contact: hglim@kiost.ac.kr

Biography

I am working on Korea Institution of Ocean Science and Technology as a Excellent Senior Research Scientist. I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Integrative Oceanography Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography working with Prof. Colleen Petrik. Research topic is to investigate predictability and prediction skills of Fisheries Size and Functional Type model (FEISTY) forced by CESM-FOSI and CESM-DPLE simulations. I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and CIMES at Princeton University working with Dr. John P. Dunne and Dr. Charles A. Stock in Biogeochemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Ecosystems Division. Research topic was to investigate interaction and predictability of climate and marine ecosystem in satellite ocean color, reanalysis and GFDL Earth system model. I completed PhD (Climate Dynamics) in POSTECH, South Korea (Supervisor: Prof. Jong-Seong Kug). I completed MS (Environmental Marine Science) in Hanyang University, South Korea (Supervisor: Prof. Sang-Wook Yeh). I completed BS (Environmental Marine Science) in Hanyang University, South Korea.

Professional Appointment

• Assistant Professor, 2025-present : University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, South Korea

• Excellent Senior Research Scientist (우수과학자), 2023-present : Korea Institution of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Busan, South Korea

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2022-2023: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, CA, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2019-2022: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) program, Princeton University, NJ, USA 

• Visiting Scientist, 2019-2022: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NJ, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2019: Environmental Research Lab, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea

• Research Scientist, 2014- 2015: Environmental Research Lab, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea

• Research Scientist, 2013- 2014: Ocean Circulation·Climate Research, Korea Institution of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), South Korea

Education

• Ph.D., 2019: Division of Environmental Science and Technology, POSTECH, South Korea

• M. S., 2013: Environmental Marine Science, Hanyang University, South Korea

• B. S., 2011: Environmental Marine Science, Hanyang University, South Korea

Award

• K-ECOP팀 공로상 (우수 지도 부문), 제3회 해양수산 과학기술 빅데이터 경진대회 (2023), 한국해양학회 / 해양수산과학기술진흥원 

• Award for excellent senior research scientist funding from KIOST 2023-2025 

• Award for best oral presentation of PICES annual meeting 2022 "Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in global ocean color"

• Award for best poster presentation of PICES annual meeting 2022 "Oceanic and Atmospheric Drivers of Post-El-Nino Chlorophyll Rebound in the Equatorial Pacific"

• Travel award from US-NSF: PICES Annual meeting in Busan: Sustainability of Marince Ecosystems (2022)

• Award for Best PhD Dissertation from the Korean Society of Oceanography (2020)

• Award for Globally Outstanding Student from Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (2018) Interview link (Korean) 

• Travel award from Hyundai: AGU, Ocean Science Meeting in Portland (2018)

• Award for Globally Outstanding Student from Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (2017) Interview link (Korean) 

• Travel award from KIOST: PICES/ICES, Early Career Scientist Conference in Busan, South Korea (2017)

• Travel award from Hyundai: Fourth International Conference on Earth System Modelling in MPI, Hamburg, Germany (2017)

• Travel award from KMI: Interdisciplinary Antarctic program by Gateway Antarctica and the Korea Maritime Institute at University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2016)

• Travel award from KIOST: IMBER, ClimEco5 in Natal, Brazil (2016)

• Travel award from Hyundai: AGU, Fall meeting in San Francisco, USA (2016)

• Travel award from KIOST: PICES, annual meeting in Qingdao, China (2015)

Research Funding

• 우수신진연구자 지원 주요사업: 지구시스템모형의 해양순환-해양생태계 변동 및 예측성 검증 연구, 한국해양과학기술원(KIOST), 2023-2025 (360M KRW Total) - 한국해양과학기술원 KIOST 연구 탐구 인터뷰 

• Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOS) Program funding from Princeton University 2019-2022 (188K USD Total)

• 현대자동차 정몽구재단 이공계 대학원 지구과학 (해양학 부문) 박사학위 장학생 (2015-2019): 등록금 및 국제학술대회 지원; Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (PhD degree tuitions 4 year + International travel) Link  

• KOPRI Polar Academic Program 2015-2017 (200M KRW Total)

Conference Proceeding

• PICES annual meeting (2023) : Potential predictability of environmental drivers in Community Earth System Model Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble for a fisheries size and functional type model

• PICES annual meeting (2022) : Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in global ocean color, Oceanic and atmospheric drivers of the post-El-Niño chlorophyll rebound in the equatorial Pacific

