John B. Kim, PhD
Research Biological Scientist
john.kim@usda.gov
Treesearch Publications
- Andrew Gray, Taylor K. Lucey, David V. D'Amore, John B. Kim, David L. Nicholls, Nadia A. Tase, Andrew C. Yost, Jeffrey D. Kline, Jeremy S. Fried, Daniel E.B. Swann. 2026. Forest ecosystem carbon models: structure and suitability for current issues on the West Coast of North America
- Sonya Rauschenbach, John B. Kim, Alex Dye, Ian Faloona, R. Cotton Rockwood, Christopher J. Still, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Adele L. Igel. 2026. A characterization of local spatio-temporal variability in daytime occurrence of fog along the Oregon coast using public cameras and airport weather metrics
- Bridget Thrasher, Sepideh Khajehei, John B. Kim, Ian Brosnan. 2024. NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections 30 arcseconds CMIP6
- Alex Dye, Sonya Rauschenbach, Simon de Szoeke, Adele L. Igel, Yufang Jin, John B. Kim, Meg A. Krawchuk, Kenneth Maes, Larry O’Neill, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Roger Samelson, David C. Shaw, Christopher Still. 2024. Fog in western coastal ecosystems: inter-disciplinary challenges and opportunities with example concepts from the Pacific Northwest, USA
- Alex Dye, Rachel M. Houtman, Peng Gao, William R. L. Anderegg, Christopher J. Fettig, Jeffrey A. Hicke, John B. Kim, Christopher J. Still, Kevin Young, Karin Riley. 2024. Carbon, climate, and natural disturbance: a review of mechanisms, challenges, and tools for understanding forest carbon stability in an uncertain future
- Ty C. Nietupski, John B. Kim, Claire Tortorelli, Rebecca Lemons, Becky K. Kerns. 2024. Ventenata dubia projected to expand in the western United States despite future novel conditions
- Henrique F. Duarte, John B. Kim, Ge Sun, Steven G. McNulty, Jingfeng Xiao. 2024. Climate and vegetation change impacts on future conterminous United States water yield
- Alex Dye, Matthew Reilly, Andy McEvoy, Rebecca Lemons, Karin Riley, John B. Kim, Becky K. Kerns. 2024. Simulated future shifts in wildfire regimes in moist forests of Pacific Northwest, USA
- Ellynne Kutschera, John B. Kim, G. Stephen Pitts, Ray Drapek. 2023. “What’s past is prologue”: Vegetation model calibration with and without future climate
- Caitlyn Reilley, Mindy S. Crandall, Jeffrey D. Kline, John B. Kim, Jaime de Diego. 2023. The influence of socioeconomic factors on human wildfire ignitions in the Pacific Northwest, USA
- Alex Dye, Peng Gao, John B. Kim, Ting Lei, Karin Riley, Larissa Yocom. 2023. High-resolution wildfire simulations reveal complexity of climate change impacts on projected burn probability for Southern California
- Raymond J. Drapek, Bridget L. Thrasher, John B. Kim. 2023. Dataset of monthly downscaled future vapor pressure projections for the conterminous USA for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 compatible with NEX-DCP30
- Claire Tortorelli, John B. Kim, Nicole M. Vaillant, Karin Riley, Alex Dye, Ty C. Nietupski, Kevin C. Vogler, Rebecca Lemons, Michelle A. Day, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns. 2023. Feeding the fire: Annual grass invasion facilitates modeled fire spread across Inland Northwest forest‐mosaic landscapes
- John B. Kim, Yueyang Jiang, Linnia Hawkins, Christopher J. Still. 2022. A comparison of multiple statistically downscaled climate change datasets for the conterminous USA
- Alla Golub, Brent Sohngen, Yongyang Cai, John B. Kim, Thomas Hertel. 2022. Costs of forest carbon sequestration in the presence of climate change impacts
- Matthew Reilly, Aaron Zuspan, Joshua S. Halofsky, Crystal Raymond, Andrew McEvoy, Alex W. Dye, Daniel C. Donato, John B. Kim, Brian Potter, Nathan Walker, Raymond J. Davis, Christopher J. Dunn, David M. Bell, Matthew J. Gregory, James D. Johnston, Brian J. Harvey, Jessica Halofsky, Becky K. Kerns. 2022. Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA
- Bharat Rastogi, Andres Schmidt, Max Berkelhammer, David Noone, Frederick Meinzer, John B. Kim, Christopher J. Still. 2022. Enhanced photosynthesis and transpiration in an old growth forest due to wildfire smoke
- Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Prakash Nepal, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Christopher P.O. Reyer, Hans Verkerk, Louis König, Tristan Herrmann, Galina Churkina, Mariana Hassegawa, Marcus Lindner, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, John B. Kim, Christopher Prins. 2021. Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040
- Andy McEvoy, Becky K. Kerns, John B. Kim. 2021. Hazards of risk: Identifying plausible community wildfire disasters in low-frequency fire regimes
- Alex W. Dye, John B. Kim, Andrew McEvoy, Fang Fang, Karin Riley. 2021. Evaluating rural Pacific Northwest towns for wildfire evacuation vulnerability
- Michael J. Case, John B. Kim, Becky K. Kerns. 2020. Using a vegetation model and stakeholder input to assess the climate change vulnerability of tribally important ecosystem services
- Alex W. Dye, John B. Kim, Karin Riley. 2020. Spatial heterogeneity of winds during Santa Ana and non-Santa Ana wildfires in Southern California with implications for fire risk modeling
- Alex W. Dye, Bharat Rastogi, Rachel E. S. Clemesha, John B. Kim, Roger M. Samelson, Christopher J. Still, A. Park. Williams. 2020. Spatial patterns and trends of summertime low cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996–2017
- Lorie Srivastava, Michael Hand, John B. Kim, José J. Sánchez, Frank Lupi, Cloé Garnache, Raymond J. Drapek, James F. Quinn. 2020. How will climate change affect the provision and value of water from public lands in Southern California through the 21st century?
- Becky K. Kerns, Claire Tortorelli, Michelle A. Day, Ty Nietupski, Ana M.G. Barros, John B. Kim, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2020. Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems?
- Yueyang Jiang, Christopher Still, Bharat Rastogi, Gerald Page, Sonia Wharton, Frederick Meinzer, Steven Voelker, John B. Kim. 2019. Trends and controls on water-use efficiency of an old-growth coniferous forest in the Pacific Northwest
- Emma C. Underwood, Allan D. Hollander, Hugh D. Safford, John B. Kim, Lorie Srivastava, Raymond J. Drapek. 2019. The impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in southern California
- Decheng Zhou, Lu Hao, John B. Kim, Peilong Liu, Cen Pan, Yongqiang Liu, Ge Sun. 2019. Potential impacts of climate change on vegetation dynamics and ecosystem function in a mountain watershed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- John B. Kim, Anna T. Trugman, Yueyang Jiang, Youngil Kim, Christopher J. Still. 2019. Linking tree physiological constraints with predictions of carbon and water fluxes at an old‐growth coniferous forest
- Yueyang Jiang, John B. Kim, Christopher J. Still, Becky K. Kerns, Jeffrey D. Kline, Pat Cunningham. 2018. Inter-comparison of multiple statistically downscaled climate datasets for the Pacific Northwest, USA
- Joshua S. Halofsky, David R. Conklin, Daniel C. Donato, Jessica Halofsky, John B. Kim. 2018. Climate change, wildfire, and vegetation shifts in a high-inertia forest landscape: Western Washington, U.S.A.
- Matthew J. Reilly, Thomas Spies, Ramona Butz Littell, John B. Kim. 2018. Chapter 2: Climate, disturbance, and vulnerability to vegetation change in the Northwest Forest Plan Area
- John B. Kim, Becky K. Kerns, Raymond J. Drapek, G. Stephen Pitts, Jessica E. Halofsky. 2018. Simulating vegetation response to climate change in the Blue Mountains with MC2 dynamic global vegetation model
- Becky K. Kerns, David C. Powell, Sabine Mellmann-Brown, Gunnar Carnwath, John B. Kim. 2017. Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Upland Vegetation in the Blue Mountains [Chapter 6].
