Publications

28. Park, Y. M. & Kwan, M.-P. (2025). Revisiting the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: Expanding Its Scope to Include Indoor Geographic Contexts and Dynamics in Environmental Health and Social Science Research. Annals of American Association of Geographers. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2472974.

27. Sousan, S., Wu, R., Popoviciu, C., Fresquez, S., & Park, Y.M. (2025). Advancing Low-Cost Air Quality Monitor Calibration with Machine Learning Methods. Environmental Pollution. 374, 126191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126191

26. Lee, K., Park, Y. M., Joo, Y., Joo, M., & Heo, J.  (2024). Socioeconomic Disparities in the Usage of Urban Opportunities in South Korea During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Land Use/Land Cover and Mobile Phone Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 13(12):421. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13120421

25. Opejin, A. & Park, Y.M. (2024). Assessing Bias in Personal Exposure Estimates When Indoor Air Quality is Ignored: A Comparison Between GPS-Enabled Mobile Air Sensor Data and Stationary Sensor Network Data. Science of the Total Environment. 905(1), 175249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175249

24. Ashraf, K., Park, Y.M., Browning, M.H.E.M., Wang, J., Wang, R., & Lee, K. (2024). Examining the Joint Effect of Air Pollution and Green Spaces on Stress Levels in South Korea: Using Machine Learning Techniques. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17(1), 2372321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2372321

23. Baxter, C. & Park, Y.M. (2024). Food Swamp vs. Food Desert: Analysis of Geographic Disparities in Obesity and Diabetes in North Carolina Using GIS and Spatial Regression. The Professional Geographer, 76(4), 409-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2024.2306642

22. Huang, X., Wang, S., Yang, D., Hu, T., Chen, M., Zhang, M., Zhang, G., Biljecki, F., Lu, T., Zou, L., Wu, C. Y., Park, Y.M., Li, X., Liu, Y., Fan, H., Mitchell, J., Li, Z., & Hohl, A. (2024). Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review. Journal of Remote Sensing. 4:0105. https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/remotesensing.0105 

21. Sousan, S., Mooring, R., Fresquez, S., Park, Y.M., Coombs, V., Bertges, N., Thomas, L., Gold, E., Gogineni, A., Tiet, A., Pender, J., & Soule. E. (2023). Use of Real-Time Monitors to Evaluate the Potential Exposure of Secondhand Electronic Cigarette Particulate Matter Inside Vehicles. Environmental Pollution. 336, 122480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122480

20. Park, Y.M., Chavez, D., Sousan, S., Figueroa-Bernal, N., Alvarez, J.R., & Rocha-Peralta, J. (2023). Personal Exposure Monitoring Using GPS-Enabled Portable Air Pollution Sensors: A Strategy to Promote Citizen Awareness and Behavioral Changes Regarding Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 33(3), 347-357. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00515-9. Click here for Full-Text Access to a View-Only Version.

19. Sousan, S., Wu, Q., Park, Y.M., Fresquez, S., Batts, N., Bertges, N., Johnston, C.A., Tunnell, H., Pender, J., & Soule, E. (2023). Laboratory Determination of Gravimetric Correction Factors for Real-time Area Measurements of Electronic Cigarette Aerosols: Part 2. Aerosol Science and Technology, 56(6), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2023.2193234

18. Lee, K., Browning, M.H.E.M., & Park, Y.M. (2023). Spatiotemporal Non-Stationarity in Green Space and Stress Relationships: Recent Evidence from South Korea. Environmental Research, 220, 115214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115214

17. Kearney, G.D., Hylock, R., Park, Y.M., Jones, K., Wall, B., Howard, R., Iyer, P., Clay, M., Endres-Dighe, S., Stoner, M.C.D., Li, L., Cajka, J., & Rhea, S. (2023). Regional Trends of COVID-19-Like Illness Related Emergency Department Visits in North Carolina (March 1, 2020 – November 30, 2020). North Carolina Medical Journal. 84(1), 54-60. https://doi.org/10.18043/001c.67819 

16. Sousan, S., Streuber, D., Park, Y.M., Coombs, V., Pender, J., & Soule, E. (2023). Evaluation of Low-cost Aerosol and Gas Sensors for Real-time Measurements of Electronic Cigarette Exposure. Aerosol Science & Technology. 57(2), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2022.2154192.

15. Park, Y.M. (2022). A GPS-Enabled Portable Air Pollution Sensor and Web-Mapping Technologies for Field-Based Learning in Health Geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46(2), 241-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1900083

14. Streuber, D., Park, Y.M., & Sousan, S. (2022). Laboratory and Field Evaluations of the GeoAir2 Air Quality Monitor for use in Indoor Environments. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 22(8), 220119. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.220119

13. Park, Y.M., Sousan, S., Streuber, D., & Zhao, K. (2021). GeoAir – A Novel Portable, GPS-Enabled, Low-Cost Air-Pollution Sensor: Design Strategies to Facilitate Citizen Science Research and Geospatial Assessments of Personal Exposure. Sensors, 21(11), 3761. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113761

12. Park, Y.M., Kearney, G.D., Wall, B., Jones, K., Howard, R., & Hylock, R. (2021). COVID-19 Deaths in the United States: Shifts in Hot Spots over the Three Phases of the Pandemic and the Spatiotemporally Varying Impact of Pandemic Vulnerability. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), 8987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178987

11. Sousan, S., Regmi, S., & Park, Y.M. (2021). Laboratory Evaluation of Low-Cost Optical Particle Counters for Environmental and Occupational Exposures. Sensors, 21(12), 4146. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21124146

10. Kearney, G., Jones, K., Park, Y.M., Howard, R., Hylock, R., Wall, B., Clay, M., & Schmidt, P. (2021). COVID-19: A Vaccine Priority Index Mapping Tool for Rapidly Assessing Priority Populations in North Carolina. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v13i3.11617

9. Wang, J., Kou, L., Kwan, M.-K., Shakespeare, R., Lee, K., & Park, Y.M. (2021). An Integrated Individual Environmental Exposure Assessment System for Environmental Health Studies. Sensors, 21(12), 4039. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21124039

8. Park, Y.M. (2020). Assessing Personal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution Using Individual Travel-Activity Diary Data and an On-Road Source Air Dispersion Model. Health & Place, 63: 102351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102351

7. Park, Y.M. & Kwan, M.-P. (2020). Understanding Racial Disparities in Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Considering Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Population Distribution. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030908

6. Park, Y.M. & Kwan, M.-P. (2018). Beyond Residential Segregation: A Spatiotemporal Approach to Examining Multi-Contextual Segregation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 71, 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.05.001

5. Park, Y.M. & Kwan, M.-P. (2017). Individual Exposure Estimates May Be Erroneous When Spatiotemporal Variability of Air Pollution and Human Mobility Are Ignored. Health & Place, 43, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.002

4. Park, Y.M. & Kwan, M.-P. (2017). Multi-Contextual Segregation and Environmental Justice Research: Toward Fine-Scale Spatiotemporal Approaches. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(10), 1205. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101205

3. Park, Y.M. & Kim, Y. (2014). A Spatially Filtered Multilevel Model to Account for Spatial Dependency: Application to Self-Rated Health Status in South Korea. International Journal of Health Geographics, 13:6. https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-13-6 

2. Park, Y.M. & Kim, Y. (2012). An Evaluation and Suggestion of Photovoltaic Power Plant Locations Based on Environmental and Social Impacts and Sustainability. Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea, 15(3), 438-456.

1. Park, Y.M. & Kim, Y. (2011). Agriculture Location Analysis Using Kriging and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Journal of the Korean Cartographic Association, 11(2), 75-90.