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Se-Hyeon Cheon

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 300-323 Pasadena, CA 91109

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Sea Level And Ice

Postdoctoral Scholar

Biography

Dr. Se-Hyeon Cheon is a Postdoctoral Research fellow in the Sea Level and Ice Group, in the Earth Sciences Section. He obtained his Engineering Ph.D. at Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea. During the first two years at SNU, He dedicated to the reliability design of coastal structures to cope with climate change. Then, he came to Old Dominion University to reconstruct sea level and wave around the Korean Peninsula over 1900-2014. His research interests are: 1) Reconstructing of Terrestrial Water (TW) and Sea Level (SL). 2) Subtracting the interannual and decadal variability from SL and TWS.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea. (Advisor: Kyung-Duck Suh), 2012-2017
  • MEng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Spatial Design & Engineering, Handong Global University, Pohang, S. Korea. (Advisor: Kyungmo Ahn), 2003-2006
  • BEng., Major : Construction Engineering / Urban Environmental Engineering, Minor : Computer Science, Dept. of Spatial Design & Engineering, Handong Global University, Pohang, S. Korea, 1995-2003

Professional Experience

  • 6/2020 - Present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  • 6/2018 - 10/2019: Postdoctoral Scientist, Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk, VA
  • 6/2015 - 5/2018: Project Scientist, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  • 3/2006 - 2/2012: Full Time Researcher, Environment and Construction Research Institute of Handong Global University. Pohang, South Korea
  • 3/2010 - 8/2011: Owner, AQUASEN (Private Company of Aqua Sensor), Pohang, South Korea

Research Interests

His research interests are: 1) Reconstructing of Terrestrial Water (TW) and Sea Level (SL). 2) Subtracting the interannual and decadal variability from SL and TWS.

Selected Awards

  • Superior Presentation Awards (Fall, 2016), 2016
  • Global PhD Fellowship. (2nd phase), 2014
  • Global PhD Fellowship. (1st phase), 2012, 2013

Selected Publications

  1. Hamlington, B. D., Cheon, S. H., Piecuch, C. G., Karnauskas, K. B., Thompson, P. R., Kim, K. Y., ... & Frederikse, T. (2019). The Dominant Global Modes of Recent Internal Sea Level Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
  2. Cheon, S. H., Hamlington, B.D., & Suh, K. D. (2018). Reconstruction of Sea Level Around the Korean Peninsula Using Cyclostationary Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Ocean Science, Ocean science journal, (Accepted).
  3. Cheon, S. H., & Suh, K. D. (2016). Effect of sea level rise on nearshore significant waves and coastal structures. Ocean Engineering, 114, 280-289.
  4. Hamlington, B. D., Cheon, S. H., Thompson, P. R., Merrifield, M. A., Nerem, R. S., Leben, R. R., & Kim, K. Y. (2016). An ongoing shift in Pacific Ocean sea level. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(7), 5084-5097.