• 한국지형학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2010

식물 세포와 조직 사이에 형성된 규산염인 식물규소체는 특히 벼과식물에서 다양한 형태로 많이 산출되고, 분석 결과는 제4기 기후와 환경변화 복원 및 농경활동 가능성을 밝히는데 기여한다. 식물규소체는 물리적, 화학적 풍화에 대한 저항력이 강하며 토양에서 장기간 보존되지만, 제자리에 퇴적되는 특성으로 인하여 연구성과의 적용 공간은 제한된다. 식물규소체는 반복성과 중복성으로 동정이 어렵고, 분류체계도 완성되지 않았으므로 우리나라에서 적용할 수 있는 식물규소체 형태분류를 시도하였다. 식물규소체 분석 결과를 통한 고환경복원은 다양한 분야에서 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 특히 식물규소체의 기후지시자와 함께 Iph와 Ic 등 기후지수를 이용하여 고해상도의 고기후복원도 가능하다.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.28-36
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• 2008

The present study has focused on the environmental changes and evidences for sedimentation in the Lake Khuvsgul catchment during the Holocene period, inferred from short core sediment (BO03) from the eastern shore of Borsog Bay, which were analyzed in order to review records of the Holocene climatic evolution and Holocene history in Northern Mongolia. For the purpose of reconstruction of natural phenomenon that occurred in the lake catchment system during the Holocene, physical and chemical properties including HCl-soluble material, biogenic silica, organic matter and grain size distribution of minerals in the core sediments have been analyzed in this study. The vertical variations in composition for these properties show distinctly that five lines of paleoenvironmental evidence occurred in the lake catchment during the Holocene. A modified age model resulting from AMS carbon dating for the BO03 core sediment shows timings of these environmental events at 9.5 Kyr BP, 8.0 Kyr BP, 5.6 Kyr BP and 3.2 Kyr BP, respectively. Paleoenvironmental changes in the Lake Khuvsgul catchment system during the Holocene highlight distinctive features of the hydrological regime and geomorphologic evolution in the lake catchment due to regional landscape and global climatic changes corresponding with the Holocene optimum and thermal optimum. In particular, the change of hydrologic regime based on the sedimentological evidence has been caused by not only overland flow due to melting water, but also base flow due to thick permafrost around Khuvsgul region.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.179-192
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• 2012

충남 천안시 성정동 지역의 천안천 충적평야 화분분석 결과를 통해 최종빙기 최성기부터 홀로세에 걸쳐 고식생 환경과 기후 변화를 중심으로 고환경을 복원하였다. 화분대 I (약 23,000-15,000 yr BP) 시기는 목본이 드물게 분포하는 소림(疏林)상태로서 초지가 넓게 펼쳐져 있었다. 기후는 한랭하였으나 영남 산간지역에 비해 심하지 않았으며, Woldstedt(1962)와 Yoon and Jo(1996)에 따르면 'very cold'에 대비된다. 화분대 II (약 15,000-10,000 yr BP)는 회갈색 모래층에 해당하는 무화분대로서 최종빙기 최성기에서 홀로세 사이의 점이기에 해당한다. 이 모래층은 실트가 포함된 토탄으로 이루어진 상, 하부 층준과 확연히 구분되는데, 이와 같은 특징은 대단히 한랭했던 시기에서 온난한 환경으로 전환되는 동안 급격한 기후 변화가 진행된데 기인한 것으로 보인다. Holocene 전기에 대비되는 화분대 III (약 10,000-6,000 yr BP)의 화분조성에서는 기후가 뚜렷하게 온난해졌음을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2010

To understand day-to-day fluctuations in soil moisture content in Seoul, I simulated daily soil moisture content from 1908 to 2009 using long-term climatic precipitation and temperature data collected at the Surface Synoptic Meteorological Station in Seoul for the last 98 years with a hydrological simulation model, BROOK. The output data set from the BROOK model allowed me to examine day-to-day fluctuations and the severity and duration of droughts in the Seoul area. Although the soil moisture content is highly dependent on the occurrence of precipitation, the pattern of changes in daily soil moisture content was clearly quite different from that of precipitation. Generally, there were several phases in the dynamics of daily soil moisture content. The period from mid-May to late June can be categorized as the initial period of decreasing soil moisture content. With the initiation of the monsoon season in late June, soil moisture content sharply increases until mid-July. From the termination of the rainy season in mid-July, daily soil moisture content decreases again. Highly stochastic events of typhoons from late June to October bring large amount of rain to the Korean peninsula, culminating in late August, and increase the soil moisture content again from late August to early September. From early September until early October, another sharp decrease in soil moisture content was observed. The period from early October to mid-May of the next year can be categorized as a recharging period when soil moisture content shows an increasing trend. It is interesting to note that no statistically significant increase in mean annual soil moisture content in Seoul, Korea was observed over the last 98 years. By simulating daily soil moisture content, I was also able to reconstruct drought phenomena to understand the severity and duration of droughts in Seoul area. During the period from 1908 to 2009, droughts in the years 1913, 1979, 1939, and 2006 were categorized as 'severe' and those in 1988 and 1982 were categorized as 'extreme'. This information provides ecologists with further potential to interpret natural phenomenon, including tree growth and the decline of tree species in Korea.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.396-412
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• 2011

