Jae Hyeon Ryu
Jae Hyeon Ryu
Professor
Idaho Water Center, Suite 242
208-332-4402
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ Boise
322 E Front Street
Boise, Idaho 83702
My research is on drought monitoring and forecasting, hydrological modeling, and water resources planning and management in a changing global environment associated with urbanization and climate variability. Continue in biography.
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2006
M.S., University of Washington, 2002
B.S., Konkuk University, 1996
Courses
- WR518: System Modeling for Water Management
- WR519: Hydrological Modeling and Applications in a Changing Climate
Languages other than English spoken
- Korean
- Engineering education
- Drought monitoring/forecasting/outlooks
- Unmanned aerial system (UAS)/drone
- Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)/ground robot
- Unmanned surface vehicle (USV)/drone boat
- Water resources planning and management/irrigated agriculture
- Climate change/hydrologic modeling
- Ryu, J., 2022. “Prototyping a low-cost open-source autonomous unmanned surface vehicle for real-time water quality monitoring and visualization,” HardwareX, Volume 12, October 2022, e00369
- Ryu, J., 2022 “Low-cost Live Insect Scouting Drone: iDrone Bee”, Journal of Insect Science, 22(4):5, 1-6, 2022
- Ryu, J., 2022 “UAS-based Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring, Sampling, and Visualization Platform (UASWQP),” Hardware X, 11, E00277
- Ryu, J, LaPagalia, K., Walters, R. 2020. “Idaho Drone League (iDrone) to Stimulate STEM Workforce, Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 21 (2), 58-64
- Kim, J. and Ryu, J.H. 2020 “Decision-Making of LID-BMPs for Adaptive Water Management at the Boise River Watershed in a Changing Global Environment, Water, 12, 2436; doi:10.3390/w12092436
- Ryu, J. and Kim, JJ. 2019. “A study on climate-driven flash flood risks in the Boise River Watershed, Idaho," Water 11, 1039; doi:10.3390/w11051039, 2019
- Hoekema, D., Ryu, J. H., 2016. “Characterizing Drought in Irrigated Agricultural Systems: The Surface Water Delivery Index (SWDI),” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52(3), 737-755
- Kim, J.J., Ryu, J.H. 2016. “A Heuristic Gap Filling Method for Daily Precipitation Series”, Water Resources Management, 30(7), 2275-2294
- Sohrabi, M., Ryu, J. H., Abatzoglou, J., Tracy, J., 2016. “Closure to Discussion: Development of Soil Moisture Drought Index (SODI) to Characterize Hydrological Drought by Mohammad M. Sohrabi, Jae H. Ryu, John Abatzoglou and John Tracy, DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001213, 21(4), 07016002-1
- Sohrabi, M., Ryu, J. H., Abatzoglou, J., Tracy, J., 2015. “Development of Soil Moisture Drought Index (SODI) to Characterize Hydrological Drought,” Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 20(11), 0415025(1-15)
- Kim, J.J., Ryu, J.H. 2015. “Quantifying a threshold of missing values for gap filling processes in daily precipitation series,” Water Resources Management, 29(11),4173-4184
- Ryu, J. H., Sohrabi, M., Acharya, A. 2014. “Toward mapping gridded drought indices to evaluate local drought in a rapidly changing global environment,” Water Resources Management, 28(11), 3859-3869
- Kim, J. J., Ryu, J. H., 2014. “A threshold of basin discretization levels for HSPF simulations with NEXRAD inputs,” Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 19(7), 1401-1412
- Acharya A., Ryu, J. H. 2014. “Simple method for streamflow disaggregation,” Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 19(3), 509-519
- Sohrabi, M., Ryu, J. H., Alijani, B., 2013. “Spatial and temporal analysis of climatic extremes over the mountainous region of Iran,” The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 4(4), 19-37
- Hoekema, D., Ryu, J. H., 2013. “Evaluating Economic Impacts of Water Conservation and Hydrological Forecasts in the Salmon Tract, Southern Idaho,” Transaction of the ASABE, 56(4), 1-12
- Sohrabi, M., Ryu, J H.., Abatzoglou, J., Tracy, J. 2013. “Climate extreme and its linkage to regional drought over Idaho, USA,” Natural Hazards, 65:653-681
- Ryu, J H.., Contor, B., Johnson, G., Allen, R., Tracy, J. 2012. “System Dynamics to Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer under Water Supply Uncertainty," Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 48(6), 1204-1220
- Smith, M.B., Koren, V., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Reed, S.M., Cui, Z., Moreda, F., Cosgrove, B.A., Mizukami, N., Anderson, E.A., DMIP 2 Participants (Ryu, J.H.), 2012. “Results of the DMIP 2 Oklahoma experiments,” Journal of Hydrology, 418-419, 17-48
- Ryu, J.H., Jeong, S., Park, S.K., Lee, J., Han, K., 2011. “The impacts of climate change on the local hydrology and drought (low flow) frequency,” Hydrological Processes, 25(22), 3437-3447
- Ryu, J.H., Svoboda, M.D., Lenters, J.D., Tadesse, T., Knutson, C. 2010. “Finding Potential Extents for ENSO-Driven Hydrologic Drought Forecasts in the United States,” Climatic Change, 101(3),575-597
Remote sensing technologies, including satellite information and Unmanned Aerial System (UAS, also known as drone) are used as tools to promote my research and education program. I am also founder and principal investigator of the Idaho Drone League (iDrone) to engage Idaho youth (7-11 grade) entering Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field for their future career. The iDrone helps students to learn basic concepts in automatic control, robotics and UAS in two-day hands-on workshops across the state. It usually takes place during spring break in respective school districts areas.
Jae Hyeon Ryu's research areas focus on: sustainable water resources planning and management in Idaho and the west, including mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change impacts, irrigated agriculture and surface/groundwater interactions. Ryu received his doctorate in 2006 and master's in 2001 in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Washington. Ryu earned a master's in 1998 and a bachelor's in 1996 in agricultural engineering from Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.
Prior to coming to the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ in 2010, he worked for three years at the National Drought Mitigation Center based in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a hydrologist and climate impact specialist. His potential research collaborators include the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ’s faculty across all academic areas and state/federal personnel located in Boise. He is currently affiliated with professional societies, including the American Geophysical Union, the American Water Resources Association and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
- Brain Pool Fellow, National Research Foundation, Korea, 2017
- Lawrence Berkeley Faculty Fellow, U.S., 2017
- U.S. Air Force Faculty Fellow, U.S., 2016-2017