Biography - Jeff Johansen, Ph.D.
Jeff Johansen was born and raised in northern California. He became
involved in studies of microbiotic crusts while a junior in college, and
eventually received his Ph.D. in Botany from Brigham Young University in 1984.
His dissertation research examined recovery of microbiotic crust communities
from both animal grazing activity and rangefire. He subsequently held two
postdoctoral positions in phycology, the first at Washington State University
where he continued his studies of fire disturbance and crusts, and the second
at the Solar Energy Research Institute, where he was part of the effort to
develop a diesel fuel substitute from microalgae. He joined the faculty at
John Carroll University in Cleveland in the fall of 1988, and currently is an
associate professor in the Department of Biology. Dr. Johansen has conducted
various ecological and floristic studies on microalgae, particularly on
diatoms and soil algae. He has published over 50 papers in scientific
journals, 20 of which concern microbiotic soil crusts. His contributions to
microbiotic crust research have been in the areas of disturbance ecology,
reclamation, floristics, and taxonomy. He has taught 14 different courses
during his 10 years at John Carroll, mentored over 30 undergraduate and
graduate student research projects, and obtained over $1.5 million in external
funding, mostly for his involvement in crust reclamation studies in Utah, New
Mexico, Arizona, and California. He is a cofounder of the Cuyahoga River
Watershed Project, a multi-institutional collaborative organization studying
watershed-based urban ecology in the greater Cleveland metropolitan area, is
on the steering committee for the Woodlake Environmental Research Station in
the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, and serves on the editorial
board of the Great Basin Naturalist.
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