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Hi, I'm Jae Ryu, and I'm a hydrologist in the
School of Natural Resources.
I received both BS (1996) and MS (1998) degrees in Agricultural Engineering (now, civil environmental system engineering) from the Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. While completing my MS degree, I worked at the National Institute of Environmental Engineering (Tsukuba, Japan) as research assistant, gaining experience with natural systems for rural wastewater using artificial wetlands.
In the fall of 1999, I became a graduate student of the Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), and received my second master degree in 2001. The first my research at the UW has focused on developing a water quality (eutrophication) model associated with nutrient loading in the King Abdullah Canal, located in Jordan. Specifically, I developed a model identifying the key sources of water pollution in the King Abdullah Canal, and evaluated several alternatives in order to reduce the algae bloom from both the economic and technical points of view. My water quality model was built in both Qual2e (http://www.epa.gov) and MIKE11 (http://www.dhisoftware.com).
Since then, I have involved a couple of projects, such as the Columbia River Risk Assessment Project as a GIS analyst and Tualatin (Oregon) Climate Change Impacts study as a hydrologist. Also, I have broadened my knowledge by focusing on the use of mid-range climate forecasts (such as NSSIP/NASA or NCEP/CPC/NOAA forecasts) for managing a regional watershed affected by climate variability. These forecasts can be used to define the extent of potential droughts and to provide operational guidance.
In June 2006, I received a Ph.D with a specialization in water resources planning and management. Major parts of my Ph.D dissertation have focused on three important water resources chanllenging issues, including 1) how to evaluate streamflow forecasts using the output from a climate model such as the Global Cirulation Model, 2) how to optimize water resource system associated with such forecast information, and 3) how to mitigate water conflicts using decision support tools.
Upon completing my graduate study, I moved to the state of Nebraska and joined the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC). Since then, I am currently involved several projects, including 1) US Drought Atlas (USDA/RMA), 2) Republican River Basin Water and Drought Portal (NOAA), and 3) Seasonal Drought Forecasts (NASA) in collaboration with the civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC).
Contact information:
Dr. Jae Ryu
3310 Holdrege Street
802 Hardin Hall
School of Natural Resources
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0749
email:jryu2 at unl.edu
phone:(402) 472-1483
fax (402) 472-6614.