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A-Ichea N. Yamada

Personnel Specialist I

Human Resources Office

Office Location: Administration Building, Human Resources Office

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-2344
- yamadaa8080@triton.uog.edu

Paul G. Yamanaka

Extension Associate II / Asset & Property Facilitator

College of Natural & Applied Sciences

Office Location: ALS 207

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-0138
- yamanakap@triton.uog.edu

Remylynn Yamanaka

Program Manager, Guam Cancer Trust Fund

Margaret Perez Hattori-Uchima School of Health

Office Location: SOH 137

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-0109
- ryamanaka@triton.uog.edu

Velma Yamashita, Ph.D.

Director of Isla Center for the Arts / Associate Professor of Art

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Office Location: EC 216E and Dean's Circle, House #15

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-2965
- yamashitav@triton.uog.edu

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CREDENTIALS

B.A., Art History, Columbia University (N.Y.)
M.A., Asian/Pacific Art History, University of Hawaii
Ph.D., Non-Western Art History, University of Washington
I Meyeng UOG-Certified Online Teacher

Jian Yang, Ph.D., CFS

Professor/Extension Specialist of Food Science

UOG Land Grant | Extension Service

Office Location: ALS 113B

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Expertise

Food Processing Value-Added Food Products Food Science Food Safety

Tel: (671) 735-2027
Fax: (671) 734-4222
- jyang@triton.uog.edu

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B.A., Food Engineering, Jiangnan University (China)
M.S., Food Science, Washington State University
Ph.D., Food Science, Washington State University
Certified Food Scientist (CFS) of the Institute of Food Technologists

Carim D. Yanoria

Administrative Officer

School of Education

Office Location: SOE Bldg., 2nd Flr., Rm. 215D

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-2458
Fax: (671) 734-3651
- cyanoria@triton.uog.edu

Nicolas Yasuhiro

Research and Statistics Analyst II, Institutional Effectiveness

Academic & Student Affairs

Office Location: Executive Offices, SBPA, Room 248

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Tel: (671) 735-2646
Fax: 671) 734-3636
- yasuhiron@triton.uog.edu

Chris (Myeong-Ho) Yeo, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor of Surface Water Hydrology

Water & Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific

Office Location: WERI 115A

Mailing Address: UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923

Expertise

Sustainability — Environmental Modeling — Watershed Management Engineering — Environmental Water — Quality Monitoring Climate Adaptation Modeling — Stormwater/Flooding Management Modeling — Water Quality

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ABOUT

Dr. Myeong-Ho Yeo is an Associate Professor at the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at the University of Guam. His research focuses on water resources, stormwater management and flooding, and climate change impacts on water resources. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics from McGill University and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Environmental Engineering.

CREDENTIALS

Ph.D., Civil Engineering – Water Resources, McGill University (Canada)
Professional Engineer (P.E.) – Environmental Engineering (Guam)
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Chungnam National University (South Korea)
B.S., Environmental Engineering, Chungnam National University (South Korea)

