Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Room 3055, Engineering Building
University of Wyoming
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering
Dept. 3295
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
E-mail:

Office Phone: (307) 766-5550
Fax Number: (307) 766-2221

Education:

• Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine, 2006
• M.S. Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, 2000
• M.S. Geological Sciences, Seoul National University, 1993
• B.S. Geological Sciences, Seoul National University, 1991

Academic Experience:

• Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2008 - present
• Project Scientist, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2007 - 2008
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2006 – 2007

Recent Works:

• Operational Wyoming Hydrologic Nowcast/Forecast System (WYCAST): under development
• Operational California Hydrologic Forecasting System (CaliForecast)
• Hydrologic Data Information System (HyDIS)

Professional Affiliations:

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• Order of the Engineer

Journal Publications:

• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian. "Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) Real-time Incident Surface Solar Radiation using FLUXNET Observations and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)", in preparation"
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian. "Evaluation of the Energy and Water Fluxes over Forest Canopy in the Land surface Model, using FLUXNET tower Observation", in preparation
• Farid Ishak Boushaki, Kuo-lin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian, Gi-Hyeon Park, Shayesteh Mahani, and Shi Wei., "Bias Adjustment of satellite Precipitation Estimation using Ground-based Measurement: A Case Study Evaluation over the Southwestern United States", Submitted to Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, 2008," Estimation of surface longwave radiation components from ground-based historical net radiation and weather data", J. Geophys. Res., 113, D04207, doi:10.1029/2007JD008903
• Ki Hyeon Park, Duck Keun Choi, and Jeong Hwan Kim, 1994., "The Mungog Formation (Lower Ordovician) in the Northern Part of Yeongweol Area: Lithostratigraphic Subdivision and Trilobite Faunal assemblages". Jour. Geol. Soc. Korea. 30(2), 168-182
• Duck Keun Choi, Gi-Hyeon Park, and Dong Hee Kim, 1994. "Tremadocian Trilobites from the Mungog Formation, Yeongweol Area, Korea". J. Paleont. Soc. Korea. 10(2), 209-226.

Conference Proceedings:

• Gi-Hyeon Park, Bisher Imam, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Verification and error sources of the California Seasonal Hydrologic Forecast (CaliForecast) System over the Feather River Basin - AGU meeting December 15-19, 2008 San Francisco, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Bisher Imam, Ferrer-Capdevila Mark, and Soroosh Sorooshian, ESP forecasts for water resources: Model Uncertainty, Climate Uncertainty, or Both? - AGU meeting December 10-14, 2007 San Francisco, California
• Soroosh Sorooshian, Jialun Li, Xiaogang Gao, Gi-Hyeon Park, and Michael Ek, Improving land surface model to simulate California Irrigated land surface processes. NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) PI Meeting, September 19-21, 2007, Huntsville, Alabama
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, A method to estimate spectral radiation components from surface net radiation, using long-term ground observations. The 21st Conference on Hydrology, The 87th AMS Annual Meeting. January 14-18, 2007 San Antonio, Texas
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Are you confident in current land surface process descriptions? - AGU meeting December 11-15, 2006 San Francisco, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Offline land surface simulations for the energy and water fluxes: Toward better climate Prediction and weather forecast. 16th annual KSEA South-western Regional technology Conference, 2006 UCLA, Los Angeles, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Sources of Errors in the real-time NLDAS incident surface solar radiation and its comparison against field observations and the NARR - AGU meeting December 05-09, 2005 San Francisco, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation system (NLDAS) Real-time Incident surface solar Radiation, using FLUXNET observations and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR). 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, GEWEX. June 20-24, 2005 Costa Mesa, California.
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Evaluating Model Energy and Water Fluxes through the Forest Canopy using FLUXNET Tower Observation. 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, GEWEX. June 20-24, 2005 Costa Mesa, California.
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Evaluation of LDAS Incident Solar Radiation Using the FLUXNET field Observations. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering Symposium - California: Prosperity through Technology. May 23, 2005 University of California, Irvine, California.
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Evaluation of the Common Land Model (CLM) using Bosque ET Measurements. 4th SAHRA Annual Meeting. October 13-15, 2004 Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Global Precipitation Monitoring from Meteorological Satellites. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering Symposium - California: Prosperity through Technology. May 17, 2004 University of California, Irvine, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Bisher Imam, Xiaogang Gao, and Soroosh Sorooshian, Comparing the performance of Common Land Model (CLM2) and other Land Surface Schemes at Regional Scale (Oklahoma) - AGU meeting December 08-12, 2003 San Francisco, California
• Gi-Hyeon Park, Carolyn Dragoo, Bisher Imam, and Eve Halper, Conceptual Model of the Upper and Middle Rio Grande. Phase I: Preparation of a Comprehensive Basin-wide Data Set. NSF Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) - 2nd Annual Meeting Feb. 25 - March 1, 2002 Tucson, Arizona
• Imam, B., S. Sorooshian, S. Ram, R. Bales, H. Gupta, E. Halper, Z. Michalak, Y. Hwang, V. Khatri, G. Park, H. Hartmenn, T. Pagano, E. shamir, F. Boushaki, and S. Clagget, HyDIS. Hydrologic Data and Information system. NSF Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) - 1st Annual Meeting Feb. 20 - 23, 2001 Tucson, Arizona
• Jim Washburne and Gi-Hyeon Park, Soil Moisture and Temperature Sampling strategies, 4th Annual GLOBE conference July 18-23, 1999 Dunham, New Hampshire