Youngsook HUH
ADDRESS: School of Earth & Environmental SciencesSeoul National University
599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu
Seoul, 151-747
KOREA
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Tel/Fax: +82-2-880-9167
Email: yhuh@snu.ac.kr

Marine Chemistry &Geochemistry
Physical Chemistry
Chemistry

Ph.D. 1998
M.S. 1994
B.S. 1992

EMPLOYMENTAssociate Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (10/1/2006 – Present).
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (8/21/2004 – 9/30/2006).
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (6/1/2000 – 8/31/2005).
Adjunct Invited Researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France (9/1/1999-8/30/2000).
Postdoctoral Research Associate, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (5/19/1998-9/1/1999).
Research & Teaching Assistant, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (9/1/1993-5/18/1998).
Research Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA (6/1/1993-8/31/1993).
Research Assistant, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (10/1/1992-4/30/1993).
Teaching Assistant, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (3/1/1992-6/25/1993).
HONORS2002 NSF CAREER Award “Geochemistry of Redox-Sensitive Elements and Osmium Isotopes inLarge Pristine Rivers”.
1997-1998 Carl-Gustav Rossby Award for the best thesis in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans andClimates, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, M.I.T.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2005-2007 Participated as lecturer in the Science and Policy Advanced Research Course, College of
Natural Sciences, Seoul National University.
2001-2002 Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Junior Fellow, Northwestern University.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
American Geophysical Union
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of America
Korean Geological SocietyFIELD EXPERIENCE
February 2008
Geochemistry of the rivers in Patagonia, South America
August 2006
Geochemistry of the Mt. Baekdu and the Tumen River in Jilin, China.
August 2005
Geochemistry of the Min Jiang in Sichuan and the Tumen River in Jilin, China:
Chengdu, Yanji, 3 weeks.
August 2004
Geochemistry of the Three Rivers Region in Yunnan, China: Kunming, Dali,Panzhihua, 3 weeks.

1December 2002 January 2003
August-September 2001
May-June 2000

May-June 1999
July 1998
November 1997
August-September 1997
July-August 1996
July-August 1995
February 1995
July-August 1994

Geochemisty of the Red River in Vietnam and Yunnan, China (low stage):
Hanoi-Laocai-Kunming-Dali, 4 weeks.
Geochemisty of the Red River in Vietnam and Yunnan, China (high stage):
Hanoi-Laocai-Kunming-Dali, 4 weeks.
Geochemistry of the headwaters of the Mekong, Salween, Chang Jiang andHuang He rivers in western China and Tibet: Chengdu-Chamdo-NachuGolmud-Lanzhou, 6 weeks.
Geochemistry of the headwaters of the Huang He and Chang Jiang rivers inwestern China and Tibet: Chengdu-Lanzhou-Yushu, 6 weeks.
Geochemistry of the Amur River: Khabarovsk-Blagoveschensk, 4 weeks.
Geochemistry of rivers draining the Siwalik Ranges: Bombay-AmdahbadDelhi-Dehra Dun-Simla, 3 weeks
Geochemistry of the Anadyr and Upper Aldan rivers: Anadyr-MarkovoYakutsk-Neryungriy, 8 weeks.
Geochemistry of the Indigirka and Upper Lena rivers: Yakutsk-Belaya GoraKhonuu, 6 weeks.
Geochemistry of the Lower Lena, Yana and Omoloy rivers: Yakutsk-TiksiNizhnyansk-Verkhoyansk, 7 weeks.
Geochemistry of hot springs at TAG Segment, Mid Atlantic Ridge: R/VAtlantis II, DSV ALVIN, 4 weeks.
Geochemistry of Lake Baikal and the Upper Lena River: Irkutsk-ZhigalovoYakutsk, 4 weeks.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES1998 – Present
Reviewed manuscripts for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Marine Chemistry,
Aquatic Geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and ChemicalGeology.
1998 – Present
Reviewed NSF proposals for Arctic Natural Sciences, Arctic Research &Education, Geochemistry & Petrology, Geology & Paleontology, Hydrology, andInstrumentation & Facilities programs.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2007-2008
Departmental undergraduate advisor; member of Departmental Committee onAcademics
2006
Member, Committee on Study of National Grants Indirect Costs2003-2004
Undergraduate Advisor.
2002-2004
Fellowship Coordinator.
2002-2003
Member, Faculty Search Committee.
2001-2002
Member, Building Committee; Member, Faculty Search Committee.
COURSES TAUGHT
891.307 Environmental Geology
026.010 Understanding Earth3345.749 Recent Advances in Geology: Instrumental Analyses in Geochemistry891-404 Geoscientific Information Analysis & Exercise
3345.749 Recent Advances in Geology: Radiogenic Isotopes in Earth Surface Processes
GEOL 450 Advanced Topics in Geology: Global Carbon Cycle (team-taught).
GEOL 440 Advanced Topics in Geochemistry: Analytical Methods in Geochemistry.

2GEOL 327 Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry.
GEOL 318 Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
GEOL 111 Global Environmental Change.
GEOL 102 Freshman Seminar: Time, the Fourth Dimension.

