Kyeong Park

Kyeong Park is a Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He earned his Ph.D. in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary (1993), M.S. in Marine Environmental Sciences from Stony Brook University (1987), and B.S. in Mineral and Petroleum Engineering from Seoul National University (1985).

His research explores Estuarine and Coastal Hydrodynamics, Physical-Biological Interactions, and Water Quality Modeling, with specialization in hurricane impacts, microplastic transport, and ecosystem responses to environmental stressors. Current investigations focus on:

• Microplastic dispersion mechanisms in estuaries
• Hurricane-ocean interactions and intensification processes
• Hypoxia dynamics in stratified coastal systems
• Ecological consequences of extreme weather events

He leads field observations and numerical modeling initiatives in Gulf of Mexico coastal systems and mentors graduate researchers including post-doctoral associate Jiabi Du.