Katherine Dafforn

Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Macquarie University Marine Research Centre

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8848-377X

Phone+61 2 9850 7979
Emailkatherine.dafforn@mq.edu.au

1793 Citations
21 h-Index

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr Katherine Dafforn is an environmental scientist recognised for her contributions to understanding and managing urban impacts in marine systems. She completed her PhD in 2010 and was formerly the Co-Director of the Applied Marine and Estuarine Ecology Lab at the University of New South Wales. She joined Macquarie University in 2018 and is the current Deputy Director of the Sydney Harbour Research Program at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science.

Katherine has developed sensitive monitoring tools that can be applied over large spatial scales and in a range of systems to measure aquatic health. She has also been engaged in the ecological design of marine foreshores and her experimental work has contributed to several urban renewal projects. The findings have provided policy tools for building foreshore infrastructure more sustainably.

Katherine is also enthusiastic about science communication. She has published in media outlets such as The Conversation and is an avid tweeter. She recently received a Young Tall Poppy Science Award for science excellence and community engagement.

External positions

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, The University of New South Wales

3 Apr 2018 → 3 Apr 2021

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Projects

1 Finished
4 Active

MQRIS: DIVING-PAM-II: deepening our understanding of human impacts on aquatic photosynthesis

Bishop, M., Dafforn, K., Saintilan, N., Hose, G. & Williamson, J.

1/01/20 → 31/12/20

Project: Other

A toolbox to underpin and enable tomorrow's marine biosecurity system

Floerl, O., Zaiko, A., Hopkins, G., Cahill, P., Pochon, X., Wood, S., Davidson, I., South, P., Vennell, R., Atalah, J., Newton, M., Smeaton, M., Gemmell, N., Stanton, J., Guen, M. J. L., Welsh, M., Yao, R., Treml, E., Dafforn, K., Badyal, J. P. & Chetham, J.

1/10/19 → 30/09/24

Project: Other

Environmental Trust NSW: Scaling up green seawall designs

Bishop, M., Strain, E. M. A., Dafforn, K., Lennon, D. P., Goad, A. & Steinberg, P.

1/03/18 → 31/01/21

Project: Research

ARC - LP (Transfer): Marine urban development: how can ecology inform the design of multifunctional artificial structures?

Dafforn, K.

27/06/14 → …

Project: Research

Ecological engineering of marine infrastructure

Dafforn, K., Mayer-Pinto, M., Bishop, M., Vozzo, M. & Bugnot, A. B.

1/07/19 → 30/06/20

Project: Other

Research Outputs

1793 Citations
21 h-Index
54 Article
4 Review article
2 Editorial
1 Commissioned report
3 More

A decision framework for coastal infrastructure to optimize biotic resistance and resilience in a changing climate

Mayer-Pinto, M., Dafforn, K. A. & Johnston, E. L., Oct 2019, In : BioScience. 69, 10, p. 833-843 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

After decades of stressor research in urban estuarine ecosystems the focus is still on single stressors: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

O'Brien, A. L., Dafforn, K. A., Chariton, A. A., Johnston, E. L. & Mayer-Pinto, M., 20 Sep 2019, In : Science of the Total Environment. 684, p. 753-764 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

9 Citations (Scopus)

Contrasting distributions of bacteriophages and eukaryotic viruses from contaminated coastal sediments

Lachnit, T., Dafforn, K. A., Johnston, E. L. & Steinberg, P., Jun 2019, In : Environmental microbiology. 21, 6, p. 1929-1941 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Eco-engineering increases habitat availability and utilisation of seawalls by fish

Ushiama, S., Mayer-Pinto, M., Bugnot, A. B., Johnston, E. L. & Dafforn, K. A., Nov 2019, In : Ecological Engineering. 138, p. 403-411 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Fine-scale effects of boat moorings on soft sediment communities masked in large-scale comparisons

Macolino, A. C., Dafforn, K. A., Hedge, L. H., Poore, A. G. B. & Johnston, E. L., 12 Mar 2019, In : Frontiers in Marine Science. 6, p. 1-10 10 p., 101.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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