Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
CANTON -- The St. Lawrence University Robert O. and Vera Bloomer Lecture series welcomes alumni Kenneth Johnson to discuss coral reefs and environmental change at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, in …
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CANTON -- The St. Lawrence University Robert O. and Vera Bloomer Lecture series welcomes alumni Kenneth Johnson to discuss coral reefs and environmental change at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, in the Bloomer Auditorium located in Brown Hall.
The event is free and open to the public.
Johnson is an authority on hard corals and has worked with the major reef faunas of the Caribbean, Atlantic and western Pacific oceans. Working as a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London since 2005, Johnson’s work is focused on coral reefs of the Indonesian Archipelago, where coral faunas of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific mix to produce amazing diversity in the reefs of the region. His work aims to further an understanding of these faunas so that society may understand what we are losing as human activities destroy these complex biologic communities.
As an undergraduate at St. Lawrence who participated in the London Semester Program, Johnson studied the quantitative geomorphology of the Grasse River, producing a senior thesis, with Mark Erickson as advisor, titled “A quantitative analysis of the Grasse River Drainage, St. Lawrence County.”
After graduation, Johnson went on to the University of Iowa, where he completed both a master’s and Ph.D. and became a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He later completed postdoctoral studies with the National Science Foundation and NATO and became an advanced postdoctoral research fellow at both the Natural History Museum London and the University of Glasgow. He worked for four years as an associate project scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and he served as an assistant curator of invertebrates at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Parking will be available in the J-Lot off of Park Street and across from the Augsbury Physical Education Center. View an interactive map of the campus online at www.stlawu.edu/campus-map.
For more information, contact the Department of Geology at 229-5851 or visit www.stlawu.edu/geology.
