Dr Kenneth Johnson

Dr Kenneth Johnson

Principal Researcher

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology
Specialisms: 1. Coral Reef Ecology and Palaeoecology, 2. Biotic Response to Environmental Change, 3. Biodiversity Patterns, 4.Taxonomy of Reef Corals, 5. Quantitative Palaeobiology, 6. Biodiversity Informatics

Summary

I study the history of coral reef ecosystems over time scales ranging from decades to tens of millions of years. Coral reefs are currently experiencing rapid change, resulting from a variety of natural and anthropogenic impacts. Documenting how reefs have responded to past environmental changes will help to constrain the potential trajectory of future changes and allow us to plan accordingly. This work requires assembling large-scale biodiversity and ecological databases to compare ecosystem structure and function in multiple regions, such as my projects in the Coral Triangle and the Caribbean. I take advantage of new advances in informatics and enjoy developing and applying the quantitative methods required to address these issues.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Geology, University of Iowa, USA
  • BS, St. Lawrence University, United States

Employment history

    Academic

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2018 - ongoing
  • Principal Researcher, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2021 - ongoing
  • Researcher, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2005 - ongoing
  • Head of Division Invertebrates and Plants, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2021
  • Assistant Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA, 2001 - 2005
  • Associate Project Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, 2000 - 2003
  • Posgraduate Research Paleontologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, 1999 - 2000
  • Advanced Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1994 - 1998
  • NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom, 1992 - 1993
  • Predoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 1989 - 1990

Grants

4D Reef : Past Present and Future of Turbid Reefs in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £3,231,324.58 (to Museum £485,076.09)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

Reef refugia out of the shadows: dynamics of marginal coral reef ecosystems over the past 30 million years in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson KG
Funding: NERC
Total value £496,430 (to Museum £366,444)
Dates: 2018 - 2021

Cenozoic evolution of the Indonesian Throughflow and the origins of Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity: Mapping the biotic response to environmental change.
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £2,537,227.84 (to Museum £575,113.86)

4D Reef : Past Present and Future of Turbid Reefs in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £3,231,324.58 (to Museum £485,076.09)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

Fieldwork

Malaysia
2019 - 2019.

External Positions

Trustee for the Chago Conservation Trust, Trustee Chagos Conservation Trust, 2018 - on going.

Memberships

International Society for Reef Studies.

Editorships

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2012 - on going.

Events

Conference Attendance

Invited participant, Conservation Palaeobiology Symposium; February 3rd-4th 2020; Bologna, Italy, (Symposium),

Poster presentation, Reef Conservation UK, (Conference),

Attendee/participant, Reef Conservation UK, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Reef Conservation UK (RCUK), (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Tomography for Scientific Advancement symposium (ToScA), (Symposium),

Oral presentation, Poster presentation, Session chair, Workshop, 12th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Oral presentation, Poster presentation, Session chair, North American Paleontological Conference, (Symposium),

Workshop Attendance

Invited participant, Data Science for Coral Reefs: Data Integration and Team Science, (Workshop), 2018 - 2018.

Invited participant, Workshop, NCEAS Workshop: Data Science for Coral Reefs: Data Rescue, (Workshop), 2018 - 2018.

Organisation

Organising committee, 13th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, (Conference),

Organising committee, Annual Science Lecture, (Museum ticketed event),

Organising committee, Coral Reefs: Secret Cities of the Sea, (Exhibition),

Organiser, Lyell Meeting: Palaeoinformatics: Synthesising data from the Past to illuminate the Future., (Symposium),

Organiser, Second International conference on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE), (Symposium),

Organising committee, Third International conference on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE 2017), (Symposium),

Publications

Rutterford A, Bertini L, Hendy EJ, Johnson KG, Summerfield R, Burghardt T (2022) Towards the analysis of coral skeletal density-banding using deep learning. SN Applied Sciences, 4 (2) : doi: 10.1007/s42452-021-04912-x

Santodomingo N, Perry C, Waheed Z, Syed Hussein MAB, Rosedy A, Johnson KG (2021) Marine litter pollution on coral reefs of Darvel Bay (East Sabah, Malaysia). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173 : 112998 - 112998. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112998

Saw JVM, Hunter AW, Johnson KG, Abdul Rahman AHB (2019) Pliocene corals from the Togopi Formation of the Dent Peninsula, Sabah, northeastern Borneo, Malaysia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 43 (2) : 291 - 319. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2018.1510978

O'Dea A, Lessios HA, Coates AG, Eytan RI, Collins LS, Cione AL, de Queiroz A, Farris DW, Norris RD, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Stallard RF, Woodburne MO, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cozzuol MA, Coppard SE, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Marko PB, Pyenson ND, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Jackson JBC (2018) Formation of the Isthmus of Panama: Response to Jaramillo et al.. Science Advances, 3 (6) :

Hughes ZE, Hughes C, Twitchett RJ, Johnson K (2017) Exploring and Enhancing the Potential of the Post-Palaeozoic Brachiopod Collections at the Natural History Museum. Presented at NatSCA 2017.

Jaramillo C, Montes C, Cardona A, Silvestro D, Antonelli A, Bacon CD (2017) Comment (1) on “Formation of the Isthmus of Panama” by O’Dea et al .. Science Advances, 3 (6) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602321

Johnson JA, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Morgan KM, Santodomingo N, Johnson KG (2017) Palaeoecological records of coral community development on a turbid, nearshore reef complex: baselines for assessing ecological change. Coral Reefs, 36 (3) : 685 - 700. doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1561-1

Hughes ZE, hughes C, Twitchett RJ, johnson K (2016) Exploring and Enhancing the Potential of the Post-Palaeozoic Brachiopod Collections at the Natural History Museum. Presented at 60th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting 14-17 December 2016, Lyon..

