Donghoon Lee

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba, and an affiliated researcher at the Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara.

My work connects hydroclimate prediction to the decisions that depend on it. I develop forecasting and Earth-observation methods for streamflow, drought, and crop production, and I study when that information changes what an operator, an agency, or a farmer does. A forecast can be skilful and still be useless — if it arrives too late, at the wrong scale, or with no decision attached to it.

The same question runs through work in very different places: reservoir operation and hydropower scheduling in Manitoba, subnational crop statistics across Sub-Saharan Africa, flood and health vulnerability in Bangladesh and Peru.

Before Manitoba I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Climate Hazards Center, and I completed my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.