PUBLICATIONSYoon J., Huh Y., Lee I., Moon S., Noh H., and Qin J. (2008) Weathering processes in the Min Jiang:
major elements, 87Sr/86Sr; 34SSO4 ; and 18OSO4. Aquatic Geochemistry, published online April 2008.
Wu L. and Huh Y. (2007) Dissolved reactive phosphorus in large rivers of East Asia. Biogeochemistry 85,263-288.
Moon S., Huh Y., Qin J., and Nguyen v. P. (2007) Chemical weathering in the Hong (Red) River basin:Rates of silicate weathering and their controlling factors. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 1411-1430.
Borges J. and Huh Y. (2007) Petrography and chemistry of the bed sediments of the Red River in Chinaand Vietnam: Provenance and chemical weathering. Sediment. Geol. 194, 155-168.
Qin J., Huh Y., Edmond J. M., Du G., and Ran J. (2006) Weathering and anthropogenic impact in theMing Jiang, a headwater tributary of the Yangtze River. Chem. Geol. 227, 53-69.
Wu L., Huh Y., Qin J., Du G., and Van der Lee S. (2005) Chemical weathering in the Upper Huang He(Yellow River) draining the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.69, 5279–5294.
(SCI IF = 3.811)

Huh Y., Chan L.-H., and Chadwick O. A. (2004) Behaviour of lithium and its isotopes during weatheringof Hawaiian basalt. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 5, doi:10.1029/2004GC000729 (SCI IF = 2.570)
Huh Y., Birck J.-L., and Allègre C. J. (2004) Osmium isotope geochemistry in the Mackenzie River basin.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 222, 115-129. (SCI IF = 3.499)
Huh Y. (2003) Chemical weathering and climate — a global experiment: A review. Geosciences Journal
7, 277-288. (SCI Expanded)
Edmond J. M. and Huh Y. (2003) Non-steady state carbonate cycling and implications for the evolutionof atmospheric PCO2. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 216, 125-139. (SCI IF = 3.499)
Potter P. E., Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (2001) Deep freeze petrology of Lena River sand, Siberia.
Geology 29, 999-1002.
Huh Y., Chan L.-H. and Edmond J. M. (2001) Lithium isotopes as a probe of weathering processes:
Orinoco River. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 194, 189-199.
Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (1999) The fluvial geochemistry of the rivers of Eastern Siberia: III.
Tributaries of the Lena River draining the basement terrains of the Aldan Shield and the Trans-Baikal
Highlands, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 967-987.