Prada C, Hanna B, Budd AF, Woodley CM, Schmutz J, Grimwood J, Iglesias-Prieto R, Pandolfi JM, Levitan D, Johnson KG, Knowlton N, Kitano H, DeGiorgio M, Medina M (2016) Empty Niches after Extinctions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals. Current Biology, 26 (23) : 3190 - 3194. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.039

O’Dea A, Lessios HA, Coates AG, Eytan RI, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Cione AL, Collins LS, de Queiroz A, Farris DW, Norris RD, Stallard RF, Woodburne MO, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cozzuol MA, Coppard SE, Duque-Caro H, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Marko PB, Pyenson ND, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Jackson JBC (2016) Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Science Advances, 2 (8) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600883

O'Dea A, Todd JA, Johnson KJ (2016) Supplementary Materials for Formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

Tomiak PJ, Andersen MB, Hendy EJ, Potter EK, Johnson KG, Penkman KEH (2016) The role of skeletal micro-architecture in diagenesis and dating of Acropora palmata. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 183 : 153 - 175. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.030

Renema W, Pandolfi JM, Kiessling W, Bosellini FR, Klaus JS, Korpanty C, Rosen BR, Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Webster JM, Johnson KG (2016) Are coral reefs victims of their own past success?. Science Advances, 2 (4) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1500850

Santodomingo N, Renema W, Johnson KG (2016) Understanding the murky history of the Coral Triangle: Miocene corals and reef habitats in East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Coral Reefs, 35 (3) : 765 - 781. doi: 10.1007/s00338-016-1427-y

Yarlett R, Cavada F, Lang J, Johnson KG (2016) A sustainable museum collection of historical imagery for coral reef baselines. Coral Reefs, 35 (2) : 527 - 527. doi: 10.1007/s00338-016-1426-z

Redding DW, Curnick DJ, Head CEI, Huang D, Crabbe MJC, Gollock M, Hoeksema BW, Johnson KG, Jones R, Koldewey HJ, Obura DO, Rosen BR, Smith DJ, Taylor ML, Turner JR, Wren S (2015) Setting evolutionary based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia): response to the commentaries. Animal Conservation, 18 (4) : 320 - 321. doi: 10.1111/acv.12228

Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Johnson KG (2015) Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral generaAcroporaandIsopora(Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (4) : 677 - 763. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12295

Johnson KG. (null) Coral reefs: Secret cities of the sea. Natural History Museum. 273 3 - 27 3 3

Johnson KG, Budd AF, Cairns SC, Baron Szabo R, Lathuliere B, Ronewicz E (2014) Corallosphere .

Huang D, Budd AF, Johnson KG (2015) A bibliography for the taxonomy of extant and extinct Scleractinia.

Johnson KG, Hasibuan F, Muller W, Todd JA (2015) Neogene of East Kalimantan. Palaios Special Volume 31(1-2). SEPM : 1 - 168.

DI MARTINO E, TAYLOR PD, JOHNSON KG (2015) BRYOZOAN DIVERSITY IN THE MIOCENE OF THE KUTAI BASIN, EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 109 - 115. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.107

JOHNSON KG, HASIBUAN F, MULLER W, TODD JA (2015) BIOTIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORIGINS OF THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN MARINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT: THE THROUGHFLOW PROJECT. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 1 - 6. doi: 10.2110/palo.2014.103

JOHNSON KG, RENEMA W, ROSEN BR, SANTODOMINGO N (2015) OLD DATA FOR OLD QUESTIONS: WHAT CAN THE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS REALLY TELL US ABOUT THE NEOGENE ORIGINS OF REEF-CORAL DIVERSITY IN THE CORAL TRIANGLE?. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 94 - 108. doi: 10.2110/palo.2014.051

KUSWORO A, REICH S, WESSELINGH FP, SANTODOMINGO N, G. JOHNSON K, TODD JA, RENEMA W (2015) DIVERSITY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF MIOCENE CORAL-ASSOCIATED MOLLUSKS FROM EAST KALIMANTAN (INDONESIA). PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 116 - 127. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.124

SANTODOMINGO N, NOVAK V, PRETKOVI V, MARSHALL N, DI MARTINO E, CAPELLI ELG, ROSLER A, REICH S, BRAGA JC, RENEMA W, JOHNSON KG (2015) A DIVERSE PATCH REEF FROM TURBID HABITATS IN THE MIDDLE MIOCENE (EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA). PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 128 - 149. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.047

Curnick DJ, Head CEI, Huang D, Crabbe MJC, Gollock M, Hoeksema BW, Johnson KG, Jones R, Koldewey HJ, Obura DO, Rosen BR, Smith DJ, Taylor ML, Turner JR, Wren S, Redding DW (2015) Setting evolutionary-based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia). Animal Conservation, 18 (4) : 303 - 312. doi: 10.1111/acv.12185

Griffiths N, Müller W, Johnson KG, Aguilera OA (2013) Evaluation of the effect of diagenetic cements on element/Ca ratios in aragonitic Early Miocene (~16Ma) Caribbean corals: Implications for ‘deep-time’ palaeo-environmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 369 : 185 - 200. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.018

Miller R, Johnson KG, Thomas AL, Douglas LG, Santodomingo N, Broom YS, Avedillo T, Murray C, Sadler T (2013) V Factor: Volunteers as a bridge between museum scientists and the public. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 1 : 48 - 58.

Novak V, Santodomingo N, Rösler A, Di Martino E, Braga JC, Taylor PD, Johnson KG, Renema W (2013) Environmental reconstruction of a late Burdigalian (Miocene) patch reef in deltaic deposits (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374 : 110 - 122. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.009

Todd JA, Johnson KG (2013) Dissecting a Marine Snail Species Radiation (Conoidea: Turridae: <I>Polystira</I>) Over 12 Million Years in the Southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science, 89 (4) : 877 - 904. doi: 10.5343/bms.2012.1083

GOWER DJ, JOHNSON KG, Richardson JE, ROSEN BR, Rüber L, WILLIAMS ST (2012) Biotic evolution and environmental change in Southeast Asia. The Systematics Association Special Volume 82 & Cambridge University Press : Cambridge. i - 475.

