 E. A. Johnson’s applied interests include but are not limited to global climate change, conservation biology, and ecosystem and fire management.Johnson is a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, which is a national effort that aims to coordinate surface dynamic modelling of the Earth’s surface.He is also a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management, NSERC Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE), PAGSE (Royal Society of Canada), and he serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.