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Recent Updates in HECL
​Looking for graduate students for M.S. or Ph.D., or postdoctoral fellows! Please contact to yeonjoo.kim at yonsei.ac.kr if you are interested in joining us. It is recommended to have an internship for a minimum of one semester before joining the group for graduate studies. 
석사 및 박사 학위 과정 대학원 등 수문 및 생태기후 연구실에  관심있는 학생들은 yeonjoo.kim at yonsei.ac.kr로 연락 바랍니다. 대학원 진학 전 최소 1학기 인턴 기간이 권장됩니다.
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February 2025
Congratulations to Hocheol and Suyeon for earning their Ph.D.s, and to Heechul for completing his Master’s degree!

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February 2025
Prof. Amir AghaKouchak from UCI, USA, visited the lab for seminars and research collaborations, supported by Yonsei University's AI Water Informatics Program.

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December 2024
​Group members (Prof. Kim, Dr. JH Kim, Jungho, Jaehyeong, Suyeon, Hyunyoung, and JongHyeok) attended the AGU Fall meeting in DC, USA to give a total of eleven presentations.
We also had a lab reunion with Heey Jin, an environmental analyst in International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, DC, USA and Kyeungwoo, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech., USA.

Aug 2024
Prof. Kim and the students in AI & Water Informatics participated in the World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden. ​Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in the lunch seminar at WaterCentre@KTH; we also had a lab reunion with Dr. Panahi, currently in KTH/Stockholm Univ.
July 2024
​Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in the terrestrial water cycle (TWC) Seminar at Hydrological Sciences Laboratory (HSL), NASA/GSFC, DC, USA.
July 2024
​​Prof. Kim attended the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference in Sapporo, Japan, and gave two presentations, including one oral and one poster. 
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June 2024
Group members (Prof. Kim, Dr. Lee and Guhyup) attended the AOGS 2024 in Pyeongchang.

June 2024
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Hyunyoung secured a Ph.D. student grant from the NRF Basic Science Research Program funded by the Ministry of Education. Congratulations!
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​June 2024
A group of colleagues (Prof. Lakshmi at U of Virginia, Prof. Yang at UT Austin, Dr. Bolten at NASA/GSFC, Prof. Cho at TXST, Prof. Kim at GIST, and Dr. Kwon at KIAPS)  got together in Yonsei before heading to AOGS 2024 in Pyeongchang.  

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June 2024
Prof. Dagang Wang at Sun Yat-sen Univ. and his lab visited Yonsei. 

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June 2024
Prof. Dan Li at Boston Univ.  visited the lab for a seminar talk and research discussions. 

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May 2024
Group members (Prof. Kim, Suyeon, and JongHyeok) attended the HydroML 2024 Symposium in Richland, WA, USA, organized by the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL). 

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May 2024
Prof. Yoshihide Wada at KAUST visited the lab for a seminar talk and research discussions.

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May 2024
Group members (Prof. Kim, Hocheol, Jaehyeong, Jungho, Manas, Suyeon, Eva, Hyunyoung, Gyobeom, Heechul, JongHyeok, and Guhyup) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Jeju.​ All of the graduate students gave an oral presentation.

​​Congratulations!  Jaehyeong, JongHyeok and Guhyup won the Best Presentation Award.

March 2024
Hyunyoung won the Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) in AGU Annual Meeting 2023. Congratulations!
February 2024
​Prof. Kim attended the AGU Chapman Conference - Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle, HI, USA., and gave a plenary talk titled Advancing the prediction of water and carbon cycles with artificial intelligence and process-based model.
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December 2023
​Group members (Prof. Kim, Dr. JH Kim, Hocheol, Jungho, Jaehyeong, Suyeon, Hyunyoung, and JongHyeok) attended the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA to give a total of seven presentations. We also had a lab reunion with Kyeungwoo, a Ph.D. student in GIT, GA, USA.

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October 2023
Group members (Prof. Kim, Jaehyeong, Guhyup and Heechul) attended the KSCE 2023 convention in Yeosu.​ ​​Congratulations! Guhyup won the Best Presentation Award.

August 2023
Jaehyeong secured a Ph.D. student grant from the NRF Basic Science Research Program funded by the Ministry of Education. Congratulations!
July 2023
Suyeon secured a travel grant from the NRF International Research and Development Program funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT. She will visit Prof. Shen's lab at PSU for six months. Congratulations!
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May 2023
Group members (Hocheol, Jaehyeong, Manas, Suyeon, Eva, Hyunyoung, JongHyeok, and Guhyup) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Goseong.​

​​Congratulations! Manas and Hyunyoung won the Best Presentation Award.

May 2023
Prof. Kim and Dr. Kim attended HydroML Symposium, held by LBNL in Berkeley, CA, USA.
May 2023
Prof. Sayed Bateni at Univ of Hawaii, USA, visits the lab for three months with support from the Yonsei Frontier Program for Outstanding Scholars.
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April 2023
​Group members presented at the EGU General Assembly 2023 in Vienna, Austria: See the abstracts for the presentations by Dr. JH Kim, Hocheol, Jaehyeong and Suyeon.