Roche RC, Abel RL, Johnson KG, Perry CT (2011) Spatial variation in porosity and skeletal element characteristics in apical tips of the branching coral Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891). Coral Reefs, 30 (1) : 195 - 201. doi: 10.1007/s00338-010-0679-1

Johnson KG, Brooks SJ, Fenberg PB, Glover AG, James KE, Lister AM, Michel E, Spencer M, Todd JA, Valsami-Jones E, Young JR, Stewart JR (2011) Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault. BioScience, 61 (2) : 147 - 153. doi: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.2.10

Baker E, Johnson K, Young JR (null) The future of the past in the present: biodiversity informatics and geological time. ZooKeys, 150 : 397 - 405. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2350

Klaus JS, Lutz BP, McNeill DF, Budd AF, JOHNSON KG, Ishman SE (2011) Rise and fall of Pliocene free-living corals in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Geology, 39 : 375 - 378.

Lister AM, Brooks SJ, Fenberg PB, Glover AG, James KE, Johnson KG, Michel E, Okamura B, Spencer M, Stewart JR, Todd JA, Valsami-Jones E, Young J (2011) Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26 (3) : 153 - 154. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.12.009

McMonagle LB, Lunt P, Wilson MEJ, Johnson KG, Manning C, Young J (2011) A re-assessment of age dating of fossiliferous limestones in eastern Sabah, Borneo: Implications for understanding the origins of the Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305 (1-4) : 28 - 42. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.009

Roche RC, Perry CT, Johnson KG, Sultana K, Smithers SG, Thompson AA (2011) Mid-Holocene coral community data as baselines for understanding contemporary reef ecological states. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299 (1-2) : 159 - 167. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.043

Roche RC, Abel RA, Johnson KG, Perry CT (2010) Quantification of porosity in Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891) using X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 396 (1) : 1 - 9. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.10.006

Perry CT, Smithers SG, Johnson KG (2009) Long-term coral community records from Lugger Shoal on the terrigenous inner-shelf of the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 28 (4) : 941 - 948. doi: 10.1007/s00338-009-0528-2

JOHNSON KG, SANCHEZ-VILLAGRA MR, AGUILERA OA (2009) THE OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE TRANSITION ON CORAL REEFS IN THE FALCON BASIN (NW VENEZUELA). PALAIOS, 24 (1) : 59 - 69. doi: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-004r

Perry CT, Smithers SG, Palmer SE, Larcombe P, Johnson KG (2008) 1200 year paleoecological record of coral community development from the terrigenous inner shelf of the Great Barrier Reef. Geology, 36 (9) : 691 - 691. doi: 10.1130/g24907a.1

Renema W, Bellwood DR, Braga JC, Bromfield K, Hall R, Johnson KG, Lunt P, Meyer CP, McMonagle LB, Morley RJ, O'Dea A, Todd JA, Wesselingh FP, Wilson MEJ, Pandolfi JM (2008) Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity. Science, 321 (5889) : 654 - 657. doi: 10.1126/science.1155674

Budd AF, Adrain TS, Park JW, Klaus JF, JOHNSON KG (2008) The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America ("NMITA") Database: Integrating data from the Dominican Republic Project, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 301 - 310.

Gaffney ES, Scheyer TM, Johnson KG, Bocquentin J, Aguilera OA (2008) Two new species of the side necked turtle genus,Bairdemys (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae), from the Miocene of Venezuela. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 82 (2) : 209 - 229. doi: 10.1007/bf02988411

Johnson KG, Jackson JBC, Budd AF (2008) Caribbean Reef Development Was Independent of Coral Diversity over 28 Million Years. Science, 319 (5869) : 1521 - 1523. doi: 10.1126/science.1152197

JOHNSON KG, Budd AF, Klaus JF, McNeill DF (2008) The impact of fossils from the northern Dominican Republic on origination estimates for Miocene and Pliocene Caribbean reef corals, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 253 - 280.

Klaus JF, McNeill DF, Budd AF, JOHNSON KG (2008) Assessing community change in Miocene to Pliocene coral assemblages in the northern Dominican Republic, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 193 - 224.

Johnson KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) A collaborative system for sharing paleontology collections data. Geosphere, 1 (2) : 61 - 61. doi: 10.1130/ges00011.1

Johnson KG, Todd JA, Jackson JBC (2007) Coral reef development drives molluscan diversity increase at local and regional scales in the late Neogene and Quaternary of the southwestern Caribbean. Paleobiology, 33 (1) : 24 - 52. doi: 10.1666/06022.1

JOHNSON KG (2007) Reef-coral diversity from the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs, In: Fossil corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Hubmann BP, Werner E (Eds). Graz :

O'Dea A, Jackson JBC, Fortunato H, Smith JT, D'Croz L, Johnson KG, Todd JA (2007) Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (13) : 5501 - 5506. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610947104

JOHNSON KG, KIRBY* MX (2006) THE EMPERADOR LIMESTONE REDISCOVERED: EARLY MIOCENE CORALS FROM THE CULEBRA FORMATION, PANAMA. Journal of Paleontology, 80 (2) : 283 - 293. doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)080[0283:telrem]2.0.co;2

JOHNSON KG, PEREZ ME (2006) Skeletal Extension Rates of Cenozoic Caribbean Reef Corals. PALAIOS, 21 (3) : 262 - 271. doi: 10.2110/palo.2004.p04-52

Johnson KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) Collections catalog of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County .

JOHNSON KG (2005) Thirty million years of biotic change on Caribbean coral reefs: new data require new interpretations.. Paleobios, 25 :

JOHNSON KG, Curry GB, Conner R (2005) Automating the publication of species descriptions via the world wide web. Paleobios, 25 :

JOHNSON KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) Paleontology collections on the world wide web: the missing link. Paleontologica Electronica, 8 :

Johnson KG (2003) New data for old questions. Paleobiology, 29 (1) : 19 - 21. doi: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0019:ndfoq>2.0.co;2

Todd JA, Jackson JBC, Johnson KG, Fortunato HM, Heitz A, Alvarez M, Jung P (2002) The ecology of extinction: molluscan feeding and faunal turnover in the Caribbean Neogene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 269 (1491) : 571 - 577. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1923

Danelian T, Johnson KG (2001) Patterns of biotic change in Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Tethyan radiolaria. Marine Micropaleontology, 43 (3-4) : 239 - 260. doi: 10.1016/s0377-8398(01)00029-9

Jackson JBC, Johnson KG (2001) Measuring Past Biodiversity. Science, 293 (5539) : 2401 - 2404. doi: 10.1126/science.1063789

Johnson KG, Curry GB (2001) Regional biotic turnover dynamics in the Plio-Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 172 : 39 - 51.

