Ryan Johnson
Presenter & Writer
Ryan Johnson’s research career began when he travelled to South Africa for his postgraduate studies in Zoology. Since 1998, he has researched numerous marine predators through his university of Pretoria and Marine and Coastal Management’s top predator group.
His Masters and Doctorate degrees were focussed on the behavioural ecology of the Great White Shark at Gansbaai and Mossel Bay respectively.
He recently presented Sharkville and Shark Pit for National Geographic and will be hosting two more films for the channel this year. His white shark research, which formed the basis of his masters and doctoral thesis’s, has been published in local and international journals, and has featured extensively in written and visual media such as National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery, and the BBC.
Presenter & Writer
Ryan Johnson’s research career began when he travelled to South Africa for his postgraduate studies in Zoology. Since 1998, he has researched numerous marine predators through his university of Pretoria and Marine and Coastal Management’s top predator group.
His Masters and Doctorate degrees were focussed on the behavioural ecology of the Great White Shark at Gansbaai and Mossel Bay respectively.
He recently presented Sharkville and Shark Pit for National Geographic and will be hosting two more films for the channel this year. His white shark research, which formed the basis of his masters and doctoral thesis’s, has been published in local and international journals, and has featured extensively in written and visual media such as National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery, and the BBC.
