Kelly Huh – Cal Poly Pomona Experts

Expertise:

Climate Change, Tropical Mountain Glaciology, Global Climate Change, Weather and Climate, Water Resources, Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, Geospatial Analysis

Kelly Huh is a tropical mountain glaciologist and physical geographer with research interests in climate-glacier-hydrologic dynamics since the Little Ice Age, physical dimensions of environmental change in glacierized landscapes in Peruvian Andes and global climate change.

She has participated in several research projects including: terrestrial, airborne-, and spaceborne monitoring glacier changes in Greenland, Antarctica, and Peruvian Andes; digital imagery processing using remotely-sensed datasets by NASA and USGS with Ground Positioning System (GPS) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); as well as a GIS project of identifying and mapping military installations in California’s Inland Empire during WWII.

Recent Grants and Fellowships:

Cal Poly Pomona SIRG (Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant), $5,000, 2019-2020
Cal Poly Pomona SPICE Grant: Innovative Approaches to Instruction, $18,817, 2019-2020
Cal Poly Pomona RSCA (Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities) Grant, $5,000, 2018-2019
Cal Poly Pomona Teacher-Scholar Award, 2018-19
Department of Veterans Affairs as co-PI, Veterans Legacy Program Grant, $29,279, 2018
Cal Poly Pomona, SPICE Grant: Innovative Approaches to Instruction, $13,047, 2017-2018
CSU Chancellor’s Office, Course Redesign with Technology, $20,000, 2016-2017
Cal Poly Pomona, RSCA (Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities) Grant, $10,000, 2015-2016
NASA, ASTER imagery grant, ~250 images, 2015-2016
GEOEYE Foundation Imagery Grant, 4 IKONOS images over Peruvian Andes, 2011
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), $30,000/year, 2004-2007

Selected Publications:

With Chesnokova, A., Baraer, M., Laperriere-Robillard, T. (2020). “Linking Mountain Glacier Retreat and Hydrological Changes in SouthwesternYukon”. doi://10.1029/2019WR025706
With M. Baraer, B.G. Mark and Y. Ahn, “Evaluating Glacier Volume Changes since the Little Ice Age Maximum and Consequences for Stream Flow by Integrating Models of Glacier Flow and Hydrology in the Cordillera Blanca, Peruvian Andes. Water,” 10(12), 1732. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10121732, 2018
With B.G. Mark, Y. Ahn and C. Hopkinson, “Volume change of tropical Peruvian glaciers from multi-temporal digital elevation models and volume-surface area scaling,” Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, Vol.99 (3), 222-239, 2017
With Y. Ahn, “Understanding Interpolation Methods of the North American Datum (NAD) Transformation Grids,” Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) Journal, 75 (1), 23-33(11), 2016
With Y. Ahn, S. Nagarajan, J. Hong, and K. Bang, “Light weighted and Portable LiDAR , VLP-16 Registration,” American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, April 11-15, Fort Worth, TX, 2016
With M. Baraer, B.G. Mark, J. McKenzie, T. Condom, J. Gomes and S. Rathay, “Glacier recession and water resources in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca,” Journal of Glaciology 58 (207), 134-150, 2012
With B.G. Mark and C. Hopkinson, “Changes of topographic context of the Yanamarey glacier in the Tropical Peruvian Andes,” International Association of Hydrological Sciences Redbook Proceedings 352-86, 2012
With J.T. Bury, B.G. Mark, J. McKenzie, M. Baraer, L.M. Zapata and J. Gomez, “Glacier recession and human vulnerability in the Yanamarey watershed of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru,” Climate Change 105(1-2), 179-206, 2011
With J. La Frenierre and B.G. Mark, “Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,” in Quaternary Glaciations-Extent and Chronology – A Closer Look – Developments in Quaternary Science, 15, 773-802 (J. Ehlers, P.L.Gibbard, P.D. Hughes (eds.), Elsevier, 2011)
With A. Buffen, L.G. Thompson and E. Mosley-Thompson, “Recently exposed vegetation reveals Holocene changes in the extent of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru,” Quaternary Research 72, 157-163, 2009

Interviews:

“New Research Finds Greenland’s Ice Sheets Struggling To Maintain Themselves Due To Climate Change” — “AirTalk with Larry Mantle,” KPCC 89.3FM, Aug. 30, 2022
“Weather & Climate Chat,” Kutztown University Radio (KUR PA), March 21, 2016

Education:

B.S., Oceanography, Busan National University (Korea)

M.S., Earth Science & Ph.D. Geography, Ohio State University

Languages:

English, Korean and limited Spanish and Japanese