• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.285-293
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• 2016

This study conducted the evaluations of stable channel and physical disturbance improvement for optimal construction of river structures by focusing on Wonju River. A stable slope was analyzed sectionally for stable channel design, and in order to satisfy the stable slope, river structure improvement scenarios were deduced. Accordingly, through physical disturbance improvement evaluation for each scenario, the study extracted the optimal scenario for stable channel design and physical disturbance improvements. The changes in physical habitat were analyzed when river structure improvements were made for stable channel design and physical disturbance improvement. Zacco koreanus, an indicator fish of the soundness of the aquatic ecosystem, was selected as a restoration target species by investigating the community characteristics of fish fauna and river environments in the Wonju River. The habitat suitability was investigated by the PHABSIM model with the habitat suitability index of Zacco koreanus. The results of the prediction evaluation showed a slight decrease in habitat suitability and weighted usable area. However, it was not influenced by the improvements in the river structure. The study suggested river structure arrangement methods that can improve physical soundness and safety of Wonju River, and confirmed that there were no effects to the changes in the physical habitat.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.445-445
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• 2021

대구시민의 삶의 질 향상에 크게 기여하는 신천은 홍수, 친수 및 하천환경 관리에 대한 필요성이 증가되는 상황에서 신천 복원을 위하여 하천횡단구조물 및 생태조사가 필요한 실정이다. 신천 내에 위치하고 있는 14개의 하천횡단구조물은 신천의 흐름을 가로막고 있어 수질악화 및 생물이동을 저해하고 있으며, 집중호우 등으로 인하여 구조물 주변에 대한 하천관리가 어려운 것이 현실이다. 특히 신천은 인구가 밀집해 있는 도심을 관통하는 하천으로 친수공간, 홍수 및 하천환경 관리에 대한 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 신천의 수질과 어류의 생태성의 상관관계를 확인하고 횡단구조물에 대한 해결방안을 제시하고자 한다. 현지조사 결과 총 3목 6과 10종의 어류가 관찰되었으며, 법정보호종인 멸종위기 야생생물 및 천연기념물은 관찰되지 않았으나, 고유종으로 긴몰개와 참갈겨니, 꺽지, 동사리 4종이 출현하였으며, 환경부 지정 생태계교란 생물 블루길 1종이 관찰되었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 어류생물지수(FAI)를 검토하였을 때, 하류지역으로 갈수록 E등급으로 매우 나쁨의 환경상태를 나타내었다. 이는 상류에서 하류로 갈수록 비정상개체수가 증가하고 하상의 단순화 및 유기물의 축적으로 출현 종수의 감소에 따른 결과로 판단된다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 신천의 평균 FAI 지수는 14.71점으로 E등급의 매우 나쁨의 환경상태를 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.27-35
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• 2008

Current re-arrangement of rivers and waterways have been made uniformly ignoring characteristics of individual rivers thereby aggravating artificial river restructuring. On the contrary, quantitative techniques to evaluate the aftermath of artificial river disturbance such as uprising of river bed, intrusion of foreign fisheries, and changes of ecological habitats are not available. To establish such quantitative techniques, analysis of the river changes to evaluate the major causes of the river disturbance and its impacts is essential. Therefore, research for proposing a method which can be applied for the development of techniques to investigate river disturbance according to the major factors for the domestic rivers using airphotos and GIS techniques was preceded. In this study, the study area on the downstream of the river was selected and analysis of river disturbance using preceding method was done to confirm the benefit of analyzing river disturbance using GIS techniques. Trend analysis of the waterway sinuosity and changes of the flow path leaded to detailed verification of the river disturbance for specific location or time period, and this enabled to generate relatively accurate numbers representing sinuosity of the waterway and relevant changes. Also, it is possible to predict the effect on the current re-arrangement of the river and waterway to river flow using the analysis of past river change. It is necessary to establish GIS based proper measures for environmental river restoration using the results from this study and future works.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.74-80
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• 2001

Due to floating marine debris, seabed litters, dead shellfishes and polluted sediments, etc. , which are mainly caused by fishery activities in a large scale around the coastline, expansion of industrialized areas from economic development and drastic increase of free time by the improved standard of living, Korean coast is believed to be cast beyond the self purification of marine ecosystem. Seabed litters, if not remedied in a timely manner, will eventually lead to the overall disorder of benthic ecosystem. Thus, in order to prevent marine ecosystem from being thrown into confusion by seabed litters and to restore ocean environments, it is reasonable to investigate the current status of the seabed litters by carrying out an extensive examination on them and to equip ourselves for marine debris with an systemized tool that provides supports to the building process of an efficient methodology of litters disposal through managing related data appropriately. As an primary step to this goal, a systematic method of investigation is presented in this paper. With this methodology, the present state of the seabed titters is properly understood for the specified list of ports.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2015

