• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제33권6_1호
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• pp.993-1001
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• 2017

가뭄은 전 지구차원의 다방면에 걸쳐 피해를 주는 자연 재해이다. 21세기 들어 최근까지 다양한 위성관측 기기를 활용하여 다양한 가뭄의 유형을 모니터링 할 수 있게 되었는데, SMAP위성의 토양수분, GRACE 위성의 생태계 물 저장량, Terra & Aqua의 생태계 생산량과 증발산량 그리고 위성 강우 관측 등이 그 예이다. 이들 위성 자료의 분석을 통해 지역적 수자원 현황 및 가뭄과 이로 인한 (수)생태계 영향, 농업 등의 산업, 그리고 인간사회의 영향을 시공간적으로 파악할 수 있다. 가시광선부터 마이크로파까지 채널 (밴드)마다 관측할 수 있는 기상 및 환경 변수가 다르기 때문에 다양한 센서로부터 획득할 수 있는 원격탐사자료는 한반도 전역을 대상으로 가뭄에 대한 수자원 변화와 연관된 피해를 시공간적으로 파악하는 데에 상호 보완적이며 효과적인 수단이다. 따라서 이러한 위성자료들을 통해 국가 재난 대응 차원의 활용방안을 제안하고자 한다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2008

As forest land takes up 65% of the Korean peninsula, there have been continuing conflicts between the development and conservation of forest land. As the income level has changed over time, the usage of forest land in society has changed. There has been increasing demands for forest land for urban development and recreational use. On the other hand, a large proportion of the land is required to be preserved for the forest and the natural ecosystem in it. The existing management system for the forest land has been designed focusing on the management of the trees on the land, and not the land itself. Due to this limitation, the current management system of forest land has failed to protect the forest land from being developed indiscreetly, making it difficult to conserve and develop the forest land in an efficient way. A major question in forest land management is how to integrate economic use activities with the supporting ecosystems to maximize performance of the ecological-economic system. In order to promote sustainable use of forest resources, and to achieve efficient forest land management, it is prerequisite to evaluation on forest resources of natural ecosystems. Quantitative measures are needed that signify how necessary the services and products of forested ecosystems are to human endeavors. In this study, the natural wealth provided by forest land was quantified based on emergy synthesis. Emergy is a universal measure of real wealth of the work of nature and society made on a common basis. Thus, Calculations of emergy provide a basis for making choices about environment and economy following the general public policy to maximize real wealth. The goals of forest land management to achieve balance between the ecology and economy of its integrated system and to foster equity among the diverse outcomes of the forest land were assessed with emergy. Emergy was demonstrated to holistically integrated and quantify the interconnections of a coupled nature-human system allowing the goals of ecological balance and outcome equity to be measured quantitatively. Doing so will provide a better understanding of the basis of forest land wealth and the consequences of management decisions.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.255-265
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• 2011

Marine ecosystems are often characterized by a high biological diversity, and it corresponds to a high chemical diversity. Up to present, more than 20,000 new bioactive substances have been isolated from marine organisms, where considerable numbers of these naturally occurring derivatives are developed as potential candidates for pharmaceutical application. In this process, screening of natural products from marine organisms that could potentially inhibit the expression of metalloproteinases has gained a huge popularity. Cancer is considered as one of the deadliest diseases in the medical field. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) can degrade extracellular matrix (ECM) components and play important roles in a variety of biological and pathological processes. Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors (MMPIs) have been identified as potential therapeutic candidates for metastasis, arthritis, chronic inflammation and wrinkle formation.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2016

Many improper development action were performed at subsurface environment, because there were not any definition about subsurface environment in Korea. The purpose of this study was to establich a definition on subsurface environment. Subsurface environment could be divided by subsurface natural environment and subsurface living environment. The soil, groundwater, ecosystems, landscapes, underground space (naturally occurred) were included in subsurface natural environment. And space and facilities used by human were classified as subsurface living environment.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.587-592
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to identify the controlling factors to construct tidal flat ecosystems having similar characteristics as natural ones. We transplanted the soil in a constructed tidal flat to a natural one and vice versa. Parameters monitored after these transplantations were silt content, organic matter, bacterial population and oxidation-reduction potential. Moreover, the relationship among silt content, organic matter and bacterial population was investigated by laboratory column experiment. The silt content, organic matter, bacterial population and vertical profile of oxidation-reduction potential in the soil transplanted from the constructed tidal flat to the natural one changed to similar values to those in the natural one. On the contrary, all the parameters for the soil transplanted from the natural tidal flat to the constructed one changed to similar values as those in the constructed one. The silt contents in thses two transplanted solis were in proportion to the organic carbon contents and bacterial population. Similarly, the bacterial population in laboratory column experiment increased with the increase in silt and organic matter contents. It seemed to be important to select a place to enhance accumulative of silt and/or to maintain the silt content by hydrodynamic control of seawater in order to construct a tidal flat having similar characteristics as natural one.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.281-285
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• 2007

