Dr. Eungul Lee
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1710 University Ave., Room 144B
Madison, WI 53726 USA
608-890-2516 tel
608-265-4113 fax
elee43@wisc.edu

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Eungul Lee is a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is working with Prof. Jon Foley on estimating the effects of land cover/use change on the climate system to improve our understanding of how the expansion and intensification of agriculture have affected terrestrial ecosystems across the world and the climate system.

He has been working on various problems in climate science through statistical analysis using various observational datasets and climate model simulations. Eungul is particularly interested in climate variability in the coupled earth system (land-atmosphere-ocean interactions), which may have resulted from recent land cover/use change and interactions with other natural circulation regimes such as those due to El Nino/Southern Oscillation or monsoons. Because changes in land cover/use and oceanic heat sources have been recently observed, this research is relevant to the issues of global climate change and its feedbacks with regional climates.

Eungul earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Geography and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he had invaluable experience in working with Prof. Thomas N. Chase and other research fellows. His deep interest in climatology started from the climatology laboratory (led by Prof. Hyoun-Young Lee and Prof. Seungho Lee) in the Department of Geography at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea where he got his B.S and M.S. His master's degree research addressed the impacts of tropical cyclone (typhoon) on people in Korea.