Bruce Johnson

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
Halifax, NS
B3H 4J1

Phone: (902) 479-9530
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: bruce.johnson@dal.ca

Education Background

• PhD - Oceanography, Dalhousie University
• B.Eng. - Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University

Research Interests

• Instrumentation
• Gas exchange
• Bubble dynamics
• Physical chemical hydrodynamics

Dorgan, K.M., Jumars, P.A., Johnson, B.D., and Boudreau, B.P. - 2006 - Macrofaunal burrowing: The medium is the message. - Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review. 44, 85-121. CLC Press.

Jumars, P.A., Dorgan, K.M., Mayer, L.M., Boudreau, B.P., and Johnson, B.D. - 2006 - Material constraints on infaunal lifestyles: May the strong and the persistent forces be with you. - In: - Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects (W. Miller, III, Ed.), p. 441-456, Elsevier.

Dorgan, K.M., Jumars, P.A., Johnson, B.D., Boudreau, B.P., and Landis, E. - 2005 - Burrowing by crack propagation: efficient locomotion through muddy sediments. - Nature, 433, 475.

Boudreau, B.P., Algar, C., Johnson, B.D., Croudace, I., Reed, A., Furukawa, Y., Dorgan, K.M., Jumars, P.A., Grader, A.S., and Gardiner, B.S. - 2005 - Bubble growth and rise in sediments. - Geology, 33, 517-520.

Zhang, X., Lewis, M., Bissett, W.P., Johnson,B., and D. Kohler. - 2004 - Optical influence of ship wakes. - Applied Optics, 43, 3122-3132.

Gardiner, B.S., Boudreau, B.P., and Johnson, B.D. - 2003 - Growth of disk-shaped bubbles in sediments by fracture. - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta v. 67, 1485-1494.

Gardiner, B.S., Boudreau, B.P., and Johnson, B.D. - 2003 - Diffusion-limited growth of a disk-shaped bubble. - Applied Mathematical Modelling v. 27, 817-829.

Johnson, B., Boudreau, B.P., Gardiner, B., and Maass, R. - 2002 - Mechanical response of sediments to bubble growth. - Marine Geology, 187, 347-363.

Zhang, X., Lewis, M.R., Li, M., Johnson, B. and Korotaev, G. - 2002 - The volume scattering function of natural bubble populations. - Limnology and Oceanography, 47, 1273-1282.

Boudreau, B.P., Gardiner, B., and Johnson, B. - 2001 - Rate of growth of isolated bubbles in sediments with a distributed diagenetic source of methane. - Limnology and Oceanography, 46, 616-622. (See also the Erratum in the same issue)

Boudala, F.S., Folkins, I., Beauchamp, S., Tordon, R., Neima, J., and Johnson, B. - 2000 - Mercury flux measurements over air and water on Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia. - Water Air Soil Pollution, 122, 183-202.

Chylek, P., Kou, L., Johnson, B., Boudala, F., and Lesins, G. - 1999 - Black carbon concentrations in precipitation and and near surface air in and near Halifax, NS. - Atmospheric Environment, 33, 2269-2278.

Zhang, X., Lewis, M.R., and Johnson, B. - 1998 - The role of bubbles in the scattering of light in the ocean. - Applied Optics, 37, 6525-6536.

Chylek, P., Banic, C.M., Johnson, B., Damiano, P.A., Isaac, G.A., Leaitch, W.R., Liu, P.S.K., Boudala, F.S., Winter, B., and Ngo, D. - 1995 - Black carbon: atmosphere concentrations and cloud water content measurements over southern Nova Scotia. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 29105-29110.