From July 27th to August 2nd, 9 students visited Singapore to participate in Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2025, held in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Students were staying in Singapore for 5 nights, learning and experiencing a lot of new things.
On the first day of the conference, everyone started with receiving a name tag and a simple gift from the conference, attending the HS02 session. Since there are a lot of hydrology sessions in the conference, lots of students took hydrology(HS) sessions on the following days as well. All the students were listening to presentations on HS02 session(Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources Planning and Management: Assessment and Challenges), and then also HS46 session(Advancing Global Hydrologic Research Through the Integration of Satellites, Earth System Models, and Ground Observation Sites), professor Kim is one of the session chairs in this session. Also, Subin Kim(Integrated MS/PhD student) gave a presentation about ‘Soil Moisture Prediction Using Surrogate Model and Ensemble Kalman Filter‘. Professor Venkataraman Lakshmi, also adjunct professor in GIST EEE, had a presentation on this session about ‘Study of Flash Droughts Using Models and Earth Observations‘. Professor Lakshmi’s presentation was highly related to Dr. Bakar’s research, who stayed in GIST for 2 months from October to December 2024. In the afternoon, there was an award ceremony and the Axford lecture continued.
On the second day, students took the HS01 session(Challenges in Hydrologic Modeling), professor Lakshmi presented on this session again, about ‘Progress and Challenges in Hydrological Modeling’. After the HS01 session, students took the Kamide lecture, and four students presenting the poster session in the afternoon put the poster on the wall and came back. During the afternoon, Naoyung Kwon(MS student), Kunhee Park(MS student), Jinwoo Kim(Undergraduate student) and Dana Nursutalnova(Undergraduate student) presented their work with the poster. All of the works had a lot of interest with meaningful questions.
On the third day, students mostly participated on listening to IG01(Machine Learning and Data-driven Methods in Earth and Environmental Sciences), AS93(Climate Downscaling with Statistical, Dynamical, and AI/ML Approaches) and HS39(Soil moisture: Advances in Observation, Simulation and Remote Sensing) section, focusing for machine learning and deep learning methods utilized in hydrology field as well as satellite-based observations.
On the fourth day, students mostly participated on listening to SS01(AI in Weather and Climate Prediction: Progress, Challenges, and Outlooks) and HS03(Artificial Intelligence for Model and Data Integration in Hydrology). SS01 was a special session for climate change and its prediction with artificial intelligence (AI), and HS03 session had a vast coverage of AI usage in the hydrology field.
On the fifth day, also the last day in Singapore, students had free time, taking rest or visiting nearby places freely.
Whole session timetable of AOGS 2025 can be found in below link:
https://www.meetmatt-svr.net/Timetable?cfId=7
