권은영 Eun Young Kwon
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Assistant Professor, Project Leader
Email: ekwon957@pusan.ac.kr
Phone: +82-51-510-7861
Research Interests
- Ocean biogeochemistry modeling
- Ocean dynamics
- Climate-marine ecosystem feedbacks
- Data analysis
- Data assimilation
- Inverse modeling
- Global carbon cycle
- Fluid dynamics
- Paleoceanography
Education
2008 | Ph.D. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA |
2004 | M.S. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA |
2000 | B.S. Department of Earth Sciences Education, Seoul National University, Korea |
Work Experience
2017 | 2024 | Associate Researcher, Project Leader, IBS Center for Climate Physics |
2013 | 2017 | Assistant Research Professor, Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University, Korea. |
2011 | 2013 | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. |
2010 | 2011 | Associate Research Scholar, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, USA. |
2008 | 2010 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, USA. |
Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
2016 | NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) grant: Study of oceanic biogeochemical cycling using models combined with observations, PI, 2016.11 – 2021.10 |
2013 | NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) grant: Changes in North Pacific Ocean ventilation and dissolved oxygen cycles for the past half-century, PI, 2013.11 – 2016.10 |
2010 | NSF (US National Science Foundation) grant: Does the strength of the carbonate pump change with ocean stratification and acidification and how? Sarmiento (PI) and Kwon (Co-PI), Dunne and Toggweiler (unfunded Co-PIs), 2010.11 – 2013.10 |
2008 | Outstanding student poster award at Ocean Sciences Meeting |
2006 | Outstanding presentation at the ESS/IGPP Symposium, award by Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and department of Earth System Science (ESS) |
2004 | Excellence in research, award by Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) |
2002 | Korean Government Graduate Scholarship |
2000 | Brain Korea 21 research fellowship |
1997 | Eun Sung Foundation scholarship |
1995 | Merit-based partial scholarship, award by Seoul National University |
1995 | First class full scholarship, award by Seoul National University |
Publications
- Mohanan Geethalekshmi Sreeush, Eun Young Kwon, Sun-Seon Lee, Arjun Babu Nellikkattil, (2024): Anthropogenically Driven Changes in the Carbon to Phosphorus Ratio of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 38, 6, e2023GB008069, doi: 10.1029/2023GB008069
- Willard S. Moore, Matthew A. Charette, Paul B. Henderson, Douglas E. Hammond, Nathaniel Kemnitz, Emilie Le Roy, Eun Young Kwon, Mikael Hult, (2024): Enriched Regions of 228Ra Along the U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15), JGR Oceans, vol. 129, 3, e2023JC020564, doi: 10.1029/2023JC020564
- Eun Young Kwon, John P. Dunne, Kitack Lee, (2024): Biological export production controls upper ocean calcium carbonate dissolution and CO2 buffer capacity, Science Advances, vol. 10, 13, article eadl0779, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adl0779
- Judith A. Rosentreter, Goulven G. Laruelle, Hermann W. Bange, Thomas S. Bianchi, Julius J. M. Busecke, Wei-Jun Cai, Bradley D. Eyre, Inke Forbrich, Eun Young Kwon, Taylor Maavara, Nils Moosdorf, Raymond G. Najjar, V.V.S.S. Sarma, Bryce Van Dam, Pierre Regnier, (2023): Coastal vegetation and estuaries collectively are a greenhouse gas link, Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, 6, pp. 579-587, doi: 10.1038/s41558-023-01682-9
- Dong-Geon Lee, Ji-Hoon Oh, Kyung Min Noh, Eun Young Kwon, Young Ho Kim, Jong-Seong Kug, (2023): What controls the future phytoplankton change over the Yellow and East China Seas under global warming?, Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 10, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1010341
- Eun Young Kwon, M. G. Sreeush, Axel Timmermann, David M. Karl, Matthew J. Church, Sun-Seon Lee, Ryohei Yamaguchi, (2022): Nutrient uptake plasticity in phytoplankton sustains future ocean net primary production, Science Advances, vol. 8, 51, eadd2475, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add2475
- Jeongmin Yun, Sujong Jeong, Nicolas Gruber, Luke Gregor, Chang-Hoi Ho, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, David Schimel, Eun Young Kwon, (2022): Enhance seasonal amplitude of atmospheric CO2 by the changing Southern Ocean carbon sink, Science Advances, vol. 8, 41, article eabq0220, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq0220
- Eun Young Kwon, Mark Holzer, Axel Timmermann, François Primeau (2022): Estimating Three-Dimensional Carbon-to-Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Exported Marine Organic Matter, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol.36, 3, e2021GB007154, doi: 10.1029/2021GB007154
- Eun Young Kwon, Axel Timmermann, Brett J. Tipple, Andreas Schmittner (2022): Projected Reversal of Oceanic Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio Depth Gradient with Continued Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions, Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 3, article number 62, doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00388-8
- M. Holzer, E. Y. Kwon, and B. Pasquier (2021): A new metric of the biological carbon pump: number of pump passages and its control on atmospheric pCO2, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 35, 6, e2020GB006863, doi: 10.1029/2020GB006863
- E. Y. Kwon, T. DeVries, E. Galbraith, J. Hwang, G. Kim, A. Timmermann (2021): Stable Carbon Isotopes Suggest Large Terrestrial Carbon Inputs to the Global Ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, 4, e2020GB006684, doi: 10.1029/2020GB006684, Media interview: Plants, groundwater move more carbon from land to oceans than expected
- K. Stein, A. Timmermann, E. Y. Kwon, and T. Friedrich (2020): Timing and magnitude of Southern Ocean sea ice/carbon cycle feedbacks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (9), 4498-4504, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1908670117
- H.‐M. Cho , G. Kim , E. Y. Kwon, and Y. Han (2019): Radium Tracing Cross‐Shelf Fluxes of Nutrients in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 20, 11321-11328, doi: 10.1029/2019GL084594
- L. Polimene, R. B. Rivkin, Y.-W. Luo, E. Y. Kwon, M. Gehlen, M. A Pena, N. Wang, Y. Liang, H. Kaartokallio, and N. Jiao (2018): Modelling marine DOC degradation time scales, National Science Review 5, 4, 468-474, doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy066
- H.M. Cho, G. Kim, E. Y. Kwon, N. Moosdorf, J. Garcia-Orellana, and I. R. Santos (2018): Radium tracing nutrient inputs through submarine groundwater discharge in the global ocean, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20806-2
- E. Y. Kwon, Y. H. Kim, Y.-G. Park, Y.-H. Park, J. Dunne, and K.-I. Chang (2016): Multidecadal wind-driven shifts in northwest Pacific temperature, salinity, O2, and PO4, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 30, doi: 10.1002/2016GB005442.
