Junhyeong Jack Kim

GFI Fellow - Class of 2022

Graduate student, environmental science, policy and management (ESPM)
UC Berkeley

DESCRIPTION

2022-23 GFI student fellow

Jack’s project focuses on a specific management strategy known as alternative wetting and drying (AWD) that have been shown to decrease methane emission by up to 48% without impacting yield (CGIAR 2011). AWD involves a mid-season drain (10 days for this particular project) to dry off the surface water and introduce a supply of oxygen. While this method has been shown to work quite well to mitigate methane, we still lack understanding of the microbial mechanisms that are responsible. Some works have been done to characterize shifts in AWD rice paddy soil microbial communities with amplicon sequencing, but to our knowledge, none have been done using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics.