Jonathan Tonkin

Jono is an ecologist and biodiversity scientist focused on tackling global challenges at the nexus between biodiversity and climate change, with a particular emphasis on ecological forecasting and understanding drivers of change in rivers. He has won a number of awards, including the NZ Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize, the NZ Freshwater Sciences Society and University of Canterbury Early Career Researcher Awards, and a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.

Jono writes Predirections on Substack (https://predirections.substack.com) — a newsletter at the intersection of climate, biodiversity, and water challenges. Predirections offers both personal scientific insights and actionable information for readers navigating our changing environment.

Jono’s research has appeared in leading multidisciplinary (Nature, Science) and ecological (Nature Ecology & Evolution, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment) journals. He leads the Tonkin Lab, a diverse group of postdocs and postgraduate students, and is a Principal Investigator in Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems.