Chris E. Johnson
Professor, Interim Department Chair

Office: 462c Link+
Phone: (315) 443-4425
Email: cejohns@syr.edu
Personal Website: http://web.syr.edu/~cejohns/index.htm


Chris Johnson holds bachelor’s (Civil Engineering), Master’s (Statistics), and a Ph.D. (Geology) degrees, all from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic in 1994. He has served as a visiting faculty member at Charles University in Prague and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

As an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University, Dr. Johnson teaches courses in environmental chemistry, soil chemistry, data analysis, and surveying. His research interests include forest soil chemistry and biogeochemistry. He has been an associate editor in the Forest & Range Soils division of the Soil Science Society of America Journal since January, 2000.

Research Interests
Professor Johnson is involved in a number of research projects in the broad area of environmental chemistry. He has ongoing research interests in the fate of trace metals (Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni) in forest soils and landscapes; the effects of clear-cut logging on soils and drainage waters; and the changing acid-base chemistry of soils historically affected by acid rain.

Dr. Johnson is also actively involved in research on the chemistry of natural organic matter, which plays an important role in soil fertility, trace metal transport, and the acid-base status of soils and natural waters. He is particularly interested in the characterization of organic matter using advanced analytical tools such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, liquid chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis.

Teaching Interests
Environmental Chemistry, Soil Chemistry, Statistics. Surveying

Recent Publications
Warby, R.A.F., Johnson, C.E., and Driscoll, C.T. “Continuing acidification of organic soils across the northeastern U.S.A.: 1984-2001,” Soil Science Society of America Journal, in progress.

Ussiri, D.A.N. and Johnson, C.E. “Forest harvesting effects on soil organic matter composition in a northern hardwood ecosystem,” Forest Ecology and Management, 2007.

Warby, R.A.F., Johnson, C.E., and Driscoll, C.T. “Chemical recovery of surface waters across the northeastern U.S. from reduced inputs of acidic deposition: 1984-2001,” Environmental Science and Technology, 2005.

Johnson, C.E., Smernik, R.J., Siccama, T.G., Keimle, D.M., Xu, Z., and Vogt ,D. J. “Using 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the study of northern hardwood tissues,” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2005.

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