Contact Information
Phone: 608-262-6530
Fax: 608-265-2595
Email: kskung@wisc.edu
Office: 74 Soil Science
Program Affiliations
Department of Soil Science
Biological Systems Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
BS, Soil and Water Conservation, 1975, Chung-Hsing University
MS, Soil and Water Engineering, 1982, Cornell University
PhD, Soil and Water Engineering, 1984, Cornell University
Teaching and Research
Teaching: Soil Physics, Soil and Environmental Quality
Research: (1) Quantify soil pore spectrum and its impact on transport mechanism of contaminants in unsaturated soils; and (2) Examine biome migration in alpine environment and its impact on soil degradation and hydrology.
Selected Publications
Gish, T.J. and K.-J. S. Kung. 2007. Procedure for quantifying a solute flux to a shallow perched water table. Geoderma. 138(1-2):57-64.
Kung, K.-J. S., E. J. Kladivko, C. S. Helling, T. J. Gish, T. S. Steenhuis, and D. B. Jaynes. 2006. Quantifying pore size spectrum of macropore-type preferential pathways under transient flow. Vadose Zone J. 2006 5: 978-989.
K.-J. S. Kung, M. Hanke, C. S. Helling, E. J. Kladivko, T. J. Gish, T. S. Steenhuis, and D. B. Jaynes. 2005. Quantifying pore size spectrum of macropore-type preferential pathways. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69:1196-1208.
Gish, T. J., K.-J. S. Kung, D. Perry, J. Posner, G. Bubenzer, C. S. Helling, E. J. Kladivko, and T. S. Steenhuis. 2004. Impact of preferential flow at varying irrigation rates by quantifying mass fluxes. Journal of Environmental Quality 33:1033-1040.
Kung, K.-J. S., E. Kladivko, T. Gish, T.S. Steenhuis, G. Bubenzer, and C.S. Helling. 2000. Quantifying Preferential Flow by Breakthrough of Sequentially-Applied Tracers: Silt Loam Soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64(4) 1296-1304.
Kung, K.-J. S., T. S. Steenhuis, E. J. Kladivko, T. J. Gish, G. Bubenzer, and C. S. Helling. 2000. Impact of Preferential Flow on the Transport of Adsorbing and non-Adsorbing Tracers. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64(4) 1290-1296.
Ju, S-H., and K-J.S. Kung. 1997. Mass types, element orders and solution schemes for Richards Equation. J. Computing and Geoscience. 23(4):996-1007.
Casper, D.A., and K-J.S. Kung. 1996. Forward modeling to simulate the ground-penetrating radar patterns in heterogeneous sandy soils. Geophysics. 64(4):1034-1049.
Kung, K-J.S. 1993. Laboratory observation of the funnel flow mechanism and its influence on solute transport. J. Environ. Qual. 22:91-102.
Kung, K-J.S. 1990. Preferential flow in a sandy vadose zone: I. Field observation and II. Mechanism and implication. Geoderma 46:51-71.
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