Professors

The surface of the Earth is covered by a wide spectrum of sedimentary processes from deposition of stromatolites by microbes to hundreds-kilometers-long deep-sea gravity flows. These sedimentary processes and their changes in geologic time scale are recorded in sedimentary successions. Sedimentologic and stratigraphic researches reconstruct ancient depositional processes and environments on the Earth and the other planets.
We are conducting geological mapping and stratigraphic researches of the lower Paleozoic strata in Korea and adjacent regions to enhance our understanding on tectonics and paleogeography of Korean Peninsula. Integrated research of sedimentology and isotope geochemistry on the late Paleozoic strata occurring in the Antarctic, Arctic, and Australian areas is expected to reconstruct global scale linkage in environmental change and elemental cycles in the ice age developed 300 million years ago. Attempts to establish sedimentary facies model of the lava flows of the Jurassic flood basalt in the Antarctica are being made to better understand physical processed of basalt formation and stratigraphic role in the basin filling.
Stratigraphic studies on sedimentary cores and seismic profiles from the ocean basins around Korean Peninsula analyzes tectonic influence on basin formation and basin-fill history. The results will provide geological information of the hydrocarbon and CO2 reservoir formation to the related industries.

• Ph.D., Sedimentology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2009
• M.S., Sedimentology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2004
• B.S., Oceanography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2002

• Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2019-
• Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST), Korea, 2012-2018
• Field Camp Leader, Korea Antarctic Geologic Expedition (KAGEX), 2012-2017
• Senior Research Scientist, KOPRI, Korea, 2009-2019

1. Jusun Woo, Young-Hwan S. Kim and Sung Kwun Chough, (2019). Facies and platform development of a microbe-dominated carbonate platform: The Zhangxia Formation (Drumian, Cambrian Series 3), Shandong Province, China. Geological Journal, 54(4), 1993-2015, doi: 10.1002/gj.3274
2. Young-Hwan G. KIM, Jusun Woo, Tae-Yoon S. Park, Ji-Hoon Kihn, Jong Ik Lee and Moon Young Choe, (2018). Sedimentary breccia and diamictite of the Cambrian Spurs Formation in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Two kinds of debris flows in a submarine channel system. Antarctic Science, 30(4), 245-263, doi: 10.1017/S0954102018000123
3. Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jongsun Hong, Suk-Joo Choh, Dong-Jin Lee, Jusun Woo and Robert Riding, (2016). Early recovery of sponge framework reefs after Cambrian archaeocyath extinction: Zhangxia Formation (early Cambrian Series 3), Shandong, North China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 457, 269-276, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.018