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Kyungsoo Yoo

Assistant Professor
University of Delaware,

Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Dept. of Geological Sciences
531 S College Ave. 152 Townsend Hall
Newark, DE, 19716-2170
Tel: 302-831-1376

Email to Kyungsoo Yoo

Appointments:

  • 2006.- Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
  • 2004 – 2005. Postdoctoral Fellow U.C. Berkeley

Education:

  • Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, U.C. Berkeley, 2003, Dissertation Committee: Ronald Amundson, William E. Dietrich, and Mary Firestone, Dissertation Title: The Erosion and Storage of Soil Organic Carbon in Upland Hillslope Ecosystems
  • MS. Physics.Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1996.
  • BS. Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1994.

Publication (Please feel free to email me for pdfs.):

  • Klaminder, Jonatan, Cruz Ferro-Vázquez, Juan Carlos Nóvoa-Muñoz, Manuela Costa-Casais, Cristina Ferrín-Prieto, Kyungsoo Yoo, Antonio Martinez-Cortizas. The podzolization process and its role in the accumulation of bromine in boreal forest soils, in review.

  • Yoo, K. S.M. Mudd, J. Sanderman, R. Amundson, A. Blum, in press (available online) , Spatial patterns and controls of soil chemical weathering rates along a transient hillslope, Earth and Plantetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.021   

  • Klaminder, J., K. Yoo, and R. Giesler (2009), Soil carbon accumulation in the dry tundra: Important role played by precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 114, G04005, doi:10.1029/2009JG000947.
  • Burke Benjamin C., Arjun M. Heimsath, Jean L. Dixon, John Chappell, Kyungsoo Yoo, (2009), Weathering the escarpment: chemical and physical rates and processes, south-eastern Australia, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34, 768–785, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1764
  • Klaminder Jonatan and Kyungsoo Yoo, (2008) Contaminants as Tracers for Studying Dynamics of Soil Formation: Mining an Ocean of Opportunities. In Donald L. Sparks, editor, Advances in Agronomy, Vol 100. Burlington: Academic Press, pp.15-57. (invited book chapter)
  • Klaminder, J., K. Yoo, J. Rydberg, and R. Giesler (2008), An explorative study of mercury export from a thawing palsa mire, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G04034, doi:10.1029/2008JG000776.
  • Yoo, K., S.M. Mudd, (2008), Toward process-based modeling of geochemical soil formation across diverse landforms: A new mathematical framework, Geoderma, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.05.029
  • Yoo K. and S.M. Mudd, (2008), The Discrepancy between Mineral Residence Time and Soil Age: Implications for the Interpretation of Chemical Weathering Rates, Geology, v.36; no 1, 35-38, doi: 10.1130/G24285A
  • Yoo, K., R. Amundson, A. M. Heimsath, W. E. Dietrich, and G. H. Brimhall (2007), Integration of geochemical mass balance with sediment transport to calculate rates of soil chemical weathering and transport on hillslopes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F02013, doi:10.1029/2005JF000402.
  • Yoo K., R. Amundson, AM Heimsath, WE Dietrich, (2006), Spatial patterns of soil organic carbon on hillslopes: Integrating geomorphic processes and the biological C cycle, Geoderma, 130 (1-2), P47-65, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.01.008
  • Yoo K., R. Amundson, AM Heimsath, WE Dietrich, (2005), Process-based model linking pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) activity to sediment transport and soil thickness, Geology, 33 (11): 917-920 Nov. 2005, doi: 10.1130/G21831.1 (mentioned in Sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
  • Yoo K., R. Amundson, A. M. Heimsath, W. E. Dietrich (2005), Erosion of upland hillslope soil organic carbon: Coupling field measurements with a sediment transport model, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB3003, doi:10.1029/2004GB002271.
  • Amundson R., A. T. Austin, E. A. G. Schuur, K. Yoo, V. Matzek, C. Kendall, A. Uebersax, D. Brenner, and W. T. Baisden, (2003), Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17 (1), 1031, doi:10.1029/2002GB001903.
  • Oak HN, Baek KS, Yu KS, Mössbauer study of Li0.5Fe2.5O4, (1998), Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter (5): 1131-1136.

