Spencer Johnson

Spencer is dressed in a navy t-shirt, a yellow lifejacket vest, black shorts, black boots, and an orange and grey baseball cap. He is loading a crabbing cage and red and white buoy with yellow rope into an orange kayak. Both he and the kayak are in the shallow end of a vast expanse of water with land in the background some rowable distance away. The sky is blue with cumulous cloud formations.

Award/Details

2020 Hollings; 2017 Marine Science Scholars Program

Johnson has been involved in several research projects during his time at Western, including  modeling benthic carbon transport and studying fish community variation with respect to shoreline armoring. He also participated in UCSB’s summer program studying how kelp affects ocean acidification, and interned for two summers at the Nisqually Reach Nature Center near Olympia. Johnson is also a 2019-2021 NOAA Hollings Scholar, where he studied peatlands in Homer, Alaska at the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. He planned to continue addressing pressing issues such as climate change through science.
 

Major

BS, Environmental Science (Marine Emphasis)