Kyra H. Adams (Kim)

Dr. Kyra Adams (née Kim) was born and raised in South Korea. Her research interests span coastal hydrology, nearshore biogeochemistry, and groundwater modeling. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology with Special Honors and Bachelor of Art in Music, at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. Dr. Adams pursued her doctoral study in hydrogeology at the University of Delaware, where she focused on freshwater-seawater interactions in sandy beaches using field sampling, laboratory experiments, and numerical modeling. In 2019 and joined JPL as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow to work on groundwater depletion and subsidence in the Central Valley using GRACE and Sentinel-1. As of 2022 she has joined the JPL Sea Level and Ice Group as a Research Scientist. Her current research focuses on coastal freshwater-saltwater processes and filling the global coastal measurement gap by ways of model development and data synthesis.