Grants and Awards

  • Co-Principal Investigator. Cristina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory: Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration. National Science Foundation EAR-0724971, $4,315,607. Collaborative Project between University of Delaware and Stroud Water Research Center. 2009-2015.
  • Principal Investigator. "Empirical and Theoretical Integration of Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes: Responses to Channel Incision", Collaboration with Simon Marius Mudd at University of Edinburgh UK, National Science Foundation EAR0819064. 2008-2011. $304,080 to UD and $72,404 to National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM).
  • Principal Investigator: Acceleration of inorganic nutrient release and mineral-organic matter association by biophysical soil mixing along an earthworm invasion chronosequence, Collaboration with Anthony Aufdenkampe at Stroud Water Research Center and Cindy Hale at University of Minnesota, Duluth. USDA NRI. 2008-2011. $397,500.
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Fluvial transport of mercury in the South River. Dupont. $21,318. 2008-2009.
  • Principal Investigator: "Biophysical soil mixing drives soil chemical weathering at the front of earthworm invasion". University of Delaware Research Fund (UDRF). June 2007-Dec.2008. $25,000.
  • Principal Investigator: "Land use impact on the inventory and release of anthropogenic vs. geogenic lead (Pb) in soils". College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Seed Grant. April 2007-Aug.2008. $20,000.
  • Nominated for University Teaching Award, 2007, (PLSC/GEOL 467/667 Soil Formation: Earth Surface Processes and Biogeochemistry).

Advisee Fellowships

  • Jonatan Klaminder, Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dec.2007-Nov.2008
  • Chunmei Chen, Institute of Soil and Environmental Quality (ISEQ) graduate student fellowship, 2007- (3 yrs).
  • Carlos Morris, UDRF Research Experience for Undergraduate Students, 2008, $3,500.
  • Christina Fernandez, Del ware Water Resources Center, Undergraduate Summer Internship, 2008, $3,500.

MEDIA COVERAGE

  • Earthworm Invasion, Nov. 25 2008, Delaware News broadcast, University of Delaware, Student Television Studio.

 

Invited Workshop

  • NSF-sponsored workshop, “Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone II: The Geobiology of Weathering and Erosion.” Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Oct 5-7 2009, Washington D.C.
  • NSF & NCED supported workshop, "Meetings of Young Researchers in Earth Science (MYRES), 2008, Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape", New Orleans.

 

Invited Talks:

  • University of Calgary Canada, Biogeoscience Institute, 10th March, 2010, Where minerals meet carbon: an inevitable geomorphic control of carbon cycle in the Anthropocene.
  • Ethics of Climate Change Conference, "Human vs. Geological Time Scales in Global Climate Change ", University of Delaware, Oct 30, 2009.
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate. July 2009, Geomorphic Theather and Geochemical Play: Spatial patterns and controls of soil chemical weathering rates along a morphologically dynamic hillslope .
  • Rice University, Department of Earth Science, April 9, 2009, The Geomorphic Theater a The Geochemical Play: Chemical Weathering on a Morphologically Dynamic Hillslopes, Kyungsoo Yoo.
  • American Geophysical Union, San Francisco. Dec. 2008, Soil and saprolite geochemistry along an eroding to depositional hillslope transect, Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Marius Mudd, Jonathan Sanderman, Ronald Amundson, Alex Blum
  • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, 17, Oct 2008, Integrating Geomorphic and Biogeochemical Processes on Hillslopes,
  • Northeast Region National Cooperative Soil Survey Work Planning Conference, Rhode Island, 4, June 2008, Reactive Transport of Minerals and Soils.
  • Millersville University, 4, April 2008, Soils Move and Weather: Integrating Geochemistry with Geomorphology on Soil Covered Landscapes.
  • American Geophysical Union, San Francisco. Dec. 2007, Interplay between physical movements of soils and mineral grains and chemical weathering, 2007.
  • University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, 9, April 2007, Geomorphic control of soil chemical weathering and carbon cycle
  • Mid-atlantic  Association of Professional Soil Scientists, 7, March 2007, Geomorphic control of soil chemical weathering an carbon cycle
  • Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 31, January. 2007, , Title: Geomorphic control of soil chemical weathering an carbon cycle
  • Stroud Water Research Center, 10, January. 2007, Title: Geomorphic control of soil chemical weathering
  • Univ. of Delaware, Department of Geological Sciences, 13, April, 2006, “Special Relativity on Hillslopes: Sediment Transport and Weathering”
  • Univ. of Delaware, College of Marine Studies, 4, April, 2006, “Rates of soil chemical weathering and sediment transport on hillslopes: integrating geochemical and sediment mass balances”

