: +61 2 9385 1558 - Email: e.johnston@unsw.edu.au Career profilePublicationsResearchSupervision & teachingFunding PhD positions available
Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Dr Emma Johnston. Click here to find out more about postgraduate research at the UNSW Faculty of Science. Career profileEmma is a strong contributor to the scientific profession through membership of the state and national councils of the Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA), and the organising committee of the Society for Ecotoxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) World Congress (Sydney 2008). She is the Associate Editor for Marine Ecotoxicology for the journal Ecotoxicology and reviews ARC Grants, and manuscripts for other international journals (e.g. Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series). Emma has presented research seminars at several Australian universities (Melbourne, Monash, UTS, UNSW and Sydney). She was an invited plenary speaker at the Ecological Society of Australia's "Current Ecology and Evolution" workshop (2003). Tertiary and postgraduate educationPh.D. Marine Ecotoxicology, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne 2002. Bachelor of Science with Honours (Marine Ecology), University of Melbourne 1997. Certificate III in Applied Language - Mandarin, RMIT 1999. Appointments2007 -
Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW 2004 - 2006
Lecturer, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW 2001 - 2003
Associate Lecturer and Masters in Marine Science, Program Coordinator Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies, UNSW 1997 - 2001
Demonstrator, Lecturer Experimental Marine Ecology, University of Melbourne and Flinders University 1998 - 2001
Demonstrator, 1st year Biology and 2nd year Invertebrate Zoology University of Melbourne 1997
Research Assistant - Zoology department University of Melbourne 1995
President - full time Melbourne University Student Union Prizes/Awards2007
Tall Poppy Award, NSW State Government 2000
Margaret Catto Scholarship in Zoology, University of Melbourne 1999
Australian Federation of University Women, Jean Gilmore Bursary 1998
Daniel Curdie Scholarship, University of Melbourne Committees and Affiliations2007-
Associate Editor for Marine Ecotoxicology, Ecotoxicology 1998-
Member of the State and National Councils of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. 2007-
Subtidal Environmental Impact Assessment for the planned Desalination Plant, Contracted to Sydney Water Corporation 2004-2007
Subtidal Environmental Impact Assessment for the Illawarra Outfall, Sydney Water Corporation 2006-2007
Subtidal Environmental Impact Assessment: Dredging, Port Kembla Ports Corporation 1998 - 2004
Editor of the Australian Marine Sciences Association Quarterly Bulletin. 1999, 2000
Twice Australian Marine Sciences Association delegate at the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies' "Science Meets Parliament" Workshop, Canberra. 1996-2001
Producer and presenter for weekly radio program on Marine and Coastal Environment | 