하천은 인간의 활동과 산업화에 의해 많은 인위적인 교란을 받고 있다. 대표적으로 댐과 저수지는 수자원의 이용, 발전, 그리고 다양한 산업화를 위하여 건설되었다. 이는 경제발전과 함께 인간의 생명과 용수 공급 및 홍수 예방의 차원에서 많은 역할을 해오고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 댐과 저수지는 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들에 대한 영향을 거의 고려하지 않고 건설되는 실정이다. 특히 발전방류와 같은 급격한 유량의 변화는 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들의 서식처에 직접적으로 영향을 미치고 있다. 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들은 인간의 인위적 교란에도 영향뿐만 아니라 유속, 수심, 기층, 영양물질, 수질, 온도 등과 같은 서식처 요소에도 영향을 받는다. 따라서 서식처 요소들에 대한 연구는 하천 생태계의 변화 또는 영향을 주는 인자에 대해 평가하고 분석하는데 유용하게 사용된다. 본 연구에서는 댐 발전방류로 인한 수온 차이가 하류 하천에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 발전방류로 인한 하류 하천의 수온 변화를 모의하기 위하여 미공병단에서 개발된 CE-QUAL-W2 모형을 사용하였다. 대상구간은 괴산댐 하류에 위치한 달천이며 2.5 km구간을 선정하였고, 달천 상류에 위치한 괴산댐은 빈번하게 발전방류를 발생시키고 있다. 발전방류로 인한 하류하천의 수온 변화를 살펴보기 위하여, 여름과 겨울 두 계절의 상반된 경우에 대하여 모의를 수행하였다. 괴산댐의 경우, 중층 및 하층방류를 실시하므로 상대적으로 온도 차이가 심한 발전방류가 하류 하천으로 유입이 된다. 실측된 자료를 살펴보면, 괴산댐에서 발전방류는 하류 하천과의 온도 차이가 약 $10^{\circ}C{\sim}19^{\circ}C$ 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여 댐 발전방류로 인한 하류 하천의 수온 변화를 분석함으로써, 댐 하류 하천에서 서식하는 생물들을 고려한 댐 운용 계획을 수립하는데 중요한 기초자료가 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.512-512
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• 2016

우리나라의 다양한 수계에서는 배스로 대표되는 외래어종의 유입에 따른 심각한 생태계 교란이 발생하고 있다. 외래어종은 활발한 먹이활동 및 영역다툼을 통해 우리나라 고유종의 섭취 및 경쟁 우위에 위치하고 있다는 것이 많은 보도를 통해 발표되었다. 본 연구에서는 외래어종 중 배스(Large mouth bass)에 초점을 두고 동계 및 춘계의 서식처 특성을 살펴본다. 다양한 수계 중 갇혀있는 시스템으로 간주할 수 있는 농업용 저수지에 초점을 맞추고 현장조사를 실시한다. 하지만 현장조사 중 일부는 강과 같이 열린 서식처 공간도 포함하고 있다. 본 연구는 배스가 동면을 하지 않는 대신 수온에 큰 영향을 받으며 저수온기의 서식활동을 지속한다는 가정 하에 수온과 배스가 활동하는 영역의 상관성을 이해하고자 하였다. 조사는 국내 4개 지점 이상에서 이루어졌으며 수심 20 m 정도의 깊은 저수지에서부터 하수종말처리장에서 처리수가 유입되는 도시형 하천까지 포함한다. 이 중 수심 20 m 정도의 농업용 저수지에서는 7회 이상의 정밀 조사를 수행하여 수심별, 수온별 배스의 서식특성을 이해할 수 있도록 집중조사를 실시하였다. 현장조사 결과 배스는 $1-2^{\circ}C$의 수온차에도 민감하게 반응하며 서식처를 형성한다는 사실을 알 수 있다. 수온의 평면적 분포는 서식처의 형성에 많은 영향을 주는 것으로 판단되며 수온 안정기인 동계의 경우는 수온 종분포에 따라 군락을 형성하며 서식층을 결정한다는 점도 유추된다. 4월 중순 이후의 춘계는 배스의 산란기로 종확산에 큰 영향을 미치는 가장 중요한 시기이다. 이 시기 이후 하계에는 다시 부화한 개체가 독립적으로 서식처를 이동하는 또다른 종확산의 시기이다. 따라서 계절별에 따른 보다 면밀하고 지속적인 조사를 통해 4계절 순환에 따른 배스의 서식 특성 변화를 조사하는 과정이 필수적으로 이루어져야 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1078-1085
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• 2022