Jackson JBC, Johnson KG (2000) Life in the last few million years. Paleobiology, 26 : 221 - 235.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1999) Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic. 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Part II. The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Mancina and Colpophyllia. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 356 : 1 - 83.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1999) Origination of preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs. Paleobiology, 25 : 188 - 200.

Johnson KG (1998) A phylogenetic test of accelerated turnover in Neogene Caribbean brain corals (Scleractinia: Faviidae). Palaeontology, 41 : 1247 - 1268.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1997) Coral reef community dynamics over 8 million years of evolutionary time: stasis and turnover. Proceedings of the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1 : 423 - 428.

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Edwards JC (1995) Caribbean reef coral diversity during the early to middle Miocene: an example from the Anguilla Formation. Coral Reefs, 14 : 109 - 117.

Johnson KG, Budd AF, Stemann TA (1995) Extinction selectivity and ecology of Neogene Caribbean reef corals. Paleobiology, 21 (1) : 52 - 73. doi: 10.1017/s0094837300013075

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Potts DC (1994) Recognizing morphospecies in colonial reef corals: I. Landmark-based methods. Paleobiology, 20 (4) : 484 - 505. doi: 10.1017/s0094837300012951

Budd AF, Stemann TA, Johnson KG (1994) Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to Recent Caribbean reef corals. Journal of Paleontology, 68 (5) : 951 - 977. doi: 10.1017/s0022336000026585

Johnson KG (1992) Synchronous planulation of Manicina areolata (Scleractinia) with lunar periodicity.. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 87 : 265 - 273.

Johnson KG (1992) Population dynamics of a free-living coral: recruitment, growth and survivorship of Manicina areolata (Linnaeus) on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 164 (2) : 171 - 191. doi: 10.1016/0022-0981(92)90173-8

Stemann TA, Johnson KG (1992) Coral assemblages, biofacies, and ecological zones in the mid-Holocene reef deposits of the Enriquillo valley, Dominican Republic.. Lethaia, 25 : 231 - 241.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1991) Size-related evolutionary patterns among species and subgenera in the Strombina group (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Journal of Paleontology, 65 : 417 - 434.

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Edwards JC (1989) Miocene coral assemblages in Anguilla, B. W. I., and their implications for the interpretation of vertical succession on fossil reefs. Palaios, 4 : 264 - 275.

Johnson KG (1988) Size, meander pattern, and behavior in the Caribbean free living coral Manicinaareolata (Linneaus).. Proceedings of the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium, 3 : 403 - 408.

Buckingham MC, D’Angelo C, Chalk TB, Foster GL, Johnson KG, Connelly Z, Olla C, Saeed M, Wiedenmann J (2022) Impact of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) enrichment and skewed N:P stoichiometry on the skeletal formation and microstructure of symbiotic reef corals. Coral Reefs, 41 (4) : 1147 - 1159. doi: 10.1007/s00338-022-02223-0

Di Martino E, Jackson JBC, Taylor PD, Johnson KG (2018) Differences in extinction rates drove modern biogeographic patterns of tropical marine biodiversity. Science Advances, 4 (4) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1508

Contributed Publications

Johnson KG. (null) Coral reefs: Secret cities of the sea. Natural History Museum. 273 3 - 27 3 3

Courses taught

MSc: NHM/IC MSc in Taxonomy

2/2018 - 3/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2018 - 3/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module
Natural History Museum, London, London, United Kingdom
Imperial College London, London, London, United Kingdom
2/2017 - 4/2017.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module


2/2016 - 3/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeontology & Stratigraphy Module
Imperial College, London
The Natural History Museum, London
3/2014.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Marshall-Mills K
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Coupling shell growth and geochemistry in giant clams to explore biomineralization pathways
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Funding: GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership
15/9/2021 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Harrison W
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Deep time shifts in carbonate producers within the Coral Triangle
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Funding: 4D-Reef a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
15/4/2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Bertini L
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Growth rates and bioerosion of modern and Pliocene corals of the Coral Triangle revealed by Artificial Intelligence
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: 4D-Reef a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
10/2/2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Samperiz A
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
From watershed to reef: reconstructing the history of land use change and coral reef health in Fiji
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Buckingham M
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Effects of multiple environmental stressors on reef corals
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Summerfield R
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
A historic coral ‘health’ baseline from the Chagos archipelago
University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: GW4+ DTP
2016 - 30/3/2021.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Johnson J
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Depositional and palaeoecological characteristics of incipient and submerged coral reefs on the inner-shelf of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
University of Exeter
2013 - 1/7/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Santodomingo N
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral Triangle
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Funding: European Union Marie Curie Initial Training Network "THROUGHFLOW"
2010 - 2014.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Tomiak P
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
The nature and geochronological applications of coral skeleton and intra-crystalline amino acids
University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
2009 - 2013.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Roche R
A multi-proxy reconstruction of mid-Holocene environmental conditions at a nearshore Great Barrier Reef site: King Reef, Northern Queensland.
University of Exeter, Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
2007 - 2011.

Master's Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Environmental characterisation of turbid reefs in the Coral Triangle
University College London, London, United Kingdom

Master's Joint supervisor to Hembling N
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Coral health in the Miocene of the Coral Triangle using X-Ray Micro-computed Tomography
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Invited and keynote speaker

Response of coastal mollusc faunas to the PETM in NW Europe, Palaeontological Association 61st Annual Meeting: Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 19/12/2017.

Introduction

Summary

I study the history of coral reef ecosystems over time scales ranging from decades to tens of millions of years. Coral reefs are currently experiencing rapid change, resulting from a variety of natural and anthropogenic impacts. Documenting how reefs have responded to past environmental changes will help to constrain the potential trajectory of future changes and allow us to plan accordingly. This work requires assembling large-scale biodiversity and ecological databases to compare ecosystem structure and function in multiple regions, such as my projects in the Coral Triangle and the Caribbean. I take advantage of new advances in informatics and enjoy developing and applying the quantitative methods required to address these issues.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Geology, University of Iowa, USA
  • BS, St. Lawrence University, United States

Employment history

    Academic

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2018 - ongoing
  • Principal Researcher, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2021 - ongoing
  • Researcher, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2005 - ongoing
  • Head of Division Invertebrates and Plants, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2021
  • Assistant Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA, 2001 - 2005
  • Associate Project Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, 2000 - 2003
  • Posgraduate Research Paleontologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, 1999 - 2000
  • Advanced Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1994 - 1998
  • NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom, 1992 - 1993
  • Predoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 1989 - 1990
Projects

Grants

4D Reef : Past Present and Future of Turbid Reefs in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £3,231,324.58 (to Museum £485,076.09)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

Reef refugia out of the shadows: dynamics of marginal coral reef ecosystems over the past 30 million years in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson KG
Funding: NERC
Total value £496,430 (to Museum £366,444)
Dates: 2018 - 2021

Cenozoic evolution of the Indonesian Throughflow and the origins of Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity: Mapping the biotic response to environmental change.
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £2,537,227.84 (to Museum £575,113.86)

4D Reef : Past Present and Future of Turbid Reefs in the Coral Triangle
Role: Principal investigatorJohnson K
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Total value £3,231,324.58 (to Museum £485,076.09)
Dates: 2019 - 2023

Fieldwork

Malaysia
2019 - 2019.

Professional activities

External Positions

Trustee for the Chago Conservation Trust, Trustee Chagos Conservation Trust, 2018 - on going.

Memberships

International Society for Reef Studies.

Editorships

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2012 - on going.

Events

Conference Attendance

Invited participant, Conservation Palaeobiology Symposium; February 3rd-4th 2020; Bologna, Italy, (Symposium),

Poster presentation, Reef Conservation UK, (Conference),

Attendee/participant, Reef Conservation UK, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, 13th International Coral Reef Symposium, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Reef Conservation UK (RCUK), (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Tomography for Scientific Advancement symposium (ToScA), (Symposium),

Oral presentation, Poster presentation, Session chair, Workshop, 12th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, (Symposium),

Attendee/participant, Oral presentation, Poster presentation, Session chair, North American Paleontological Conference, (Symposium),

Workshop Attendance

Invited participant, Data Science for Coral Reefs: Data Integration and Team Science, (Workshop), 2018 - 2018.

Invited participant, Workshop, NCEAS Workshop: Data Science for Coral Reefs: Data Rescue, (Workshop), 2018 - 2018.

Organisation

Organising committee, 13th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, (Conference),

Organising committee, Annual Science Lecture, (Museum ticketed event),

Organising committee, Coral Reefs: Secret Cities of the Sea, (Exhibition),

Organiser, Lyell Meeting: Palaeoinformatics: Synthesising data from the Past to illuminate the Future., (Symposium),

Organiser, Second International conference on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE), (Symposium),

Organising committee, Third International conference on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE 2017), (Symposium),

Publications

Publications

Rutterford A, Bertini L, Hendy EJ, Johnson KG, Summerfield R, Burghardt T (2022) Towards the analysis of coral skeletal density-banding using deep learning. SN Applied Sciences, 4 (2) : doi: 10.1007/s42452-021-04912-x

Santodomingo N, Perry C, Waheed Z, Syed Hussein MAB, Rosedy A, Johnson KG (2021) Marine litter pollution on coral reefs of Darvel Bay (East Sabah, Malaysia). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173 : 112998 - 112998. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112998

Saw JVM, Hunter AW, Johnson KG, Abdul Rahman AHB (2019) Pliocene corals from the Togopi Formation of the Dent Peninsula, Sabah, northeastern Borneo, Malaysia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 43 (2) : 291 - 319. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2018.1510978

O'Dea A, Lessios HA, Coates AG, Eytan RI, Collins LS, Cione AL, de Queiroz A, Farris DW, Norris RD, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Stallard RF, Woodburne MO, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cozzuol MA, Coppard SE, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Marko PB, Pyenson ND, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Jackson JBC (2018) Formation of the Isthmus of Panama: Response to Jaramillo et al.. Science Advances, 3 (6) :

Hughes ZE, Hughes C, Twitchett RJ, Johnson K (2017) Exploring and Enhancing the Potential of the Post-Palaeozoic Brachiopod Collections at the Natural History Museum. Presented at NatSCA 2017.

Jaramillo C, Montes C, Cardona A, Silvestro D, Antonelli A, Bacon CD (2017) Comment (1) on “Formation of the Isthmus of Panama” by O’Dea et al .. Science Advances, 3 (6) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602321

Johnson JA, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Morgan KM, Santodomingo N, Johnson KG (2017) Palaeoecological records of coral community development on a turbid, nearshore reef complex: baselines for assessing ecological change. Coral Reefs, 36 (3) : 685 - 700. doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1561-1

Hughes ZE, hughes C, Twitchett RJ, johnson K (2016) Exploring and Enhancing the Potential of the Post-Palaeozoic Brachiopod Collections at the Natural History Museum. Presented at 60th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting 14-17 December 2016, Lyon..

