Yongwon Kim Research Assistant Professor phone: 907-474-2674 email: kimywiarc.uaf.edu office: Akasofu 207 D International Arctic Research Center 930 Koyukuk Drive P.O. Box 757340 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

IARC Programs

Biology/Chemistry Aspects in Arctic Climate

Education

Ph.D., Geochemistry/Atmospheric Chemistry, Hokkaido University
M.S., Chemical Oceanography, National Fisheries University of Busan
B.E., Environmental Engineering, National Fisheries University of Busan

Research Interests

• Carbon and nitrogen cycling and budgets in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems based on the field-flux measurements of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O and the remote sensing
• Chemical characteristics of permafrost at Central Alaska (pingo and ice wedge)
• Effect of black carbon from wildfire to Arctic sea ice

IARC Publications

published or accepted, refereed publications and books

• Kushida, K., Y. Kim, S. Tsuyuzaki, M. Fukuda (2009), Spectral vegetation induces for estimating shrub cover, green phytromass and leaf turnover in a sedge-shrub tundra, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(6), 1651-1658.
• Shuhua, Y., A.D. McGuire, J.W. Harden, E.S. Kasischke, K. Manies, L. Hinzman, A. Liljedahl, J. Randerson, H. Liu, V.E. Romanovsky, S.S. Marchenko, Y. Kim (2009), Interactions between soil thermal and hydrological dynamics in the response of Alaska ecosystems to fire disturbance, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, G02015, doi:10.1029/2008JG000841.
• Ueyama, M., Y. Harazono, Y. Kim, N. Tanaka (2008), Response of the carbon cycle in sub-arctic black spruce forest to climte change:Reduction of a carbon sink related to the sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology.
• Kim, Y., M. Ueyama, F. Nakagawa, U. Tsunogai, Y. Harazono, N. Tanaka (2007), Assessment of winter fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in boreal forest soils of central Alaska estimated by the profile method and the chamber method: a diagnosis of methane emission and implications for the regional carbon buget, Tellus B, 59(2), 223-233, doi:10.1111/j1600-0889.2006.00233.x.
• Kimura, S., Hiroshi Enomoto, R. Toshiro, Y. Kim, Y. Saitoh (2006), Detection of Alaska melting snow using AMSR-E microwave remote sensing, Japanese Society of Snow and Ice, 25, 36-39.
• Kim, Y., H. Hatsushika, R. Muskett, K. Yamazaki (2005), Possible effect of boreal wildfire soot on Arctic sea ice and Alaska glaciers, Atmospheric Environment, 39(19), 3513-3520, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.02.050.
• Kushida, K., Y. Kim, N. Tanaka, M. Fukuda (2004), Remote sensing of net ecosystem productivity based on component spectrum and soil respiration obeservation in boreal forest, interior Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(D0), 6108, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003858.
• Kim, Y., H. Yang (2004), Scavenging of Th-234 and Po-210 in Surface Water of Jinhae Bay, Korea during Red Tide, Geochemical Journal, 20(6), 505-513.
• Kim, Y., N. Tanaka (2003), Effect of forest fire on the fluxes of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O in boreal forest soils, interior Alaska., Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D1), 8154, doi:10.1029/2001JD000663.
• Kim, Y., N. Tanaka (2002), Winter N₂O Emission Rate and Its Production Rate in Soil Underlying the Snowpack in a Sub-Boreal Region, Japan., Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmosphere), 107(D19), 4406, doi:10.1029/2001JD000833.
• Hiriaki, H., K. Yamazaki, Y. Kim (2001), Long-range transport of gaseous and particulate materials by forest fire, Toku Geophysical Journal, 36(2), 233-237.

Other Selected Publications

• Kazuhisa Chikita, Tomoyuki Wada, isao Kudo, Daisaku Kido, Yu-Ichi Narita, and Yongwon Kim. 2007. Modelling discharge, water chemistry and sediment lads form a subarctic river basin: the Tanana River, Alaska. In: Water Quality and Sediment Behavior of the Future : Predictions for the 21st Century. IAHS Publ. 314.