Presentation in Scientific Meetings:

  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Marius Mudd, Chunmei Chen, Anthony Aufdenkampe, Beth Weinman, Junling Ji, Martin Hurst, and Jonatan Klaminder, Invited, How does biological and anthropogenic soil mixing contribute to morphologic evolution of landscapes and terrestrial carbon cycles? (2009), American Geophysical Union, Session: Quantifying Hillslope Processes and Rates of Landscape Evolution (U07), San Francisco.
  • A. K. Aufdenkampe; K. Yoo; R. E. Aalto; C. Chen; C. Fernandez Is mineral motion the ultimate control on critical zone carbon sequestration?.  (2009) American Geophysical Union, Session, San Francisco.
  • Cristina Fernandez, K. Yoo, A. Aufdenkampe, C. Hale, Intensified Weathering Control of Carbon Cycle along an Earthworm Invasion Chronosequence: Preliminary Data. (2009), American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
  • Chunmei Chen, K. Yoo, A. Aufdenkampe, Different limiting factors for ccarbon-mineral complexation: Responses to land use types in upland vs. riparian soils within a mixed-land use watershed and the implications for carbon sequestration, (2009), American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Beth Weinman, Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Mudd , Martin Hurst, Kristin Mayer, Kate Maher, Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes in the Feather River Basin, California: Responses to Channel Incision, (2009), American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Jill A Marshall, Mikael Attal, Leonard S Sklar, Clifford S. Riebe, Martin D Hurst, Simon M Mudd, Kyungsoo Yoo, The Effect of Erosion Rate on Hillslope Rock Fragment Production: Implications for Supply ofBedload Material to Channels, (2009), American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Jim Pizzuto, Chunmei Chen*, Katherine Skalak, Narinesingh Pramenath, Kyungsoo Yoo, Radionuclide dating of mercury-contaminated fine grained sediment stored in the hyphoreic zone of the gravel bedded South River, Virginia, (2009), Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Marius Mudd, Jonathan Sanderman, Ronald Amundson, Alex Blum, Invited, Soil and saprolite geochemistry along an eroding to depositional hillslope transect, Dec. 2008, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

