Jieun Kim wins grand prize for 2022 AGU Freilich Visualization Competition

Congratulations to Jieun Kim on winning the grand prize for the 2022 AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition! Jieun presented her data visualization with AGU and NASA at the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting using the NASA Hyperwall, which is a video wall that can display multiple high-definition data visualizations or images across a number of screens simultaneously.

The AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition Program provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate creative ways to use visualization to present complex problems in Earth and Space Sciences and transdisciplinary sciences. The competition is focused on innovation and creativity in delivering data in new ways, and the perceived level of impact and engagement the planned presentation incites in the audience and the organization.

Jieun’s visualization technique illustrated the high-temporal resolution multi-biomarker data to investigate the dynamics of fluvial particulate organic carbon (POC) sources during storm events in Clear Creek, IA. She used heatmaps and cluster analysis to show that multiple POC sources are mobilized at different times during storm events. This visualization helps a broad audience to recognize the complexity of the fluvial POC source dynamics. Jieun is a Ph.D. student in Professor Neal Blair’s lab, and this research was supported by the National Science Foundation as part of a multi-institution IML-CZO (Intensively Managed Landscape-Critical Zone Observatory); and CINet (Critical Interface Network). Please click here for more information about Jieun’s visualization.