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I am a doctoral student in physics at the University of Texas (UT) at Dallas (in Richardson). My work is in space physics, the study of the space environment, encompassing realms from the ionosphere to the magnetosphere to interplanetary space.

Specifically, I am currently using data taken in the Earth's ionosphere by DMSP satellites to constrain parameters in the magnetosphere and develop models. Intended applications include modelling subauroral electric fields and their influence on the Earth's plasmasphere. My advisor is Phil Anderson.

My M.S. is in physics from UT-El Paso in cooperation with UT-Brownsville. My work there in the relativity group was concerned with data analysis for gravitational wave detection. While there I worked on data analysis methods for triggered burst searches, on stochastic searches, and made two summer research visits to the LIGO-Livingston site.

My B.A. is in astronomy from UT-Austin. For three years I participated in the Dean's Scholars Program in the College of Natural Sciences.

Contact information:

Wm. Robert Johnston
William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
WT15, Box 830688
Richardson, TX 78083-0688
wrjohnston@prodigy.net or wrj041000@utdallas.edu

Publications and thesis

• Detection strategies for a multi-interferometer triggered search, 19 April 2004, M.S. thesis, Univ. of Texas at El Paso (advisor Soumya Mohanty).

• P. C. Anderson, W. R. Johnston, and J. Goldstein, Dec. 2005, The effects of subauroral electric fields on the structure of the plasmapause, AGU fall meeting 2005, abstract #SM41C-1209.
• W. R. Johnston, 14 Dec. 2003, Detection strategies for a multi-interferometer triggered search, CGWA conference.

• W. R. Johnston, ed., Jan. 2004, Introduction to Astronomy Lab Book, Univ. of Texas at Brownsville.
• W. R. Johnston, 29 June 2003, Don't downplay risks of abortion, The Brownsville Herald, p. E3.
• W. R. Johnston, 7 April 2003, Iraq violated 21-year-old deal, The Brownsville Herald, p. A8.
• W. R. Johnston, 17 Aug. 2001, U.S. should have missile defense system, The Brownsville Herald, p. A10.
• W. R. Johnston, 4 April 2001, Facts disprove warnings about global warming, The Brownsville Herald, p. A10, and at Global Warming Debunking News and Views.

• W. R. Johnston, 22 Nov. 2005 (updated 23 Feb. 2006), The atmospheres of Pluto and trans-Neptunian objects, report for PHYS 6389, UTD.
• W. R. Johnston, 5 Aug. 2003, Teaching about the solar system and solar energy, inservice presentation, Brownsville ISD.
• W. R. Johnston, 8 Jan. 2003 (updated 1 Oct. 2005), Reasons given for having abortions in the United States.
• W. R. Johnston, J. D. Zamora, and J. A. R. Oliveira, 17 Oct. 2002, Installation suggestions for Cactus WaveToy and required software, report at UTB.
• W. R. Johnston, May 1994, Investigation of evolution of orbits similar to that of (4179) Toutatis, senior research project, UTA Astronomy Dept.
• W. R. Johnston, April 1985 (updated 18 Aug. 2003), The effects of a global thermonuclear war, report for Dean's Scholars seminar, UTA.
• W. R. Johnston, 1983 (updated 5 June 2001), The effects of a nuclear attack on the Rio Grande Valley.

Misc.

• A collection of letters to the editor and other opinion pieces may be found here.
• My beautiful wife and I vacationed in the western United States in June 2000. To see some of our vacation pictures, click here.
• Views expressed on this web site are mine; you need not blame anyone else.

Okay, enough about me...
What about you? Do you know how to go to heaven?

© 2002-2005, 2006 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 10 March 2006.
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