  • S M Mudd, K Yoo, M D Hurst, On the potential of hillslope soils to preserve evidence of climatic and tectonic change, Dec. 2008, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Marius Mudd, Jonathan Sanderman, Ronald Amundson, Alex Blum, Quantitative Feedback between the Rates of Soil Chemical Weathering and Colluvial Sediment Transport along a Hillslope Transect, 2008, Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America Joint Meeting, Houston
  • Ronald Amundson, Jonathan Sanderman, and Kyungsoo Yoo, invited, Environmental and Geological Controls on the Soil Carbon Cycle in a Changing World, 2008, Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America Joint Meeting, Houston.
  • Chunmei Chen, Kyungsoo Yoo, Anthony Aufdenkampe, Organic Carbon-Metal-Mineral Complexes in Upland Vs. Riparian Soils, 2008, Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America Joint Meeting, Houston
  • Justine Owen, Kuni Nishiizumi, Ronald Amundson, William Dietrich, and Kyungsoo Yoo, Where precipitation matters: 10Be and 26Al-derived hillslope denudation rates in the Atacama Desert, Chile, July 2008, Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Soil mass balance approach as an integrator of weathering processes in different scales, 2008, Hydropedology Conference, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Simon Marius Mudd, Anthony Aufdenkampe, Chemical weathering rates from mineral grains to soils and to hillslopes, 2008, MYRES (Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Science),New Orleans.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Invited, Interplay between physical movements of soils and mineral grains and chemical weathering, 2007, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Simon Marius Mudd, Kyungsoo Yoo, Jonathan Sanderman, How can residence time control on weathering rates be distinguished from hydrologic control?. 2007, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Jonathan Sanderman, Simon Marius Mudd, Ronald Amundson, Soil and Solution Based Assessments of Weathering along a Hillslope Transect in Coastal California, 2007, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo and and Simon Marius Mudd, Soil Chronosequence as a Special Case of Non-steady State Hillslope Soil: Model Development and Simulation, 2006, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Junling Ji and Kyungsoo Yoo, Impact of land use change on the coupled cycles of carbon and metal cations in the Coastal Plain, Delaware, 2007, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
  • Justine Owen, Ronald Amundson, Kyungsoo Yoo, William E. Dietrich, Kuni Nishizumi, Robert Finkel, Chemical weathering vs. Physical erosion in hyperarid, arid, and semiarid hillslope soils in the Atacama Desert-discovering a process threshold, 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (22–25 October 2006).
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, [Keynote speaker in Frontiers in Soil Science], Quantifying the Rates of Soil Genesis by Geochemical Mass Balance. 18th World Congress of Soil Science Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, July 9-15, 2006.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo and Ronald Amundson, A Unifying Model of Time and Parent Material in Soil Formation on Level to Sloping Landscapes, 2005 October, presented at the NSF Sponsored Workshop: Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 24-26, 2005.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo,  Mudd, S. M., and Amundson, R. (2005), The rates and processes of mass removal and soil formation along a Mediterranean grass-covered hillslope in Coastal California, NSF Sponsored Workshop: Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 24-26, 2005.
  • Jonathan Sanderman, Kyungsoo Yoo, and Ronald Amundson, Toposequence of Solutes vs. Soil Elemental Chemistry in Headwater Catchments: Report on Field Sampling and Preliminary Data, NSF Sponsored Workshop: Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 24-26, 2005.
  • Owen, J, Dietrich, W, Yoo, K, Amundson R., The Effects of Hyperaridity on Soil Production and Transport on Hillslopes: Adapting Geomorphic Models in the Atacama Desert, Chile, Dec. 2004 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun M. Heimsath, William E. Dietrich, George H. Brimhall, 2004.  The Topographic Control of Chemical Weathering in Hillslope Soils. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun M. Heimsath, William E. Dietrich, 2003. Non-steady State Soil Organic Carbon Storage in Undisturbed Watersheds Due to Diffusive Sediment Transport. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun M. Heimsath, William E. Dietrich, 2003. Erosion and Non-steady State Storage of Soil Organic Carbon in Undisturbed Hillslopes in Coastal California under Dynamic Sediment Transport. Kearny Foundation of Soil Science, Soil Carbon Sequestration Workshop, Davis, California.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun Heimsath, William Dietrich, 2002. The Quantitative Interaction between Biology and Hillslope Soil Processes: A Mathematical Model Focusing on Pocket Gophers (Geomyidae) as Soil Erosion Agents. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun Heimsath, William Dietrich, 2001. Soil Organic Carbon Redistribution by Geomorphic Processes in an Undisturbed Zero Order Annual Grassland Watershed, California. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
  • Kyungsoo Yoo, Ronald Amundson, A. Heimsath. 2000. Soil Carbon Storage vs. Erosion Rates along Two Australian Toposequences. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird.

Reviewer:

Geology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeoscience, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, American Journal of Science, Geoderma, Catena, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, National Science Foundation.

Synergetic Activities

  • “Digging through tectonics”, 6th grade science class visit (6 classes), 17th Oct. 2009, Newark Charter Middle School, Newark, DE.
  • National Science Foundation Panel (2008)
  • Volunteered docent in the opening day of "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil Exhibition" Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, July 20th, 2008.
  • Co-convener (with Kristov Van Oost and Timothy A Quine): Geomorphic Control of Carbon Cycle : 2006 American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco.
  • K-5 Presentation: Underneath our feet. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders and talent pool students at Downes Elementary School, 2007.
  • Public lecture: “Soils and Global Climate Change” 18 July 2006, ISEQ Delaware high school teacher training workshop, “Plants and Biology, Soils and Our Environment”
  • Public lecture “Earth Moved by Earthworms”. 30 April 2006, AG Day Mini-Lecture, University of  Delaware