Curriculum Vitae Jonghun Kam - Terrestrial Hydrology Research

Curriculum Vitae
Jonghun Kam
[email protected]
[email protected]
hydrology.princeton.edu/~jkam/
E306 Engineering Quad
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 937-5403
Education
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dissertation: A Multi Scale Study for Droughts: Origins, Mechanisms, and Uncertainties
M.A., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expected
2015
2012
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.S.E., with honors, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2010
Research Interests
Global Hydrology
Climate Variability and Change
Hydroclimate Extremes
Drought Mechanisms
Risk Assessment
Honors and Awards
1st Place Student Poster Presentation Award, 27th Conference on
Hydrology at the 93rd AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
2013
Student Travel Grant Award, 27th Conference on Hydrology at the 93rd
AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
2012
Gerrit H. Toebes Memorial Award, Purdue University
- recognize scholarship and/or leadership in an undergraduate or graduate
2010
student(s) studying in hydraulics/hydrology.
R.D. and M.J. Miles Civil Engineering Scholarship, Purdue University
2008
H.K. "Tony" Clark Award, Purdue University
2007
Professional Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, NJ
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Purdue University, IN
Undergraduate Research Intern, Ecological Modeling Lab,
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, MD
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2010 - present
2007-2010
2009
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Teaching Experience
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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Assistant Instructor for Stochastic Hydrology
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two lectures about Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) analysis
prepared the lecture notes, the assignments, and the solutions
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Guest Lecturer for Risk Assessment
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one lecture about the influence of tropical cyclones on drought
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Publications
(Bold: first author; Bold&Italic: coauthor)
In Preparation:
8. Kam, J. and J. Sheffield, Lowflows over the eastern U.S.: Variability, Trends, and
Attributions (1962-2011)
Under Review/Revision:
7. Getirana, A., E. Dutra, M. Guimberteau, J. Kam, H.-Y. Li, B. Decharme, Z. Zhang, A.
Ducharne, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, M. Rodell, A. M. Toure, Y. Xue, G. Drapeau, K.
Arsenault, S. Kumar, L. R. Leung, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Ronchail, J. Sheffield, Water
balance in the Amazon basin from a land surface model ensemble. J. Hydrometeor. (minor
revision)
Referred Papers:
6. Kam, J., J. Sheffield, and E. F. Wood, 2014, Changes in drought risk over the contiguous
United States (1901-2012): The influence of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Geophys.
Res. Lett., doi: 10.1002/2014GL060973, in press.
5. Kam, J., J. Sheffield, and E. F. Wood, 2014, A multi-scale analysis of drought and pluvial
mechanisms for the southeastern United States, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 7348-7367,
doi:10.1002/2014JD021453.
4. Kam, J., J. Sheffield, X. Yuan, and E. F. Wood, 2014, Did a skillful prediction of sea
surface temperatures help or hinder in forecasting the 2012 Midwestern summer
drought?, Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 034005, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/034005.
3. Yuan, X., E. F. Wood, N. W. Chaney, J. Sheffield, J. Kam, M. Liang, and K. Guan, 2013,
Probabilistic seasonal forecasting of african drought by dynamical models, J.
Hydrometeor., 14, 1706-1720, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-13-054.1.
2. Kam, J., J. Sheffield, X. Yuan, and E. F. Wood, 2012, The influence of Atlantic tropical
cyclones on drought over the eastern US (1980-2007), J. Clim., 26, 3067- 3086,
doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00244.1.
1. Kumar, S., V. Merwade, J. Kam and K. Thurner, 2009, Streamflow trends in Indiana:
effects of long term persistence, precipitation and subsurface drains, J. Hydrol., 374,
171–183, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.012.
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Selected Presentations & Posters
The influence of sea surface temperatures on seasonal
drought over the Conterminous United States
(1901-2012): A Bayesian approach (Oral)
AMS Annual Meeting
Atlanta, GA
2014
Did a skilful prediction of ENSO help or hinder
forecasting the 2012 Midwestern Drought? (Oral)
AGU Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA
2013
An integrative analysis of drought in the southeastern
United States (1st Place Student Poster Award)
AMS Annual Meeting
Austin, TX
2013
The influence of Atlantic tropical cyclones on drought
over the eastern U.S. (1980-2007) (Poster)
AGU Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA
2012
Professional Registrations
Indiana EI #ET31011807
Professional Memberships & Activities
American Geophysical Union (since 2009)
American Meteorology Society (since 2009)
Reviewer for Geophysical Research Letters (1) and Natural Hazards (1)
Computational Skills
NCL, GRADS, ENVI, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, ArcGIS, R, ERDAS, Matlab7.3, AutoCAD,
MathCAD, Visual Basic, UNIX, Fortran, and C programming.
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