Dr. Ungtae Kim is an ISSE post-doctoral research associate and a research assistant professor in UT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Ungtae Kim currently works on the SERDP (Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program) project with Dr. Jack Parker, a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Before joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Kim was a research associate in the Utah Water Resources Laboratory, where he finished his PhD degree with a dissertation titled “Regional Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources of the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia.” He completed his MS degree at Korea University in 1999, and then worked in the Water Resources Division of the Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT) for four years. Dr. Kim has been a registered professional engineer (PE) of water resources engineering in Korea since 2001. He also served as a military engineer for the Korean Army from 1992 to 1994.
Dr. Kim’s research area covers various aspects of hydrology and water resources, including stochastic and deterministic hydrologic modeling, model evaluation, drought and flood analysis, subsurface hydrology, contaminant transport in groundwater, and climate change impacts on water resources. Dr. Kim has both theoretical and practical sense in solving real world water problems through more than 10 years of experience in the academic, research, and consultation sectors. He is particularly skilled at manipulating large data sets and using advanced computing techniques. He currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Journal of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), and the Journal of Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE).
Education
- Ph.D., Water Resources Engineering, CEE at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2007
- M.S., Water Resources Engineering, CEE at Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 1999
- B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEE at Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 1997
Selected Publications
Al-Juaidi, A.E, Kaluarachchi, J. J., and Kim, U. (2009) Multi-criteria Decision Analysis of Treated Wastewater use for Agriculture in Water Deficit Regions. Journal of American Water Resources Association. Accepted.
Parker, J., Kim, U., Kitanidis, P. K., Cardiff, M., and Liu, X. (2009) Stochastic Cost Optimization of Multi-strategy DNAPL Site Remediation. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. In review.
Cardiff, M., Liu, X., Kitanidis, P. K., Parker, J., and Kim, U. (2009) Cost Optimization of DNAPL Source and Plume Remediation Under Uncertainty Using a Semi-Analytic Model. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. In review.
Kim, U. and Kaluarachchi, J. J. (2009) Hydrologic Model Calibration Using Discontinuous Data: An Example From the Upper Blue Nile River Basin of Ethiopia. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7465.
Kim, U. and Kaluarachchi, J.J. (2009) Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of American Water Resources Association. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2009.00370.x.
Kim, U. and Kaluarachchi, J. J. (2008) Application of Parameter Estimation and Regionalization Methodologies to Ungauged Basins of the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology 362(1-2), 39-56. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.08.016.
Kim, U., Kaluarachchi, J. J., and Smakhtin, V. U. (2008) Generation of Monthly Precipitation Under Climate Change for the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of American Water Resources Association 44(5), 1231-1274. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00220.x.
Yoo, C., Kim, U., Kim, K., and Kim, K. (2008) Inter-station Correlation and Estimation Errors of Areal Average Rain Rate. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 22(2), 143-157.
Kim, U. T., Lee, D. R., and Yoo, C. S. (2004) Effects of Climate Change on the Streamflow for the Daechung Dam Watershed. Journal of Korea Water Resources Association 37(4), 305-314.
Lee, D.R., Kim, U. T., and Yoo, C. S. (2004) Climate Change Impacts on Meteorological Drought and Flood, Journal of Korea Water Resources Association 37(4), 315-328.
Kim, U. T., Yoon, Y. N., Park, M. J., and Yoo, C. S. (2001) A Study on the Estimation of Sediment Yield Based on a Distributed System Concept. Journal of Korea Water Resources Association 34(2), 131-140.
Ungtae Kim
