• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.43 no.10
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• pp.883-891
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• 2010

More recently, there have been significant changes in the forms of channels due to runoff characteristics driven by climate changes and other alterations in basin/channel environments. Particularly, increasing local deposition in major channels is being observed nationwide. Of such phenomena, it is noteworthy that flood-plains show unidirectional growth and lowering of channels within compound channels in the form of a high-flow plain. These changes are supposed to affect management of the river ecology as well as flood control. In this study, the research on channels in Korea confirmed that the phenomenon of local deposition in those channels is actually taking place, rendering a problem to be urgently addressed. Previous studies on bed changes have been focused on low channels based on bed materials distributed over the channels. However, this research has proved that surface-layer deposition of a high-flow plain is closely related with changes in the conditions of ground surfaces and, ultimately, affects the bed of the entire channel as well. According to the intensive research on the condition of the high-flow plain of the mouth of the Han River, the silt deposited in the high-flow plain was the main cause of settlement/growth of vegetation. And this leads to landforming along with woods-forming, disturbing flood control as well as the normal river ecology.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.781-790
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• 2014

Contaminants such as organic matters, nutrients and toxic chemicals in rivers and lakes with a weak flow rate are first removed from the water and accumulated in the sediments. Subsequently, they are released into the water column again, posing direct/indirect adverse effects on the water quality and aquatic ecosystems. In particular, phosphorus is known to accelerate the eutrophication phenomenon when it is released into the water column via physical disturbance and biological/chemical actions as one of important materials that determine the primary production of aquatic ecosystems and an element that is stored mainly in the sediments in the process of material circulation in the body of water. In this study, the effect on reducing phosphorus release in sediments was analyzed by applying different capping materials to lake water, where the effect of aquatic microorganisms is taken into account, and to distilled water, where the effect of microorganisms is excluded. The experimental results showed that capping with chemical materials such as Fe-gypsum and $SiO_2$-gypsum further reduced the phosphorus release by at least 40% compared to the control case. Composite materials like granule gypsum+Sand showed over 50% phosphorus release reduction effect. Therefore, it is determined that capping with chemical materials such as granule-gypsum and eco-friendly materials such as sand is effective in reducing phosphorus release. The changes in phosphorus properties in the sediments before and after capping treatment showed that gypsum input helped to change the phosphorus that is present in lake sediments into apatite-P, a stable form that makes phosphorus release difficult. Based on the above results, it is expected that the application of capping technology will contribute to improving the efficiency of reducing phosphorus release that occurs in river and lake sediments.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.313-323
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• 2012

We have developed analysis method of PFCs in river water and sediment, and determined seven species of PFCs such as PFBS, PFHxS, PFOS, PFHpA, PFOA, PFNA and PFDA. Water and sediment samples were collected from 21 and 13 different sites along the Nakdong, Seomjin and Nam River, respectively. The water samples were pretreated with HLB cartridge and sediment samples were concentrated after extracted by sonication, and the levels of PFCs were determined by LC-MS/MS. The coefficient of determination ($R^2$) values of calibration curves were higher than 0.99. The method detection limits ranged 0.09~0.63 ng/L in water and 0.013~0.020 ng/g in sediment. The recovery rates of PFCs was found to be 74~98% for water and 87~111% for sediment. PFOA was the major species in water samples and followed by PFHpA and PFOS. In sediment, PFOA, PFOS and PFDA showed similar levels. Both water and sediment samples collected from the Nakdong River showed the highest concentrations of PFCs among the three rivers.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.174-187
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• 2000

The Quaternary coarse-grained sandy sediments are distributed along the channels of Seomjin River. The fluvial sediments were sedimentologically studied in horizontal and vertical distributions. To analyze depositional environments and facies changes in the sediments, sediment sampling from river mouth to upper stream and desctriptive approaches to the sediment profiles outcropped near Kurye were carried out. The sediments along the stream lines of the river are assigned to very coarse to coarse sand in grain size. The sediment grains are widely scattered in sorting and moderately sorted in average. For skewness and kurtosis, the sediments ranges from very fine to very coarse skewed and from very lepto-kurtic to extremelyl epto-kurtic states, respectively. The sediments are divided into slightly gravelly sand, gravelly sand and sandy gravel in sediment type. The pain shape in the sandy sediments are dominant in equant and tabular forms showing wide varieties. The sandy sediments are mostly poorly sorted and are highly variable in surface texture with SEM. Some smaller grains in the sediments ordinarily show polished surfaces. Of those grains, quartz ones are commonly angular to surounded. On the basis of facies changes and sedimentary structures, outcropped fluvial sediment profiles in Kurye are classified into xGyS, mGyS, gGyS, xSM, xS, mS, mGyM, IgM in facies. These eight facies are reformed as facies assemblage I and ll. The facies assemblage I and II are interpreted as the products of the channel deposits in braided stream and flood plain ones besides channels, respectively. The change facies assemblage I with facies assemblage ll imply that depositional environments hadbeen migrated from braied sream to flood plain ones.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.306-314
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• 2023

