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Dr. Yong Hoon Kim
Associate Professor
College of Sciences and Mathematics - Earth and Space Sciences
Bio
Dr. Yong Hoon Kim's major research is focused on understanding how natural and anthropogenic environmental factors influence the functioning of our coastal, embayment, estuarine, and ocean systems. He has tried to answer such research questions via investigating physical aspects of the coastal and ocean environments, in particular emphasizing environmental fluid dynamics, coastal and estuarine circulation, hydrodynamics and material transport dynamics.
His research methodology includes combined approaches of observational (both shipborne and mooring) data analysis, remote sensed data analysis (e.g., machine learning system development), and numerical simulation packages to investigate physical, biological and geological processes in coastal and ocean systems.
Before joining West Chester University, Kim was a senior scientist at Applied Science Associates (RPS ASA) specializing in monitoring and modeling of oil spill, monitoring and modeling of thermal discharge, coastal processes, particle transport dynamics and the development and application of numerical modeling. He was also involved in Natural Resource Damage Assessment project of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Incident, focusing on oil spill fate modeling as well as field monitoring program. He earned B.S. and M.S. in Oceanography from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in Earth and Ocean Sciences from University of South Carolina.
Education
- B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, 1995
- M.S., Seoul National University, 1997
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2006