Department of Geography

Dr. Yuri Kim is a geography educator who focuses on physical geosystems and geospatial analysis methods, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). Students in her classes have diverse interests and career goals—such as nature, society, environmental change, and decision-making in policy and business. Her primary pedagogical research and instructional objectives are to enhance students’ engagement with fast-changing, innovative technologies in GIS and RS and to help them apply these tools to a broad spectrum of research and industry needs.

She developed her expertise in geospatial analysis during her master’s program at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Environmental Studies in South Korea. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral research focused on analyzing past, present, and future water resources in the context of climate and land-cover change impacts in the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal areas of North Carolina, utilizing GIS, RS, and hydrologic modeling as key research tools.

Dr. Kim now teaches classes at various levels, from first-year undergraduates to graduate students. She also mentors students on diverse research projects and has expanded her teaching-related service within the university to include K–12 and higher-level lifelong education in Indiana.