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Woonsup Choi

  • Professor, Geography
  • Affiliated Faculty, Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute

Education

  • PhD, Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2005
  • MA, Geography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1997
  • BA, Geography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1995

Courses Taught

  • Geog 120 – Our Physical Environment
  • Geog 325 - Data Science and Environmental Applications 
  • Geog 403 – Remote Sensing: Environmental and Land Use Analysis
  • Geog 415 – Hydrogeography
  • Geog 515/716 - Watershed Analysis and Modeling
  • Geog 520 – Physical Geography of the City
  • Geog 547/747 – Spatial Analysis

Research Interests

Woonsup Choi's research is centered around the intersection of climate change, hydrology, and urban growth. Since the early days of his career, he has been interested in climate change and urban growth impacts on hydrology and water quality at basin scales, evaluating hydroclimatic data sets for hydrological analysis and modeling. More recently, he has studied the trends and propagation of drought and how people learn environmental science informally via artistic activities.

Selected Publications

Borchardt, S., & Choi, W. (2023). Effects of climate change and high-capacity wells pumping on streamflow and groundwater elevation in Northeastern Wisconsin. Environmental Earth Sciences, 82(6), 148.
Choi, W., Borchardt, S., & Choi, J. (2022) Human Influences and Decreasing Synchrony between Meteorological and Hydrological Droughts in Wisconsin since the 1980s. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Choi, W. (2020) Drought. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography . Oxford University Press.
Pan, F. , & Choi, W. (2019) A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Hydrologic Ecosystem Services. Hydrology , 6(1), 14.
Kang, S. , Choi , J. , Yoon, H. , & Choi, W. (2019) Changes in the extent and distribution of urban land cover in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) between the 1980s and 2000s. Land Degradation and Development , 30(16), 2009-2017.
Pan, F. , Choi, W. , & Choi, J. (2018) Effects of Urban Imperviousness Scenarios on Model-Simulated Storm Flow. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment , 190, 499.
Han, W. S., Graham, J. , Choung, S. , Park, E. , Choi, W. , & Kim, Y. (2018) Local-Scale Variability in Groundwater Resources: Cedar Creek Watershed, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Journal of Hydro-environment Research , 20, 38-51.
Choi, W. , Byun, H. , Cassardo, C. , & Choi, J. (2018) Meteorological and Streamflow Droughts: Characteristics, Trends and Propagation in the Milwaukee River Basin. The Professional Geographer , 70(3), 463-475.
Choi, W. , Kang, S. , Choi, J. , Larsen, J. , Oh, C. , & Na, Y. (2017) Characteristics of Deforestation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) between the 1980s and 2000s. Regional Environmental Change , 17(3), 379-388.
Choi, W. , Pan, F. , & Wu, C. (2017) Impacts of climate change and urban growth on the flow characteristics of the Milwaukee River (Wisconsin, USA). Regional Environmental Change , 17(3), 889-899.
Choi, W. , Nauth, K. , Choi, J. , & Becker, S. (2016) Urbanization and rainfall-runoff relationships in the Milwaukee River basin. Professional Geographer , 68(1), 14-25.
Kult, J. M., Fry, L. M., Gronewald, A. D., & Choi, W. (2014) Regionalization of hydrologic response in the Great Lakes basin: Considerations of temporal scales of analysis. Journal of Hydrology , 519, 2224–2237.
Choi, W. , Kim, S. , Lee, M. , Koenig, K. , & Rasmussen, P. F. (2014) Hydrological impacts of warmer and wetter climate in Troutlake and Sturgeon River basins in central Canada. Water Resources Management , 28, 5319–5333.
Kang, S. , & Choi, W. (2014) Forest cover changes in North Korea since the 1980s. Regional Environmental Change , 14(1), 347-354.
Kult, J. , Choi, W. , & Choi, J. (2014) Sensitivity of the Snowmelt Runoff Model to snow covered area and temperature inputs. Applied Geography , 55, 30-38.
Choi, W. , Tareghian, J. , Choi, J. , & Hwang, C. (2014) Geographically heterogeneous temporal trends of extreme high precipitation in Wisconsin, USA during 1950-2006. International Journal of Climatology , 34, 2841-2852.

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