Martina Doblin

Biography

Dr. Doblin lead the Productive Coasts research program within the Climate Change Cluster (C3) in the UTS Faculty of Science. My goal is to contribute to the science that will help address Australia's grand challenges of food security, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem health, as well as climate variability and change. My current  ARC Discovery, Linkage and LIEF Awards will have a direct impact on improving the accuracy of ocean-climate models to forecast ocean productivity. I have conducted research on algae and microbes for more than 15 years, attracting over $8 million in competitive grants from the Australian Research Council and other funding sources. I have worked with the Australian Government as a research contractor, and have also been engaged as independent consultant, translating scientific research into marine policy and working with aquatic industries to improve environmental outcomes. I’m interested in the resilience of algal communities to deal with short and long-term environmental change – not only to cope with contemporary shifts in climate, but also to harness nature’s innovations and put them to effective use in bio-industries.

Research Interest

Assessing impacts of climate change on coastal primary productivity, fisheries and the marine foodweb, Understanding dynamics of pelagic systems, and integrating spatially-explicit observations from satellites and gliders into coastal management strategies, Quantifying plasticity of algal populations to environmental change using advanced cell sorting and imaging technologies, Improving resilience of algae in natural and cultivated systems through understanding trait diversity, physiological tradeoffs and cellular energetics, Materials and energy exchange between algae and bacteria, Underlying ecological mechanisms of invasion of tropical algae into temperate systems