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Wm. Robert Johnston
M.S. (Physics), B.A. (Astronomy)

At the National Atomic Museum in 2000--with a Snark intercontinental cruise missile.

I am a doctoral student in physics at the University of Texas (UT) at Dallas (in Richardson). My work is in space physics, the study of the space environment, encompassing realms from the ionosphere to the magnetosphere to interplanetary space.

Specifically, I am currently using data taken in the Earth's ionosphere by DMSP satellites to address questions about dynamics of the Earth's plasmasphere and the relationship of the plasmasphere to the Earth's radiation belts. My advisor is Phillip C. Anderson.

My M.S. is in physics from UT-El Paso in cooperation with UT-Brownsville. My work there in the relativity group was concerned with data analysis for gravitational wave detection. While there I worked on data analysis methods for triggered burst searches, on stochastic searches, and made two summer research visits to the LIGO-Livingston site.

My B.A. is in astronomy from UT-Austin. For three years I participated in the Dean's Scholars Program in the College of Natural Sciences.

Contact information:

Wm. Robert Johnston
William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
WT15, Box 830688
Richardson, TX 78083-0688
wrjohnston@prodigy.net or bobjohnston@utdallas.edu


Publications

  • P. C. Anderson, W. R. Johnston, and J. Goldstein, 2008, Observations of the ionospheric projection of the plasmapause, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett.
  • B. Rooney and W. R. Johnston, 2007, Letter, More on the adverse effects of abortion, J. Am. Phys. Surg., 12(4):97-98.

Thesis and other documents

Conference/workshop presentations

Conference/workshop posters

Other publications

Unpublished material (selected)


Misc.

  • A collection of letters to the editor and other opinion pieces may be found here.
  • My beautiful wife and I vacationed in the western United States in June 2000. To see some of our vacation pictures, click here.
  • Then we took another trip through the western United States in June-July 2007--this time with a better camera! You can see some of those vacation pictures here.
  • Views expressed on this web site are mine; you need not blame anyone else.

Okay, enough about me...
What about you? Do you know how to go to heaven?


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