Alumni of the Year Award Presented to Dr. Jhoon Kim
Dr. Jhoon Kim has been selected as the Alumni of the Year at the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space.
The 2024 Alumni of the Year Award for the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering will be presented to Dr. Jhoon Kim, who now works as a professor of atmospheric science at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He will be honored during a seminar presentation and reception at the Climate and Space Research Building in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Thursday, September 12, 2024.
Professor Kim is a Fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and the Lee Youn Jae Fellow Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Yonsei University in Seoul. He is a P.I. of the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS), the first instrument for air quality monitoring from GEO at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. He developed sophisticated aerosol algorithm for GOCI, AHI, AGRI, and AMI, with machine learning and data fusion for better accuracy and coverage based on big data science. He has worked on the remote sensing algorithm development of aerosol and trace gases to monitor their regional distribution. He has also worked on CO2 remote sensing using GOSAT and OCO series.
Kim earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Space Sciences (now U-M Climate and Space) in 1991 at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, after earning an M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Michigan College of Engineering in 1987. He earned his B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences at the College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul National University in 1986.
He is a member of the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS) AC-VC, through which he has worked to establish coordinated global observation of air quality using GEO constellation. He is also a member of International Radiation Commission (IRC), WMO GURME Science Advisory Group (SAG), and WHO Global Platform for Air Quality and Health. He serves a guest editor for the Atmospheric Measurement Technique and Environmental Research Letter. He is also a member of the Science and Technology Committee and the National Council on Climate and Air Quality (NCCA) of Korea.
Dr. Kim will present in the CLASP Seminar Series with a talk beginning at 3:30pm Eastern on Thursday, Sept. 12, in the CSRB Auditorium (Room 2246.) The event will also include an award presentation and a reception in the 2nd Floor Lounge at 4:30pm. Remote viewing options will also be available.