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

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

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences 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.

My Ph.D. is in physics from UT-Dallas (in Richardson). My dissertation research examined the relationship of the plasmapause and the outer radiation belt, using observations from the DMSP and SAMPEX satellites.

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:

Dr. Wm. Robert Johnston
William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
WT15, Box 830688
Richardson, TX 78083-0688


Publications

Thesis and other documents

  • W. R. Johnston, April 2009, The role of the plasmasphere in radiation belt particle energization and loss, Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Texas at Dallas (advisor Phillip C. Anderson). (Full text and Presentation).
  • W. R. Johnston, 12 Sept. 2007, The role of the plasmasphere in radiation belt particle energization and loss, Ph.D. research proposal, Univ. of Texas at Dallas (advisor Phillip C. Anderson). (Full text and Presentation)
  • W. R. Johnston, 19 April 2004, Detection strategies for a multi-interferometer triggered search, M.S. thesis, Univ. of Texas at El Paso (advisor Soumya Mohanty). (Full text and Presentation)

Conference/workshop presentations

Conference/workshop posters

Other publications

Unpublished material (selected)


Misc.

Okay, enough about me...
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Last modified 2 July 2009.
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