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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Kenneth S. Johnson is affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing heavily on Oceanography. Additional subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Bioengineering. Their work encompasses a range of marine and environmental topics relevant to chemical and physical ocean processes.

The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research

Johnson has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • "Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Delayed-Mode Quality Control of Oxygen, Nitrate, and pH Data on SOCCOM Biogeochemical Profiling Floats," 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Importance of wind and meltwater for observed chemical and physical changes in the Southern Ocean," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Assessment of pH dependent errors in spectrophotometric pH measurements of seawater," 2020, Marine Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Johnson include:

  • Yuichiro Takeshita
  • C.G. Wheat
  • Trevor Williams
  • E. Albers
  • B. Bekins

Johnson's publications have appeared in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 13 publications
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles - 4 publications
  • Frontiers in Marine Science - 3 publications
  • Nature Geoscience - 2 publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans - 2 publications

Kenneth S. Johnson was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson;Kenneth S. Johnson;Steve E. Fitzwater;R. Michael Gordon

  • Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    J. H. Martin;K. H. Coale;K. S. Johnson;K. S. Johnson;S. E. Fitzwater

  • What controls dissolved iron concentrations in the world ocean

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Kenneth S. Johnson;R. Michael Gordon;Kenneth H. Coale

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters

    Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson;Francisco P. Chavez;Ken O. Buesseler

  • The integral role of iron in ocean biogeochemistry

    Alessandro Tagliabue;Andrew R. Bowie;Philip W. Boyd;Kristen N. Buck

  • The flux of iron from continental shelf sediments: A missing source for global budgets

    Virginia A. Elrod;William M. Berelson;Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson

  • Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: implications for its use as a paleoproxy

    James McManus;William M Berelson;Gary P Klinkhammer;Kenneth S Johnson

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain

    Pia H. Moisander;Roxanne A. Beinart;Ian Hewson;Angelicque E. White

  • Continental-shelf sediment as a primary source of iron for coastal phytoplankton

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Kenneth S. Johnson;Francisco P. Chavez;Gernot E. Friederich

  • In situ ultraviolet spectrophotometry for high resolution and long-term monitoring of nitrate, bromide and bisulfide in the ocean

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Luke J. Coletti

  • Iron limitation of phytoplankton photosynthesis in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Zbigniew S. Kolber;Richard T. Barber;Kenneth H. Coale;Steve E. Fitzwateri

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • Control of community growth and export production by upwelled iron in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Kenneth H. Coale;Steve E. Fitzwater;R. Michael Gordon;Kenneth S. Johnson;Kenneth S. Johnson

  • Testing the Honeywell Durafet® for seawater pH applications

    Todd R. Martz;James G. Connery;Kenneth S. Johnson

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Nitrate supply from deep to near-surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Stephen C. Riser;David M. Karl

  • Observing the Global Ocean with Biogeochemical-Argo.

    Hervé Claustre;Kenneth S. Johnson;Yuichiro Takeshita

  • Biogeochemical sensor performance in the SOCCOM profiling float array.

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Joshua N. Plant;Luke J. Coletti;Hans W. Jannasch

  • Phosphorus regeneration in continental margin sediments

    James McManus;William M. Berelson;Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson;Kenneth S. Johnson

  • Carbon dioxide hydration and dehydration kinetics in seawater1

    Kenneth S. Johnson

  • Marine Chemistry Discussion Paper What controls dissolved iron concentrations in the world ocean

    Kenneth S. Johnson;R. Michael Gordon;Kenneth H. Coale

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Coale
Kenneth H. Coale Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Stephen C. Riser
Stephen C. Riser University of Washington
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento Princeton University
Steve E. Fitzwater
Steve E. Fitzwater Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Lynne D. Talley
Lynne D. Talley University of California, San Diego
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
William M. Berelson
William M. Berelson University of Southern California
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Zanna Chase
Zanna Chase University of Tasmania

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