Robert Johnston

I am a retired civil servant and small business owner. During my federal career I was a research scientist conducting environmental studies for the US Navy.  I served as project officer and principal investigator to develop methods for conducting ecological risk assessments at Navy sites, investigated the ecological risk of PCBs released from sunken ships in the deep ocean, evaluated the ecological risk of constructing artificial reefs with ex-warships, and contributed as a coinvestigator in a partnership to model the marine environment of the Puget Sound, WA.  I also served as Technical Coordinator of a collaborative partnership formed through an ENVironmental inVEStment (ENVVEST) partnership among the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington State Department of Ecology, U.S. EPA, and local stakeholders to conduct a comprehensive water quality improvement project for the watersheds of Sinclair and Dyes Inlets in the Puget Sound.  In 2007, I was appointed as a charter member to the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel, created to provide independent, non-representative scientific advice to the Puget Sound Partnership on ecological and human health issues for the Puget Sound, where I served for two terms from 2007- 2013.