Glen Johnson

 

 

 

Research Associate Professor

phone 801.581.6151
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
gjohnson@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

  • Environmental Forensics. Development and application of pattern recognition methods for determination of contaminant sources and alteration processes in complex environmental systems.
  • Source, Fate and Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Study of natural alteration and attenuation processes that affect dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
  • Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology. Application of quantitative and graphical methods applied to micropaleontological data

 

Regional and Basin Experience–

  • Environmental (Chemical Fingerprinting):San Francisco Bay
  • Lake Hartwell, South Carolina
  • Grenada, Mississippi
  • Crystal Springs, Mississippi
  • Newark Bay, New Jersey
  • San Diego Harbor, San Diego, California
  • Akwesasne, New York

Education –

  • 1982 B.M. in Music Education. East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
  • 1985 B.S. in Geology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
  • 1988 M.S. in Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Thesis: Pleistocene Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology - Northeast Gulf of Mexico.
  • 1997 Ph.D. in Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Dissertation: Application of Polytopic Vector Analysis to Environmental Geochemistry Investigations

Memberships –

  • International Society of Environmental Forensics
  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

 

Publications –

Johnson, G.W., Hansen, L.G., Hamilton, M.C., Fowler, B., and Hermanson, M.H. 2008. PCB, PCDD and PCDF congener profiles in two types of Aroclor 1254. Environmental Toxicology & Pharmacology. 25: 156-163.

Johnson, G.W., Ehrlich, R., Full, W., and Ramos, S. (2007). Chapter 6: Principal components analysis and receptor models in environmental forensics. In: An Introduction to Environmental Forensics. 2nd Edition. (R. Morrison and B. Murphy, eds.). Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp. 207-272.

Johnson, G.W., Quensen, J.F., III, Chiarenzelli, J., and Hamilton, C. (2006). Chapter 10: Polychlorinated Biphenyls. In: Environmental Forensics: A Contaminant Specific Guide (R. Morrison and B. Murphy, eds.). Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp. 187-225.

Magar, V.S., Johnson, G.W., Brenner, R., Durell, G., Quensen, J.F., III, Foote, E., Ickes, J.A., Peven-McCarthy, C. 2005. Long-term recovery of PCB-contaminated sediments at the Lake Hartwell Superfund Site: PCB Dechlorination I – End-Member Characterization. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39: 3538-3547.

Gary, A.C., G.W. Johnson, D.D. Ekart, E. Platon, and M.I. Wakefield. (2005). A Method for Two-Well Correlation using Multivariate Biostratigraphical Data. In: Recent Developments in Applied Biostratigraphy. (A.J. Powell & J.B. Riding, Eds). The Micropaleontological Society Special Publication. pp. 205-217. Micropaleontological Society. London

DeCaprio, A. P., Johnson, G. W., Tarbell, A. M., Carpenter, D. O., Chiarenzelli, J. R., Morse, G. S., Santiago-Rivera, A. L., Schymura, M. J., and Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. 2005. PCB exposure assessment by multivariate statistical analysis of serum congener profiles in an adult Native American population. Environ. Res. 98, 284-302.