Dr. Kelly Huh

Assistant Professor of Geography, Geography and Anthropology, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

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Dr. Kelly Huh is a Physical Geographer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography, an MS in Earth Science from Ohio State University, and a BS in Oceanography from Busan National University, Korea. Her main research interests include climate-glacier-hydrologic dynamics since the Little Ice Age, physical dimensions of environmental change in glacierized landscapes in Peruvian Andes, global climate change. She teaches physical geography, physical geography lab, upper-division courses in advanced Geographical Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing and digital image processing, advanced physical geography, and field methods. She has authored or co-authored ten peer-reviewed articles and twenty-five conference presentations since 2004. Dr. Huh has participated in several research projects including: terrestrial, airborne-, and space-borne scanning for monitoring glacier changes in Greenland, Antarctica, Yukon territory in Canada and the Peruvian Andes, digital imagery process using remotely-sensed datasets by NASA and USGS with Ground Positioning System (GPS) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as well as a GIS project of identifying and mapping military installations of Inland Empire during the WWII. She has been awarded several grants and awards for research and professional development including, United States Department of Veterans Affairs grant, Chancellor’s Course Redesign with Technology, the Provost’s Teacher-Scholar fellowship, two Kellogg Presidential Research Scholarship and Creative Activities (RSCA) grant, two Special Projects for Improving the Classroom Environment (SPICE) grant. Also, she was awarded multiple opportunities for teaching and research resource and development including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) Retreat, the Great Antarctic Climate Hack workshop at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, two eLearning Course Redesign (CoRe) Projects Pilot Program, the Association of College & University Educators (ACUE), Engaging the Digital Student Initiative Summer Institute. Most proudly, Dr. Huh awarded Faculty Advisor of the Year in College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences (CLASS) in May 2020.

Publications

Sotelo, D., Aguilar, R., Herrera, R., and Huh, K. (submitted). GIS Analysis of Park Distribution and Accessibility in the Los Angeles Metro & South Service Planning Areas: A Look into the Health & Socioeconomic Factors of 2010, 2011 & 2015 [maps], 2020 ESRI ArcUser. Redlands, CA. ESRI.

Chesnokova, A., Baraër, M., Laperrière-Robillard, T., and Huh, K. (2020). Linking Mountain Glacier Retreat and Hydrological Changes in Southwestern Yukon. Water Resource Research, 56, e2019WR025706. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025706

Huh, K., Abdullah, L., and M.Williams, C. (2019). Out of sight, out of mind? Relationship between obesity rate and fast food locations in Los Angeles County. Geospatial Review, Vol.16.

Huh, K., Baraër, M., Mark, B.G., and Ahn, Y. (2018). Evaluating Glacier Volume Changes since the Littel Ice Age Maximum and Consequences for Stream Flow by Integrating Models of Glacier Flow and Hydrology in the Cordillera Blanca, Peruvian Andes. Water, 10(12), 1732. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10121732

Huh, K., Mark, B.G., Ahn, Y. and Hopkinson, C. (2017). Volume change of tropical Peruvian glaciers from multi-temporal digital elevation models and volume-surface area scaling. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. Vol.99 (3), 222-239.

Ahn, Y. and Huh, K. (2016). Understanding Interpolation Methods of the North American Datum (NAD) Transformation Grids. Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) Journal, 75 (1), 23-33(11).

Ahn, Y., Huh, K., Nagarajan, S., Hong, J., Bang, K. (2016). Light weighted and Portable LiDAR , VLP-16 Registration. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, April 11-15, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

Baraer, M., Mark, B.G., McKenzie, J., Huh, K., Condom, T., Gomes, J., Rathay, S. (2012). Glacier recession and water resources in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, Journal of Glaciology. 58 (207), 134-150.

Bury, J. T., Mark, B.G., McKenzie, Baraer, M., Huh, K., Zapata L., M., Gomez, J. (2011). Glacier recession and human vulnerability in the Yanamarey watershed of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Climate Change 105(1-2), 179-206.

Huh, K., Mark, B.G., Hopkinson, C. (2012). Changes of topographic context of the Yanamarey glacier in the Tropical Peruvian Andes. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Redbook Proceedings 352-86.

La Frenierre, J., Huh, K., Mark, B.G. (2011). Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. In: J. Ehlers, P.L. Gibbard, P.D. Hughes (Ed.). Quaternary Glaciations- Extent and Chronology – A Closer Look. Developments in Quaternary Science, 15, 773-802, Elsevier.

Buffen, A., Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E., Huh, K. (2009). Recently exposed vegetation reveals Holocene changes in the extent of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru. Quaternary Research 72, 157-163.

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