Kathleen R. Johnson

Kathleen R. Johnson is an American paleoclimatologist of indigenous descent (she is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians).[1] Her research focuses on reconstructing past climate change with speleothems,[2] on active cave monitoring to understand the interaction of climate with speleotherm geochemistry, and analyses climate and paleoclimate data to investigate natural climate variablity.[3]

Kathleen Johnson
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAssociate Professor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
ThesisA Multi-Proxy Speleothem Record of Asian Monsoon Variability during the Late Pleistocene from Wanxiang Cave, Gansu Province, China (2004)
Doctoral advisorLynn Ingram
Academic work
DisciplineGeology, Paleoclimatology, Cave Science, Earth Science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
Websitesites.uci.edu/johnsonlab/kathleen-johnson/

Education

Johnson earned her PhD in Geology from UC Berkeley with Lynn Ingram in 2004.[1] She received her undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1992.[4]

Career

Johnson has been a professor at the University of California Irivine since 2007, where she leads the Johnson Lab in the Department of Earth System Science.[1] She is an expert in paleoclimate and hydrology, with research on the history of California droughts,[5] Asian monsoons,[6] and northern Mexico.[2][7]

Johnson advocates for more Native American students to have careers in STEM, particularly geoscience, to address environmental challenges. Johnson was the Principal Investigator and director of the American Indian Summer Institute in Earth System Science, a residential summer program for high school students hosted at UC Irvine.[8] The program received more than $1M in funding from the US National Science Foundation before ending in 2017.[1][9] During a 2016 award ceremony, she said:

"...Native Americans are the most underrepresented of all ethnic minorities in the earth sciences....while I strongly value and love my paleoclimate and geochemistry research, I can truly say that it is my work with Native youth that has provided me with the most joy and hope for the future of our planet."[10]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson". EARTH Magazine. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  2. "NSF Award Search: Award#1806090 - Collaborative Research: P2C2: Reconstructing Northeast Mexico Hydroclimate since the Last Interglacial Period". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  3. "Kathleen R. Johnson | University of California, Irvine". sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  4. "Kathleen R. Johnson | Johnson Lab". sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  5. California Drought: Natural or Man Made?, retrieved 2020-02-13
  6. "NSF Award Search: Award#1603056 - Collaborative Research: P2C2--Calibrating South East Asian Proxies: Speleothems and Tree-Rings". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  7. "Kathleen Johnson | University of California, Irvine - Academia.edu". uci.academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  8. "About AISIESS". sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  9. "NSF Award Search: Award#1108524 - OEDG Track 2: A residential summer institute in Earth System Science for American Indian high school students". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  10. "Geological Society of America - 2016 Bromery Award - Kathleen R. Johnson". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  11. "GSA Fellowship". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
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