Fouling organisms attached to a ship not only greatly increase the resistance of the ship as they grow on the hull but also cause disturbances in local marine ecosystems as they move with the ship. Accordingly, the International Maritime Organization has started discussing the removal of biofouling and evaluation of cleaning performance to prevent the migration of hull-fouling species. In this study, specimens of FRP(Fiber Reinforced Plastic), HDPE(High Density Polyethylene), and CFRP(Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) materials used for small ship construction were cured in Gyeokpo Port (Jeonlakbuk-do) for about 80 days. Then, attached organism removal experiments were performed using a water jet nozzle. The results show that seaweeds, such as laver, were removed when the distance between the nozzle and the specimen was 1.8 cm and the pressure was 100 bar. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the cleaning of barnacles was possible only when the pressure was 200 bar or more.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.143-151
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• 2016

Shoreline armoring is a globally used engineering strategy to prevent shoreline erosion along stream, lake and reservoir coastlines. Armoring alters the land-water interface and has the potential to affect shoreline vegetation by changing nearshore geomorphology, hydrology, sediment composition and water quality. We quantified the effects of the artificial disturbances and alternation of the land-water interface on the community structure and distribution of shoreline vegetation in a large reservoir, Uiam Reservoir, Korea. More than 60% of shorelines were disturbed by armoring with retaining wall of concrete block, riprap and gabion in the Uiam Reservoir. The results of detrended correspondence analysis showed that the vegetation structures of the shoreline modified by armoring changed from hydrophyte-dominated to hygrophyte-dominated ecosystems. The shoreline armoring caused the disruption of gradual continuity in the water-land interface and the biological invasion by alien plants. The changes in distribution area of shoreline vegetation showed that the area of hydrophytic vegetation decreased and that of hygrophytic vegetation increased from 2010 to 2013. In conclusion, the human disturbance such as armoring, road construction, recreation etc. could lead to terrestrialization, the loss of transverse continuity and biological invasion in the shoreline vegetation of the Reservoir Uiam. Our findings suggest that redesigning or removing shoreline armoring structures may benefit nearshore hydrophytic vegetation for the conservation of novel shoreline ecosystems.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.508-523
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• 2017

This study monitored the changes before and after restoration of ecological stream focusing on the places which are applied Sustainable Structured wetland Biotop (SSB) system and ecological Fish-way for restoration of Maeno stream. A total of 11 species and 191 individuals of fishes were founded out which were not verified inhabitation before restoration at SSB wetlands. Especially, it was could identified that micro habitat and healthy Fish-way was created because the restored target species, Microphysogobio yaluensis and Iksookimia koreensis were identified that habitation was monitored in SSB wetland. Amphibian have been restored to a number of Rana nigromaculata found in and around wetlands at the time of the third survey, which is highly active after restoration. Specified endangered species class 1 and natural monuments designated by the Ministry of Environment, Lutra lutra lutra, as a Mammalian, uses the wetlands and ecological Fish-way as habitat areas, and the his habitat is restored. In the case of Flora, vascular plants emerging in the survey area were increased to 7 and 13 species before restoration and 15 and 19 species directly after restoration, and 22 species and 33 species after restoration. Vegetation after restoration was found to be a basic producer of various ecosystems and a plant community that contributes to the purification of water quality such as Phragmites japonica communities. As the result of water quality monitoring, the average of treatment efficiencies were BOD 64.3%, T-N 47.2%, T-P 80.7%. Successful treatment of the nonpoint pullution source, which is a limiting factor to disturb the ecosystem, creatively restored the target species in the water quality class I, II.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.389-403
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• 2011

Studies on effects of human action on the destruction of ecosystems and changes in biodiversity are being processed actively from the view point of landscape ecology. This study investigated present distribution status of the naturalization plant by disturbance of natural ecosystem which could be seen on 35 rural villages in Korea. The study made a landuse map on the study area then quantified the landscape ecologic characteristic using landscape index based on this landuse map. Correlation between landscape index on the study area and distribution characteristic of naturalization plant was analyzed. The landscape index was calculated by FRAGSTATS, a spatial analysis program, and naturalization index and urbanization index were used in the distribution characteristic of naturalization plant. As a result, naturalization index and patch density, naturalization index and edge density, naturalization index and area-weighted mean shape index were shown as having positive correlation, and naturalization and core area percentage of landscape, naturalization index and mean core area were displayed as having negative correlation.