- M. A. Charette, P. J. Lam, M. C. Lohan, E. Y. Kwon, V. Hatje, C. Jeandel, A. M. Shiller, G. A. Cutter, A. Thomas, P. W. Boyd, W. B. Homoky, A. Milne, H. Thomas, P. S. Andersson, D. Porcelli, T. Tanaka, W. Geibert, F. Dehairs, and J. Garcia-Orellana (2016): Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 374, 20160076, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0076
- E. Y. Kwon, C. Deutsch, S.-P. Xie, S. Schmidtko, and Y.-K. Cho (2016): The North Pacific oxygen uptake rates over the past half-century, Journal of Climate, 29, 61-76, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00157.1
- E. D. Galbraith, E. Y. Kwon, D. Bianchi, M. Hain, and J. L. Sarmiento (2015): The impact of atmospheric pCO2 on carbon isotope ratios of the atmosphere and ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, 307-324, doi: 10.1002/2014GB004929
- E. Y. Kwon, G.-B. Kim, F. Primeau, B. Moore, H. Cho, T. DeVries, J. L. Sarmiento and M. Charette, and Y.-K. Cho (2014): Global estimate of submarine groundwater discharge based on an observationally constrained radium isotope model, Geophysical Research Letter, 41, 8438–8444, doi: 10.1002/2014GL061574
- E. Y. Kwon and Y.-K. Cho (2013): The impact of the oceanic biological pump on atmospheric CO2 and its link to climate change, “The Sea” Journal of the Korean Society of Oceanography, 18, 266-276, doi: 10.7850/jkso.2013.18.4.266 (written in Korean).
- E. Y. Kwon (2013): Temporal variability of transformation, formation and subduction rates of upper Southern Ocean waters, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 118, 6285-6302, doi: 10.1002/2013JC008823
- E. Y. Kwon and E. D. Galbraith (2013): Palaeoclimate: When the dust settles, Nature Geoscience, 6, 423-424, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1838 (Invited contribution, not peer-reviewed)
- E. Y. Kwon, S. M. Downes, J. L. Sarmiento, R. Farneti, and C. Deutsch (2013): Role of the seasonal cycle in the subduction rates of upper Southern Ocean waters, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, 1096-1113, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-060.1
- E. Y. Kwon, M. Hain, D. Sigman, E. Galbraith, J. Sarmiento, and R. Toggweiler (2012): North Atlantic ventilation of “southern-sourced” deep water in the glacial ocean, Paleoceanography, 27, PA2208, doi:10.1029/2011PA002211.
- E. Y. Kwon, J. Sarmiento, J. R. Toggweiler, T. DeVries (2011): The control of atmospheric CO2 by ocean ventilation change: The effect of the oceanic storage of biogenic carbon, Global Biogeochmeical Cycles, 25, GB3026, doi: 10.1029/2011GB004059.
- Galbraith, E., E. Y. Kwon, A. Gnanadesikan, K. B. Rogers, S. Griffies, D. Blanchi, J. Sarmiento, J. Dunne, J. Simeon, R. D. Slater, A. Wittenberg, and I. Held (2011): Climate variability and radiocarbon in the CM2Mc earth system model, Journal of Climate, 24, 4230–4254, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI3919.1
- E. Y. Kwon, F. Primeau, and J. L. Sarmiento (2009): The impact of remineralization depth on the air-sea carbon balance, Nature Geoscience, 2, 630-635, doi: 10.1038/ngeo612
- E. Y. Kwon (2008): Optimization and sensitivity analysis of a global ocean biogeochemistry model, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Irvine.
- E. Y. Kwon and F. Primeau (2008): Optimization and sensitivity of a global biogeochemistry ocean model using combined in situ DIC, alkalinity, and phosphate data, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 113, C08011, doi:10.1029/2007JC004520
- E. Y. Kwon and F. Primeau (2006): Optimization and sensitivity study of a biogeochemistry ocean model using an implicit solver and in-situ phosphate data, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB4009, doi:10.1029/2005GB002631.
- Zender, C. S. and E. Y. Kwon (2005): Regional contrasts in dust emission responses to climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D13201, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005501
- E. Y. Kwon, S. E. Park, W-M. Moon, and K.-K. Lee (2002): Estimation of soil moisture content from L-and P-band AirSAR data: A case study in Jeju, Korea, Geosciences Journal, 6, 331-339, doi: 10.1007/BF03020617