ProfMartina Doblin

Professor

Discipline of Environmental Sciences

  • Professor
    Discipline of Environmental Sciences
  • +61 2 9514 8307 (Work)
  • +61 439 339 230 (Mobile)
  • University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster Research Institute, Thomas St, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

FUNDED RESEARCH

Assessing impacts of climate change on coastal primary productivity, fisheries and the marine foodweb, including harmful algal blooms

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

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    VARIATION: NESP Variation to Project 4.22 (Original RM PRO23-17916)
    Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment1 Mar 2025 - 9 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    National Environmental Science Program
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    DPE Student Project - Stormwater organic matter project sampling and analysis (extension to PRO23-17276)
    Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW1 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wright A,
    • Doblin M
    NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Water Quality Project Extension
    SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M
    Sydney Institute of Marine Science
  • TENDER
    Report on Changing Oceans: Science and Synthesis
    Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW17 May 2024 - 20 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Gill R
    NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change - (PROC9376)
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Pollution action: characterising the occurrence and impacts of chemical and microbial contaminants in Gamay (Botany Bay)
    SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE12 Mar 2024 - 31 Oct 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Sydney Institute of Marine Science
  • GRANT
    Environmental concentrations of emerging contaminants in coastal stormwater
    Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment1 Mar 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    National Environmental Science Program
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Stormwater organic matter project
    NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)15 May 2023 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Wright A
    NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)
  • GRANT
    Ecological outcomes of wastewater discharges in contrasting receiving environments [Phase 1 study following National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal Hub Water Quality Scoping Study]
    Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment1 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Gillanders B,
    • Potts J,
    • Reis-Santos P,
    • Scanes P
    National Environmental Science Program
  • GRANT
    Council for International Exchange of Scholars1 May 2022 - 31 Aug 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin MA,
    • Barton A
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Implications of environmental variability on ocean microbes
    Australian-American Fulbright Commission8 Mar 2021 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M
    Fulbright Scholarships - Postdoctoral, Senior and Professional - for Australians - (n/a)
  • GRANT
    Defining the evolvable phenotype landscape for marine phytoplankton
    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation1 May 2018 - 30 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative - (105379191)
  • GRANT
    Biological bet hedging in a variable ocean
    Australian Research Council16 Apr 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Collins S
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP180100054)
  • GRANT
    Resolving the warming East Australian Current's impact on a marine food web
    Australian Research Council1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Jonsen I
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP160100162)
  • GRANT
    Ecology and natural dispersal mechanisms of Gambierdiscus, the causative organism of the human illness Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
    PADI Foundation31 May 2016 - 31 May 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    PADI Foundation
  • GRANT
    The marine productivity buoy: a multi-parametric underwater profiler
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure
  • GRANT
    A coupled liquid chromatography mass spectrometer as a core component of an Australian research facility for marine microbial biotoxins, LEAD UNSW
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure - (LE140100055)
  • GRANT
    Incorporating new knowledge of phytoplankton diversity and nutrient utilisation into an ocean-climate model to improve forecasts of ocean function
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Murray S,
    • Matear R,
    • Hutchins D
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP140101340) biological oceanography: phytoplankton,marine eukaryote diversity,phytoplankton biogeochemistry
  • GRANT
    Testing the waters: impacts of contaminants on ecosystem structure and function in urban waterways
    Australian Research Council31 Aug 2013 - 31 Aug 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Birch G,
    • Freewater P,
    • Gribben P,
    • Johnston E,
    • Kjelleberg S
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP130100364) ecosystem function, contaminants, microbiology, marine ecology, estuary, coastal management
  • GRANT
    A transportable containerised laboratory for rapid cell sorting and high-resolution bioimaging of living aquatic microbes in field locations
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure - (LE130100019) microbial ecology,marine biogeochemistry,ecogenomics
  • GRANT
    Influence of contamination on Sydney Harbour Bacterioplankton
    Transfield Foundation1 Jan 2013 - 1 Apr 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    Transfield Foundation Grants
  • GRANT
    Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster - WP 3 - Pelagic Community Metabolism in Australian Coastal Waters
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation21 Dec 2012 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - (2026546)
  • CONSULTING
    Victoria's Future Climate and the Marine Environment Workshop
    Glenelg Hopkins CMA27 Mar 2012 - 30 Mar 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M
    Glenelg Hopkins CMA Partnership Fund - (0298275)
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Fate of Light in Optically Complex Coastal Waters and the Physiological Implications of Bio-optical Niche Partitioning for Carbon Cycling by Phytoplankton - Student: Charlotte Robinson
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation31 Jan 2012 - 31 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M,
    • Robinson C
    Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
  • GRANT
    Elucidating foodweb relationships to understand climate-induced changes to ecosystem function
    Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M
    AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Science Leveraging Fund Grant for the NSW Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Electronics Technician
    SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE7 Mar 2011 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Doblin M
    Sydney Institute of Marine Science