{"id":85,"date":"2011-04-01T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learn.bowdoin.edu\/courses\/test-site-rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:52:11","slug":"beverly-johnson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/people\/beverly-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/files\/2011\/04\/BevJohnsonPhoto4-20101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-115\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/files\/2011\/04\/BevJohnsonPhoto4-20101-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My primary teaching and research interests involve exploring the  impact of human activity on the environment. I teach a first year seminar called  Burning Our Planet (FYS 284), an introductory course called Earth Surface  Processes (GEO 103), an intermediate course in Environmental Geochemistry (GEO  240) and advanced courses in Biogeochemistry and Paleoclimatology (GEO 367) and  Stable Isotopes and Past Environments (GEO 340).<\/p>\n<p>My primary research projects revolve around evaluating the role of  anthropogenic influences on local, regional and global environments by  reconstructing records of carbon cycling and environmental change through time.  I measure the stable isotope composition of modern and ancient organic matter  and collaborate with many scientists to study: (1) vegetation shifts in central  and northern Australia to understand the complex interactions between human  activity, animal extinction, vegetation, and climate over the last 60,000 years;  (2) changes in the cycling of terrestrial carbon during periods of significant  and rapid climate and sea level change in coastal Maine, the NE Siberian Arctic  and the Australian tropics; (3) paleo-food web dynamics among humans and marine  organisms in the Penobscot Bay, Gulf of Maine, through the last 5,000 years; and  (4) modern food web dynamics and nutrient transfer in salt marshes, coastal  Maine. I am also interested in the water quality of local watersheds, including  phosphorus cycling in the Sabattus and Androscoggin River watersheds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My primary teaching and research interests involve exploring the impact of human activity on the environment. I teach a first year seminar called Burning Our Planet (FYS 284), an introductory course called Earth Surface Processes (GEO 103), an intermediate course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/people\/beverly-johnson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}