Yorum Hwang

Yorum Hwang [CV]

Department of Earth and Environment

Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

Email: yorum@bu.edu

      yorum.hwang@gmail.com

Employment 

▪2023     Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.  (Advisor: Dr. Lucy Hutyra)

Education

▪2023     Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Youngryel Ryu)

▪2016        MS Department of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Youngryel Ryu)

▪2013      BS Department of Landscape Architecture, Donga University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Yeongjo Kang)

Publications

[7] Wan, L., Ryu, Y.*, Dechant, B., Hwang, Y., Feng, H., Kang, Y., Jeong, S., Lee, J., Choi, C., Bae, J. (2024) Correcting confounding canopy structure, biochemistry and soil background effects improves leaf area index estimates across diverse ecosystems from Sentinel-2 imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 309, 114224 [HTML] 

[6] Hwang, Y., Kim, J., Ryu, Y. (2023). Canopy structural changes explain reductions in canopy-level solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence in Prunus yedoensis seedlings under a drought stress condition. Remote Sensing of Environment, 296, 113733 [HTML]

[5] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.*, Qu, S. (2022). Expanding vegetated areas by human activities and strengthening vegetation growth concurrently explain the greening of Seoul. Landscape and Urban Planning. 227, 104518 [HTML]

[4] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.*, Huang, Y., Kim, J., Iwata, H., Kang, M.* (2020) Comprehensive assessments of carbon dynamics in an intermittently-irrigated rice paddy. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 285-286, 107933  [HTML]

[3] Kim, J., Ryu, Y., Jiang, C., Hwang, Y. (2019) Continuous observation of vegetation canopy dynamics using an integrated low-cost, near-surface remote sensing system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 264, 164-177 [HTML]

[2] Yang, K., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Berry, J.A., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., Kang, M., Kim, J., Kimm, H., Kornfeld, A., Yang, X. (2018). Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 216, 658-673  [HTML]

[1] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kimm, H., Jiang, C., Lang, M., Macfarlane, C., Sonnentag, O. (2016) Correction for light scattering combined with sub-pixel classification improves estimation of gap fraction from digital cover photography. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 222, 32-44 [HTML]

Presentations 

[18 ] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.,  Qu, S. (December, 2021). Expansion of the vegetated areas by human activities and vegetation growth simultaneously explain the greening of Seoul, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, USA.

[17]  Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.,  Qu, S. (June, 2021). Greenspace expansion by human activities explains the greening of Seoul, Oral Section, The Korean Society of Climate Change Research (KSCC),  Seoul, South Korea.  

[16] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Qu, S. (December, 2020). Spatial and temporal variations of quantity and quality in greenspace in Seoul over 1987-2017, Oral Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[15]  Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y. (June, 2020). Effects of pruning on aboveground carbon stocks using terrestrial LiDAR, Oral Section, The Korean Society of Climate Change Research (KSCC),  Seoul, South Korea.  

[14] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y. (December, 2019). Monitoring seasonal variation of individual tree structures in an urban park using terrestrial laser scanning, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[13] Ryu, Y.,Hwang, Y., Choi, W., Kim, J., Bae, J., Kim, Y., Shin, J., Kim, J., Kim, M., Park, J. (December, 2019).  UrbanSpec: an integrated experiment to monitor individual tree structure and functions at a city scale, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[12] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kang, M., Huang, Y. (April, 2019). Quantifying CO2 and CH4 fluxes over an intermittently-irrigated rice paddy, Poster Section, European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria

[11] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kang, M. (October, 2018). Quantifying CO2, H2O, and CH4 fluxes over an intermittently- irrigated rice, Poster Section, International Potsdam Greenhouse Gas Workshop (GHG), Nanjing, China

[10] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kim, J. (December, 2017). Quantifying seasonal variation of leaf area index using near-infrared digital camera in a rice paddy, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, USA.

[9] Kim, J., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., Ryu, Y. (September 2016). Monitoring LAI, fPAR and NDVI using a Smart Surface Sensing System (4S), Poster Section, International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering (ICLEE), Seoul, Korea

[8] Huang, Y., Ryu, Y., Jiang, C., Hwang, Y., Kang, M., Kim, J. (December 2016). Developing And Evaluating A Satellite Derived Rice Growth And Yield Estimation Model, Bess-Rice, International Workshop on Agromet and GIS Applications, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Jeju, Korea.

[7] Ryu, Y., Jiang, C., Huang, Y., Kim, J., Hwang, Y., Kimm, H., Kim, S. (December, 2016). Remote sensing of a coupled carbon-water-energy-radiation balances from the Globe to plot scales, Oral Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[6] Kim, J., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., Ryu, Y. (December 2016). Automatic monitoring of ecosystem structure and functions using integrated low-cost near surface sensors Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[5] Huang, Y., Ryu, Y., Jiang, C., Hwang, Y. (December 2016). BESS-Rice: A Remote Sensing Derived And Biophysical Process Based Rice Growth And Yield Estimation Model, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[4] Yang, K., Ryu, Y., Kimm, H., Huang, Y., Jiang, C., Hwang, Y., Kim, J., Kang, M. (December 2016). How Well Does SiF Track Temporal Variations of Canopy Photosynthesis in A Rice Paddy, Oral Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[3] Kim, J., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., Ryu, Y. (September 2016). Monitoring LAI, fPAR and NDVI using a Smart Surface Sensing System (4S), Poster Section, Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS), Helsinki, Finland.

[2] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kimm, H., Macfarlane, C., Lang, M. and Sonnentag, O. (December, 2015). On the accurate estimation of gap fraction during daytime with digital cover photography, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.

[1] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kimm, H., Macfarlane, C., Lang, M. and Sonnentag, O. (December, 2014). How to reduce day-to-day variation of leaf area index derived from digital cover photography?, Poster Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA.