(RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
| Email: | eunjee.lee@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6239 |
| Org Code: | 610.1 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.1 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO |
Sc.D. in Atmospheric Science (2011)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.S. in Chemistry (2005)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2002)
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2025)
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II (GESTAR2), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
December 2021 - Present
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
August 2021 - November 2021
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
September 2015 - August 2021
Sustainability Science Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
September 2012 - August 2015
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / Center for Global Change Science, MIT - Cambridge, MA
October 2011 - July 2012
Department of Economic and Social Affairs - United Nations Headquarters, New York City
January 2005 - June 2005
Teaching Assistant for Graduate-Level Courses at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Global Climate Change: Economics, Science and Policy
Atmospheric Radiations
Scientific Achievement Award, NASA Global Modeling & Assimilation Office, 2023
Harvard Sustainability Science Fellowship, 2012-2015
MIT Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability, 2008
MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2005
Integrating remote sensing observations with NASA’s GEOS-5 modeling framework in support of retrospective analyses and seasonal prediction of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux
NASA Interdisciplinary Science (NNH16ZDA001N-IDS) - NASA - Awarded: 2016-10-01
Improved hydrometeorological prediction in an S2S system through improved treatments of evapotranspiration, runoff, and carbon cycle processes
NASA Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrometeorological Prediction (NNH21ZDA001N-S2SHYD) - NASA - Awarded: 2022-08-01
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasting for Informed Decision-Making in the Mekong River Basin
NASA SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (NNH21ZDA001N-SERVIR) - NASA - Awarded: 2022-08-23
Dates: -
2025. "Mass Change Index for Characterizing Hydrological Extremes Every Few Days From Satellite Gravity Measurements.", Water Resources Research, 61 (12): e2025WR040534 [10.1029/2025wr040534] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Amazonia Wetland Methane Emission Decrease in 2023: Seasonal Forecasting of Global Wetlands Highlights Monitoring Targets in Critical Ecosystems.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17 (12): e2025MS005510 [10.1029/2025ms005510] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Investigations into the Subseasonal Predictability of Soil Moisture and Streamflow.", Journal of Hydrometeorology, 26 (11): 1735-1749 [10.1175/jhm-d-25-0010.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Improved Hydrological Forecasting of Subseasonal Streamflow for the Irrawaddy and Mekong Rivers in Southeast Asia.", Water Resources Research, 61 (10): e2025WR040561 [10.1029/2025wr040561] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Recent streamflow variability linked to climate, dam operations and land cover change in the Irrawaddy River, Southeast Asia.", Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 62 102861 [10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102861] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Effects of land surface model resolution on soil moisture and wildfire simulations using Community Land Model version 5 – Biogeochemistry.", Journal of Hydrology, 663 134085 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134085] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Skillful Seasonal Forecasts of Land Carbon Uptake in Northern Mid‐ and High Latitudes.", Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (6): e2021GL097117 [10.1029/2021GL097117] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "GRACE Follow-On revealed Bangladesh was flooded early in the 2020 monsoon season due to premature soil saturation.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (47): e2109086118 [10.1073/pnas.2109086118] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Novel Along‐Track Processing of GRACE Follow‐On Laser Ranging Measurements Found Abrupt Water Storage Increase and Land Subsidence During the 2021 March Australian Flooding.", Earth and Space Science, 8 (11): [10.1029/2021ea001941] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (18): 14177-14197 [10.5194/acp-21-14177-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Impact of a Regional US Drought on Land and Atmospheric Carbon.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125 (8): [10.1029/2019jg005599] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower planning in the Brazilian Amazon.", Nature Sustainability, 3 430-436 [10.1038/s41893-020-0492-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Future climate and land use change impacts on river flows in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon.", Earth's Future, 7 (8): 993-1017 [10.1029/2019EF001198] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global terrestrial carbon fluxes.", Biogeosciences, 15 5635-5652 [10.5194/bg-15-5635-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Decoupling the effects of deforestation and climate variability in the Tapajós river basin in the Brazilian Amazon.", Hydrological Processes , 32 (11): 1648-1663 [10.1002/hyp.11517] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Land cover change explains the increasing discharge of the Paraná River.", Regional Environmental Change, 18 (6): 1871–1881 [10.1007/s10113-018-1321-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Technical note: A hydrological routing scheme for the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2+R) tested in the Tapajós River basin in the Brazilian Amazon .", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21 4629-4648 [10.5194/hess-21-4629-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences for South American climate.", Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 214-215 12-24 [10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.07.006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Climate Change as a Challenge to Decision-Makers in the Management of the Brazilian Hydropower Systems.", The International Journal on Hydropower & Dams, 21 (4): 57-61 [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Helping Decision-Makers Meet Food, Energy and Water (FEW) Needs.", Harvard Sustainability Science Program Working Paper 2013-02, [Other]
Effect of Land Initialization on the Skill of Forecasting Carbon Fluxes on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales
June 2021
Tackling Technical Challenges in Land Data Assimilation workshop
Response of the global terrestrial carbon cycle to spatiotemporal variability of the atmospheric CO2 concentration
April 2017
AOES Seminars, George Mason University
An Integrative Approach for the Hydrology, Land-Use, and Climate: Cases for the Amazon and its surrounding area
March 2014
Department of Geographical Sciences Seminar Series, University of Maryland
Linking Water and Climate Change: a Case for Brazil
August 2013
Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis workshop, Harvard University
Incorporating a meteorological constraint to plant migration in a dynamic vegetation model: projections of future vegetation distribution in the Pan-Arctic
March 2010
State of the Arctic conference, Miami, FL