Bumsuk Seo
Bumsuk Seo received the B.E. and the M.C.P. degrees from the Seoul National University, Republic of Korea and the Ph.D. degree in Biogeographical modelling from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2015. During the PhD study, he participated an international research project TERRECO between Germany and South Korea. Since 2015, he had been a post-doctoral researcher at Kangwon National University, South Korea (2015-2017) and IMK-IFU, KIT, Germany (2017-2023).
He now holds a Research Professor position at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Email: bumsuk.seo at snu.ac.kr
Research themes
- Understanding land use dynamics under ongoing global socio-ecological changes
- Developing global agent-based and process-based land use models to project future land use
- Mapping land use, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services using cutting-edge remote sensing and machine learning techniques
- Diagnosis and forecast of crop growth condition and crop yield at large scales
Personal pages
Previous project
TERRECO: Complex TERRain and ECOlogical Heterogeneity, DFG/KOSEF International Research and Training Group (GRK 1565/1), 2009-2012, TERRECO project website
Reports & monographs
Seo, B. (2015). Quantification of land use and and land cover in a Monsoon agricultural mosaic from space. PhD Dissertation, University of Bayreuth, Germany, see here
Seo, B. (2008). Optimal Nitrogen fertilizer use in paddy rice farming under risk and uncertainty. Master Thesis, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, see here
Datasets
Seo, B.; Poppenborg, P.; Martin, E.; Hoffmeister, M.; Bogner, C.; Jun, M.; Koellner, T.; Reineking, B.; Shope, C.L.; Tenhunen, J. (2013). Per-field land use and land cover data set of the Haean catchment, Republic of Korea. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.823677, see here
Book translations
The Worldwatch Institute. (2008). State of the World 2008: Ideas and Opportunities for Sustainable Economies, "Investing for Sustainability" and "New Approaches to Trade Governance" (Korean Edition, co-translation), ISBN 9788989831396(8989831393)
Panitch, L.; Leys, C. (2006). Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007, "Neoliberal hurricane: who framed New Orleans?" (Korean Edition, co-translation), ISBN 9788991071513(8991071511)
Cayley, D.; Taylor, C. (2005). The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich (Korean Edition, co-translation), ISBN 9788993450033
Pellow, D.N.; Brulle, R.J. (2005). Power, Justice, and the Environment: Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, "Between Economic Justice and Sustainability" (Korean Edition, co-translation)
Email: bumsuk.seo@kit.edu
Telephone: +49 8821 183 260