- John B. Kim, Erwan Monier, Brent Sohngen, G Stephen Pitts, Raymond J. Drapek, James McFarland, Sara Ohrel, Jefferson Cole. 2017. Assessing climate change impacts, benefits of mitigation, and uncertainties on major global forest regions under multiple socioeconomic and emissions scenarios
- Marie Oliver, Becky K. Kerns, John B. Kim, Jeffrey D. Kline. 2017. Mapping the future: U.S. exposure to multiple landscape stressors
- Xiaohui Tian, Brent Sohngen, John B. Kim, Sara Ohrel, Jefferson Cole. 2016. Global climate change impacts on forests and markets
- Becky K. Kerns, John B. Kim, Jeffrey D. Kline, Michelle A. Day. 2016. US exposure to multiple landscape stressors and climate change
- David R. Conklin, James Lenihan, Dominique Bachelet, Ronald P. Neilson, John B. Kim. 2016. MCFire model technical description
- Raymond J. Drapek, John B. Kim, Ronald P. Neilson. 2015. The Dynamic General Vegetation Model MC1 over the United States and Canada at a 5-arcminute resolution: model inputs and outputs
- Julie A. Vano, John B. Kim, David E. Rupp, Philip W. Mote. 2015. Selecting climate change scenarios using impact-relevant sensitivities
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Kemp-Jennings, S.; Halofsky, J.E.; and Kim, J.B. 2019. Chapter 2: Biogeography, Land Use History, and Climate in Southwest Washington. In: Hudec, Jessica L.; Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Ho, Joanne J., eds. 2019. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in southwest Washington. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-977. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 249 p.
- Kim, J.B.; Kerns, B.K.; Halofsky, J.E.; and Day, M. 2019. Chapter 3: Climate Change in South Central Oregon. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Ho, Joanne J., eds. 2019. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in south-central Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-974. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 473 p.
- Miller, J.A.; Kim, J.B.; and Kerns, B. 2022. Chapter 2: Historical and Future Climate. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Gravenmier, Rebecca A., eds. 2022. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Mount Hood National Forest, and Willamette National Forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1001. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 469 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-1001.
- Miller, J.A.; Kim, J.B.; and Rupp, D. 2022. Chapter 2: Climate Change in Southwest Oregon. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Gravenmier, Rebecca A., eds. 2022. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in southwest Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-995. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 445 p.
- Kerns, B.K.; Powell, D.C.; Mellmann-Brown, S.; Carnwath, G.; and Kim, J.B. 2017. Chapter 6: Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Upland Vegetation in the Blue Mountains. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L., eds. 2017. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Blue Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-939. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 331 p.
- Case, M.J.; Kerns, B.K.; Kim, J.B.; Day, M.; Eglitis, A.; Simpson, M.L.; Beck, J.; Grenier, K.; and Riegel, G. 2019. Chapter 6: Climate Change, Vegetation, and Disturbance in South-Central Oregon. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Ho, Joanne J., eds. 2019. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in south-central Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-974. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 473 p.
- Halofsky, J.E.; Bronson, J.J.; Schaupp Jr., W.C.; Williams, M.P.; Kerns, B.K.; Kuhn, B.A.; Maxwell, C.; Kim, J.B.; and Scheller, R.M.. 2022. Chapter 5: Climate Change Effects on Vegetation and Disturbance in Southwest Oregon. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Gravenmier, Rebecca A., eds. 2022. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in southwest Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-995. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 445 p.
- Reilly, M.J.; Kerns, B.K.; Kim, J.B.; Acker, S.A.; Hudec, J.L.; Kearns, H.; Willhite, E.; Kertis, J.; and Halofsky, J.E. 2022. Chapter 5: Climate Change Effects on Vegetation and Disturbance. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Gravenmier, Rebecca A., eds. 2022. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Mount Hood National Forest, and Willamette National Forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1001. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 469 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-1001.
Data and Tools
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ph.D., Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation, 2003
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, M.S., Computer Science, 1994
- University of California San Diego, B.A., Computer Science, 1990
Last updated March 10, 2026