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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Guebuem Kim is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has a research focus centered on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work predominantly spans subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Marine Chemistry, Ocean Science Journal, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

They have collaborated regularly with certain coauthors, notably:

  • Jeomshik Hwang
  • Hyeong Kyu Kwon
  • Heejun Han
  • Hyung-Mi Cho
  • Hojong Seo

Some recent papers authored by or involving Guebuem Kim are:

  • "Tracing terrestrial versus marine sources of dissolved organic carbon in a coastal bay using stable carbon isotopes" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean" (2024), published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • "Stable Carbon Isotopes Suggest Large Terrestrial Carbon Inputs to the Global Ocean" (2021), published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Significant seasonal changes in optical properties of brown carbon in the midlatitude atmosphere" (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Tracing river water versus wastewater sources of trace elements using rare earth elements in the Nakdong River estuarine waters" (2020), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Global estimate of submarine groundwater discharge based on an observationally constrained radium isotope model

    Eun Young Kwon;Guebuem Kim;Francois Primeau;Willard S. Moore

  • A continuous monitor for assessment of 222Rn in the coastal ocean

    W. C. Burnett;G. Kim;D. Lane-Smith

  • Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) into the Yellow Sea revealed by 228Ra and 226Ra isotopes: Implications for global silicate fluxes

    Guebuem Kim;Jae Woong Ryu;Han Soeb Yang;Seong Taek Yun

  • Submarine groundwater discharge: updates on its measurement techniques, geophysical drivers, magnitudes, and effects

    Makoto Taniguchi;Henrietta Dulai;Kimberly M. Burnett;Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos

  • Estimating submarine inputs of groundwater and nutrients to a coastal bay using radium isotopes

    Dong-Woon Hwang;Dong-Woon Hwang;Guebuem Kim;Yong-Woo Lee;Han-Soeb Yang

  • Large submarine groundwater discharge and benthic eutrophication in Bangdu Bay on volcanic Jeju Island, Korea

    Dong-Woon Hwang;Yong-Woo Lee;Guebuem Kim

  • Tidal pumping of groundwater into the coastal ocean revealed from submarine 222Rn and CH4 monitoring

    Guebuem Kim;Dong Woon Hwang

  • Large submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) from a volcanic island

    Guebuem Kim;Kang-Kun Lee;Kwan-Suk Park;Dong-Woon Hwang

  • A simple and rapid method for analyzing radon in coastal and ground waters using a radon-in-air monitor

    Jong-Mi Lee;Guebuem Kim

  • Linking groundwater-borne nutrients and dinoflagellate red-tide outbreaks in the southern sea of Korea using a Ra tracer

    Yong-Woo Lee;Guebuem Kim

  • Radium tracing nutrient inputs through submarine groundwater discharge in the global ocean.

    Hyung-Mi Cho;Guebuem Kim;Eun Young Kwon;Nils Moosdorf

  • Measurement of 224Ra and 226Ra activities in natural waters using a radon-in-air monitor

    Guebuem Kim;W. C. Burnett;H. Dulaiova;P. W. Swarzenski

  • Use of and to trace groundwater discharge into the Chesapeake Bay

    N Hussain;T.M Church;G Kim

  • Submarine groundwater discharge from oceanic islands standing in oligotrophic oceans: Implications for global biological production and organic carbon fluxes

    Guebuem Kim;Jong-Sun Kim;Dong-Woon Hwang

  • A relationship between submarine groundwater-borne nutrients traced by Ra isotopes and the intensity of dinoflagellate red-tides occurring in the southern sea of Korea

    Yong-Woo Lee;Guebuem Kim;Weol-Ae Lim;Dong-Woon Hwang

  • Nutrient inputs from submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) in Masan Bay, an embayment surrounded by heavily industrialized cities, Korea.

    Yong-Woo Lee;Dong-Woon Hwang;Dong-Woon Hwang;Guebuem Kim;Won-Chan Lee

  • The atmospheric cycling and air–sea exchange of mercury species in the South and equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    C.H. Lamborg;K.R. Rolfhus;W.F. Fitzgerald;G. Kim

  • A sudden bottom-water formation during the severe winter 2000-2001: The case of the East/Japan Sea

    Kyung-Ryul Kim;Guebuem Kim;Kuh Kim;V. Lobanov

  • Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) as a main nutrient source for benthic and water-column primary production in a large intertidal environment of the Yellow Sea

    Hannelore Waska;Guebuem Kim

  • A radon-thoron isotope pair as a reliable earthquake precursor.

    Yong Hwa Oh;Guebuem Kim

  • Atmospheric wet deposition of trace elements to Chesapeake and Delaware Bays

    Guebuem Kim;Joseph R. Scudlark;Thomas M. Church

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Church
Thomas M. Church University of Delaware
William C. Burnett
William C. Burnett Florida State University
Kuh Kim
Kuh Kim Seoul National University
Eric D. Galbraith
Eric D. Galbraith McGill University
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Isaac R. Santos
Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg
Huiming Bao
Huiming Bao Louisiana State University
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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