Professor Martina Doblin

Martina is a professor in the Climate Change Cluster at the University of Technology Sydney. For her Fulbright Scholarship, Martina will work with Dr Naomi Levine (University of Southern California) and Dr Andrew Barton (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) to characterise the environmental experience of marine plankton using high-resolution ocean models. She will also undertake lab experiments to determine the biological responses of phytoplankton to environmental variability. Findings will lead to the development of next-generation models to predict the productivity of phytoplankton in the future ocean. 

Martina’s project will provide more certainty about adaptation options for fisheries and aquaculture, advance knowledge needed to design more secure food production systems (e.g., outdoor algal ponds), and help stimulate the rapidly growing bioeconomy.