충남 부여지역의 홀로세(약 8,400 yrs B.P.~현재) 기간의 환경 특히 기후환경을 복원하기 위하여 부여군 가탑리 일대에 분포하는 선상지 퇴적물을 대상으로 탄소동위원소분석과 대자율분석을 실시하였다. 탄소동위원소분석 결과에 의하면, 조사지역에서는 크게 5회의 기후변화가 확인되었는데 I기(期)부터 VI기(期)로 가면서 가장 냉량 건조${\rightarrow}$온난 습윤${\rightarrow}$냉량 건조${\rightarrow}$온난 습윤${\rightarrow}$IV기(期)에 비해 건조${\rightarrow}$V기(期)에 비해 습윤한 환경으로 변천하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 특히 약 5,900~3,200 yrs B.P.의 기간이 상대적으로 가장 온난 습윤했던 것으로 밝혀졌다. 하지만 대자율분석에 의하면 시료채취지점 일대의 환경변화는 크게 4개의 시대로 구분되는데 ii-기(期)에 가장 대자율이 높다. I-기(期)는 배후습지 기원의 퇴적물로 이루어져 있으며, 시간의 경과에 따라 토양화가 진전되었다. 이에 비해 ii-기(期)와 iii-기(期)에서 대자율이 다른 시기에 비해 높은 이유는 구릉사면의 풍화와 토양화 과정에서 강자성 광물이 집적된 토양층이 침식에 의해 제거되고 이들이 운반되어 선상지 퇴적물을 형성했기 때문이다. iv-기(期)는 경작층으로 이용되는 현재에 대비된다.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2012

BACKGROUND: The changes in the climatic conditions have brought potentially significant new challenges, most critical are likely to be its impact on local livelihoods, agriculture, biodiversity and environments. Water induced disasters such as landslides, floods, erratic rain etc., are very common in developing countries which lead to changes in biological, geophysical and socioeconomic elements. The extent of damages caused by natural disasters is more sever in least developing countries. However, disasters affect women and men differently. In most of the cases women have to carry more burden as compared to their male counterpart during the period of disasters. METHODS AND RESULTS: This study examines the impact of disasters on the local livelihood especially agriculture and income generating activities of women in three districts of Nepal. The study uses the primary data collected following an exploratory approach, based on an intensive field study. The general findings of the study revealed that women had to experience hard time as compared to their male counterpart both during and after the disaster happen. Women are responsible for caring their children, collecting firewood, fetching water, collecting grass for livestock and performing household chores. Whereas, men are mainly involved in out-migration and remained out-side home most of the time. After the disaster occurred, most of the women had to struggle to support their lives as well as had to work longer hours than men during reconstruction period. Nepal follows patriarchal system and men can afford more leisure time as compared to women. During the disaster period, some of the households lost their agricultural lands, livestock and other properties. These losses created some additional workload to women respondent, however at the same time; they learn to build confidence, self-respect, self-esteem, and self-dependency.Although Nepal is predominantly agriculture, majority of the farmers are at subsistence level. In addition, men and women have different roles which differ with the variation in agro-production systems. Moreover women are extensively involved in agricultural activities though their importances were not recognized. Denial of land ownership and denial of access to resources as well as migration of male counterparts are some of the major reasons for affecting the agricultural environments for women in Nepal. CONCLUSION: The shelter reconstruction program has definitely brought positive change in women's access to decision making. The gradual increase in number of women respondent in access to decision making in different areas is a positive change and this has also provided them with a unique opportunity to change their gendered status in society.Furthermore, the exodus out-flow of male counterparts accelerated the additional burden and workload on women.