Professors

Many of the serious global issues we face, such as warming waters, melting ice and rising sea levels, are directly related to seas and oceans across the world. There is also the increased threat of natural disasters such as typhoons and hurricanes, tsunamis, heatwaves and floods. Many of these issues are directly related to ocean processes and so it follows that in order to combat these issues, it is vital that we find a means of better monitoring, predicting and understanding ocean environments. The SNU Ocean Observation Lab aims to observe and better understand the ocean using new and existing approaches, filling in knowledge gaps in ocean processes. We analyze the in-situ data we or the community collect from the ocean and provide these results to the community via data repositories provided by ocean observation networks and academic publications. Small-scale and rapidly-varying ocean processes have not been well-observed with traditional approaches. New approaches that apply developing ocean-observing technologies help to better resolve such processes. We always seek those share an interest in sea-going ocean science and who wish to contribute towards gaining a better understanding of ocean processes.

• Ph.D., Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2006
• M.S., Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2001
• B.S., Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1999

• Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2023-present
• Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2018-2023
• Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2014-2018
• Postdoctoral Employee and Assistant Project Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, 2008-2014
• Senior Researcher, Naval Systems Research and Development Institute, Agency for Defense Development, Republic of Korea, 2006-2008

1. Park, T.*, Y. Nakayama*, S. Nam (2024), Amundsen Sea circulation controls bottom upwelling and Antarctic Pine Island and Twaites ice shelf melting, Nature Communications, 15, 2946. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47084-z
2. Dasgupta, P.*, S. Nam, Saranya J. S., M. K. Roxy (2024), Marine heatwaves in the East Asian marginal seas facilitated by boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020602. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020602
3. Yoon, S.-T., W. S. Lee*, S. Nam*, C. -K. Lee, S. Yun, K. Keywood, L. Boehme, Y. Zheng, I. -H. Lee, Y. Choi, A. Jenkins, E. K. Jin, R. Larter, J. Wellner, P. Dutrieux, and A. T. Bradley (2022). Ice front retreat reconfigures meltwater-driven gyres modulating ocean heat delivery to an Antarctic ice shelf. Nature Communications, 13, 306. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-27968-8
4. Han, M. H., Y. -K. Cho, H. W. Kang, and S. Nam* (2020). Decadal changes in meridional overturning circulation in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), Journal of Physical Oceanogrpahy, 50 (6), 1773–1791. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0248.1
5. Park, J. H., D. -E. Yeo, K. Lee, H. Lee, S. -W. Lee, S. Noh, S. Kim, J. Shin, Y. Choi, and S. Nam* (2019). Rapid decay of slowly moving Typhoon Soulik (2018) due to interactions with the strongly stratified northern East China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(24), 14595-14603. doi:10.1019/2019GL086274.