About Dr. Gerald W. Johnson

 
Eigil Knuth and Gerald Johnson at the northern tip of Cape Morris Jessup (September 3, 1968)

Eigil Knuth and Gerald Johnson at the northern tip of Cape Morris Jessup (September 3, 1968)

 
 
 
 

It all started when…

A forty-year career in surveying, mapping and astro navigation developed Johnson's expertise in skills from mapping the human face to aerial mapping of the Nazca Lines. His cartography projects have taken him to the four corners of the earth including China, Nepal, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Belize, Chile, Peru, Greenland, and the North Pole. His Arctic expeditions include:

  • LOREX (Lomonosov Ridge Expedition)

  • Blue Ice (Greenland Ice Cap traverse)

  • Project Nord (mapping in northern Greenland)

  • Three expeditions to the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island

Dr. Johnson was born on October 31, 1932, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and retired at age 72 from the University of Minnesota as Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering. Still a traveler, he's always on his way somewhere on foot, in the air, on the sea, or driving the streets of Minneapolis with his wife Julie.