Hae-Young Kim

About

Hae-Young Kim is a Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, holding this position since 2011. Her research and teaching interests include bilingualism and translanguaging, second and heritage Korean language development, and content-based language instruction with a focus on history, literature, and cultural studies. She has published on topics such as discourse reference forms, tense/aspect morphology, and relative clause construction in L2 Korean, as well as heritage language learners, motivations, and content-driven and socially-engaging language instruction. Her current research focuses on constructing language instruction that engages in critical academic discourse while aligning with students’ cultural interests and subjectivity.

Research topics

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental science
• Internal medicine
• Ecology
• Medicine
• Organic chemistry
• Environmental health
• Waste management

Selected publications

• Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining

  Nature Communications · 2022 · 165 citations

  Mercury emissions from artisanal and small-scale gold mining throughout the Global South exceed coal combustion as the largest global source of mercury. We examined mercury deposition and storage in an area of the Peruvian Amazon heavily impacted by artisanal gold mining. Intact forests in the Peruvian Amazon near gold mining receive extremely high inputs of mercury and experience elevated total mercury and methylmercury in the atmosphere, canopy foliage, and soils. Here we show for the first ti…

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• Biomolecular condensates regulate cellular electrochemical equilibria

  Cell · 2024-09-10 · 99 citations

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• A biosorption-based approach for selective extraction of rare earth elements from coal byproducts

  Separation and Purification Technology · 2020 · 98 citations

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• Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessments for Sustainable Rare Earth Recovery from Coal Byproducts using Biosorption

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2020 · 69 citations

  Coal byproducts could be a promising feedstock to alleviate the supply risk of critical rare earth elements (REEs) due to their abundance and REE content. Herein, we investigated the economic and environmental potential of producing REEs from coal fly ash and lignite through an integrated process of leaching, biosorption, and oxalic precipitation on the basis of experimental data and modeling results. Two microbe immobilization systems (polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA) microbe beads and Si…

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• Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Acid Mine Drainage with Supported Liquid Membranes: Impacts of Feedstock Composition for Extraction Performance

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2024-01-29 · 36 citations

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  Acid mine drainage (AMD) from inactive coal mines can be enriched in rare earth elements (REEs) and has gained much attention as an alternative source for these technology-critical metals. However, AMD is a relatively low-grade REE resource in which the abundance of impurities and the composition variability of the feedstock create major uncertainties for the performance of REE extraction technologies. This study sought to identify AMD feedstock variables that influence the extraction efficiency…

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Frequent coauthors

• William Pan

  Duke University

  42 shared

• Ernesto Ortiz

  35 shared

• Nelson Rivera

  Duke University

  31 shared

• Avner Vengosh

  30 shared

• Axel Berky

  Duke University

  27 shared

• Laura Ruhl

  University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  24 shared

• James C. Hower

  University of Kentucky

  23 shared

• Ross K. Taggart

  Duke University

  19 shared

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Engineering

  University of California Berkeley

  2004

• M.S. Environmental Engineering

  University of California Berkeley

  1999

• B.S. Environmental Engineering Science

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1998

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