Dr. Erik Johanson         

Dr. Erik Johanson

Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
E-mail: ejohanson@fau.edu  

Phone: 561-297-4153
Office: SE-473

 

Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar Page

  


About:

Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Geography 
M.A. University of Tennessee, Anthropology
B.A. University of Tennessee, Anthropology

Environmental Change Lab (@EnvChangeLab)

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Profile

Dr. Johanson studies human-environment interaction and environmental change across the Holocene. His interests center around how people shape their environments and manage climate stress in the tropics over the last several thousand years often by examining sedimentary archives (isotopes, pollen, charcoal, diatoms, geoarchaeolgy). With a background in geography and anthropology, many of his studies look to the past to inform the present. Research topics include pre- and post-maize agricultural fire histories, the timing and pathways for the dissemination of key agricultural domesticates, resilience and societal response to mega droughts and environmental change, historical ecology of the tropics, the development of paleoclimate records, and the impact and modeling of future climate change. Dr. Johanson's Environmental Change Laboratory often collects and analyzes sediment cores from lakes and wetlands in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Florida.

 

Media Coverage

Climate Change television interview (Channel 10, South Florida), https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/09/06/florida-continues-to-break-heat-records/ 

Hurricane Preparedness article (FAU University Press), https://www.upressonline.com/2021/09/university-professors-discuss-hurricane-preparedness/?return

 

 

   

Research Interests

Reconstructing past environments & environmental change
Human-environment interaction across the Holocene
Paleoclimatology
Environmental archaeology
Vegetation and fire histories
Climate change
Human settlement modeling

                          Research Specializations

Palynology
Charcoal analysis
Stable light isotopes
Sediment analysis
Spatial modeling
 

 

 

               

Teaching (Undergraduate)


MET 2010: Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
EVR 4112: Hazards, Climate, and People (Academic Service Learning component)
GEO 4915: Directed Independent Research in Geosciences
GEO 4915: Directed Independent Study

                                               

Teaching (Graduate)


EVR 6931: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
EVR 6417: Paleoenvironments and People

Pollen in the Neotropics (Directed Independent Study)
Paleolandscapes in the Neotropics (Directed Independent Study)
Fire in the Neotropics (Directed Independent Study)
Past Human-Environment Interaction in Florida (Directed Independent Study)
Past Climate in the Tropics (Directed Independent Study)

 

 

 

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