Dr Emma Johnston

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Dr Emma Johnston
Senior Lecturer , School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences

Biological Sciences Building, Room 554C
Phone: +61 2 9385 1825 - Fax: +61 2 9385 1558 - Email: e.johnston@unsw.edu.au

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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.

Supervision & teaching

Undergraduate teaching

MSCI2001 Introductory Marine Science
MSCI2051 Coral Reef: Environment and Ecology
BIOS3091 Marine and Aquatic Ecology
BIOS2031 Biology of Invertebrates
GENS0501 The Marine Environment

Current PhD students 
  • Andrew McKinley - Assessing and understanding ecological changes to fish communities in highly disturbed estuaries (with Dr Taylor, UNSW)
  • Ceiwen Pease - Chemical arms races: the use of pharmacology to explain diet choices and responses to contaminants in marine herbivores (with Dr Poore, UNSW)
  • Louise McKenzie - The evolution of heavy metal tolerance in invasive marine invertebrates (with A/P Brooks, UNSW)
  • Emma Birdsey - Habitat mediated changes to marine biodiversity (with Dr Poore, UNSW)
  • Luke Hedge - Propagule pressure and invasion success.
  • Carol Sukhn - Bioaccumulation of toxicants from complex effluents (with Dr Saoud, AUB)
  • Maile Gall - Predation, Pollution and Invasion.
Recent postgraduates 
  • Katherine Dafforn (PhD 2009) Shipping, substrates and marine pests (with Dr Glasby NSW I&I)
  • Graeme Clark (PhD 2009) - Disturbance, diversity and invasion in marine systems.
  • Nicole Hill (PhD 2009) - Contaminated sediments and hard-substrate marine communities (with Dr Simpson, CSIRO).
  • Richard Piola (PhD 2008) - Differential tolerance of introduced and native marine invertebrates to heavy metal pollution
  • David Roberts (PhD 2008) - Responses of algal epifauna to pulsed and chronic contamination of temperate algae beds (with Dr Poore, UNSW)
  • Ka-Man Lee (MSc. 2006) - Taxonomy and ecology of predatory marine flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia (with Dr Beal, UNSW)
 

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