Olivia is a marine ecologist specialising in biodiversity conservation, threatened species assessments, and applied management. She is the Senior Climate Change Research and Project Officer for the Sea Change Australia project, a PhD candidate at IMAS, and a member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology. With over a decade of experience in field ecological research, she has led biodiversity surveys across Australia and internationally, studying species ranging from the world’s rarest fish, range-extending sea urchins, to Antarctic krill. She is currently the Sightings and Communications Manager for Redmap Australia, a member of the Tasmanian Government’s Threatened Species Scientific Advisory Committee and the IUCN SSC Seaweed Specialist Group. Her research interests lie in species populations and distributions, the impacts and implications of climate change on marine biodiversity, to help inform conservation and management efforts.
Olivia Johnson
Senior Climate Change Research and Project Officer
Fun-fact
My dad was a commercial urchin diver, so I developed a fascination for marine animals early on. I loved collecting all the little critters that had made their way into the boat whenever he’d hose out the scuppers.
Affiliation
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS)