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February 2023
Shafqat and Soyoung received the Ph.D. and Master's degrees, respectively. Congratulations!

January 2023
Prof. Kim will serve as an associate editor for Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier) from January 1st, 2023.
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December 2022
Prof. Chaopeng Shen at Penn State Univ, USA, visited the lab for seminars and research collaborations with support from the AI Water Informatics Program of Yonsei Univ.

December 2022
​Group members presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA: See the abstracts for posters by Dr. JH Kim, Dr. Mehboob, Hocheol and Manas.
Oct 2022
Shafqat successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations!
June 2022
Hocheol secured a Ph.D. student grant from the NRF Basic Science Research Program funded by the Ministry of Education. Congratulations!

Together with Dr. Eunjee Lee at NASA/GSFC, we secured a grant from the NRF Brain Pool Program! 
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May 2022
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Dr. JH Kim; Hocheol; Jungho; Jaehyeong; Manas; Suyeon; Haewon; Soyoung; Hyunyoung) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Busan.
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​Congratulations! Suyeon won the Best Presentation Award.

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May 2022
IAHR - KU YPN members (graduate students in Korea Univ. and Prof. Donghwi Jung) visited Yonsei to interact with IAHR - Yonsei YPN (graduate studens in HECLab and Prof. Kim).

March 2022
Hocheol and Kyeungwoo received the CEE Best Paper of the Year and the CEE Excellent Paper of the Year, respectively, awarded by the BK four CEE graduate program. Congratulations!
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February 2022
Haewon and Yeri received the Master's degree in Hydrology.  Congratulations!

January 2022
Shafqat will present at the AMS 102nd Annual Meeting Online: See the poster.
December 2021
Group members presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA, USA, and Online: See the abstracts for talks by Dr. JH Kim and Suyeon and a poster by Hocehol.
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November 2021
Group members (Prof. Kim, Shafqat and Manas) participated in the IWRA's XVII World Water Congress at Daegu. Prof. Kim is a member of Local Organizing Committee, and Shafqat and Manas are a part of the Rapporteur Team of the Young Water Ambassador Program for the congress. 

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November 2021
Our paper, authored by Dr. JH Kim, Prof. Kim and collaborators, was published in Nature Communications!
Here is the link: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26876-7.​

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October 2021
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Hocheol; Jungho) attended the KSCE 2021 Convention in Gwangju. Congratulations! Jungho won the Best Presentation Award.

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June 2021
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Hocheol; Jungho; Jaehyeong; Shafqat; Manas; Suyeon; Haewon; Yeri; Soyoung) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Gwangju.
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​Congratulations! Hocheol won the Best Presentation Award.

December 2020
Heey Jin's Master Thesis was selected as an Excellent Thesis of 2020 from the graduate school of Yonsei Univ. Congratulations!
November 2020
Kyeungwoo gave an oral presentation in 2020 SWGIC in Songdo and won the Best Paper Award! Congratulations!
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August 2020
Group members participate in IAHR Yonsei Young Professionals Network. 

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June 2020
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Dr. JH Kim; Hocheol; Jungho; Jaehyeong; Kyeungwoo; Shafqat; Manas; Suyeon; Haewon; Yeri) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Jeju.
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Congratulations! Kyeungwoo and Shafqat won the Best Presentation Award.

February 2020
Prof. Kim was on a sabbatical leave in Fall 2019 and visited the Parsons Lab, CEE, MIT from the mid July through the end of February, 2020.
February 2020
Heey Jin and Kyeungwoo received the Master's degree in Hydrology.  Congratulations!
January 2020
Group members (Prof. Kim; Kyeungwoo) attended the AMS annual meeting in Boston, MA, USA with presenting 3 posters.
January 2020
Kyeungwoo visited Prof. Dan Li's lab at Boston Univ, MA, USA for 5 weeks and collaborate in studying with WRF/WRF-Hydro.
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December 2019
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Dr. JH Kim; Ho Cheol; Jaehyeong; Heey Jin; Kyeungwoo; Shafqat) attended the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA. See our schedules and abstracts: 4 oral and 2 poster presentations.

August 2019
Prof. Kim attended the AGU Chapman on Understanding Carbon Climate Feedbacks in San Diego, CA with presenting a poster.
June 2019
Drs. Guillet and Lopez-Saez from the C-CIA, led by Prof. Markus Stoffel at UNIGE, Geneva, Swiss, visited the lab for a collaborative research project.
May 2019
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Hocheol; Jaehyeong; Heey Jin; Kyeungwoo; Shafqat) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Yeosu. Hocheol, Jaehyeong and Kyeungwoo gave the oral presentations, and Heey Jin and Shafqat presented in the poster sessions.

