People

Dr. Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson holds a joint appointment in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at UBC. He received a B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay in the late 1990s. His graduate studies included an M.S. in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University. From 2011 to 2013 he served as a UBC Sustainability Research Fellow, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Brazil 2013. In 2018 he received the UBC Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research, which is awarded annually in recognition of demonstrated excellence in pure or applied scientific research by a young faculty member. 

Mark has research expertise in ecohydrology and watershed biogeochemistry. He has academic and professional experience in temperate, tropical and boreal climates, and in forested, agricultural, and mixed land use environments. The overarching goal of his research group is to leverage their research towards the development of more sustainable land use practices and urban systems.

Current lab members

Brenda

D’Acunha

PhD student

Tracy Wang

MSc student

Anna Dreher

Undergrad Work-Learn student

Stephen

Chignell

PhD student

Trisa Ngo

MSc student

Yeonuk

Kim

Post doc

Dr. Hughie Jones

Post doc

Hannah

McSorley

MSc student

Emily Mistick

Research Assistant

Former lab members

Postdoctoral fellows

Dr. Laura Morillas

Dr. Higo José Dalmagro

Dr. Nei Leite

Dr. Ali Rahi

Marina (Molodovskaya) Richter

PhD alumni

Dr. Silja Hund

Dr. Angela Eykelbosh

Dr. Alicia Speratti

Dr. Eduardo Miranda

Dr. Iain Hawthorne

Dr. Michael Lathuilliere

Dr. Ashlee Jollymore

Dr. Julia Schwerdtfeger

Masters alumni

Kirsten Harma

Cameron Webster

Theodore Eyster

Ryan Davis

Emma Luker

Mollie McDowell