David Johnston

David A. Johnston, PhD, specializes in the areas supply chain management for the Schulich School of Business, York University. Dr. Johnston has successfully researched, taught and also consulted internationally in the area of supply management. Dr. Johnston is a well-respected thought leader who focuses primarily on issues of buyer-supplier cooperation, risk management, e-commerce and process improvement.

Dr. David W. Johnston is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Conservation & Ecology at Duke University and Director of the Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab. Johnston holds a PhD from Duke University and received post-doctoral training at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. His professional experience ranges from leading research programs for NOAA to working as an ecologist within the NGO sector. Johnston’s research program focuses on the ecology and habitat needs of marine vertebrates in relation to pressing conservation issues such as climate change, habitat loss, ocean noise, incidental mortality and overharvests. He has published extensively in top journals in the fields of conservation biology, oceanography, marine ecology and marine policy on research that spans tropical, temperate and polar biomes. Johnston is an innovative teacher with experience in both large and small classrooms, and is skilled in Massive Open Online Courses, field-based learning situations, data visualization and digital textbook development and publication.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Seymour, A. C., J. T. Ridge, E. Newton, A. B. Rodriguez, and D. W. Johnston. “Geomorphic response of inlet barrier islands to storms.” Geomorphology 339 (August 15, 2019): 127–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.04.021.
• Gray, P. C., A. B. Fleishman, D. J. Klein, M. W. McKown, V. S. Bézy, K. J. Lohmann, and D. W. Johnston. “A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 345–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13132.
• Johnston, David W. “Unoccupied Aircraft Systems in Marine Science and Conservation..” Annual Review of Marine Science 11 (January 2019): 439–63. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010318-095323.
• Windle, A. E., D. Shane Hooley, and D. W. Johnston. “Robotic vehicles enable high-resolution light pollution sampling of sea turtle nesting beaches.” Frontiers in Marine Science 5, no. DEC (December 20, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00493.
• Tyne, Julian A., Fredrik Christiansen, Heather L. Heenehan, David W. Johnston, and Lars Bejder. “Chronic exposure of Hawaii Island spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) to human activities..” Royal Society Open Science 5, no. 10 (October 24, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171506.