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W. Carter
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Professor of Ecology
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Bio:
Dr. W. Carter Johnson is
Professor of Ecology at South Dakota State University in Brookings. He received
a B.S. in Biology from Augustana College (Sioux Falls) in 1968 and a Ph.D. in
Botany (Plant Ecology) from North Dakota State University in 1971. Carter began
his professional career as Research Associate and Research Staff Member at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (1971-77), followed by 12 years in the Department of
Biology at Virginia Tech. In 1989 he became Head of the Department of
Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape, and Parks at South Dakota State University, a
position held until 1995.
His research interests include
river regulation and riparian forest ecology, climate change and prairie
wetlands, seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes, and paleoecology (climate
reconstruction using tree rings; Holocene seed dispersal and plant migration).
His research program is strongly multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional. He
was the recipient of the William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of
America in 1996 and the Best Paper Award from the International Association of
Landscape Ecology in 1995 for his 1994 Ecological Monograph, "Woodland
Expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: Patterns and Causes."
He is a life member of the
Ecological Society of America and has served on the editorial boards for Landscape
Ecology and Wetlands. He has been certified as a Senior
Ecologist by ESA since 1988. Between 2000 and 2004 he served on three
National Research Council panels examining large U. S. rivers: Missouri,
Platte, and Snake.
Awards/Other Experience:
- Research Assistantship, North Dakota State
University 1968-71
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Exchange Scientist, US-USSR Academies of Science, Soviet Union, March-August,
1975
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Exchange Scientist, US-USSR Academies of Science, Soviet Union, June, 1977
- Best paper of 1994 award by U.S. Chapter of International Association of Landscape Ecology
[for Johnson, W.C. 1994. Woodland expansion
in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes.
Ecol. Monogr. 64:45-84] presented at national meeting at the University of Minnesota
(April 1995)
- Recipient of W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America for outstanding contribution
to geobotany or physiographic ecology
(1996)
- Recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, SDSU,
1997
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Visiting Scholar, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Spring 1998
- Inaugural address, European IALE (International Association of Landscape Ecology) Congress, "Key concepts in landscape ecology,"
Preston, England (Fall 1998)
- Member, editorial board for the international journal Landscape Ecology
(1997-2001 term)
- Member, editorial board for international scientific journal, Wetlands
(1999-2003 term)
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Appointed to National Research Council's Committee on the Missouri River
Ecosystem (1999-2002)
- F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Research, South Dakota State University,
(fall 2000)
- Appointed to represent SDSU on RADAC
(Research and Demonstration Advisory Committee) for the International Arid Lands
Consortium
(2000-2002)
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Elected to Professional Certification Committee, Ecological Society of
America (2000-2002)
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Appointed to National Research Council's panel "Committee on the Missouri
River Ecosystem" (2000-2002)
- Barkalow
Lecturer, North Carolina State University (Spring 2002)
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Appointed to National Research Council's panel "Committee on Water
Resources Management, Instream Flows, and Salmon Survival in the
Columbia River" (2003-2004)
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Appointed to National Research Council's panel "Committee on Endangered
Threatened Species of the Platte River Basin" (2003-2004)
Teaching Program:
LA 440 Restoration Ecology
LA 540 Landscape Ecology
Areas of Research Interest:
(1) Streamflow regulation and riparian ecosystems
(2) Global climate change and prairie wetlands
(3) Restoration of economic and ecological sustainability in western rangeland
(4) Dispersal of nuts by blue jays
Professional Membership and Activities:
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
Ecological Society of America, Life Member
Society of Wetland Scientists
American Institute of Biological Sciences
International Association of Landscape Ecology
Recent publications:
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