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Huh Y., Panteleyev G., Babich D., Zaitsev A. and Edmond J. M. (1998) The fluvial geochemistry of therivers of Eastern Siberia: II. Tributaries of the Lena, Omoloy, Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, and Anadyr
draining the collisional/accretionary zone of the Verkhoyansk and Cherskiy ranges, Geochim. Cosmochim.
Acta 62, 2053-2075.
Huh Y., Tsoi M.-Y., Zaitsev A. and Edmond J. M. (1998) The fluvial geochemistry of the rivers ofEastern Siberia: I. Tributaries of the Lena River draining the sedimentary platform of the Siberian Craton,Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, 1657-1676.
Huh Y., Chan L.-H., Zhang L. and Edmond J. M. (1998) Lithium and its isotopes in major world rivers:
Implications for weathering and the oceanic budget. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 62, 2039-2051.
Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (1998) On the interpretation of the oceanic variations in 87Sr/86Sr as recorded
in marine limestones. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 107, 293-305.
Edmond J. M. and Huh Y. (1997) Chemical weathering yields in hot and cold climates. In Tectonic Uplift
and Climate Change. W. F. Ruddiman and W. Prell eds., Plenum Press, 329-351.
Edmond J. M., Palmer M. R., Measures C. I., Brown E. T. and Huh Y. (1996) Fluvial geochemistry of theeastern slope of the northeastern Andes and its foredeep in the drainage of the Orinoco in Colombia andVenezuela. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 2949-2976.
Edmonds H. N., German C. R., Huh Y., Gamo T. and Edmond J. M. (1995) Continuation of thehydrothermal fluid time series at TAG and the effects of the ODP drilling. Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, 34873489.
Huh Y., Lee J. G., McPhail D. C. and Kim K. (1993) Measurement of pH at elevated temperatures using
the optical indicator acridine. J. Solution Chem. 22, 651-661.
ABSTRACTS OF PRESENTATIONSHan Y. and Huh Y. (2008) A Geochemical Reconnaissance of the springs of Mt. Baekdu (Changbai) andthe Duman (Tumen) River Diamond Jubilee of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedhabad, India.
Yoon J. and Huh Y. (2008) Lithium isotopes in the Siberian Rivers: Importance of the evaporite-derived
dissolved Li and comparison to the Orinoco River Diamond Jubilee of the Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedhabad, India.
Huh Y. (2008) The CO2 sink potential of Himalaya-Tibet weathering and erosion Diamond Jubilee of thePhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedhabad, India.
Huh Y. (2008) The CO2 sink potential of Himalaya-Tibet weathering and erosion Abstract—IGCP 476
Fourth Annual Symposium, Tokyo.
Huh Y. Ollivier T. and Humayun M. (2007) Dissolved rhenium in the rivers of eastern Tibet: proxy forweathering of organic carbon? European Union of Geosciences, Vienna, Austria.
Huh Y. and Lee D.-C. (2006) Neodymium and hafnium isotope systematics in the rivers of Eastern Tibet.
Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
4Moon S. and Huh Y. (2005) Chemical weathering in the Red River in south China and north Vietnam.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Noh H. and Huh Y. (2005) Chemical weathering in the Three Rivers region of eastern Tibet. GeologicalSociety of America Annual Meeting.
Huh, Y., 2004. Present day chemical weathering in the large rivers of the Tibetan Plateau and adjacentareas. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Ellis, A., Huh, Y., 2004. Geochemistry and weathering fluxes of the Yangtze headwaters in China.
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Wu, L., Huh, Y., 2004. Major element geochemistry and strontium isotope ratios of the upper reach of theHuang He. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Borges, J.B., Huh, Y., 2004. Geological and physical constraints on bed-load composition in the Red
River drainage system, South China and Vietnam. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Huh, Y., Chan, L.-H., Chadwick, O.A., 2004. Behaviour of lithium and its isotopes during weathering of
Hawaiian basalt. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Korea.
Huh Y. and Qin J. (2004) Chemical weathering in the Three Rivers of Southeastern Tibet. Asia-Oceania
Geosciences Society, 1st Annual Meeting, Singapore, 107.
Qin J., Huh Y., Edmond J. M., Du G., and Ran J. (2004) Weathering and anthropogenic impact. AsiaOceania Geosciences Society, 1st Annual Meeting, Singapore, 108
Huh Y. (2004) Present day chemical weathering in the large rivers of the Tibetan Plateau and adjacentareas. Abstract—IGCP 476 Second Annual Symposium, Shanghai, 12.
Huh Y. and Stewart A.G. (2003) Iodine in rivers: Indicator of geologic effect on iodine deficiency
disorders? EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union submitted.
Ellis A. and Huh Y. (2003) Geochemistry of the Red River and Chang Jiang — Constraints on theweathering flux associated with the Indo-Tibetan collision. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union submitted.
Borges J. B. and Huh Y. (2003) Petrology and bulk chemistry of modern bed load sediments from rivers
draining the eastern Tibetan Plateau. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union submitted.
Huh Y., Chan L.-H. and Chadwick O. (2002) Lithium isotopes as a probe of weathering processes:
Hawaiian soil climosequence. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66, A346 (abstr.). INVITED.
Huh Y., Chan L.-H. and Edmond J. M. (2001) Lithium isotopes as a probe of weathering processes. EOS,Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 82, F662.
Huh Y., Birck J.-L. and Allègre C. J. (2000) Osmium isotopes and continental weathering. In Tenth
Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, p.537. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.

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Huh Y., Chan L.-H. and Edmond J. M. (1999) Lithium and its isotopes in river water and suspended
material. In Ninth Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, p.131. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.
Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (1997) Chemical weathering yields and Sr isotope systematics from major
Siberian rivers. In Seventh Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, p.100. Lunar and Planetary Institute,Houston.
Edmond J. M. and Huh Y. (1997) Fixation rates of carbon dioxide by chemical weathering in thecontinental arc of the Western Americas. In Seventh Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Lunar andPlanetary Institute, Houston.
Edmond J. M. and Huh Y. (1996) Fixation rates of carbon dioxide by chemical weathering in thecontinental arc of the Western Americas. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 77, F796.
Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (1996) The isotopic systematics of fluvial Sr: new results from the big rivers ofeastern Siberia. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 77, F325.
Zaitsev A., Huh Y. and Edmond J. M. (1996) Chemical weathering yields from basement terrains in subArctic climates: the Rivers of Eastern Siberia. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 77, F783.
Edmond J. M. and Huh Y. (1995) Controls on the isotopic evolution of seawater strontium. EOS, Trans.
Amer. Geophys. Union 76, S295.
Huh Y., Coleman D. and Edmond J. M. (1994) 87Sr/86Sr in Siberian rivers. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys.
Union 75, S142.

THESESThe Fluvial Geochemistry of the Rivers of Eastern Siberia and Implications for the Effect of Climate onWeathering. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Cambridge, MA, p.236, 1998.
Measurement of pH at Elevated Temperatures Using the Optical Indicator Acridine. M.S. Thesis, Korea
University, Seoul, Korea, 1994.
THESES ADVISORS
Postdoctoral Advisors: Dr. Claude Allègre, IPGP; Dr. John Edmond, MIT (deceased).
Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. John Edmond, MIT (deceased).
M.S. Advisor: Dr. Keon Kim, Korea University.
ADVISEES
Postdoctoral : Andre EllisGraduate: Joniell Borges, Seulgi Moon, Hyonjeong Noh, Xinxin Zhang, Lingling Wu, Yeongcheol Han, Jun Yeon
Yoon, Soyol-Erdenne, Borom Lee
Undergraduate: Kalysta Harmon, Kiara Lee, Sarah Holsinger, Timothée Ollivier

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