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Blair Johnson conducts experimental research on model turbulence-driven environmental flows. Growing up in Baltimore, MD, annual summer trips to Ocean City, MD instilled a fascination with waves and sand. Originally intending to become a structural engineer, his undergraduate research in coastal engineering introduced him to the fluid mechanics phenomena of turbulent diffusion and coastal erosion. Johnson earned a B.S. in civil engineering with a concentration in structures and a minor in piano from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University in 2008. He completed his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University in 2011, and served as a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental in Santander, Spain in 2012. He attained his Ph.D. in environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology from Cornell University in August 2016. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Laboratory of Energetic Flow Turbulence at Arizona State University from 2016 to 2017.
Laboratory of Energetic Flow Turbulence, Arizona State University • Tempe, AZ
Conducted research on turbulence in environmental flows.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and researching in the field of civil and environmental engineering.
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