KH - Gather pictures from the visit of NASA scientists to GIST and write a 2-page article with pictures about the event.
From October 7th, 2024 to October 10th, 2024, four NASA researchers visited GIST and HydroAI lab to have a seminar and also for the collaborative work on constructing Core Validation Site (CVS) at Hampyeong area.
Visited researchers are below:
Dr. Simon Yueh, a senior research scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Dr. Andreas Colliander, a research scientist at JPL
Dr. Rajat Bindlish, a research assistant at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Dr. Jeonghwan Park, a support scientist II at GSFC
[October 7th, 2024]
At evening, professor Hyunglok Kim, Dr. Yueh, Dr. Bindlish, Dr. Park, Dr. Nguyen Hoang Hai (Postdoctoral researcher), Subin Kim (Integrated MS/PhD student), Seongjun Lee (MS student), Kunhee Park (MS student), Nayoung Kwon (MS student), Aigerim Bolatbekkyzy (Integrated BS/MS student), Jinwoo Kim (BS student), and Dowon Lee (BS student) had a dinner together at nearby GIST.
The dinner session was a meaningful experience to all the students, having a lot of conversation with the researchers from the world's leading research organization. It was possible to have some insight on their research, as well as other objectives like future studies.
[October 8th, 2024]
In the morning, professor Kim, Dr. Yueh, Dr. Colliander, Dr. Bindlish, Dr. Park and Kunhee Park visited site candidate 1 and candidate 4 of the 1km grid cell. The site is located at Hakgyo-myeon, Hampyeong-gun. At the site, it was possible to meet the farmer of the actual site, listening about the characteristics of the soil there. Also there has been some advice about conducting in-situ soil moisture retrieval as well.
In the afternoon, a seminar session was held. Dr. Yueh gave a presentation about soil moisture observation techniques, Dr Colliander gave a presentation about the validation process of soil moisture, Dr. Bindlish gave a presentation about restoration of soil moisture, and Dr. Park gave a presentation about the point of view of working at NASA as a Korean. After the seminar, lab students had another time to talk with the researchers, listening to personal experiences as well.
[October 9th, 2024]
On October 9th, the same member with yesterday went to visit two sites in Damyang, which is also another candidate for CVS site. First place was Daeah reservoir in Daejeon-myeon, Damyang-gun. Second place was the riverside of Yeongsan River, nearby Seungdo barrage in Subuk-myeon, Damyang-gun. Since the vast majority of land cover in Korea has forest, there has been discussion about the soil moisture retrieval process in forest areas.
[Left] Photo at Daeah reservoir. [Right] Photo at nearby Seungdo barrage.
