GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Tanner Johnson is a first year PhD student at The University of Texas – Austin. Originally from Hayward, Wisconsin, Tanner completed his BS in Geosciences at the University of Arizona where he researched post-fire debris flows and post-fire runoff with Dr. Luke McGuire. At the University of Arizona, Tanner won “Best Undergraduate Talk” for his work on modeling post-fire debris flows under climate change scenarios (he gave the same talk at the UTIG discussion hour). During his PhD, Tanner will be working with Dr. Danielle Touma and Dr. Joel Johnson on post-fire hydraulic hazards in a warming climate, by looking at climate extremes using a variety of methods. Currently, Tanner is working on understanding the drivers of extreme wildfire severity in the western US.
INTERESTS
Geologic hazards, climate extremes, geomorphology, hydrology
SUPERVISORS
Danielle Touma
Joel Johnson
ACADEMICS
Ph.D., Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, ongoing
B.Sc., Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 2024
CONTACTS AND LINKS
tsjohnson@utexas.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Touma Extremes Team