ABOUT ME
My research focuses on the application of geospatial methods to understand fundamental ecological and environmental processes that regulate biodiversity, species distribution, and abundances. I have a strong academic background in both forest ecology and quantitative methods in geography, with continuing interest in developing innovative methodological research using computational geospatial analysis in open source platforms (Python and R). Grounded in the theoretical framework of biogeography, my work primarily deals with the development of spatially explicit models for enriching our understanding of forest community patterns and responses to changing environments (natural and anthropogenic) in the multi-scale contexts (spatial and temporal) of landscapes.
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Research gate:
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biogeography
Forest carbon cycle, Species Migration, NPP, GPP
2012
The State University of New York at Buffalo
PhD, Department of Geography
Geographic Information System
Application of GIS and Remote Sensing
Python scripting
Species Distribution Models (SDMs)
MaxEnt, ENFA, GNESFA, GLM
National Forest Inventory
RDBMS, R
2004
Seoul National University
MS, Environmental Studies
2001
Korea University
B.S. Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciencee