Faculty & Staff

Matt Johnston

Software Developer

johnmatt@nova.edu

http://www.nova.edu/~johnmatt/

Education

• 2002 - B.Sc. Hons. - Linfield College, Business Information Systems

• 2011 - M.S. Nova Southeastern University, Marine Biology

Primary Responsibilities

As a software developer, I am responsible for maintenance of custom software packages currently in use by researchers and staff at the OC including CPCe (Coral Point Count with Excel Extensions).  I also maintain several websites including the tiger shark tracking website for the Guy Harvey Research Institute and the Invasionsoft web portal for invasive species predictions.

Area(s) of Research

I am particularly interested in invasive species and their patterns of invasion in their introduced environments.  I have developed and am currently enhancing a predictive model based on the lionfish invasion in the western Atlantic and Caribbean region.

Publications

Johnston, M.W., Purkis, S.J., 2011. Spatial analysis of the invasion of lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 62 (6), 1218-1226.