Building Links - Korea

Making Links - Korea

Prior to their recent visit to Nanjing and Hangzou, Centre for Ecohydrology Director, Neil Coles and Soil Conservationist, David Stanton, took time to catch up with colleague Kyunrock Paik in Korea. Dr Paik, who was previously with the UWA School of Environmental Systems Engineering and the Centre, moved to Korea University in 2008.

Dr Paik is now secretary of the KU's Disaster Prevention Laboratory, housed within their Water Resources Program. Flooding and drought are the main themes of this centre, although it also deals with earthquakes. The Program has 15 PhD students and 11 Masters students enrolled in their water resources program.

Korea University

Korea University Campus (above underground carpark)

During the visit to KU, Neil spoke on the challenges faced by water resource managers in Western Australia, including

• Land and Water Degradation
• Modelling and analysis capacity
• Climate Change & water resource management
• Cost-price squeeze placing pressure on the resource base.
• State and National Environmental monitoring and reporting
• Change in Environmental and Community values