Jeffrey C. Johnson

Jeffrey C. Johnson is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources; and serves as Professor in the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Biology and Biostatistics at East Carolina University. He received his Ph.D. in social science from the University of California, Irvine, and has been active in research projects funded by Sea Grant and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for more than two decades. He has conducted an extensive long-term research project supported by the National Science Foundation comparing group dynamics of over-wintering crews at the American South Pole Station, with those at the Polish, Russian, Chinese, and Indian Antarctic Stations. In addition, he is interested in network models of complex biological systems and is currently working on the application of continuous time Markov chain models for the study of trophic dynamics in food webs. His most recent work funded by NSF involves the development and testing of cognitive models of Inupiaq understandings of the Kotzebue Sound ecosystem in the Arctic. He has published extensively in anthropological, sociological, and marine science journals. The founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Quantitative Anthropology and a past co-editor of the journal Human Organization, he is also the author of Selecting Ethnographic Informants, Sage, 1990, and Analyzing Social Networks, Sage, 2013.