Cliff T. Johnston

Professor of Soil Chemistry

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Education

B.Sc. University of California, Riverside  (1979) Chemistry

Ph.D.  University of California, Riverside  (1983) Soil Chemistry. 

Postdoctoral Fellow. (1983 - 1985)  Los Alamos National Laboratory

Professional Positions

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow (1983 – 1985)

University of Florida, Soil and Water Science Dept. Asst.-Assoc Professor (1985 – 1993)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sabbatical Fellow (1991)

Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium, Sabbatical (1992 and 2002)

Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Assoc. Professor - Professor (1993 – present)

Membership in Academic, Professional and Scholarly Societies

American Chemical Society

Clay Minerals Society

Mineralogical Society of America

Soil Science Society of America

Awards /  Honors

1982         Graduate Regents Fellows at the University of California, Riverside

1983         Membership in Sigma Xi and Gamma Sigma Delta

1997         Elected to Council - Councilor for the Clay Minerals Society (1997 – 2000)

1999         General Chair for the 1999 Clay Minerals Society Meetings

2001         ESCOP Leadership Development Program Fellow (Class 10)

2001         Recipient of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Award of The Clay Minerals Society

2002         Election to Fellow, Soil Science Society of America

2002                 Recipient of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Soil Science Award

2004         Vice President of The Clay Minerals Society

2002         Curator of the Source Clays Repository

2004         George Brown Lecturer – 2004 Clay Minerals Groups of the Mineralogical Society (London)

2005-6     President of The Clay Minerals Society

2006-7     Member of the Executive Committee for Elements – An international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology

2006-7     Member of Editorial Board for Geochemical Transactions

Publications - Journal Articles and Invited Reviews

 

1.                  Holtzclaw, K. H.; Schaumberg, G. D.;LeVesque, C.S.; Sposito, G.; Heick, J.A.; and C.T. Johnston. Analytical properties of the soluble, metal-complexing fractions in sludge-soil mixtures:  V. Amino acids, hexosamines, and other carbohydrates in fulvic acid,  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 44:736-740, 1980.

 

2.                  Sposito, G., Holtzclaw, K.H., Johnston, C.T., and LeVesque, C.S.  Thermodynamics of sodium-copper exchange on Wyoming bentonite at 298 K.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 45:1079-1084, 1981.

 

3.                  Sposito, G., Holtzclaw, K.H., LeVesque, C.S.; and Johnston, C.T. Trace metal chemistry in arid zone field soils amended with sewage sludge:  II.  Comparative study of the fulvic acid fraction, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 46:265-275, 1982.

 

4.                  Johnston, C.T., Sposito G., Bocian, D. F., and Birge, R.R. A vibrational spectroscopic study of the interlamellar kaolinite-dimethyl sulfoxide complex.  J. Phys. Chem. 88:5959-5964, 1984.

 

5.                  Johnston, C.T., and Swanson, B.I. Temperature dependence of the vibrational spectra of acetanilide:  Davydov solitons or Fermi coupling?  Chemical Physics Letters  114:547-552, 1984.

 

6.                  Johnston, C.T., G. Sposito, and R. R. Birge. Raman spectroscopic study of kaolinite in aqueous suspension,  Clays and Clay Min. 33:483-489, 1985.

 

7.                  Johnston, C.T.; and Sposito, G. Disorder and early sorrow.  Progress in the chemical speciation of the soil solution. p. 89-100. In Future developments in soil science research, L.L. Boersma (ed.), Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. Publications, Madison, WI., 1987.

 

8.                  Scott, A.C., Bigio, I.J., and Johnston, C.T.  Polarons in acetanilide.  Physical Review B. B39:12883-12887, 1989.

 

9.                  Johnston, C.T., and Stone, D.A. The Influence of hydrazine on the vibrational modes of kaolinite.  Clays and Clay Minerals 38:121-128, 1990.

 

10.              Johnston, C.T., Raman and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.  Chapter 5 in: Instrumental Surface Analysis of Geologic Materials. D. L. Perry (ed.)  VCH Publishers, New York, NY. pp. 121-155, 1990.

 

11.              Johnston, C.T. Raman and FT-IR spectra of the kaolinite-hydrazine intercalate. p. 432-454. Chapter 22 In Spectroscopic characterization of minerals and their surfaces, L.M. Coyne, S.W.S. McKeever, and D.F. Blake (eds.), Am. Chem. Soc. Books Series #415, Washington, D. C., 1990.

 

12.              Johnston, C.T., Agnew, S.F., and D. L. Bish, D.L. Polarized single crystral FT-IR study of the Keokuk kaolinite and Ouray dickite.  Clays and Clay Minerals 38:573-583, 1990.

 

13.              Johnston, C.T., Tipton, T., Stone, D.A., Erickson, C., and Trabue, S.L. Vibrational and electronic spectroscopic study of p-dimethoxybenzene adsorbed on Cu-montrmorillonite. Langmuir 7:289-296, 1991.

 

14.              Ince, E., Johnston, C.T., and Moudgil, B.M. FT-IR spectroscopic study of adsorption of oleic acid/oleate on surfaces of apatite and dolomite. Langmuir 7:1453-1457, 1991.

 

15.              Johnston, C.T., Swanson, B.I., and Agnew, S. F. Low frequency vibrational spectra of crystalline acetanilide at low temperature and high pressure.  J. Phys. Chem. 95: 5281-5286, 1991.

 

16.              Johnston, C.T., Tipton T., Trabue, S.L., Erickson C.; and Stone, D.A. Vapor phase sorption of p-xylene on Co- and Cu-exchanged SAz-1 montmorillonite.  Environ. Sci. & Technol. 26:382-390, 1992.

 

17.              Pennell, K. D., Rhue R.D., Rao, P.S.C., Johnston, C.T. Vapor phase sorption of p-xylene and water on soils and clay minerals. Environ. Sci. & Technol.  26:756-763, 1992.

 

18.              Jaynes, W. F., Traina, S.F., Bigham, J.M. and Johnston, C.T. Preparation and characterization of reduced-charge hectorites. Clays and Clay Minerals 40:397-405, 1992.

 

19.              Johnston, C.T., Sposito, G. and Erickson, C.  Vibrational probe studies of water interactions with montmorillonite. Clays and Clay Miner. 40:722-730, 1992.

 

20.              Bish, D. and Johnston, C.T. Rietveld stuctural refinement of dickite at 12 K.   Clays and Clay Minerals 41:297-304, 1993.

 

21.              Johnston, C.T.; Sposito, G.; Earl, W.  Characterization of Environmental Particles by Fourier Transform Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" Chapter 1 in Environmental Particles Volume 2 in the Environmental Analytical and Physical Chemistry Series J. Buffle and H. P. van Leeuwen (eds.)  Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.  pp. 1-36, 1993.

 

22.              Tipton, T., Johnston, C.T., Trabue, S.L., Erickson, C., Stone, D.A. Gravimetric/FTIR apparatus for the study of vapor sorption on clay films.  Review of Scientific Instruments 64:1091-1092, 1993.

 

23.              Schulze, D. G.; Johnston, C.T., and Bleam, W.F. Visualization of clay mineral structures. In Clays: Controlling the Environment. G.J. Churchman, R.W. Fitzpatrick and R.A. Eggleton (eds.) 10th International Clay Conference Proc., Adelaide Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 15-18, 1993.

 

24.              Hinedi, Z.H., Johnston , C.T. and Erickson, C. Chemisorption of benzene on Cu-montmorillonite as characterized by FTIR and 13C MAS NMR. Clays and Clay Minerals 41:87-94, 1993.

 

25.              Johnston, C.T.; Davis, W.; Erickson, C.; and Delfino, J.  FTIR Spectroscopic Characterization of Humic  In Substances Humic substances in the global environment and implications on human health. p. 145-152. N. Senesi and T.M. Miano (ed.), 1994.

 

26.              Okuda, I., Johnston, C.T. and Rao, P.S.C. Accessibility of solutes to geometrically rough (fractal) surfaces of natural sorbents. Chemosphere 30:2:389-395, 1995.

 

27.              Johnston, C.T.; and Earl, W. Vibrational and NMR probe studies of water interactions with homoionic SAz-1 montmorillonite.  Chapter 9 in  Metal speciation and contamination of Soil.  H.E. Allen, C.P. Huang, G.W. Bailey, and A.R. Bowes (eds.)  Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL   p. 237-254., 1995.

 

28.              Johnston, C.T.  Sorption of Organic Compounds on Clay Minerals:  A surface functional group approach.   Chapter 1 in Organic Pollutants in the Environment.  B. Sawhney (ed.) Clay Minerals Society, Boulder Co. pp. 1-44, 1996.

 

29.              Johnston, C.T.; Farmer, W.; and Aochi, Y.  Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectroscopy.  Chapter 10 in: "Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 3. Chemical Methods, Third Edition," D. Sparks (ed.), Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. Book Series no. 5., Madison, Wisconsin.  p 269-321, 1996.

 

30.              Madari, B., Micheli, E., Johnston, C.T., Graveel, J.G. and Czinkota I. Long term effects of tillage on the composition of soil organic matter: spectroscopic characterization.  Agrokem Es Talajtan 46, 127-134, 1997.

 

31.              Labouriau, A.; Johnston, C.T.; Earl, W. Cation and water interactions in the interlamellae of a smectite clay.  Chapter 10 in “NMR Spectroscopy in Environmental Chemistry” Eds. M. A. Nanny, R. A. Minear and J. A. Leenheer. Oxford University Press, New York  p. 181-197 (1997). 

 

32.              Johnston, C.T., Helsen, J., Schoonheydt, R. and Bish, D.L. Single-crystal Raman spectroscopic study of dickite.  American  Mineralogist, 83: 75-84, 1998. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/1998_Abstracts/JF98_Abstracts/Johnston_p75_98.pdf

 

 

33.              Johnston, W. Xu, P. Parker, S.F. Agnew.  Characterization of active sites on mineral surfaces:  A spectroscopic study of water sorption on montmorillonite. In "The Latest Frontiers of Clay Chemistry.  Proceedings of the Sapporo Conference on the Chemistry of Clays and Clay Minerals (Sapporo, Japan 1996)" A. Yamigishi, A. Aramata, and M. Taniguchi (eds.)  Publ. Smectite Forum, Sendai Japan. pp. 47-69, 1998.

 

34.              Nulins, K.H.L., H.G. Toufar, G.O.A. Janssens, R.A. Schoonheydt, and Johnston, C.T.. 1998. . In "The Latest Frontiers of Clay Chemistry.  Proceedings of the Sapporo Conference on the Chemistry of Clays and Clay Minerals (Sapporo, Japan 1996)" Eds. A. Yamigishi, A. Aramata, and M. Taniguchi.  Publ. Smectite Forum, Sendai Japan. pp. 116-133, 1998.

 

35.              Bhatti, J.S., Comerford, N.B. andJohnston C.T. Influence of soil organic matter removal and pH on oxalate sorption onto a spodic horizon.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:152-158, 1998. http://soil.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/4/1089

 

36.              Bhatti, J.S., Johnston, C.T. and Comerford, N.B. Influence of oxalate and soil organic matter on sorption and desorption of phosphate onto a Spodic horizon.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:1089-1095, 1998. http://soil.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/1/152

 

37.              Robinson, S., Johnston, C.T. and Reddy, K.R. Combined chemical and 31P NMR spectroscopic analysis of phosphorus in wetland organic soils.   Soil Science, 163: 705-713, 1998.

