Soo-Hyung Kim

  • Professor
  • Byron and Alice Lockwood Endowed Professorship in Forest Resources
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    • Soo-Hyung Kim

    • Professor
    • Byron and Alice Lockwood Endowed Professorship in Forest Resources

    Research areas

    B.S., Agronomy, Seoul National University, Korea
    M.S., Crop Science, Seoul National University, Korea
    Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA

    Autumn 2026-27: Dr. Kim is not currently accepting graduate students. 

    PEML Mission and Philosophy

    Dr. Kim and his Plant Ecophysiology and Modeling Lab (PEML) study how plants work and interact with their environments. PEML’s mission is to advance and apply plant science to discover ways to mitigate and adapt to global change while minimizing the environmental impacts caused by humans. PEML embraces open science, mentorship, and engagement while educating future stewards of our environment. PEML values an inclusive and collaborative environment and believe that by sharing our diverse backgrounds and mindsets we can foster creativity, excellence and compassion.

    Courses

    • ESRM 411 | Plant Propagation (3) - Spring
    • ESRM 478 | Plant Ecophysiology (5) - Winter
    • SEFS 508 | Plant Process and Systems Modeling (3) - Autumn

    Current sponsored projects

    • Getting to the Core of Roots: Model Informed Machine Learning for Phenotyping and Mapping (US Department of Agriculture: Co-PI)

    • Model-based coupling of winter hardiness and spring phenology in Pacific Northwest conifers (US Forest Service: PI)

    • Climate-Ready Landscape Plants (US Department of Agriculture: Co-PI)

    • Elucidation of the Roles of Diazotrophic Endophyte Communities in Promoting Productivity and Resilience of Populus through Systems Biology Approaches (US Department of Energy: Co-PI)

    • Development of yield prediction technology for vegetable crops based on crop modeling and machine-learning algorithms (Rural Development Administration, Korea: PI)

    • Development of database on crop responses to climate change for model development and validation (US Department of Agriculture: PI)

    Selected publications

    Hendrickson, M., Banan, D., Tournay, R., Bakker, J. D., Doty, S. L., & Kim, S.-H. (2025). Salicaceae endophyte inoculation alters stomatal patterning and improves the intrinsic water-use efficiency of Populus trichocarpa after a water-deficit. Journal of Experimental Botany, eraf136. 

    Hsu, H.-W., & Kim, S.-H. (2025). Temperature dependence of pollen germination and tube growth in conifers relates to their distribution along an elevational gradient in Washington State, USA. Annals of Botany, 135(1–2), 277–292. 

    Stuke, M., Yun, K., & Kim, S.-H. (2024). Adapting a process-oriented cold hardiness model to conifers. Forest Ecology and Management, 553, 121611.

    Hsu, H.-W., Stuke, M., Bakker, J. D., & Kim, S.-H. (2024). A time-to-event analysis for temperature dependence of seed germination in four conifers: Ecological niche and environmental gradients. Forest Ecology and Management, 562, 121972.

    Banan, D., Sher, A. W., Tournay, R. J., Doty, S. L., & Kim, S.-H. (2024). Endophyte-mediated Populus trichocarpa water use efficiency is dependent on time of day and plant water status. Phytobiomes Journal, 8(3), 309–317.

    Yun, K., & Kim, S.-H. (2023). Cropbox: A declarative crop modelling framework. in silico Plants, 5(1), diac021. 

    Parasurama, S., Banan, D., Yun, K., Doty, S., & Kim, S.-H. (2023). Bridging time-series image phenotyping and functional–structural plant modeling to predict adventitious root system architecture. Plant Phenomics, 5, 0127. 

    Hsu, H.-W., Yun, K., & Kim, S.-H. (2023). Variable warming effects on flowering phenology of cherry trees across a latitudinal gradient in Japan. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 339, 109571. 

    Yun, K., Shin, M., Moon, K. H., & Kim, S.-H. (2022). An integrative process-based model for biomass and yield estimation of hardneck garlic (Allium sativum). Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 783810.

    Marcaida, M., Farhat, Y., Muth, E. N., Cheythyrith, C., Hok, L., Holtgrieve, G., Hossain, F., Neumann, R., & Kim, S.-H. (2021). A spatio-temporal analysis of rice production in Tonle Sap floodplains in response to changing hydrology and climate. Agricultural Water Management, 258, 107183.