Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

The Johnson lab is focused on radiation in the environment and radiation dosimetry. The lab has strong collaborations with Fukushima University, University of Tokyo, and Tsukuba University to monitor radiation surrounding the Fukushima reactor accident. Additional collaborations include monitoring of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation (with Dr. Gilbert John, Dr. B. Weir, and Dr. Phillida Charley), other radiation monitoring, and rhinoceros horn poaching mitigation using radioisotopes with the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Health physics, radiochemistry, and radioecology students all get the opportunity to go on the Los Alamos and Idaho National Lab practicums. Typically, the lab also tours a uranium mine and visits Fukushima.

To support the initiatives of the Johnson Lab, please consider making a charitable donation to one of these funds:

• The F. Ward Whicker Health Physics fund provides support to students pursuing a degree in health physics.
• The Uranium Energy Corporation Health Physics Scholarship Endowment provides scholarships for students enrolled in the radiological health sciences program with a concentration in health physics.
• The Radiation Health Scholarship Endowment provides scholarships for full-time graduate students who demonstrate an intention to pursue a career in radiation health, health physics, radioecology, or radiation biology.
• The Steven J. Maheras Family Scholarship Endowment provides scholarships for students enrolled in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences majoring in radiological health with health physics or medical health physics specializations.