Stream sediments are an important component of water quality management because they are receptors of various pollutants such as heavy metals and organic matters emitted from upland sources and can be secondary pollution sources, adversely affecting water environment. To effectively manage the stream sediments, identification of primary sources of sediment contamination and source-associated control strategies will be required. We evaluated the performance of machine learning models in identifying primary sources of sediment contamination based on the physico-chemical properties of stream sediments. A total of 356 stream sediment data sets of 18 quality parameters including 10 heavy metal species(Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni, As, Zn, Cr, Hg, Li, and Al), 3 soil parameters(clay, silt, and sand fractions), and 5 water quality parameters(water content, loss on ignition, total organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorous) were collected near abandoned metal mines and industrial complexes across the four major river basins in Korea. Two machine learning algorithms, linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers were used to classify the sediments into four cases of different combinations of the sampling period and locations (i.e., mine in dry season, mine in wet season, industrial complex in dry season, and　industrial complex in wet season). Both models showed good performance in the classification, with SVM outperformed LDA; the accuracy values of LDA and SVM were 79.5% and 88.1%, respectively. An SVM ensemble model was used for multi-label classification of the multiple contamination sources inlcuding landuses in the upland areas within 1 km radius from the sampling sites. The results showed that the multi-label classifier was comparable performance with sinlgle-label SVM in classifying mines and industrial complexes, but was less accurate in classifying dominant land uses (50~60%). The poor performance of the multi-label SVM is likely due to the overfitting caused by small data sets compared to the complexity of the model. A larger data set might increase the performance of the machine learning models in identifying contamination sources.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.164-165
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• 2002

내만의 해저퇴적물은 하천이나 외해로부터 유입되어 침강, 응집, 확산, 이동, 재용출 등의 과정에서 수질변화와 저서생물의 서식에 많은 영향을 주는 것으로 알려져 있다(조 등,1982; ASCE, 1992; Kwon and Lee, 1998). 그러므로 해저퇴적물의 변화과정을 이해하기 위해서는 먼저 그 입자 분포의 특성을 파악할 필요가 있다고 생각한다. 이 논문은 오염이 비교적 심한 것으로 알려져 있는 마산만의 여러 정점에서 채취한 해저퇴적물의 입자크기를 측정하고 그 분포의 통계학적 특성을 조사한 것이다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Biology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.41-45
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• 2002

광양만의 지형변화 및 퇴적환경발달양상에 대해 표층퇴적물과 지층탐사자료를 이용하여 연구하였다. 광양만 해역은 1970년대이후 광양만 개발에 따라 해안선 및 해저지형이 급격한 변화를 겪어왔다. 광양만의 면적은 개발이전보다 25%정도 감소하였다. 해안선 변형은 공단건설을 위한 해안매립공사로 인해 그리고 해저지형변화는 대형선박들의 안전항로개발을 위한 해저퇴적물의 준설 등에 의해 발생하고 있다. 표층퇴적물는 점토질 퇴적물 묘도서측 및 여수해만의 외해지역에 주로 분포하고, 사질 퇴적물은 섬진강하구와 수로에 분포하고 있다. 표층퇴적물의 유기물 함량은 퇴적물의 특성을 반영하며, 특히 점토질퇴적물에 다량으로 포함하고 있다. 탄성파 단면도상에서 기반암위에 Unit II와 Unit I가 분포하며, 하부 Unit II는 홀로세 이전의 하천환경 퇴적층으로 판단되며, 홀로세 Unit I 퇴적층은 섬진강하구에서 외해를 향해 전진퇴적양상의 쐐기형태를 보인다. 이 층은 섬진강에서 유출된 퇴적물이 델타환경을 이루면서 형성된 퇴적층서로 해석된다. Unit I 퇴적층내에 천부가스층이 광범위하게 분포한다. 천부가스는 광양만의 생태환경에 영향을 미칠 것으로 판단된다. 광양만 주변의 재발에 따른 해안 및 해저지형의 급격한 변형은 퇴적환경 및 해양환경에 변화를 야기할 것으로 예상된다. 특히 섬진강 하구지역의 광양제철소 건설은 섬진강에서 장양만으로 유입되는 퇴적물의 퇴적작용의 커다란 영향을 미칠 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.39
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• pp.34-57
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• 1994

