Department of Geography

Yuri Kim is a scholar and teacher with physical geosystem and geospatial methods, e.g., Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS), and their application to the broad spectrum of research and industry: nature, society, environmental change, decision-making in policy and business, etc. Her primary research mainly focuses on student engagement in innovative technology development and utilizing it in interdisciplinary research. Yuri started to develop expertise in geospatial methods in her master’s program at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. She completed her Ph.D. in geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on the availability of water resources in the past and the future heavily using GIS, RS, and hydrologic modeling.