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[Press Release] Deok Gi Han receives the Jeonjae Gyu Young Scientist Award
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GIST Grad Student Deok Gi Han receives
the Jeonjae Gyu Young Scientist Award
The Jeonjae Gyu Young Scientist Award was named
in honor of Jeonjae Gyu who died in Antarctica in 2003
In August of 2012, GIST graduate student Deok Gi Han conducted research in the Arctic while aboard the Korean icebreaker Araon. The picture insert shows Deok Gi Han visiting the King Sejong Antarctica Station in January of 2011 when he was there to study microbial ecology.
GIST graduate student Deok Gi Han is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering under Professor Hor-Gil Hur and received the Jeonjae Gyu Young Scientist Award from the Marine Science and Technology Institute, which is affiliated with the Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI).
The Jeonjae Gyu Young Scientist Award is given to outstanding young scientists who are engaged in polar research. Deok Gi Han has been on five artic expeditions aboard the Araon to conduct research on marine and microbial ecology. In collaboration with KOPRI, Jeonjae Gyu has integrated the study of oceanography, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. He is also researching how the movement of surface sediments from the continental shelf to the deep ocean affects microbial ecology.
KOPRI is currently working with the Alfred Wegener Institute to study the microbial ecology of the deep sediments found in the deep-biosphere of the Arctic Ocean.