Hello. This is Jongnam Choi.

 

Title:

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (University of Georgia, 2001)

Major:

Synoptic Meteorology

Environmental Climatology

Biogeography

Asian Study

Office:

Tillman 310

E-mail:

j-choi1@wiu.edu

Phone/Fax:

309-298-2956/3003

 

Professional and Academic Experience

08/2006 – Present

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, Western Illinois University

01/2001 – 07/2006

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography, Western Illinois University

01/1997 – 12/2000

Teaching Assistant

Department of Geography, University of Georgia

09/1995 – 08/1996

Researcher

Green Research Institute (GRI), Seoul, Korea

01/1992 – 06/1992

Research Assistant

Tree Ring Laboratory, School of Forest Resources, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea

 

Education

08/1996 – 08/2001

Ph.D.

University of Georgia

03/1990 – 08/1992

M.A.

Seoul National University

03/1986 – 02/1990

B.A.

Seoul National University

 

Courses that I am responsible for

GEOG120 (Introduction to Weather and Climate)

Fall/Spring

GEOG120 IC1 (Introduction to Weather and Climate – Online Class )

Fall/Spring

GEOG300 (Principles of Meteorological Instruments)

Spring of odd years

GEOG327 (Environmental Climatology)

Fall

GEOG425 (Satellite/Radar Meteorology)

Spring of even years

Study Aboard to Korea

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Summer

 

 

 

 

Publications in 2005-2006

Jongnam Choi, 2006, “Climate of Kyunggi Province”, in Chulsue Hwang and Yongwoo Kwon. (eds.) Kyunggi Geography, Kyunggi, Korea.

Jongnam Choi, 2006, “City and Air Pollution”, in Kim, Inn and Park, Soojin. (eds.) Urban Geography and Urbanology, Seoul, Korea, pp.427-443.

Park, Siyoung., Su-Yeul Chung, and Jongnam Choi. 2006. "Asians in Chicago", in Greene, R.P., M.J. Bouman, and D. Grammenos. (eds.) Chicago's Geographies: Metropolis for the 21st Century, Association of American Geographers: Washington, D.C. pp. 217-31.

Gwang-yong Choi, Jongnam Choi, and Ho-Jang Kwon, 2005, The Impact of High Apparent Temperature on the Increase of Summertime Disease-related Mortality in Seoul: 1991-2000, Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 38(3), pp.283-290.

 

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