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Overview

Thomas M. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The scientist's work spans across several subfields, including Geochemistry and Petrology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Inorganic Chemistry, and Pollution. The main topics covered in their research include Selenium in Biological Systems, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Radioactive element chemistry and processing, Heavy metals in the environment, Radioactive contamination and transfer, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated closely with Thomas M. Johnson include:

  • Xiangli Wang
  • Kathrin Schilling
  • Jian-Ming Zhu
  • Decan Tan
  • Naomi L. Wasserman

The venues in which they have published multiple papers include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas M. Johnson are:

  • A critical review on the occurrence and distribution of the uranium- and thorium-decay nuclides and their effect on the quality of groundwater, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Selenium isotope fractionation during adsorption by Fe, Mn and Al oxides, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Microbial U Isotope Fractionation Depends on the U(VI) Reduction Rate, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Mass-dependent selenium isotopic fractionation during microbial reduction of seleno-oxyanions by phylogenetically diverse bacteria, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Selenium isotope fractionation during adsorption onto montmorillonite and kaolinite, 2021, Applied Clay Science

Best Publications

  • Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

    Noah J. Planavsky;Christopher T. Reinhard;Xiangli Wang;Danielle Thomson

  • Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

    Noah J. Planavsky;Dan Asael;Axel Hofmann;Christopher T. Reinhard

  • Chromium isotopes and the fate of hexavalent chromium in the environment

    Andre S. Ellis;Thomas Martin Johnson;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Groundwater Age and Groundwater Age Dating

    Craig M. Bethke;Thomas M. Johnson

  • Assessment of low impact development for managing stormwater with changing precipitation due to climate change

    Christopher Pyke;Meredith P. Warren;Thomas Johnson;James LaGro

  • Selenium isotope ratios as indicators of selenium sources and oxyanion reduction

    Thomas M. Johnson;Mitchell J. Herbel;Mitchell J. Herbel;Thomas D. Bullen;Peter T. Zawislanski

  • Using chromium stable isotope ratios to quantify Cr(VI) reduction: lack of sorption effects.

    Andre S. Ellis;Thomas M. Johnson;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Paradox of groundwater age

    Craig M. Bethke;Thomas Martin Johnson

  • Mass-Dependent Fractionation of Selenium and Chromium Isotopes in Low-Temperature Environments

    Thomas Martin Johnson;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Uranium isotopic fractionation factors during U(VI) reduction by bacterial isolates

    Anirban Basu;Robert A Sanford;Thomas Martin Johnson;Craig Campbell Lundstrom

  • Microbial mass-dependent fractionation of chromium isotopes

    Eric R. Sikora;Thomas M. Johnson;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Interpretation of isotopic data in groundwater‐rock systems: Model development and application to Sr isotope data from Yucca Mountain

    Thomas Martin Johnson;Donald J. DePaolo

  • Uranium 238U/235U isotope ratios as indicators of reduction: results from an in situ biostimulation experiment at Rifle, Colorado, U.S.A.

    Charles John Bopp;Craig Campbell Lundstrom;Thomas Martin Johnson;Robert A Sanford

  • The isotopic composition of authigenic chromium in anoxic marine sediments: A case study from the Cariaco Basin

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Xiangli Wang;Xiangli Wang;Woodward W. Fischer

  • Selenium isotope fractionation during reduction by Fe(II)-Fe(III) hydroxide-sulfate (green rust)

    Thomas M. Johnson;Thomas D. Bullen

  • A review of mass-dependent fractionation of selenium isotopes and implications for other heavy stable isotopes

    Thomas M Johnson

  • A Review of Water Quality Responses to Air Temperature and Precipitation Changes 2: Nutrients, Algal Blooms, Sediment, Pathogens

    Rory Coffey;Michael J. Paul;Jen Stamp;Anna Hamilton

  • Fractionation of selenium isotopes during bacterial respiratory reduction of selenium oxyanions

    Mitchell J. Herbel;Thomas M. Johnson;Ronald S. Oremland;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Variations in 238U/235U in uranium ore deposits: Isotopic signatures of the U reduction process?

    Charles John Bopp;Craig C. Lundstrom;Thomas M. Johnson;Justin J.G. Glessner

  • Effective isotopic fractionation factors for solute removal by reactive sediments: a laboratory microcosm and slurry study.

    Scott K. Clark;Thomas M. Johnson

  • Cr Stable Isotopes As Indicators of Cr(VI) Reduction in Groundwater: A Detailed Time-Series Study of a Point-Source Plume

    Emily C. Berna;Thomas Martin Johnson;Richard S. Makdisi;Anirban Basu

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Bullen
Thomas D. Bullen United States Geological Survey
Craig C. Lundstrom
Craig C. Lundstrom University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher T. Reinhard
Christopher T. Reinhard Georgia Institute of Technology
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul R.D. Mason
Paul R.D. Mason Utrecht University
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Craig M. Bethke
Craig M. Bethke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wolfgang Wilcke
Wolfgang Wilcke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Philip E. Long
Philip E. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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