Cold environments, including polar and alpine regions, are colonized by a wide diversity of micro-organisms able to thrive at low temperatures. There is evidence of a wide range of metabolic activities in alpine cold ecosystems. Like polar microorganisms, alpine microorganisms playa key ecological role in their natural habitats for nutrient cycling, litter degradation, and many other processes. A number of studies have demonstrated the capacity of alpine microorganisms to degrade efficiently a wide range of hydrocarbons, including phenol, phenol-related compounds and petroleum hydrocarbons, and the feasibility of low-temperature bioremediation of European alpine soils by stimulating the degradation capacity of indigenous microorganisms has also been shown.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2018년도 학술발표회
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• pp.355-355
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• 2018

Natural hydrology systems, including high flow and low flow events, are important for aquatic ecosystem health and are essential for controlling the structure and function of ecological processes in river ecosystems. Ecosystem responses to flow changes have been studied in a variety of ways, but little attention has been given to how episodic typhoons and atmospheric circulation patterns can change these hydrologic regime-ecological response relationships. In this diagnostic study, we use an empirical approach to investigate the salient features of interactions between atmospheric circulation, climate, and runoff in the five major Korean river basins.

• 한국농림기상학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농림기상학회 2019년도 하계 학술발표초록집
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• pp.246-246
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• 2019

• 생명과학회지
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• 제32권7호
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• pp.578-587
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• 2022

우리나라는 세계 7위의 온실가스 배출국가로서 국제적으로 배출량 규제가 강화됨에 따라 국가 온실가스 감축 목표를 상향하였고 이로 인해 산업계를 포함한 사회 전반적인 탄소 감축의 노력이 절실한 상황이다. 기후변화 완화 또는 적응 계획의 중요 이행 수단으로 연안과 해양생태계를 자연기반 해법(nature-based solutions, NbS)으로 활용 가능하게 되면서 최근 블루카본(blue carbon) 생태계가 주목받고 있다. 블루카본은 대기 중 이산화탄소가 광합성작용을 통해 맹그로브, 염습지 및 해초류와 같은 연안 생태계나 해조류와 미세조류와 같은 해양생태계에 의해 바이오매스로 흡수된 뒤 퇴적되어 장기간 저장되는 탄소를 의미한다. 현재 기후변화에 관한 정부 간 협의체(IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)에서 현재 공식적으로 인정하고 있는 블루카본 생태계는 맹그로브, 염습지, 해초지 3가지뿐이다. 하지만, 최근 해조류, 미세조류, 산호초, 비식생 갯벌 등 다양한 새로운 블루카본 흡수원들이 가진 높은 이산화탄소 격리 및 저장 능력에 대해 새로운 연구 결과들이 지속적으로 학계에 보고되고 있어, 이들 신규 블루카본 후보군들의 온실가스 흡수량 산정에 관련된 과학적 입증을 통해 IPCC 국제 인증의 가능성이 점차 높아지고 있다. 본 총설에서 동해안이 보유하고 있는 블루카본 흡수원인 해조류, 해초지 및 비식생 갯벌의 현황과 잠재적 가치에 대해 논하고자 한다. 본 논문을 통해 동해는 해조류 자원을 NbS로 활용하는 것이 가장 효과적인 것으로 확인되었다. 또한, 동해안이 보유한 신규 블루카본 흡수원이 이른 시일 내에 IPCC 국제 인증을 받을 수 있도록 연구개발의 방향성과 활용방안을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.177-185
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• 2009

Dryland species and ecosystems have developed unique strategies to cope with low and sporadic rainfall. They are highly resilient and recover quickly from prevailing disturbances such as fires, herbivore pressure and drought. Dryland people have engineered pastoral and farming systems, which are adapted to these conditions and have sustained the livelihoods of dryland people for centuries. In this article, we present the status of potentials and threats to dryland biodiversity and explore options for its conservation and sustainable use. Findings of the research can be summarized as follows: (i) The ecosystem goods and services are highly valued by the community but mechanism for wise use of the resources has disappeared, (ii) forests are under the ownership of the government but the local community is the realistic custodian of the forests through village leaderships and environmental committees; (iii) the immediate major threat to dryland biodiversity held in the forests appears to be the degradation of ecosystems and habitats caused by new and powerful forces of environmental degradation such as large scale irrigation of rice farms, poverty-induced overexploitation of natural resources, and disappearance and ignorance of traditional institutions for management of dryland biodiversity. These new forms of disturbances often overpower the legendary resilience of dryland ecosystems and constitute potentially serious threats to dryland biodiversity. Forests, wetlands and oases all of which are micro hot spots of dryland biodiversity, appear to be particularly vulnerable hence the need to set up some rules and regulations for sustainable utilization of these resources.