PUBLICATIONS

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles	Yeo, M. H., Kim, Y.S., Houk, P., Chang, A., and Ludwig, A. (2025) Ridge-to-reefs linkages in Apra Harbor, Guam describe spatial and temporal variation in water quality and coral reef assemblages, Marine Pollution Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.119026 Patil, U. D., Yeo, M. H., Chakraborty, S., Congress, S. S. C., & Higgs, B. (2025). Probabilistic Slope Stability Assessment of Tropical Hillslopes in Southern Guam Under Typhoon-Induced Infiltration. Geosciences, 15(12), 453. 10.3390/geosciences15120453 Patil, U., Yeo, M. H., Chakraborty, S., Congress, S. S. C., Banerjee, A., & Higgs, B. (2026). The Resilience of Vetiver-Vegetated Tropical Hillslopes to Heavy Precipitation Events Caused by Successive Typhoon. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 44(1), 59. 10.1007/s10706-025-03582-5 Patil, U. D., Yeo, M. H., Chakraborty, S., Congress, S. S. C., & Higgs, B. (2025). Probabilistic Slope Stability Assessment of Tropical Hillslopes in Southern Guam Under Typhoon-Induced Infiltration. Geosciences, 15(12), 453. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences15120453 Liu, L., Kim, Y. S., Yeo, M. H., & Wen, Y. (2024). Stepwise Increment of Salinity for Evaluating the Ammonium Removal Efficiency in Synthetic Wastewater Using an Aerated Bioreactor. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 235(10), 622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-024-07444-3 Yeo, M. H., Patil, U. D., Chang, A., and King, R. (2023). Changing Trends in Temperatures and Rainfalls in the Western Pacific: Guam. Climate, 11(4), 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11040081 Yeo, M. H., Nguyen, V. T. V., Kim, Y. S., and Kpodonu, T. A. (2022). An integrated extreme rainfall modeling tool (SDExtreme) for climate change impacts and adaptation. Water Resources Management, 36(9), 3153-3179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03194-1 Yeo, M. H., Pangelinan, J., & King, R. (2022). Identifying Characteristics of Guam’s Extreme Rainfalls Prior to Climate Change Assessment. Water, 14(10), 1578. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14101578 Yeo, M. H., Chang, A., & Pangelinan, J. (2021). Application of a SWAT Model for Supporting a Ridge-to-Reef Framework in the Pago Watershed in Guam. Water, 13(23), 3351. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233351 Yeo, M-H., Nguyen, V-T-V., and Kpodonu, T.A. (2021) Characterizing extreme rainfalls and constructing confidence intervals for IDF curves using Scaling-GEV distribution model, International Journal of Climatology. 2021: 41:456–468. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6631 Yeo, M-H., Nguyen, H-L. Nguyen, V-T-V. (2021) A Statistical Tool to Modeling of Daily Precipitation Process in the Context of Climate Change, Journal of Water and Climate change, https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2019.403 Mukundan, R., Hoang, L., Gelda, R., Yeo, M-H., Owens (2020) Climate change impacts on nutrient loading in a water supply watershed, Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124868 Yeo, M-H., Frei, A., Gelda, R., and Owens, E. (2020) A Stochastic Weather Model for Generating Daily Precipitation Series at Ungauged Locations in the Catskill Mountain Region of New York State. International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6230.
Short Communication	Yeo, M-H* (2020) Statistical Procedure for the Downscaling of Daily Rainfall Time Series at Ungauged Locations, Environ Pollution and Climate Change, Vol 4(4). 10.4172/2573-458X.1000184
Book Chapters	Patil, U. D., Yeo, M. H., Nguyen, T., Banerjee, A., & Congress, S. S. C. (2024). Characterization of vetiver root cohesion for improvement in stability of tropical hill slopes. In Geo-Congress 2024, 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485354.002 Patil, U. D., Yeo, M. H., Demeulenaere, E., Mabagos, D., & Congress, S. S. C. (2023, November). Contribution of Vetiver Grass Towards Slope Stability Via Mechanical Root Reinforcement. In International symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies, 15-24. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9215-7_2 Technical Contributor for “Chapter 30. Hawai’i and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, 2023. Review of the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26757” Technical Contributor for “Grecni, Z., Miles, W., King, R., Frazier, A., Keener, V., & Assessment, P. I. R. C. (2020). Climate change in Guam: indicators and considerations for key sectors. Honolulu, HI: East-West Center. 10.5281/zenodo.4037481” Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2016) A Statistical Approach to Downscaling of Daily Rainfall Process at an Ungauged Site, in Advances in Hydroinformatics, edited by Philippe Gourbesville et al., ISBN 978-981-287-615-7, Chapter 20.