• WHOI / Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry summer workshop (2022) : Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in global ocean color

• US-CLIVAR workshop at WHOI (2022): Daily to Decadal Ecological Forecasting along North American Coastlines, Oceanic and atmospheric drivers of the post-El-Niño chlorophyll rebound in the equatorial Pacific 

• AGU-OSM (2022), Oceanic and atmospheric drivers of the post-El-Niño chlorophyll rebound in the equatorial Pacific, "15-min video"

• AGU, Fall meeting (2021), Oceanic and atmospheric drivers of the post-El-Niño chlorophyll rebound in the equatorial Pacific

• AGU, Ocean Science Meeting (2020), Seasonal dependency of Arctic marine phytoplankton response under greenhouse warming in CMIP5 earth system models

• KOPRI Symposium (May/2019), Impact of nonlinear rectification of interannual chlorophyll variability in ​present-day and future Arctic climate ​

• IMBeR Open Science conference (2019), Effect of the anthropogenic nitrogen on Arctic amplification in present and future climate

• AGU, Ocean Science Meeting (2018), Role of spring and summer phytoplankton to Arctic amplification

• Asian Conference on Meteorology (2017), Role of spring and summer phytoplankton under greenhouse warming to Arctic amplification by biophysical feedback in Earth System Model

• Fourth International Conference on Earth System Modelling (2017), Role of spring and summer phytoplankton to Arctic amplification

• PICES/ICES, Early Career Scientist Conference (2017), Bio-optical effect of chlorophyll interannual variation to Arctic sea-ice using GFDL Earth System Model

• AGU, Fall meeting (2016), Bio-optical effect of chlorophyll interannual variation to Arctic sea-ice using GFDL Earth System Model 

• IMBER, ClimEco5 (2016), Effect of Chlorophyll bias on tropical Pacific SST mean states with bio-geophysical feedback 

• PICES, annual meeting (2015), Impact of the chlorophyll bias on tropical mean states with bio-geophysical feedback 

• EGU, General Assembly (2012), Volcanic effect on the tropical sea surface temperature in a millennium coupled model simulation 

Invited Talk

• Pukyung National University (PKNU) (Dec/2023), 지구시스템 모델 연구 동향,인공위성 관측 및 지구시스템 모델 기반 해양기후-식물플랑크톤 변동 연구

• 환경공학부 산학연 환경 융합기술 강연, POSTECH (PKNU) (Nov/2023), 지구시스템 모델 연구 동향

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) (July/2023), 인공위성 관측 및 지구시스템 모델 기반 해양기후-식물플랑크톤 변동 연구

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) (April/2023), 해양-대기 요소들의 해양생태계 예측성 기여 연구 "Oceanic and Atmospheric Drivers of Marine EcosystemPredictability"

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) (Dec/2022), Oceanic and Atmospheric Drivers of Marine Ecosystem Predictability

• Cice2Cloud workshop at SOLAS meeting (Sep/2022), Polar climate and marine ecosystem interaction and feedback in the present-day and future climates

• POSTECH (Sep/2022), Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in satellite ocean color

• Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) (Sep/2022), Marine Ecosystem variability with climate

• Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) (Sep/2022), Marine Ecosystem variability with climate

• University of Bern (Oct/2021), Marine phytoplankton variability with climate

• Jeonbuk National University (Sep/2021), Impact of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Flux on Arctic warming

• Jeonbuk National University (Aug/2021), Marine phytoplankton variability with climate

• POSTECH (Aug/2021), Marine phytoplankton variability with climate

• Pusan National University (May/2021), Ocean climate modeling: Arctic ocean and marine ecosystem

• NOAA-GFDL Lunchtime seminar (Mar/2021), Impact of Major Climate Modes on Total Chlorophyll Variability and ENSO-chlorophyll interaction in GFDL-ESM4.1

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) (Feb/2021), Research on Marine Ecosystem modeling

• Korea Maritime & Ocean University (Jan/2021), Marine physical and bio-geochemical interaction and feedback process

• The Korean Society of Oceanography (Oct/2020), Climate feedback of bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic

• NOAA-GFDL B-division seminar (Aug/2020), The role of atmospheric iron coupling in ENSO-related chlorophyll evolution in ESM4.1

• National Institute of Meteorological Sciences (NIMS)-WMO/S2S workshop (Nov/2019), Seasonal dependency of marine phytoplankton and its climate feedback in tropical Pacific and Arctic Ocean

