Team

Team leader

Martina Doblin - Team leader

PhD Students

Giselle Firme - PhD candidate - Plasticity of phytoplankton in a changing ocean and implications for primary productivity in Eastern Australian waters 

Matthias Windhagauer – PhD candidate - Optimising diatom metabolism for bioplastic production

Raissa Gill – PhD candidate - Microalgal responses to atmospheric aerosol deposition in temperate Australian estuaries

Mariana Destila Bayu Intan – Understanding mechanisms of harmful algal bloom development in Lampung Bay, Indonesia

Masters Students

Aaron Wright – MRes candidate – Biogeochemistry dynamics of urban waterways: influence of urban stormwater on ecosystem functioning in estuaries

Past members

Dr Michaela Larsson – WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Dr Phoebe Argyle

Dr Jason Everett - Senior Lecturer UQ

Dr Olivier Laczka - Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Allison McInnes - Research Fellow QUT

Dr Virginie van Dongen-Vogels - Staff Australian Institute of Marine Science

Student Alumni

Kirralee G. Baker (PhD) - The direct implications of warming on the phenotype and underlying functional traits of marine phytoplankton https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/90058

Jennifer S. Clark (PhD) - Assessing the vulnerability of a habitat forming macroalga to climate warming: roles of physiology, ecology and evolutionary processes in determining resilience https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/116764

Ying Hong (PhD) - The role of zooplankton in cyanobacteria bloom development in Australian reservoirs https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/23487

Louisa Norman (PhD) - The role of natural organic ligands in transformations of iron chemistry in seawater and their effect on the bioavailability of iron to marine phytoplankton https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/38383

Charlotte Robinson (PhD) - Optical partitioning of phytoplankton niches and implications for carbon cycling (CSIRO top-up scholarship recipient) https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/116812

Michaela E. Larsson (PhD) – Understanding the ecological niche of toxin producing dinoflagellates

Collaborations

Sydney Institute of Marine Science (opens an external site)

Integrated Marine Observing System (opens an external site)

Marine National Facility (opens an external site)

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research - Wealth from Oceans Flagship (opens an external site)

Living Data (opens an external site)

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.