Soo Hyun Kim
Department of Botany
University of Wisconsin
430 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1381
Office: 349 Birge Hall
Email: skim448@wisc.edu
Educational Background
BS Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
MS Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
MA with Honors Geology Track in Museum Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Research Interests
Vegetation history of paleomonsoon climatic systems.
Current Projects
Reconstructing the history of Asian dust flux and its biogeochemical impacts on old-soil montane rainforests in Kauai, Hawaii during the Quaternary with a focus on 1) analyzing how Asian dust production and Hawaiian precipitation have affected the rate of dust accumulation and/or phosphorous (P) balance in the Hawaiian forest ecosystems and 2) understanding how changes in P balance have influenced the Hawaiian forests over the Quaternary.
