Hun Bok Jung

Dr. Hun Bok Jung is an Environmental Geochemist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at Kingsborough Community College. Dr. Jung has taught a wide range of courses on chemistry, geochemistry, water, environmental science, energy, climate change, and sustainability over the last 10 years at Kingsborough Community College and New Jersey City University.
His research focuses on the geochemical and hydrological processes controlling the transport and fate of toxic contaminants and nutrients in coastal and subsurface environments. Dr. Jung earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2009. Dr. Jung worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate from 2009 to 2014. He has conducted research focusing on groundwater and soil contamination, geologic carbon sequestration, hydraulic fracturing, nanogeochemistry, environmental remediation, and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and heavy metals in urban estuaries.
Dr. Jung has supervised many undergraduate and high school students to conduct environmental research projects on temporal and spatial variations of water quality in urban estuaries, transport of nutrients from coastal aquifers to the Newark Bay, and removal of hexavalent chromium by natural sediments of the Newark Bay Estuary.