Kevin Johnson

Dr. Johnson is the Lead Program Director for the Subseafloor Sampling Program – S3P (previously Ocean Drilling Program) in the Division of Ocean Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prior to taking this position, he was on the faculty of the Earth Sciences Department at University of Hawaiʻi for 16 years, and prior to that he was the research Geologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Over his career he worked as a hydrologist for 3 years in Western Sāmoa, did research on active volcanoes at Hokkaido University for 2 years, and did high temperature/high pressure experiments on volcanic rocks for more than 3 years at University of Tokyo and Okayama University. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1990.