• Princeton University, AOS program, Sarmiento Group seminar (Oct/2019), Climate Feedback of bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic

• Jeonbuk National University (Apr/2019), Arctic climate change and related marine ecosystem responses

• University of Bergen (Mar/2019), Climate feedback of ​bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic​

• Hanyang University (Mar/2019), Climate feedback of bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) (Mar/2019) Climate feedback of ​bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic​

• Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) (Jan/2019), Impact of marine phytoplankton on tropical Pacific and Arctic climate using GFDL CM2.1

• Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) (Jan/2019), Climate Feedback of bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) (Dec/2018), Climate feedback of biogeochemical processes

• Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) (Dec/2018), Climate feedback of bio-geochemical processes in the Arctic​

• Graduate Student Seminar at POSTECH (Apr/2018), Climate Feedback of biogeochemical processes in the Arctic

Skill

• Skills: GFDL-ESM4-COBALT, GFDL-CM2.1-TOPAZ, statistical analysis for climate dynamics

• Languages: English (Fluent), Korean (Native)

Activity

• Organizing Committee at International conference of IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025, BACO-25

• Science Organizing Committee at International Workshop “Mid-latitude Atmosphere-Ocean-Ecosystem Interactions: Processes, Predictability, and Habitability” hosted by “Habitable Japan” Project (2025)

• Members of the Advisory Panel: United Nations Decade of Ocean Science, PICES (2024-present)

• Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) in South Korea node, UN decade (2022-present)

• As an associate member (ECS) in SCOR-Working Group 163 for Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (Cice2Clouds) "5-min intro video" (2022-present)

• University of California, The Union of Postdocs and Academic Researchers (2022-2023)

• Associated Editor in Korean Atmospheric Scientists at America (KASA) serving 2 years (2021-2023) 

• Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community learning groups focused on Machine Learning method (2021)

• 북극 온난화의 지표, 해빙, 과학동아 2018년 11호 (link, pdf)

• Atmospheric radiosonde observation in Central Arctic Ocean by Research Vessel “ARAON” in KOPRI (2018; 3 weeks)

• Interdisciplinary Antarctic program by Gateway Antarctica and the Korea Maritime Institute at University of Canterbury (2016)

• IMBER, ClimEco5 summer school by Towards more resilient oceans: Predicting and projecting future changes in the ocean and their impacts on human societies (2016)

• Scientific Membership: AGU, EGU, IMBER, PICES, KMS, KSO

• Undergraduate Internship, 2010: Laboratory for Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research, Hanyang University, South Korea, Supervisor: Prof. Sang-Wook Yeh

• Undergraduate Internship, 2006: Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, Hanyang University, South Korea, Supervisor: Prof. Jung-Ho Hyun

Journal Review

• Climate Dynamics, Ocean Science, Environmental Research Letters, GFDL internal review, PLOS ONE, Geophysical Research Letters, Frontiers in Marine Science, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Climate, Nature Climate Change, Geoscientific Modeling Development

Advising Researchers

• Co-advising Dr. Kyung-Min Noh (NOAA-GFDL) for his PhD thesis for Marine Heatwaves, GFDL-CM2.1-TOPAZ, Polar marine ecosystem (2017~2022)

• Co-advising Mr. Jung-Hyun Park (PKNU,KOPRI) for fresh water driven Arctic ecosystem changes using GFDL-CM2.1-TOPAZ (2019~2023)

• Advising Dr. Seung-Hwon Hyun (KIOST) for radioactive tracers in GFDL-ESM4 (2024~2025)

• Advising Mr. Hyunmin Jae (PKNU) for ENSO-Chlorophyll variability analysis and chlorophyll predictability (2025)

• Advising Ms. Hyun-Jeong Lee (KNU) for ENSO-Chlorophyll variability analysis and numerical modeling (2025)

Reference

• Prof. Jong-Seong Kug (jskug@postech.ac.kr): PhD advisor at POSTECH

• Prof. Jong-Yeon Park (jongyeon.park@jbnu.ac.kr): PhD co-advisor at Jeonbuk National University

• Prof. Sang-Wook Yeh (swyeh@hanyang.ac.kr): MS advisor at Hanyang University

• Dr. John P. Dunne (john.dunne@noaa.gov): Postdoc advisor at NOAA/GFDL

• Dr. Charles A. Stock (charles.stock@noaa.gov): Postdoc co-advisor at NOAA/GFDL

• Prof. Colleen M. Petrik (cpetrik@ucsd.edu): Postdoc advisor at UCSD/SIO