Prada C, Hanna B, Budd AF, Woodley CM, Schmutz J, Grimwood J, Iglesias-Prieto R, Pandolfi JM, Levitan D, Johnson KG, Knowlton N, Kitano H, DeGiorgio M, Medina M (2016) Empty Niches after Extinctions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals. Current Biology, 26 (23) : 3190 - 3194. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.039

O’Dea A, Lessios HA, Coates AG, Eytan RI, Restrepo-Moreno SA, Cione AL, Collins LS, de Queiroz A, Farris DW, Norris RD, Stallard RF, Woodburne MO, Aguilera O, Aubry M-P, Berggren WA, Budd AF, Cozzuol MA, Coppard SE, Duque-Caro H, Finnegan S, Gasparini GM, Grossman EL, Johnson KG, Keigwin LD, Knowlton N, Leigh EG, Leonard-Pingel JS, Marko PB, Pyenson ND, Rachello-Dolmen PG, Soibelzon E, Soibelzon L, Todd JA, Vermeij GJ, Jackson JBC (2016) Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Science Advances, 2 (8) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600883

O'Dea A, Todd JA, Johnson KJ (2016) Supplementary Materials for Formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

Tomiak PJ, Andersen MB, Hendy EJ, Potter EK, Johnson KG, Penkman KEH (2016) The role of skeletal micro-architecture in diagenesis and dating of Acropora palmata. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 183 : 153 - 175. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.030

Renema W, Pandolfi JM, Kiessling W, Bosellini FR, Klaus JS, Korpanty C, Rosen BR, Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Webster JM, Johnson KG (2016) Are coral reefs victims of their own past success?. Science Advances, 2 (4) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1500850

Santodomingo N, Renema W, Johnson KG (2016) Understanding the murky history of the Coral Triangle: Miocene corals and reef habitats in East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Coral Reefs, 35 (3) : 765 - 781. doi: 10.1007/s00338-016-1427-y

Yarlett R, Cavada F, Lang J, Johnson KG (2016) A sustainable museum collection of historical imagery for coral reef baselines. Coral Reefs, 35 (2) : 527 - 527. doi: 10.1007/s00338-016-1426-z

Redding DW, Curnick DJ, Head CEI, Huang D, Crabbe MJC, Gollock M, Hoeksema BW, Johnson KG, Jones R, Koldewey HJ, Obura DO, Rosen BR, Smith DJ, Taylor ML, Turner JR, Wren S (2015) Setting evolutionary based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia): response to the commentaries. Animal Conservation, 18 (4) : 320 - 321. doi: 10.1111/acv.12228

Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Johnson KG (2015) Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral generaAcroporaandIsopora(Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (4) : 677 - 763. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12295

Johnson KG. (null) Coral reefs: Secret cities of the sea. Natural History Museum. 273 3 - 27 3 3

Johnson KG, Budd AF, Cairns SC, Baron Szabo R, Lathuliere B, Ronewicz E (2014) Corallosphere .

Huang D, Budd AF, Johnson KG (2015) A bibliography for the taxonomy of extant and extinct Scleractinia.

Johnson KG, Hasibuan F, Muller W, Todd JA (2015) Neogene of East Kalimantan. Palaios Special Volume 31(1-2). SEPM : 1 - 168.

DI MARTINO E, TAYLOR PD, JOHNSON KG (2015) BRYOZOAN DIVERSITY IN THE MIOCENE OF THE KUTAI BASIN, EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 109 - 115. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.107

JOHNSON KG, HASIBUAN F, MULLER W, TODD JA (2015) BIOTIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORIGINS OF THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN MARINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT: THE THROUGHFLOW PROJECT. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 1 - 6. doi: 10.2110/palo.2014.103

JOHNSON KG, RENEMA W, ROSEN BR, SANTODOMINGO N (2015) OLD DATA FOR OLD QUESTIONS: WHAT CAN THE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS REALLY TELL US ABOUT THE NEOGENE ORIGINS OF REEF-CORAL DIVERSITY IN THE CORAL TRIANGLE?. PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 94 - 108. doi: 10.2110/palo.2014.051

KUSWORO A, REICH S, WESSELINGH FP, SANTODOMINGO N, G. JOHNSON K, TODD JA, RENEMA W (2015) DIVERSITY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF MIOCENE CORAL-ASSOCIATED MOLLUSKS FROM EAST KALIMANTAN (INDONESIA). PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 116 - 127. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.124

SANTODOMINGO N, NOVAK V, PRETKOVI V, MARSHALL N, DI MARTINO E, CAPELLI ELG, ROSLER A, REICH S, BRAGA JC, RENEMA W, JOHNSON KG (2015) A DIVERSE PATCH REEF FROM TURBID HABITATS IN THE MIDDLE MIOCENE (EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA). PALAIOS, 30 (1) : 128 - 149. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.047

Curnick DJ, Head CEI, Huang D, Crabbe MJC, Gollock M, Hoeksema BW, Johnson KG, Jones R, Koldewey HJ, Obura DO, Rosen BR, Smith DJ, Taylor ML, Turner JR, Wren S, Redding DW (2015) Setting evolutionary-based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia). Animal Conservation, 18 (4) : 303 - 312. doi: 10.1111/acv.12185

Griffiths N, Müller W, Johnson KG, Aguilera OA (2013) Evaluation of the effect of diagenetic cements on element/Ca ratios in aragonitic Early Miocene (~16Ma) Caribbean corals: Implications for ‘deep-time’ palaeo-environmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 369 : 185 - 200. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.018

Miller R, Johnson KG, Thomas AL, Douglas LG, Santodomingo N, Broom YS, Avedillo T, Murray C, Sadler T (2013) V Factor: Volunteers as a bridge between museum scientists and the public. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 1 : 48 - 58.

Novak V, Santodomingo N, Rösler A, Di Martino E, Braga JC, Taylor PD, Johnson KG, Renema W (2013) Environmental reconstruction of a late Burdigalian (Miocene) patch reef in deltaic deposits (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374 : 110 - 122. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.009

Todd JA, Johnson KG (2013) Dissecting a Marine Snail Species Radiation (Conoidea: Turridae: <I>Polystira</I>) Over 12 Million Years in the Southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science, 89 (4) : 877 - 904. doi: 10.5343/bms.2012.1083

GOWER DJ, JOHNSON KG, Richardson JE, ROSEN BR, Rüber L, WILLIAMS ST (2012) Biotic evolution and environmental change in Southeast Asia. The Systematics Association Special Volume 82 & Cambridge University Press : Cambridge. i - 475.

Roche RC, Abel RL, Johnson KG, Perry CT (2011) Spatial variation in porosity and skeletal element characteristics in apical tips of the branching coral Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891). Coral Reefs, 30 (1) : 195 - 201. doi: 10.1007/s00338-010-0679-1

Johnson KG, Brooks SJ, Fenberg PB, Glover AG, James KE, Lister AM, Michel E, Spencer M, Todd JA, Valsami-Jones E, Young JR, Stewart JR (2011) Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault. BioScience, 61 (2) : 147 - 153. doi: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.2.10

Baker E, Johnson K, Young JR (null) The future of the past in the present: biodiversity informatics and geological time. ZooKeys, 150 : 397 - 405. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2350

Klaus JS, Lutz BP, McNeill DF, Budd AF, JOHNSON KG, Ishman SE (2011) Rise and fall of Pliocene free-living corals in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Geology, 39 : 375 - 378.

Lister AM, Brooks SJ, Fenberg PB, Glover AG, James KE, Johnson KG, Michel E, Okamura B, Spencer M, Stewart JR, Todd JA, Valsami-Jones E, Young J (2011) Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26 (3) : 153 - 154. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.12.009

McMonagle LB, Lunt P, Wilson MEJ, Johnson KG, Manning C, Young J (2011) A re-assessment of age dating of fossiliferous limestones in eastern Sabah, Borneo: Implications for understanding the origins of the Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305 (1-4) : 28 - 42. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.009

Roche RC, Perry CT, Johnson KG, Sultana K, Smithers SG, Thompson AA (2011) Mid-Holocene coral community data as baselines for understanding contemporary reef ecological states. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299 (1-2) : 159 - 167. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.043

Roche RC, Abel RA, Johnson KG, Perry CT (2010) Quantification of porosity in Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891) using X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 396 (1) : 1 - 9. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.10.006

Perry CT, Smithers SG, Johnson KG (2009) Long-term coral community records from Lugger Shoal on the terrigenous inner-shelf of the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 28 (4) : 941 - 948. doi: 10.1007/s00338-009-0528-2

JOHNSON KG, SANCHEZ-VILLAGRA MR, AGUILERA OA (2009) THE OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE TRANSITION ON CORAL REEFS IN THE FALCON BASIN (NW VENEZUELA). PALAIOS, 24 (1) : 59 - 69. doi: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-004r

Perry CT, Smithers SG, Palmer SE, Larcombe P, Johnson KG (2008) 1200 year paleoecological record of coral community development from the terrigenous inner shelf of the Great Barrier Reef. Geology, 36 (9) : 691 - 691. doi: 10.1130/g24907a.1

Renema W, Bellwood DR, Braga JC, Bromfield K, Hall R, Johnson KG, Lunt P, Meyer CP, McMonagle LB, Morley RJ, O'Dea A, Todd JA, Wesselingh FP, Wilson MEJ, Pandolfi JM (2008) Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity. Science, 321 (5889) : 654 - 657. doi: 10.1126/science.1155674

Budd AF, Adrain TS, Park JW, Klaus JF, JOHNSON KG (2008) The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America ("NMITA") Database: Integrating data from the Dominican Republic Project, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 301 - 310.

Gaffney ES, Scheyer TM, Johnson KG, Bocquentin J, Aguilera OA (2008) Two new species of the side necked turtle genus,Bairdemys (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae), from the Miocene of Venezuela. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 82 (2) : 209 - 229. doi: 10.1007/bf02988411

Johnson KG, Jackson JBC, Budd AF (2008) Caribbean Reef Development Was Independent of Coral Diversity over 28 Million Years. Science, 319 (5869) : 1521 - 1523. doi: 10.1126/science.1152197

JOHNSON KG, Budd AF, Klaus JF, McNeill DF (2008) The impact of fossils from the northern Dominican Republic on origination estimates for Miocene and Pliocene Caribbean reef corals, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 253 - 280.

Klaus JF, McNeill DF, Budd AF, JOHNSON KG (2008) Assessing community change in Miocene to Pliocene coral assemblages in the northern Dominican Republic, In: Topics in Geobiology, Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, Nehm RH, Budd AF (Eds). Springer, New York : 314 pp. 193 - 224.

Johnson KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) A collaborative system for sharing paleontology collections data. Geosphere, 1 (2) : 61 - 61. doi: 10.1130/ges00011.1

Johnson KG, Todd JA, Jackson JBC (2007) Coral reef development drives molluscan diversity increase at local and regional scales in the late Neogene and Quaternary of the southwestern Caribbean. Paleobiology, 33 (1) : 24 - 52. doi: 10.1666/06022.1

JOHNSON KG (2007) Reef-coral diversity from the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs, In: Fossil corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Hubmann BP, Werner E (Eds). Graz :

O'Dea A, Jackson JBC, Fortunato H, Smith JT, D'Croz L, Johnson KG, Todd JA (2007) Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (13) : 5501 - 5506. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610947104

JOHNSON KG, KIRBY* MX (2006) THE EMPERADOR LIMESTONE REDISCOVERED: EARLY MIOCENE CORALS FROM THE CULEBRA FORMATION, PANAMA. Journal of Paleontology, 80 (2) : 283 - 293. doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)080[0283:telrem]2.0.co;2

JOHNSON KG, PEREZ ME (2006) Skeletal Extension Rates of Cenozoic Caribbean Reef Corals. PALAIOS, 21 (3) : 262 - 271. doi: 10.2110/palo.2004.p04-52

Johnson KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) Collections catalog of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County .

JOHNSON KG (2005) Thirty million years of biotic change on Caribbean coral reefs: new data require new interpretations.. Paleobios, 25 :

JOHNSON KG, Curry GB, Conner R (2005) Automating the publication of species descriptions via the world wide web. Paleobios, 25 :

JOHNSON KG, Filkorn HF, Stecheson M (2005) Paleontology collections on the world wide web: the missing link. Paleontologica Electronica, 8 :

Johnson KG (2003) New data for old questions. Paleobiology, 29 (1) : 19 - 21. doi: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0019:ndfoq>2.0.co;2

Todd JA, Jackson JBC, Johnson KG, Fortunato HM, Heitz A, Alvarez M, Jung P (2002) The ecology of extinction: molluscan feeding and faunal turnover in the Caribbean Neogene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 269 (1491) : 571 - 577. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1923

Danelian T, Johnson KG (2001) Patterns of biotic change in Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Tethyan radiolaria. Marine Micropaleontology, 43 (3-4) : 239 - 260. doi: 10.1016/s0377-8398(01)00029-9

Jackson JBC, Johnson KG (2001) Measuring Past Biodiversity. Science, 293 (5539) : 2401 - 2404. doi: 10.1126/science.1063789

Johnson KG, Curry GB (2001) Regional biotic turnover dynamics in the Plio-Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 172 : 39 - 51.

