Dr. Kyeong Park

Dr. Park's research interests lie in estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics and water quality conditions, particularly the physical transport processes and their effects on water quality and living resources. Topics of interest in physical transport processes are estuarine residual circulation, dispersion of pollutants, sediment transport, and those in water quality and living resources are eutrophication, hypoxia/anoxia, sediment diagenesis, and sediment flux.

Dr. Park has used field data, theoretical analyses and numerical models to better understand these processes. The ultimate goal is, through the collaborative studies with researchers from the disciplines of biogeochemical processes, to develop predictive models for water quality and living resources as management tools.

GoMRI-funded projects:

- Flow Structures on the Northern Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico Using Drifters and Underway Velocity Profiles (Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium, Role: Co-Principal Investigator)

- Identifying Transport Pathways and Quantifying Exchange in Alabama's Coastal Waters: from the Shelf to the Delta (Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium, Role: Co-Principal Investigator)

- Investigation of the Three Dimensional Eulerian Flow and Resulting Lagrangian Transport Pathways on the Alabama Shelf pathways on the Alabama shelf (Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium, Role: Co-Principal Investigator)

- Modeling of Circulation and Physical Transport for the Alabama Coastal Waters to Assess Transport and Distribution of Oil-Derived Substances (Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium, Role: Principal Investigator, Project Data Point of Contact)

- Impacts of the Deep Horizon Oil Spill on Ecosystem Structure and Function in Alabama's Marine Waters (Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf Institute

Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead, Task Data Contact)