Hydroclimatology@POSTECH is currently looking for highly motivated graduate applicants.
Potential topics are 1) drought mechanisms, risk, and predictability, 2) large-scale land surface modeling focusing on the land cover and use change impact, 3) hydrodynamical modeling with unmanned boat-based river bathymetry surveys, and 4) socio-hydrology with a focus on the dynamics of social response during water-related disasters.
If you are interested in these research topics, please contact me (jhkam@postech.ac.kr)
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NEWS:
01/01/2026:
Happy New Year!
2025 was another productive year for my group. Six refereed articles led by my group members are published in 2025. The list of the artilces are below (bold: student/postdoc first author).
A key publication in 2025 is Dr. Asoka's paper that revisited my first PhD study and scaled it up to the global assessment of the impact of TCs on soil moisture drought. I appreciate Dr. Asoka's work.
Other publications are also intruiging to hydroclimatology and disaster risk reduction research communities. I appreciate all hard work of my research group memebers. More publications are forthcoming in 2026! Wish the best to all my group members and alumni.
6. Choi, S.**, Liu, A.**, S. Lee, H., Yoon, and J. Kam*, 2025, The Interplay of News Media, Social Media, and Public Search Behavior during the 2022–2023 South Korea Drought, Humanit. Soc. Sci. Commun. (accepted). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06398-z
5. Asoka, A.**, & J. Kam*, 2025, Tropical cyclones unevenly shape drought propagation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL120290. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120290
4. Razza, H.**, D. Wang, and J. Kam*, 2025, More record events in streamflow over Pakistan revealed by observation-constrained projections, Environ. Res. Lett., 20, 084079. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adf130
3. Lee, E**, Y.-W. Young, Y.-H. Jung*, and J. Kam*, 2025, Explainable AI-based Risk Assessment of Pluvial Floods over South Korea, J. Environ. Manag., 385, 125640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125640
2. Kim, B.-H.**, S. Hossain, and J. Kam* 2025, High-resolution gridded streamflow for Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins in Bangladesh (1951–2023) , Sci. Data, 12, 673. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05014-8
1. Kim, B.-H.**, Y.-O. Kim, and J. Kam*, 2025, Hyper-resolution naturalized streamflow data for Geum River in South Korea (1951–2020), Scientific Data, 12, 210. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04486-y