Jackson JBC, Johnson KG (2000) Life in the last few million years. Paleobiology, 26 : 221 - 235.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1999) Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic. 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Part II. The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Mancina and Colpophyllia. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 356 : 1 - 83.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1999) Origination of preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs. Paleobiology, 25 : 188 - 200.

Johnson KG (1998) A phylogenetic test of accelerated turnover in Neogene Caribbean brain corals (Scleractinia: Faviidae). Palaeontology, 41 : 1247 - 1268.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1997) Coral reef community dynamics over 8 million years of evolutionary time: stasis and turnover. Proceedings of the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1 : 423 - 428.

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Edwards JC (1995) Caribbean reef coral diversity during the early to middle Miocene: an example from the Anguilla Formation. Coral Reefs, 14 : 109 - 117.

Johnson KG, Budd AF, Stemann TA (1995) Extinction selectivity and ecology of Neogene Caribbean reef corals. Paleobiology, 21 (1) : 52 - 73. doi: 10.1017/s0094837300013075

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Potts DC (1994) Recognizing morphospecies in colonial reef corals: I. Landmark-based methods. Paleobiology, 20 (4) : 484 - 505. doi: 10.1017/s0094837300012951

Budd AF, Stemann TA, Johnson KG (1994) Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to Recent Caribbean reef corals. Journal of Paleontology, 68 (5) : 951 - 977. doi: 10.1017/s0022336000026585

Johnson KG (1992) Synchronous planulation of Manicina areolata (Scleractinia) with lunar periodicity.. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 87 : 265 - 273.

Johnson KG (1992) Population dynamics of a free-living coral: recruitment, growth and survivorship of Manicina areolata (Linnaeus) on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 164 (2) : 171 - 191. doi: 10.1016/0022-0981(92)90173-8

Stemann TA, Johnson KG (1992) Coral assemblages, biofacies, and ecological zones in the mid-Holocene reef deposits of the Enriquillo valley, Dominican Republic.. Lethaia, 25 : 231 - 241.

Budd AF, Johnson KG (1991) Size-related evolutionary patterns among species and subgenera in the Strombina group (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Journal of Paleontology, 65 : 417 - 434.

Budd AF, Johnson KG, Edwards JC (1989) Miocene coral assemblages in Anguilla, B. W. I., and their implications for the interpretation of vertical succession on fossil reefs. Palaios, 4 : 264 - 275.

Johnson KG (1988) Size, meander pattern, and behavior in the Caribbean free living coral Manicinaareolata (Linneaus).. Proceedings of the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium, 3 : 403 - 408.

Buckingham MC, D’Angelo C, Chalk TB, Foster GL, Johnson KG, Connelly Z, Olla C, Saeed M, Wiedenmann J (2022) Impact of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) enrichment and skewed N:P stoichiometry on the skeletal formation and microstructure of symbiotic reef corals. Coral Reefs, 41 (4) : 1147 - 1159. doi: 10.1007/s00338-022-02223-0

Di Martino E, Jackson JBC, Taylor PD, Johnson KG (2018) Differences in extinction rates drove modern biogeographic patterns of tropical marine biodiversity. Science Advances, 4 (4) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1508

Contributed Publications

Johnson KG. (null) Coral reefs: Secret cities of the sea. Natural History Museum. 273 3 - 27 3 3

Teaching and students

Courses taught

MSc: NHM/IC MSc in Taxonomy

2/2018 - 3/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2018 - 3/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module
Natural History Museum, London, London, United Kingdom
Imperial College London, London, London, United Kingdom
2/2017 - 4/2017.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module


2/2016 - 3/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeontology & Stratigraphy Module
Imperial College, London
The Natural History Museum, London
3/2014.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Marshall-Mills K
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Coupling shell growth and geochemistry in giant clams to explore biomineralization pathways
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Funding: GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership
15/9/2021 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Harrison W
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Deep time shifts in carbonate producers within the Coral Triangle
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Funding: 4D-Reef a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
15/4/2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Bertini L
Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Growth rates and bioerosion of modern and Pliocene corals of the Coral Triangle revealed by Artificial Intelligence
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: 4D-Reef a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
10/2/2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Samperiz A
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
From watershed to reef: reconstructing the history of land use change and coral reef health in Fiji
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Buckingham M
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Effects of multiple environmental stressors on reef corals
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Summerfield R
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
A historic coral ‘health’ baseline from the Chagos archipelago
University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: GW4+ DTP
2016 - 30/3/2021.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Johnson J
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Depositional and palaeoecological characteristics of incipient and submerged coral reefs on the inner-shelf of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
University of Exeter
2013 - 1/7/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Santodomingo N
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral Triangle
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Funding: European Union Marie Curie Initial Training Network "THROUGHFLOW"
2010 - 2014.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Tomiak P
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
The nature and geochronological applications of coral skeleton and intra-crystalline amino acids
University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
2009 - 2013.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Roche R
A multi-proxy reconstruction of mid-Holocene environmental conditions at a nearshore Great Barrier Reef site: King Reef, Northern Queensland.
University of Exeter, Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
2007 - 2011.

Master's Co supervisor(s): Johnson K
Environmental characterisation of turbid reefs in the Coral Triangle
University College London, London, United Kingdom

Master's Joint supervisor to Hembling N
Co supervisor(s): Johnson KG
Coral health in the Miocene of the Coral Triangle using X-Ray Micro-computed Tomography
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Impact and outreach

Invited and keynote speaker

Response of coastal mollusc faunas to the PETM in NW Europe, Palaeontological Association 61st Annual Meeting: Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 19/12/2017.