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 (potential triggers and growth and decay patterns) during emerging water-related disasters.
If you are interested in these research topics, please contact me (jhkam@postech.ac.kr)
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NEWS:
6/23/2025:
Dayeon (Kookmin University) and Joohun (POSTECH) participate in the POSTECH DESE Summer Internship Program as our research group's research assistant over the next four weeks.
Welcome onboard, Dayeon and Joohun!
5/23/2025:
Anqi, Eunmi and Icha received outstanding presentation awards at the 2025 Korea Water Resources Association Annual Meeting in Yeosu. Anqi presented her recent work on AI-based emotional analysis of water pollution complaints in the U.S. state of Alabama. Eunmi presented her recent work on water saving patterns during the 2022-23 Southwest Korea Drought. Icha presented a poster about the reconstruction of long-term streamflow in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Big Congrats to Anqi, Eunmi and Icha!
5/1/2025:
Eunmi's work on Explainable AI-based Risk Assessment of Pluvial Floods over South Korea is accepted in Journal of Environmental Management. This study was conducted through a collaboration of Prof. Young-Hun You at Kyungpook National University.
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
Seunghui is selected to receive a financial support for her five-month visit to the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden (Host faculty: Prof. Giuliano Di Baldassarre) through the Sweden Korea Education, Research, Innovation Collaaboration (SKERIC). The financial support covers travel costs and insurance, and monthly subsitence allowance. She will work on sociohydrological modeling duringt her visti.
Seunghui and I deeply appreciate this generous support.
Big Congrats to Seughui!
4/15/2025:
Dr Kim's work on streamflow reconstruction and hydrologic forecasting for Bangladesh is accepted in Scientific Data. This reconstructed data is at 10-km resoltuion over the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins in Bangladesh (1951-2023). The reconstructed streamflow and hydrologic forecasts are generated by the VIC-River Routing model simulations foreced by the ERA5 Land reanalysis and S2S forecast data.
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
This study was an outcome of collaboration with Dr. Sazzad Hossain at the Bangladesh Water Development Board.
Big Congrats to Dr. Kim!
3/20/2025:
Dr. Kam is a recipient of a certipicate of commendation from the Korean Meteorological Administration's president on the World Meteorological Day.
3/4/2025:
Mr. Guibin Yang visits our research group from the Spring semester of 2025 through the Summer break of 2025. He is a Ph.D. student from Xi'an University of Technology under the advisorship of Prof. Jianxia Chang. He is expected to work on the Global Flash Drought Assessment during his visit.
HSSC encourages the submission of interdisciplinary perspectives where there is a clear relevance to the advancement of the humanities, or behavioural or social sciences. This includes research arising in, or informed by, the physical, life, clinical and environmental sciences, for instance: medical humanities, digital humanities, environmental sociology, and complex network studies.
Please consider submitting it to HSSC if you believe that your manuscript contributes to literature in the field of humanities and social sciences from the interdisciplinary perspective.
1/20/2025:
Junha joins our research group as an undergraduate intern during this winter break. Welcome onboard!
1/17/2025:
Dr Kim's work on hyper-resolution streamflow reconstruction for Geum River is accepted in Scientific Data. This reconstructed data is at 90-meter resoltuion and its temporal coverage is from 1951 through 2020. This hyper-resolution streamflow data is generated by the dynmaical downscaling via the VIC-River Routing model.
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 (accepted). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04486-y
Please watch animation of our daily river streamflow data over Geum River Basin in 2003. <click>
Big Congrats to Dr. Kim!
1/6/2025:
Sungmin joins our research group as an undergraduate intern during this winter break. Welcome onboard!
01/01/2025:
Happy New Year!
2024 is another productive year for our group. Five refereed articles are published in 2024. The list of the artilces are below (bold: student/postdoc first author). Two journals are published in top 3% journals in water resources research and three journals are published in top 10% journals in their field. I appreciate our group members' hard work. More publications are forthcoming in 2025! Wish the best to all my research group members and alumni.
2. Lee, K.-H. and J. Kam*, 2024, Spatiotemporal patterns of water volume and total organic carbon concentration of agricultural reservoirs over South Korea, Water Res., 256, 121610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121610
4. Kam, J.*, S.-K. Min, B.-H. Kim, Y.-H. Kim, L. B. Diaz, J.-S. Kug, R. Park, 2024, Climate Models Indicate Compensating Effects between Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols on the 2022 Central Andes Spring Drought, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, E825–E831. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0241.1
5. Choi, S., K.-H. Lee, J.-H. Park, S. Jeon, H. J. Lee, P.-G. Kang*, J. Kam*, 2024, Reliable AI models can reveal key processes of heat recovery steam generator operation in air pollutant emission, J. Clean. Prod., 438, 140806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140806