​Congratulations! Heey Jin won the Best Presentation Award.
April 2019
Prof. Kim received the Young Faculty Award from the College of Engineering, Yonsei Univ. 
April 2019
Prof. Hans Verbeeck from Ghent University, Belgium visited the lab and gave a seminar about "the impact of lianas on the carbon cycle and demography of tropical forests".
April 2019
Prof. Kim visited the C-CIA, led by Prof. Markus Stoffel at UNIGE, Geneva, Swiss for a collaborative research project on "Toward sustainable drought management: lessons from the multiple historical records".
February 2019
Hocheol and Jaehyeong received the Master's degree in Hydrology.  Congratulations!
February 2019
Hocheol visited Prof. Dietz's lab at Boston Univ, MA, USA for two weeks and learned the ED2-PEcAn. 
February 2019
Kyeungwoo participated in the 2019 NCAR CLM/CTSM Tutorials, CO, USA with a financial support from the NCAR!
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January 2019
Hocheol, a graduate student in HECL, published a paper as the first author in Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), titled with "Interactive impacts of fire and vegetation dynamics on global carbon and water budget using Community Land Model version 4.5". Congratulations! 
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Here is the link: https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/12/457/2019/.

January 2019
​Prof. Kim attended the AMS annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ, USA with presenting a poster in the Inez Fung symposium.
December 2018
​Group members  (Prof. Kim; Dr. JH Kim; Hocheol; Jaehyeong; Kyeungwoo; Kyungmin) attended the AGU Fall meeting in Washington DC, USA to give total 6 poster presentations. We also have a lab reunion with Heey Jin, currently on leave from the lab to work as a consultant at World Bank in DC.
November 2018
Jeongbin's Master Thesis was selected as an Excellent Thesis of 2018 from the graduate school of Yonsei Univ. Congratulations!
October 2018
Prof. Kim participated in the annual conference of Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society (CHES) at Nanchang, China and was appointed as a guest professor of Nanching Intstitute of Technology (NIT).
August 2018
Jeongbin received his Master's degree in Hydrology.  Congratulations!
May 2018
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Jeongbin; Hocheol; Jaehyeong; Kyeungwoo; Shafqat; Hyunjoo; Sang Hyeon) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Kyungju. Jeongbin and Ho Cheol made the presentations in the Student Competition, and Jaehyeong, Kyeungwoo, Sang Hyeon and Hyunjoo in the Poster sessions.

Congratulations! Kyeungwoo won the Best Presentation Award.
January 2018
Prof. Kim participated in the ED2 meeting at the Univ of Notre Dame and gave a talk in the ESGP seminar series at the Ohio State Univ, USA.
January 2018
​Heey Jin is on leave for 6 months to work as an intern in the World Bank, DC, USA with the support by the Ministry of Environment!
December 2017
​Group members  (Prof. Kim; Jeong Bin; Ho Cheol; Jaehyeong and Heey Jin) attended the AGU Fall meeting and gave total 4 presentations in New Orleans, LA, USA.
October 2017
Jaehyeoung participated in the WRF-Hydro Training Workshop by the NCAR, CO, USA.
October 2017
Prof. Kim visited NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, NY, USA to work on the Ent TBM collaboratively with Dr. Kiang and to give a seminar presentation about our recent arctic study with the CLM.
September 2017
Dr. Wang presented our recent research work in iLEAPS 2017 meeting in Oxford, UK. The presentation is titled with "The arctic greening and its influence on the permafrost with the CLM". 
August 2017
Ho Choel participated in the 2017 NCAR CESM Tutorials, CO, USA with the financial support from the NCAR!
June 2017
Prof. David Yu at Purdue Univ visited us to give a seminar about the resilience of coupled human-water systems.
May 2017
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Hyesun; Jeongbin; Ho Cheol; Jaehyeong; Heey Jin) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Changwon. Ho Cheol and Hyesun made the presentations in the Student Competition and the Poster sessions, respectively.

​Congratulations! Hyesun won the Best Presentation Award.
April 2017
Prof. Jong-Seong Kug at Postech visited us to give a seminar about the climate change and climate feedbacks.
March 2017
Dr. Jihyun Kim at Indiana Univ visited us to give a seminar about the hydrologic impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid outbreak in New England, USA.
December 2016
​Group members  (Prof. Kim; Jeong Bin) attended the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA.
December 2016
​The joint workshop between the Univ of Hong Kong (HKU) and Yonsei Univ in the area of water resources has been held; Profs. Lam, Chen and Chui from HKU visited us and gave seminar lectures. 
August 2016
​Group members  (Dr. Um; Ji Hee; Jeong Bin) attended the AOGS annual meeting in Bejing, China.
May 2016
Group members  (Prof. Kim; Ji Hee; Hyesun; Jeong Bin; Hocheol) attended the KWRA annual meeting in Daejeon.

Congratulations! Jeong Bin and Hyesun won the Best Presentation Awards in the Student Competition and the Poster sessions, respectively.
December 2015
​Group members  (Prof. Kim; Dr. Um; Jeong Bin;  Mi So) attended the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA.
December 2015
Prof. Kim visited the Water GP of the World Bank, DC, USA and gave a short talk about the completed collaborative project of water use indicators.
October 2015
​Prof. Vladan Babovic from National Univ of Singapore (NUS)  visited our lab and gave a seminar.
June 2015
​Prof. Kim gave an oral presentation at EWRA in Istanbul, Turkey.
March 2015 
Jeong Bin & Joo Hyung  joined the lab as undergraduate interns, and Hyesun as  a researcher.  Welcome to join the lab!
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