Ji-Eun Kim (JJ)

ji-eunkim at usgs.gov

Phyiscal scientist @ US Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA

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Areas of Specialization

Geology, Mineral resources (Manganese & Iron oxide pigment), Paleoceanography, Paleoclimate, Geochemistry, Carbon cycle, Sedimentary processes

Education

Ph.D.   The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, May 2022 

M.S. Pusan National University, Earth Environmental System, August 2018 

B.S.  Pusan National University, Geological Sciences, February 2016 

Employment and Research Experiences

2022-current Physical scientist, USGS National Minerals Information Center

Summer 2021 Student Contractor, USGS Astrogeology 

2018-2022 Ph.D., Griffith Isotope Geochemistry & Paleoceanography Lab, The Ohio State University 

February 2017     Visiting Research Assistant, Hokkaido University    

2016; 2017   Guest Researcher, Kochi Core Center            

2016-2018    M.S., Geological Oceanography Lab, Pusan National University

2014-2016    B.S., Sedimentary Lab, Pusan National University 

Publications 

7.  Mills, M. M., McEwen, A. S., Hughes, A. N., Kim, J. E., Okubo, C. (submitted to Icarus). Analyzing Spatial Distributions and Alignments of Pitted Cone Features in Utopia Planitia 

 

6. Kim, J.E., Kim, H.J., Griffith, E.M. (Under review). Export production using sediment trap excess-Ba of tropical Pacific.

 

5. Kim, J.E., Singer, D., Griffith, E.M. (In preparation). Selenium and arsenic speciation within natural barite as coprecipitation redox indicators.


4. Kim, J.E., Westerhold, T., Alegret, L., Drury, A.J., Röhl, U., & Griffith, E.M. (2022). Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous. Climate of the Past, 18(12), 2631-2641. DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-2631-2022 


3. Khim, B.K., Kim, J.E., Horikawa, K., Ikehara, M., Asahara, Y., & Lee, J. (2020). Orbital-Scale Paleoceanographic Response to the Indian Monsoon in the Laxmi Basin of the Eastern Arabian Sea. In Patterns and Mechanisms of Climate, Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Changes from Low-Latitude Regions (pp. 9-11). Springer, Cham

 

2. Kim, J.E., Khim, B.K., Ikehara, M., & Lee, J. (2018). Orbital-scale denitrification changes in the Eastern Arabian Sea during the last 800 kyrs. Scientific reports, 8(1), 7027. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25415-7

 

1. Khim, B.K., Horikawa, K., Asahara, Y., Kim, J.E., & Ikehara, M. (2018). Detrital Sr–Nd isotopes, sediment provenances and depositional processes in the Laxmi Basin of the Arabian Sea during the last 800 ka. Geological Magazine, 1-13. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756818000596

Awards and Grants

2021               Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award

Summer 2021      Friends of Orton Hall “Using Se(VI)/Se(IV) and As(V)/As(III) coprecipitated in natural barite samples as paleo-redox indicator” 

2020               KSEA-KUSCO Scholarships for Graduate Students 

Fall 2019         Friends of Orton Hall “2019 AGU Annual Fall Meeting travel fund” 

Spring 2019 Friends of Orton Hall “Application of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for investigating export productivity in the Cretaceous Pacific Ocean”

2019-2020 GSA Graduate Student Grant “Coprecipitation of selenium in marine barite used as paleo‐redox proxy” 

2018               Scholarship for Graduate Study Abroad (Pusan National University)

2016               Undergraduate Student ambassador, 37th International Geological Congress (IGC) in 2024

Leadership and Miscellaneous 

President of Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) - Ohio & DC metro Chapter

Organizer of Orton’s Earth History Club (OSU SES Earth History division seminar) 

Former President of OSU Korean Graduate Student Association (KGSA) 

Soccer player, figure skater, and musician on the side!