BlairJohnson

Bio
Blair Johnson performs experimental research to model turbulence-driven environmental flows.  She grew up in Baltimore, MD, where annual summer trips to Ocean City, MD, inspired her fascination with waves and sand. Although she originally planned to become a structural engineer, undergraduate research in coastal engineering introduced her to fluid mechanics and phenomena such as turbulent diffusion and coastal erosion.  

Johnson completed her B.S. at Johns Hopkins University in civil engineering with a concentration in structures and a minor in piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 2008.  Following completion of her M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University (2011), she was a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental (IH Cantabria) in Santander, Spain, in 2012. Johnson completed her Ph.D. in environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology at Cornell University in August 2016. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Laboratory of Energetic Flow and Turbulence at Arizona State University from 2016 to 2017.

Educational Qualifications
Postdoc, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2017
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2016
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2012
B.S., Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2008

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• CAREER Award – National Science Foundation(2023) 
• CAEE Department Teaching Award – The University of Texas at Austin (2022)  

Related Websites
Johnson Environmental Turbulence (JET) Laboratory
Center for Water and the Environment

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