and for increasing the participation of women in research. Awards Johnston's research has led to her being a category winner in the 2012 NSW Science and Engineering Awards and in 2014 she won the inaugural Australian Academy of Science Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science. This medal was presented to Johnston at Science at the Shine Dome on 28 May 2014. Johnston was a 2007 winner of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science's Tall Poppy Award for her research into the effects of introduced species and contaminants on existing Australian marine species. In 2015 Johnston won The Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry AU Mid-Career Medal for excellence in scientific work in Australasia that has involved substantial environmental toxicology and chemistry. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN). Johnston was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to higher education, particularly to marine ecology and ecotoxicology, as an academic, researcher and administrator, and to scientific institutes." In September 2018 she was named one of The Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence in the Innovation category. In December 2018 she was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. Johnston was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) in 2019 and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022. References External links Official profile at the University of New South Wales Emma Johnston on Coast Australia One Plus One 'Nature Plus Nurture' Summer Series: Emma Johnston Interview with Jane Hutcheon, ABC TV, broadcast 7 January 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016. Australian ecologists Women ecologists Australian women scientists University of Melbourne alumni Living people 1973 births Australian toxicologists University of New South Wales faculty Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering