Cliff T Johnston

Professor of Agronomy

Department: Agronomy
Phone: 765.496.1716
Fax: 765.496.2926
Office: Lilly 3-464A
E-mail: clays@purdue.edu
Personal Web Page

Area of Expertise: Soil Chemistry
Curriculum Vitae

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

- Recent Publications

Johnston, C. T., Gamiz, B., Celis, R., Hermosin, M. C., & Cronejo, J. (2012). Preparation and characterization of spermine-exchanged montmorillonite and interaction with the herbicide fluometuron. Appl. Clay Sci., 58, 8-15.

Johnston, C. T., Reynolds, J. G., & Agnew, S. F. (2012). A Molality-Based BET Equation for Modeling the Activity of Water Sorbed on Clay Minerals. Clays and Clay Minerals.

Johnston, C. T., Khan, B., Barth, E. F., Chattopadhyay, S., & Boyd, S. A. (2012). Nature of the Interlayer Environment in an Organoclay Optimized for the Sequestration of Dibenzo-p-dioxin. Environ. Sci. Technol., 46(17), 9584-9591.

Johnston, C. T., & Schoonheydt, R. A. (2012). Surface and interface chemistry of clay minerals. In Handbook of Clay Science (Vol. 2, pp. 1-39). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Johnston, C. T., El Mohtar, C. S., Bobet, A., Santagata, M. C., & Drnevich, V. P. (2012). Liquefaction Mitigation using Bentonite Suspensions. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

Johnston, C. T., Premachandra, G. S., Szabo, T., Lok, J., & Schoonheydt, R. A. (2012). ) Interaction of Biological Molecules with Clay Minerals: A Combined Spectroscopic and Sorption Study of Lysozyme on Saponite. Langmuir, 28, 611-619.

Johnston, C. T., Liu, C., Li, H., Boyd, S. A., & Teppen, B. J. (2012). Relating Clay Structural Factors to Dioxin Adsorption by Smectites: Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 76(1), 110-120.

Johnston, C. T., Favaretto, N., Norton, L. D., Bingham, J., & Sperrin, M. (2012). Nitrogen and Phosphorus Leaching as Affected by Gypsum Amendment and Exchangeable Calcium and Magnesium. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 76(2), 575-585.

De-Campos, A. B., Huang, C., & Johnston, C. T. (2011). Biogeochemistry of terrestrial soils as influenced by short-term flooding.. Biogeochemistry. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-011-9639-2

Boyd, S. A., Johnston, C. T., Laird, D. A., Teppen, B. J., & Li, H. (2011). Comprehensive Study of Organic Contaminant Adsorption by Clays: Methodologies, Mechanisms, and Environmental Implications.. In Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Environmental Systems (pp. 51-71). New York: John Wiley and Sons.