Current Appointment: Senior Research Fellow

Contact:

Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123
BROADWAY NSW 2007
Australia

Opportunities:

• Top-down (grazing) control of phytoplankton populations
• Sexual reproduction of dinoflagellates
• Harmful algae as invasive species
• Benthic microalgal production
• Analysis of phytoplankton datasets for evidence of climate change

Current Students:

• Alex Griffin (Honours)
• Katherina Petrou (PhD)

Key Scientific Community Activities:

• Panel member for the Australian National System for Prevention and Management of Marine Pest Incursions
• Invited panel member for the Environmental Technology Verification Program to develop protocols to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies to remove or inactivate invasive species present in ships’ ballast water
• Executive Committee member for the Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
• Member of Sydney Institute of Marine Science

Key University Activities:

• Lecturer in Management of Coasts, Oceans & Catchments (98711)
• Lecturer in Environmental Management (91122)
• Member of the UTS Water Management Committee

Recent Publications:

• Demir, E., Coyne, K.J., Doblin, M.A., Handy, S.M., Hutchins, D.A. (2007) Microzooplankton grazing rates on Heterosigma akashiwo in the Delaware Inland Bays, a species-specific approach combining Quantitative Real-Time PCR (QPCR) and dilution methods; published online, Microbial Ecology (DOI: 10.1007/s00248-007-9263-9).
  
• Ralph P.J., Durako M.J., Enríquez S., Collier C.J. and Doblin M.A. (2007) Impact of light limitation on seagrasses; accepted in J. Exp. Mar. Biol. & Ecol.
  
• Drake, L.A., Doblin, M.A. and Dobbs, F.C. (2007) Potential microbial bioinvasions via ships’ ballast water, sediment, and biofilms. Mar. Poll. Bull. 55: 333-341.
  
• Doblin, M.A., Coyne, K.C., Rinta-Kanto, J.M., Wilhelm, S.W. and Dobbs, F.C. (2007) Dynamics and short-term survival of toxic cyanobacteria species in ballast water from NOBOB vessels transiting the Great Lakes—implications for HAB invasions. Harmful Algae 6: 519-530.
  

• Wilhelm, S.W., Carberry, M.J., Eldridge, M.L., Poorvin, L., Saxton, M.A. and Doblin, M.A. (2006) Marine and freshwater cyanophages in a Laurentian Great Lake—evidence from infectivity assays and molecular analyses of g20 genes. Appl. Environ. Ecol., 72: 4957-4963.
  
• Doblin, M.A., Baines, S.B., Cutter, L.S. and Cutter, G.A. (2006) Sources and biogeochemical cycling of particulate selenium in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 67: 681-694.
  
• Doblin, M.A., Thompson, P.A., Revill, A.T., Butler, E.C.V., Blackburn, S.I. and Hallegraeff, G.M. (2006) Vertical migration of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum under different concentrations of nutrients and humic substances in culture; Harmful Algae, 5 (6), p.665-677.
  
• Doblin, M.A. and Dobbs, F.C. (2006) Setting a size-exclusion limit to remove or inactivate toxic dinoflagellate cysts in ships’ ballast water; Marine Pollution Bulletin, 52: 259-263.
  

• Coyne, K.J., Handy, S.M., Demir, E., Whereat, E., Hutchins, D.A., Portune, K.J., Doblin, M.A. and Cary, S.C. (2005) Quantitative real-time PCR detection of Chattonella subsalsa and Heterosigma akashiwo in environmental water samples; Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods 3: 381-391.
  
• Handy, S.M., Coyne, K.J., Portune, K.J., Demir, E., Doblin, M.A., Hare, C.E., Cary, S.C. and Hutchins, D.A. (2005) Evaluating vertical migration behavior of harmful raphidophytes in the Delaware Inland Bays utilizing quantitative real-time PCR; Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 40: 121-132.
  
• Forsberg, R., Baier, R., Meyer, A., Doblin, M.A., Strom, M. (2005) Fine particle persistence in ballast water sediments and ballast tank biofilms. Proceedings 28^th Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society, Inc. The Adhesion Society.
  
• Drake, L.A., Meyer, A.E., Forsberg, R.L., Baier, R.E., Doblin, M.A., Heinemann, S., Johnson, W.P., Koch, M., Rublee, P.A. and Dobbs, F.C. (2005) Potential invasion of microorganisms and pathogens via ‘interior hull fouling’: Biofilms inside ballast-water tanks; Biological Invasions 7(6):969-982.
  

• Stewart, R., Luoma, S.N., Schleckat, C.E., Doblin, M.A., Hieb, K.A. (2004) Food web pathway determines how selenium affects aquatic ecosystems: A San Francisco Bay Case Study; Environ. Sci. Technol. 38(17): 4519-4526.
  
• Doblin, M.A., Popels, L.C., Coyne, K.J., Hutchins, D.A., Cary, S.C. and Dobbs, F.C. (2004) Long-distance and local-scale transport of Aureococcus by ships and boats in fresh and marine waters; Appl. Environ. Ecol. 70(11): 6495-6500.
  
• Aridgides, L.J., Doblin, M.A., Berke, T., Dobbs, F.C., Matson, D.O. and Drake, L.A. (2004) Multiplex PCR allows simultaneous detection of pathogens in ships’ ballast water. Mar. Poll. Bull. 48(11-12): 1096 - 1101.
  
• Doblin, M.A., Drake, L.A., Coyne, K.J., Rublee, P.A. and Dobbs, F.C. (2004) Pfiesteria species identified in ships’ ballast water and residuals: A possible vector for introductions to coastal areas, pp. 317-319. In: K.A. Steidinger, J.H. Landsberg, C.R. Tomas and G.A. Vargo (eds) Harmful Algae 2002. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Institute of Oceanography, and Invergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
  
• Baines, S. B., Fisher, N.S., Doblin, M.A., Cutter, G.A., Cutter, L.S., and Cole, B. (2004) Light dependence of selenium uptake by phytoplankton and implications for predicting selenium incorporation into food-webs. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49: 566-578.
  

Education:

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. (1998) University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
• B.Sc. Hons. (1993) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia