Areas of interest include environmental assessment and bioindicators, impacts of climate change, decision making in the environmental sciences. Research projects include: effects of multiple stressors on aquatic communities; testing indicators of coastal ecosystem integrity; predicting impacts of climate change on stream communities; development of tools for managing and communicating science to end users.
Professional Honor
Lucinda has been named a 2020 Fellow by the Society for Freshwater Science. Her research focuses on what effects humans have on aquatic ecosystems, especially in the areas of land use and climate change. Johnson serves the EPA's Office of Research and Development as the vice chair of the executive committee of the Board of Scientific Counselors.
Professional Service
- International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board, EPA Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee, Board Member Friends of the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve; Science Advisor to Environmental Law Policy Center.
- Graduate Faculty, Water Resources Science and Integrated Biological Science, 2000 - present
- Instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth; Landscape Ecology, Stream Ecology
Education
- Ph.D., Zoology, Michigan State University, 1999
- M.S., Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 1984
- B.A., Duke University, 1976
Recent Publications
Climate Change: A bibliometric study of the Great Lakes Basin
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Community capacity and climate change in the Laurentian Great Lakes Region: the importance of social, human, and political capital for community responses to climate-driven disturbances
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Inequality in aquatic ecosystem services
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Building a research network to better understand climate governance in the Great Lakes
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Updated census in the Laurentian Great Lakes Watershed: A framework for determining the relationship between the population and this aquatic resource
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