 

38.              Madari, B., Micheli, E., Czinkota, I., Johnston, C.T. and Graveel, J.G. Soil organic matter as indicator of changes in the environment.  Anthropogenic influences:  Tillage  Agrokem Es Talajtan 47, 121-132, 1998.

 

39.              Norton, L.D.; Altieri, R.; Johnston, C.T. Co-utilization of by-products for soil improvement  and erosion control.  Beneficial Co-utilization of Agricultural-Municipal and Industrial Byproducts. S. Brown (ed.) Klure Publ, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 163-174, 1998

 

40.              Davis, W.M., Erickson, C.L., Johnston, C.T, Delfino, J.J. and Porter, J.E.  Quantitative Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopic investigation of humic substance functional group composition. Chemosphere 38: 2913-2928, 1999.

 

41.              Earl, W.; and Johnston, C.T.  Chemical Speciation of Sorbed Compounds on Environmental Particles using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy” Chapter 7 in Environmental Particles Volume 4 in the Environmental Analytical and Physical Chemistry Series  P.M. Huang and N. Senesi (eds.) pp. 251-280, 1999.

 

42.              Lin, L., Johnston, C.T., Blatchley E.R.  Inorganic Fouling at Quartz: Water Interfaces in Ultraviolet Photoreactors I: Chemical Characterization, Water Research 33: 3321-3329, 1999.

 

43.              Lin, L., Johnston, C.T., Blatchley. E.R.,  Inorganic Fouling at Quartz: Water Interfaces in Ultraviolet Photoreactors II: Temporal and Spatial Distributions, Water Research 33: 3330-3338, 1999.

 

44.              Lin, L., Johnston, C.T., Blatchley E.R.,  Inorganic Fouling at Quartz: Water Interfaces in Ultraviolet Photoreactors III: Numerical Modeling, Water Research 33: 3339-3347, 1999.

 

45.              Xu, W., Johnston, C.T., Parker, P. and Agnew, S.F.  Infrared study of water sorption on Swy-1 and SAz-1 montmorillonite.  Clays and Clay Minerals, 48:120-131, 2000.

 


46.              Wang, S.L., Johnston, C.T. Assignment of the structural OH stretching bands of gibbsite.   American Mineralogist, 85:739-744, 2000. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2000_Abstracts/MJ00_Abstracts/Wang_p739_00.pdf

 

47.              Burrell, L.S.; Johnston, C.T., Schulze, D., Klein, J., White, J.L., Hem, S.L. Aluminum phosphate adjuvants prepared by precipitation at constant pH.  Part I: Composition and structure. Vaccine. 19:275-281, 2000. DOI:10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00160-2

 

48.              Burrell, L.S.; Johnston, C.T., Schulze, D., Klein, J., White, J.L., Hem, S.L. Aluminum phosphate adjuvants prepared by precipitation at constant pH.  Part II: Physiochemical properties. Vaccine, 19:282-287, 2000. DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00162-6

 

49.              Johnston, C.T.; Eckert, J., Dotson, L., Bish, D.L. Vibrational spectroscopic study of the 1.035 and 0.95 nm kaolinite-hydrazine intercalation complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry. 104: (33) 8080-8088, (2000). DOI: 10.1021/jp001075s

 

50.              Guest, C.; Johnston, C.T.; King, J.; Tishmack, J.K.; and Norton, L.D..  Synthetic soil from composting coal combustion byproducts and an industrial biosolid.  Journal of Environmental Quality. 30:246-253, (2001)

 

51.              Goldberg, S., Johnston, C.T. Mechanisms of arsenic adsorption on amorphous oxides evaluated using macroscopic measurements, vibrational spectroscopy, and surface complexation modeling.   J. of Colloid and Interface Science 234:204-216 (2001) DOI:10.1006/jcis.2000.7295

 

52.              Johnston, C.T., and Premachandra, G.S.  Polarized ATR-FTIR study of smectite in aqueous suspension.  Langmuir 17: 3712-3718, (2001). DOI: 10.1021/la010184a

 

53.              Boyd, S.A., Sheng, G.; Teppen, B.J.; Johnston, C.T. Mechanisms for the adsorption of substituted nitrobenzenes by smectite clays.    Environ. Sci. Technol., 35 (21), 4227 -4234, (2001). DOI: 10.1021/es010663w

 

54.              Sheng, G.Y., Johnston, C.T., Teppen B.J., Boyd, S.A. Potential contributions of smectite clays and organic matter to pesticide retention in soils J Agr. Food Chem 49: 2899-2907, (2001).   DOI: 10.1021/jf001485d

 

55.              Johnston, C.T.; Olivera, M.F., Teppen, B.J.; Sheng, G.; Boyd, S.A. Spectroscopic study of nitroaromatic-smectite sorption mechanisms.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 35 (24): 4767-4772 (2001).  DOI: 10.1021/es010909x

 

56.              Sheng, G.; Johnston, C.T.; Teppen, B.J.; Boyd, S.A. Adsorption of dinitrophenol herbicides from water by montmorillonites. Clays Clay Minerals. 50: 25-34 (2002).

 

57.              Johnston, C.T.; Wang, S.L.; Hem, S.L. Measuring the surface area of aluminum hydroxide adjuvant.  J. Pharmaceutical Sciences.  (7):1702-1706 (2002)

 

58.              Johnston, C.T.; Agnew, S.F.; Schoonover, J.R.; Kenney, J.W.; Page, B.; Osborn, J. and Corbin, R. Raman study of aluminum speciation in simulated alkaline nuclear waste. Environmental Science and Technology.  36 (11):2451-2458 (2002).  DOI: 10.1021/es011226k

 

59.              Johnston, C.T.; G. Sheng; Teppen, B.J.; Fernandes de Oliveira, M.; Boyd, S.A. Spectroscopic study of dinitrophenol herbicide sorption on smectite.   Environmental Science and Technology. 36 (23): 5067-5074 (2002).  DOI: 10.1021/es025760j

 

60.              Johnston, C.T.; Bish, D.L.; Dera, P.; Wang, S.L.; Agnew, S.F.; and Kenney, J.W. Novel pressure-induced phase transformations in hydrous layered materials. Geophysical Research Letters.  29 (16): art. no. 1770 (2002).   doi:10.1029/2002GL015402

 

61.              Johnston, C.T.; and Tombacz, E. Surface Chemistry of Soil Minerals.  Chapter 2 in "Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications" J. Dixon and D. Schulze (eds.) pp. 37-68. (2002).

 

62.              Michéli, E., Madari, B., Tombacz E. Johnston C.T., 2002. Tillage – soil organic matter relationships in long-term experiments in Hungary and Indiana. Chapter 4. p. 565-581. In: R. Lal, J. Kimble, R. F. Follett, and B.A. Stewart (eds.): Advances in Agronomy.Agricultural Practices and Polices for Carbon Sequestration in Soil. Adv. Soil Sci. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. (2002)

 

63.              Johnston, C.T. and S.L. Wang.  (2002) Applications of vibrational spectroscopy in soil and environmental sciences. In “Handbook of Vibrational Spectroscopy” Eds. P.R. Griffiths and J.C. Chalmers. John Wiley, New York, New York.  Volume 4.  Applications in Industry Materials and the Physical Sciences, pp. 3192-3206.

 

64.              Li, H.; Sheng, G.; Teppen, B.J.; Johnston, C.T.; Boyd, S.A. Sorption and desorption of pesticides by clay minerals and humic acid-clay complexes.  Soil Science Society of America Journal.  67 (1): 122-131 (2003).

 

65.              Hou, X.; Bish, D.L.; Wang, S.L.; Johnston, C.T.; Kirkpatrick, R.J. Hydration, expansion, structure, and dynamics of layered double hydroxides. American Mineralogist. 88 (1): 167-179 (2003). http://www.minsocam.org/msa/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2003_Abstracts/Jan03_Abstracts/Hou_p167_03.pdf

 

66.              Wang, S.L.; Johnston, C.T.; Bish, D.L.; White, J.L.; Hem, S.L. Water-vapor adsorption and surface area measurement of poorly crystalline boehmite. J. Colloid and Inteface Science 260 (1): 26-35 (2003).

 

67.              Ras, R.H.A.; C. T. Johnston, E. A. Franses, R. Ramaekers, G. Maes, P. Foubert, F. C. De Schryver, R. A. Schoonheydt  Polarized Infrared Study of Hybrid Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers Containing Clay Mineral Nanoparticles  Langmuir 19 (10): 4295-4302 (2003). DOI: 10.1021/la026786r

 

68.              Johnston, C.T.; Hem, S.L.; Guenin, E.; Mattai, J. Afflito.  Potentiometric/turbidometric titration of aluminum compounds. J. Cosm. Sci, 54, 113-118 (2003).

 

69.              Dera, P.; Prewitt, C.; Bish, D.L.; Japel, S.; Johnston, C.T. Pressure-controlled polytypism in hydrous layered materials. American Mineralogist 88 (10); 1428-1435 (2003). http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2003_Abstracts/Oct03_Abstracts/Dera_p1428_03.pdf

 

70.              Schoonover, J.R.; Zhang, S.L.; Johnston, C.T. Raman Spectroscopy and Principal Factor Analysis of Concentrated Al2O3-Na2O-H2O Solutions. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.  34(6): 404-412,  (2003). DOI:10.1002/jrs.1011

 

71.              Jiang, D.; Johnston, C.T.; Hem. S.L. Using rate of acid neutralization to characterize aluminum phosphate adjuvant. Pharmaceutical Development and Technology 8 (4): 349-356 (2003) DOI: 10.1081/PDT-120024688

 

72.              Ras, R.H.A.; Németh, J.; Johnston, C.T.; Dékány, I.; Schoonheydt, R.A.. Orientation and conformation of octadecyl rhodamine B in hybrid Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers containing clay minerals.  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 6 (23): 5347-5352 (2004). DOI: 10.1039/b411339j

 

73.              Johnston, C.T.; Boyd, S.A.; Teppen, B.J.; Sheng G., Sorption of Nitroaromatic Compounds on Clay Surfaces.  in Handbook of Layered Materials for Catalytic Applications, S. M. Auerbach, K. A. Carrado, P. K. Dutta, Eds.; Marcel-Dekker:  NY, pp. 155-189 (2004)

 

74.              Li, H.; Teppen, B.J; Johnston, C.T.; Boyd, S.A.,  Thermodynamics of Nitroaromatic Compound Adsorption from Water by Smectite Clay.  Environmental Science and Technology 38 (20): 5433-5442 (2004). DOI: 10.1021/es035054y

 

75.              Dontsova, K.M.; Norton, L.D.; Johnston, C.T.; Bigham, J.M.,   Influence of exchangeable cations on water adsorption by soil clays. Soil Science Society of America, 68 (4):1218-1227 (2004). http://soil.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/4/1218

 

76.              Sato, H.; Ono, K.; Johnston, C.T.; Yamagishi, A. First-Principle Study on Polytype Structures of 1:1 Dioctahedral Phyllosilicates.   American Mineralogist 89 (11-12): 1581-1585 (2004). http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2004_Abstracts/ND04_Abstracts/Sato_p1581_04.pdf

 

77.              Jiang, D; Premachandra, G.S.; Johnston, C.T.; Hem, S.L. Structure and adsorption properties of commercial calcium phosphate adjuvant.  Vaccine  23 (5): 693-698 (2004).  doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.06.029

 

78.              Ras, R.H.A.; Nemeth, J.; Johnston, C.T.; Dekany, I.; Schoonheydt, R.A. Infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy study of smectite clay monolayers  Thin Solid Films 466 (1-2): 291-294  (2004).  doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2004.02.043

 

79.              Ras, R.H.A.; Németh, J.; Johnston, C.T.; DiMasi, E.; Dékány, I.; Schoonheydt, R.A..  Hybrid LangmuirBlodgett Monolayers containing Clay Minerals: Effect of Clay Concentration and Layer Charge Density on the Film Formation.  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (PCCP). 6 (16): 4174-4184 (2004). DOI: 10.1039/b405862c

 

80.              Li, H.; Teppen, B.J.; Laird, D.A.; Johnston, C.T.; Boyd, S.A. Geochemical modulation of pesticide sorption on smectite clays.  Environmental Science and Technology 38 (20): 5393-5399 (2004). DOI: 10.1021/es0494555

 

81.              Arroyo LJ, Li H, Teppen BJ, et al. Hydrolysis of carbaryl by carbonate impurities in reference clay SWy-2 J. Agric. Food Chem. 52 (26): 8066-8073 (2004). DOI: 10.1021/jf048971b

 

82.              Dontsova, K.M., Norton, L.D., Johnston, C.T.  Calcium and magnesium effects on ammonia adsorption by soil clays.  Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1225–1232 (2005). DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.0335

 

83.              Chappell, M.A., Laird D.A., Thompson M.L., Li H., Teppen B.J., Aggarwal V., Johnston C.T., Boyd S.A. Influence of smectite hydration and swelling on atrazine sorption behavior.  Environmental Science & Technology 39 (9): 3150-3156 (2005).  DOI: 10.1021/es048942h

 

84.              Ras, R.H.A., Johnston, C.T., Schoonheydt, R.A. Chemical instability of octadecylammonium monolayers.  Chemical Communications (32): 4095-4097 2005 DOI: 10.1039/b504483a

85.              Arroyo,, L.J., Li, H., Teppen, B.J., Johnston, C.T. Boyd, S.A. Oxidation of 1-naphthol  coupled to reduction of structural Fe3+ in smectite. Clays and Clay Minerals 53(6): 587-596 (2005). DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2005.0530605

 

86.              Sato, H., Ono, K., Johnston, C.T., Yamagishi, A. First-Principles Studies on the Elastic Constants of a 1: 1 Layered Kaolinite Mineral. American Mineralogist 90(11-12): 1824-1826 (2005). http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2005_Abstracts/ND05_Abstracts/Sato_p1824_05.pdf

 

87.              Fernandes de Oliveira, M.F., Johnston, C.T., Premachandra, G.S., Teppen, B.J., Li, H., Laird, D.A., Zhu, D., Boyd, S.A.  Spectroscopic Study of Carbaryl Sorption on Smectite from Aqueous Suspension.  Environmental Science & Technology 39: 9123-9129 (2005). DOI: 10.1021/es048108s

 

88.              Schoonheydt, R.A. and Johnston, C.T. Surface and interface chemistry of clay minerals. Chapter 3 in “Handbook of Clay Science I in Series ‘Developments in Clay Science” Eds. F. Bergaya, B.K.G. Theng & G. Lagaly, Elsevier Science LTD.  Pages 87-112,  ISBN-13 978-0-08-044183-2 (2006)

 

89.              H Li, B.J. Teppen, D.A. Laird, C.T. Johnston, S.A. Boyd.  Effects of increasing potassium chloride and calcium chloride ionic strength on pesticide sorption by potassium- and calcium smectite.  Soil Science Society of America Journal 2006 70: 1889-1895 (2006). DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0392

 

90.              R.H.A. Ras, Y. Umemura, C.T. Johnston, A. Yamagishi and R.A. Schoonheydt.  Ultrathin Hybrid Films of Clay Minerals.  Invited Review.  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 9(8): 918-932 (2007).  DOI: 10.1039/b610698f

 

91.              H. Li, T.R. Pereira, B. J. Teppen, D.A. Laird, C.T. Johnston, and S.A. Boyd.  Ionic strength-induced formation of Smectite Quasicrystals Change Upon Sorption of Nitroaromatic Compounds. Environmental Science and Technology 41(4): 1251-1256 (2007). DOI: 10.1021/es062274d

 

92.              J. R. Schoonover, W. P. Steckle, Jr., C. T. Johnston, Y. Wang, A. M. Gillikin,  and R.A. Palmer.  Humidity-Dependent Dynamic Infrared Linear Dichroism Study of a Poly(Ester Urethane) Spectrochimica Acta Part A. Vol 67 (1) 208-213, 2007:  DOI:10.1016/j.saa.2006.07.015.

 

93.              S. Goldberg, C.T. Johnston, D.L. Suarez, S.M. Lesch.  Mechanisms of molybdenum adsorption on soil minerals evaluated using vibrational spectroscopy and surface complexation modeling.  Chapter in ‘"Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia II" M.O. Barnett and D.B. Kent (eds.) Elsevier book series "Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences".  Expected publication date:  October 2007.

 

94.              T. R. Pereira, D.A. Laird, C. T. Johnston, B. J. Teppen, H. Li, and S.A. Boyd.  Mechanism of dinitrophenol Herbicide Sorption on Smectites in Aqueous Suspensions at varying pH.  Soil Science Society of America.  In Press.  Soil Science Society of America Journal.

 

95.              I.W. Wait, C.T. Johnston, E.R. Blatchley.  The influence of groundwater treatment processes on quartz lamp sleeve fouling in ultraviolet disinfection reactors. (Accepted with minor revision 2/14/2007). Water Research.

 

96.              S.L. Hem, C.T. Johnston, H. Hogenesch.  Imject Alum is not an alternative to aluminum hydroxide adjuvant or aluminum phosphate adjuvant. In Press (4/19/2007).  Vaccine.

 

97.              M. Santagata, A Bobet, C. T. Johnston, J. Hwang.  One-dimensional compression behavior of a highly organic soil. ASCE J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.  In Press (3/9/2007)

 

Articles which have been submitted

 

98.              T. R. Pereira, D.A. Laird, M. L. Thompson, C. T. Johnston, B. J. Teppen, H. Li, and S.A. Boyd.  A Comparison XRD Study of Dinitrophenol Sorption on Smectites in Aqueous Suspensions and Smectite films at Varying pH.  Soil Science Society of America Journal (Submitted, 2/22/2007).

 

99.              T. Szabo, M. Szekeres, I. Dekany, C. Jackers, S. De Feyter, C.T. Johnston, and R.A. Schoonheydt.  Layer-by-layer (LbL) construction of ultrathin hybrid films with proteins and clay minerals.  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics  (Submitted, 3/23/2007).  

 

100.          T.R. Filley, M.K. McCormick, S.E. Crow, K. Szlavecz, D.F. Whigham, C.T. Johnston and R.N. van den Heuvel.  Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory of  liriodendron tulipifera litter among forests with different invasive earthworm activity.  Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (Submitted on 4/12/2007)

 

101.          E.A. Haack, C.T. Johnston, and P.A. Maurice. Mechanisms of hydroxamic acid siderophore sorption to monoionic smectite and siderophore-enhanced release of structural Fe3+.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta .  (Submitted on 4/13/2007)

 

Articles which are in draft form

 

102.          C.T. Johnston, R.H.A. Ras, R.A. Schoonheydt.  Probing the nanoscale archictecture of clay minerals (invited review).  In preparation for the journal Clay Minerals. 

 

103.          C.T. Johnston, J. Elzea-Kogel, D.L. Bish and H.H. Murray.  Low temperature FTIR study of structural disorder in kaolin group minerals.  (In preparation for Clays and Clay Minerals).

 

104.          D.H. Kang, A.P. Schwab, C.T. Johnston, M.K Banks.  Sorption of Iron Cyanide Complexes onto Clay Minerals, Manganese Oxide, and Soil.  Soil Science Society of America Journal (In Preparation).

 

105.          H. Sato, K.Ono, C.T. Johnston, A. Yamagishi.  Pressure induced phase transformations in dickite as studied by first principle calculations.  In preparation for American Mineralogist (last paper of 3 part series – see papers # 76 and # 86).

 

106.          R.H.A. Ras, C.T. Johnston, R.A. Schoonheydt.  Relation between s-polarized and p-polarized internal reflection spectra: application for the spectral resolution of perpendicular vibrational modes.  (In Preparation – to be submitted to Langmuir May 2007).

 

107.          B. Singh, C.T. Johnston, and S. Goldberg.  In situ ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and batch adsorption study of phosphate adsorption on goethite (In Preparation)

 

 

 

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Supervision

Current Graduate Students

 

Eric Johnson (Ph.D. – 2006-present)  Molecular Mechanisms of glyphosate interactions in soils.

 

Kiran Rana (Ph.D. 2007-present) Geochemical Controls on the Adsorption, Bioavailability, and Long-term Environmental Fate of Dioxins, PCBs, and PAHs

 

Former Students, Postdocs and Visitors who worked in the lab

 

Kiran Rana (M.Sc. 2004-2007) Influence of low molecular weight organic acids on the release of P from highly weathered soils in Brazil and Kenya. (Currently a Ph.D. student in our lab group)

 

Susan Crow (Postdoc 2006-2007 in Earth and Atmospheric Science at Purdue University with Tim Filley) Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory of  liriodendron tulipifera litter among forests with different invasive earthworm activity. Susan worked in my lab for a few months resulting in a recent journal article submission to JGR

 

Alfredo de Campos (Ph.D. 2003-2007) Effects of Redox on the soil solution chemistry and aggregate stability of Midwest Upland soils.  Current position: Assistant Professor of Soil Chemistry - Universidade Federal de Goiás.  Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais, Cx.P.131, Goiânia, G.O., Brasil.

 

Balwant Singh (Visiting Professor – hosted Balwant’s sabbatical in 2006) Balwant is Professor Soil Chemistry at the University of Sydney, Australia.

 

Elizabeth Haack (Postdoc 2005-2007 at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Notre Dame; advisor Patricia Maurice).  Collaborated with Liz and Patricia for the past year and a half and Liz spent time working in our lab resulting in several presentations and a recent journal article submission to GCA.

 

Dongqiang Zhu (Postdoc 2004-2005) Geochemical Controls on the Adsorption, Bioavailability, and Long-term Environmental Fate of Pesticides.Mechanisms.  Don  is an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control, School of The Environment, Nanjing University Nanjing 210093, P.R. China

 

Katerina Dontsova (Ph.D. 2002)  Ca2+ and Mg2+ effects of water and ammonia adsorption by soil clays.  Katerina’s Ph.D. was supervised by Dr. L.D. Norton and much of her research was conducted in and supervised by C.T. Johnsotn.  Current position:  Research scientist working at US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS. 

 

Maurilio Fernandes de Oliveira (Postdoc 2001-2003)  Spectroscopic studies of pesticide sorption on soil minerals.  Maurilio is now a staff scientist working for EMBRAPA in Sorghum and Maize, Brazil.

 

Shan Li Wang (Ph.D. 1998-2002) Spectroscopic and structural studies of aluminum oxides.  Current position:  Assistant Professor of Soil Chemistry at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.

 

Beáta Emoke Madari (Ph.D. 1995-2008) The effect of tillage on the nature and properties of humic substances.  Current position:  Embrapa Solos Ministério da Agricultura, Brasil.  Beata received her Ph.D. from Godollo Agricultural University, Godollo, Hungary.  (I was appointed to their graduate faculty to co-advise Beata’s thesis along with Prof. Erika Micheli).

 

Christopher A. Guest (M.Sc. 1994-1997) Synthetic soil from composting coal combustion byproducts and an industrial biosolid.  (Went on for Ph.D. in soil mineralogy at Purdue University).  Current position:  Private consultant working in the U.K.

 

Weizong Xu (M.Sc. 1994-1997) Vibrational probe studies of sorbed water, structural hydroxyl groups and surface acidity on montmorillonite by FTIR/Gravimetric methods.  (Went on for Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Purdue University) Staff scientist working for Alcoa.  

 

Steve Trabue (M.Sc. 1988-1991) Sorption of p-xylene and water on Cu-montmorillonite.  Completed Ph.D. in soil microbiology at the University of Florida.  Current position:  Research Scientist at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA.

 

Graduate Committees (Current or graduate in the past two years)

 

Xiadong Gao. Ph.D. Soil Mineralogy (D. Schulze) (completed April 2007)

Mary Gumz. Ph.D. 2007. Horticulture (S. Weller) (completed March 2007)

Joon Ho Hwang, Ph.D. 2006 Civil Engineering (M. Santagata) (completed Nov. 2006)

Pamela Achieng Obura. Ph.D. (current) Soil Mineralogy – D. Schulze)

Chadi Said El Mohtar. Ph.D. (current) Civil Engineering – M. Santagata and A. Bobett

Bethany Hanson. Ph.D. (current) Pharmacy.  (S. Hem)

Micah Todd Humphreys.  Ph.D. (current) Soil Chemistry (A.P. Schwab)

Agnieszka Magdalena Szlezak Ph.D. 2006.  Soil Chemistry (A.P. Schwab / K. Bank – Civil) (completed August 2006)

Julia Patrice Clark. M.Sc. (current) Civil Engineering (M. Santagata)

Jared Wade Alsdorf  Ph.D. (current) Agronomy – Remote Sensing (T. Vyn)

Branly Eugene Ph.D. (current) Soil Fertility – Soil Chemistry (B. Joern)

Timothy Patrick Porter M.Sc. (current) Soil Fertility – Soil Chemistry (G. Van Scoyoc)

Jennifer Ann Maguire Ph.D. (current) Pharmacy (S. Hem)

Salvador Francisco Acua Ph.D. (current) Soil Fertility/Chemistry (D. Norton)

Dong Hee Kang Ph.D. 2006.  Civil Engineering (K Banks)

Isaac William Wait. Ph.D. 2005 Civil Engineering (E.R. Blatchley)

Bradford Everett Derrick, M.Sc. 2005 Civil Engineering (E.R. Blatchley)

William Clayton Smith, M.Sc. 2005.  Soil Mineralogy (D. Schulze)

 

 

Service

University Service:

Elected as member-at-large representative for the Agronomy Faculty Advisory Committee.

Member of the Curriculum Committee (2005-present)

Chair of Departmental Research Retreat committee (2006)

Academic advisor for the National Resources and Environmental Sciences Program at Purdue (2006-present)

Chair of the Departmental Seminar Committee 2003-2004.

Member of Advisory Committee for the Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences Program.

Chair of the Academic Leadership Review Committee (University-wide committee)  to conduct a review of the Dean of the School of Agriculture (2000 – 2001)

Chair of the Agenda and Policy Committee, School of Agriculture (1998); Member from 1995-1998.

Member of the Organizing Committee for the CREES Department Review (1996)

Chair of Departmental Gradual Committee, Agronomy Department, Purdue University (1996-1997).  Member of committee from 1994-1997.

Member of the Electronic Communication Committee for the Clay Mineral Society (1996 – present).

Serve on Search Committee for faculty positions in Environmental Engineering, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Civil Engineering and Agronomy. Purdue University (1996-present)

Faculty Fellow for Tarkenton Hall (residence hall at Purdue University, 1994 – 1997)

Professional Activities

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Digital Teaching Tools.  (ASA-CSSA-SSSA) 2005-present.

Member of the Executive Committee for Elements – An international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology (2006-2007).

Member of the Editorial Board for Geochemical Transactions (2006-current)

Past President of The Clay Minerals Society (2006-2007)

President of The Clay Minerals Society (2005-2006)

Vice President of The Clay Minerals Society (2004-2005)

Curator for the Source Clay Minerals Repository of The Clay Minerals Society (2003 – present)

Member of Class 10 of the ESCOP Leadership Development Program for the 2000-2001. 

Co-hosted / organized the Bouyoucos Conference on Environmental Chemistry at the Clay-Water Interface held in Honolulu Hawaii, March 6-9, 2000 entitled “Smectite-pesticide interactions in aqueous systems”

Member of the Brindley Award Committee for The Clay Minerals Society (2000)

Associate Editor for the Soil Science Society of America Journal (1999-2002)

General Chair for the 1999 Clay Minerals Meetings to be held at Purdue University June 26- July 1, 1999.

Elected to serve as a member of Council, Clay Minerals Society (1997-2000)

Member of the Awards Committee for the Clay Minerals Society (1997-1999)

Member of the Electronic Communication Committee for the Clay Mineral Society (1996 – present).

Representative of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1993 – 1995)

Member of the Bouyoucus Conference Steering Committee (S772) for the Soil Science Society of America. (1993-95)

Representative of the Clay Minerals Society to the American Chemical Society (1995 – present)

External reviewer for the Department of Energy (1988, 1990, 1994, 1996)

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the Clays and Clay Materials Conference to be held in Leuven, Belgium  August, 1995.

Associate Editor for Clays and Clay Minerals, 1993 – 1995

Member of the NCR 174 Committee on Synchrotron X-ray sources in Soil Science Research. (1993-96)

Invited participant. DOE workshop entitled "Intermediate-scale experimentation to investigate microbiological, chemical, and hydrologic processes affecting subsurface reactive contaminant migration".  Virden Conference Center, Lewes, Delaware, April 24-25, 1990.

Invited participant.  DOE workshop on the Subsurface Transport Program.  Washington, D. C., March 5-7, 1990.

Invited participant:  "Synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction and scattering studies of soil materials" held at Argonne National Laboratory, January 8-10, 1990.

Program Development Committee for the Clay Minerals Society (term runs from 1990 thru 1992).

Invited participant.  DOE workshop entitled Environmental Materials and Interfaces workshop held on Sept. 10-12, 1990 at Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington.  Contact.  Dr. Don Baer.

Organized and chaired  symposium entitled "Application of advanced physical analytical techniques in soil chemistry"  at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy / Crop Science Society of America / Soil Science Society of America, Atlanta, GA.  29 November - 4 December 1987.

Chairman of the Environmental Working Group at the Department of Energy workshop entitled Chemistry at Interfaces, 6-8 October, 1987.  Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA.  October 6-8, 1987.

 

Recent Invited Presentations (last 10 years)

 

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil (2007)

ASA-SSSA-CSSA – Organic soils symposium (S2) (2006)

Fall ACS Meeting in San Francisco – G. Sposito symposium (Geochemistry) (2006)

Joint meeting of Groupe Francais Argille / The Clay Minerals Society (Oleron, France) (2006)

American Chemical Society Meeting in Joplin, MO (2005)

International Clay Conference, Tokyo, Japan. (2005)

The Clay Minerals Society Meetings, Burlington, VT  (2005)

American Chemical Society Meetings (Geochemistry Division) – San Diego, CA (2005)

EMBRAPA - Present invited lecture at "New Approach for Improving Phosphorus Acquisition and Aluminum Tolerance of Plants in Marginal Soils.  Sete Lagoas, Brazil. (2005)

Present invited paper at the Collaborative Crop Research Program Grantee Conference in Vaals, Netherlands (McKnight Foundation).  (2004)

Present the “George Brown Lecture” to the Mineralogical Society of London.  London, UK. (2004)

Invited to serve as external member of examination committee for Robin Ras, Ph.D. Candidate at K.U. Leuven, Belgium (2003)

Invited to serve as external member of examination committee for Bart van Duffel, Ph.D. Candidate at K.U. Leuven, Belgium (2001)

Surface chemistry of highly weathered soils.  Workshop on Improving Phosphorus Acquisition Efficiency in Marginal Soils.  Sete Lagoas, Brazil. (1999)

Exploring clay surfaces using organic molecules.  Michigan State University, Soil Science Lecture Series (1999)

Microstructural Properties of High Level Waste Concentrates and Gels with Raman and Infrared Spectroscopies. Characterization, Monitoring & Sensor Technology Crosscutting Program  Annual Review - Environmental Management Science Program  Gaithersburg, MD (1999)

Surface chemistry of soil minerals.  Environmental Engineering Lecture Series, Purdue University (1998)

Nature of water in soil and subsurface environments.  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Battelle. (1998)

Invited to serve as member of Godollo Agricultural faculty in 1998 in order to co-advise Beata Madari, Godollo, Hungary 1998.

Probing the hydrophobic character of clay surfaces.  University of Sao Paolo, Brazil. March, 1998.

Characterization of Active Sites on Mineral Surfaces” Invited keynote speaker to the Sapporo Conference on the Chemistry of Clays and Clay Minerals.  Sapporo, Japan. (1996)

Surface Chemistry of Soil Constituents.  Mie University, Mie, Japan (1996)

Vibrational probe studies of water on clay surfaces.  Sendai National Research Institute.  Sendai, Japan. (1996).

Interaction of hydrophobic compounds on clay surfaces.  Toyota Central Research and Development, Nagoya, Japan. (1996)

Present invited Lecture  Katholieke University of Leuven, Leuven Belgium. (1996)

Taught short-course with S. Guggenheim - Clay and Clay-Organic Analysis, Invited lectures (Total of 10 lectures) at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. (1996).

Present keynote lecture at Euroclay 95 Leuven, Belgium (1995)

 

Teaching

 Courses taught at Purdue University:

AGRY 540, Soil Chemistry

AGRY / ANTH 460 Contemporary Issues in Agriculture (co-teaching with J. Vorst)

AGRY 670, Soil Physical Chemistry

AG 490A – Discovery Experiences in Nanotechnology

 

Guest Lectures

      NRES 290 – Environmental Science

      AG 101 – Introduction to soil science and environmental chemistry

      AGRY 385 – Environmental Soil Chemistry

ASM 335  - What about biofuels?

 

Courses taught at the University of Florida:

SOS 6414, Advanced Soil Chemistry

SOS 6454, Soil Physical Chemistry

SOS 6932, Geochemical Speciation Modeling

SOS 6932B – Topics in Humic Substances