우리나라의 주민생활을 이해하는데는 먼저 지형지모에 대한 이해로부터 시작되어야한다. 지형지모의 근간이 되는 산세가 가장기본 토대가 되고 이에 따른 하천수계의 상태가 주민생활과 밀접하게 관계되고 있다. 본 연구는 우리나라 북부지방의 하천수계가 어떻게 흘러가고 있으며, 이들 강과 하천이 어떤 상태이며, 그리고 우리주민생활무대인 평야로 발달시키고 있는가를 분석 한 것이다. 실제로 하천은 침식과 운반 그리고 퇴적 등의 세가지 유수작용을 하고 있으므로 지구표면 각지역에 넓은 생활터전인 평야지역을 발달시켜 주고있다. 이로 말미암아 인류문화의 발전근거가 바로 하천과 평야에 근거되고 있다고 볼 수 있는 것이다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.56-56
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• 2016

하도 안정성에 민감하게 반응하는 대표적 하천 구역은 본류와 지류의 합류부이다. 이와 같은 합류부에서는 흐름과 하상변동 양상이 상대적으로 복잡하다. 이는 본류 및 지류 간 유사이송량, 유황, 흐름, 하도경사 등 수리특성이 서로 다르기 때문이다. 지류 합류부에서는 지류 자체의 하상 변동 영향뿐만 아니라 본류의 하상변동으로부터도 직 간접적으로 영향을 받는다. 즉 본류에서 자연적이든 인위적이든 어떤 원인으로 말미암아 하상저하가 갑자기 일어나면 지류의 하도 종단경사 변화가 현저하게 일어나는, 이른 바 두부침식 현상이 발생하기도 한다. 한편 본류와 지천 사이 흐름특성 유사거동 특성이 서로 다르기 때문에 합류뷰 주위에 지속적인 국지퇴적이 야기되기도 한다. 합류부에서 이와 같은 침식 또는 퇴적 현상으로 말미암아 하천관리상 여러 문제점을 야기한다. 이에 따라 지류 합류부에서 하천경사를 일정하게 유지하기 위하여 하상유지공 설치 등 적절한 하도안정화 대책을 모색해야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존의 하천정비기본계획에서 현안의 분석을 통해 개선 방안을 제시하였으며, 국가 및 지방 하천 3,836 개소에 대한 합류부 도상과 일부 현장 조사를 실시하였다. 조사?분석 결과를 바탕으로 합류부의 재해 유발 지표를 도출하고 전문가로부터 의견 수렴을 통해 가중치를 부가하여 합류부 재해 위험성 및 안정성 평가 기법을 정립하였다. 그 동안 관련 부처 및 지자체에서 하천계획을 수립하는 데, 중점 정비 및 관리가 필요로 하는 합류부를 선정 시 그 기준이 모호하였다. 그러나 본 연구에서 정량적으로 정립한 기준은 하천 합류부의 재해 위험성을 평가할 수 있어 고도의 하천관리를 지향할 수 있는 계기를 마련하였다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.192-203
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the formative processes of depositional landforms in Jiwoo drainage basin which located in the most upstream reach of Namgang River. Through the analysis of morphologic characteristics and sedimentary facies, the formative processes can be summarized as follow: First, the high depositional landforms(Sapyeong, Eungam, Naedongdyttle site) were formed by gelifluction process in the periglacial environment during the last glacial period. And the relative height over river bed of them is getting lower from upper to downstream. The extent of the high depositional landforms is assumed about 1 kilometer downstream far from the confluence of Jiwoo stream and Namgang River. Second, the sediments in the gentle slope at Jangseungbuldle were carried by gelifluction process during the last glacial stage after the deep-weathered bedrock had formed a gentle slope. Third, the high depositional landforms were dissected during warm and humid environment of postglacial stage, and some sediments of them were left in the river bed. Later, as the more upstream high depositional landforms were dissected completely, stream power was getting more than resistance(sediment storage) and the low depositional landforms(Sapyeong, Yongchusa, Deungbangdle site) were formed.