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Woonsup Choi

Associate Professor
 Bolton Hall 496
Geography Faculty
Curriculum Vitae

Web Site: people.uwm.edu/choiw/

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 Syllabus, Online Syllabus
Geog 403 – Remote Sensing: Environmental and Land Use Analysis Syllabus
Geog 415 – Hydrogeography Syllabus
Geog 515 – Watershed Analysis and Modeling Syllabus
Geog 520 – Physical Geography of the City Syllabus
Geog 547 – Spatial Analysis Syllabus

Research Interests

Woonsup Choi’s research activities emphasize understanding of the effects of climate change and urbanization on water-related environmental problems. In this context, he has conducted research on the potential impacts of climate change and land use change on the hydrology and water quality for several regions in the United States and Canada. The approach is mostly combining simulation models with various climatic and land use change scenarios. Currently, his work focuses on the effect of urban areas on future climate scenarios and how it is going to affect the results from hydrological simulations. As preliminary work, he analyzed the spatial and temporal patterns of urban climate in the Midwest with financial support from the UWM Graduate School Research Committee. He also embarked on research fieldwork in Seoul, Korea to examine water quality in small streams that recently underwent restoration projects.

Representative Publications

Choi, W., Borchardt, S., & Choi, J. 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, January (1st Quarter/Winter)). Drought. Barney Warf (Ed.). Oxford Bibliographies in Geography.
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, October (4th Quarter/Autumn)). 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.