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts	Patil, U. D., Mabagos, D., Yeo, M. H., Congress, S. S. C., Shelton, A., & Demeulenaere, E. (2023). "Improvement in Stability of a Tropical Hillslope via Mechanical Root Reinforcement." In Geo-Congress 2023: Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions from the Ground Up, held in Los Angeles, California on March 26–29, Geotechnics of Natural Hazards, Proceedings Editors Ellen Rathje, Brina Montoya, and Mark Wayne, https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784484654.047, 2023GSP 338, pp. 469-477. U. D. Patil, M. Yeo, E. Aquino, S. S. C. Congress, and E. Demeulenaere (2023). “Role of Acacia Tree Root’s Reinforcement in Hill Slope Stability.” 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, 25-28 June, 2023 \| Chania, Greece. https://doi.org/10.53243/ICEG2023-258. pp. 436-443. Yeo, M-H.* (2022) Statistical Modeling of Extreme Rainfall Characteristics Over Guam and CNMI, The 713th International Conference on Chemical, Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Science, 20 -221 June 2022, Seoul, Korea Yeo, M-H.* and Chang, A., (2022) Water Quality Modeling for supporting Ridge-To-Reef Management. The 1325th International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering and Technology, 4-5 July 2022, Seoul, Korea. Yeo, M-H. (2021) An Assessment Tool of Modeling Extreme Rainfall Intensities for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, International Tropical Islands Water Conference, 16 April 2021, Virtual. Yeo, M-H., and Frei, A. (2018) A multivariate, stochastic approach to generating daily precipitation series at ungauged locations in mountainous region, the 18th Conference on Mountain Meteorology by American Meteorological Society (AMS), 25-29 June, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Yeo, M-H., and Frei, A. (2018) Identification of homogeneous regions of daily precipitation based on the amount and occurrence of daily precipitation, the 10th International Conference on Urban Climate by American Meteorological Society (AMS), 6-10 August, 2018, New York, New York, USA. Yeo, M-H. (2018) A multivariate, stochastic approach to generating daily precipitation series at ungauged locations in Catskill Mountain region, New York City Watershed Science & Technical Conference, 12 September, 2018, Saugerties, New York, USA. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2016) A Decision Support Tool for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Rainfall Processes, Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) World Environmental & Water Resources congress, 22-26 May, 2016, West Palm Beach, USA. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2016) A Decision Support Tool for Assessing the Climate Change Impacts on Local Rainfall Extremes, Statistical Hydrology (STAHY) of the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH), 26-27 September, 2016, Quebec, Canada. Yeo, M-H., Nguyen, V-T-V., and T.H. Nguyen1 (2016) Statistical Downscaling of Extreme Rainfall Processes (SDExRain): A Decision Support Tool for Assessing the Climate Change Impacts on Local Rainfall Extremes, the 7th International Conferences on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER), 5-9 June, 2016, Kyoto, Japan. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2015) An Integrated Extreme Rainfall Modeling Tool for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Urban Areas, 22nd Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference, 29 April - 2 May 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2014) A Statistical Approach to Downscaling of Daily Rainfall Process at an Ungaged Site, SimHydro 2014: Modeling of rapid transitory flows,11-13 June 2014, Sophia Antipolis. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2014) A Spatial-Temporal Statistical Modeling of Sub-Daily Extreme Rainfall Processes for Climate Change Impact Assessment in Urban Areas, 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage, 7-12 September 2014, Sarawak, Malaysia. Nguyen, V-T-V., and Yeo, M-H. (2014) A Spatial-Temporal Downscaling Approach to Construction of Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Relations in the Context of climate Change, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 17-21 August 2014, New York, New York, USA. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2013) Statistical Modeling of Daily Rainfall Process in the Context of Climate Change, Proc. of the CSCE General Conference, May 29-June 1, Montreal, Quebec, 6 pages. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V. (2013) Modeling of Short-Duration Extreme Rainfall Processes for Climate-Related Impact Studies in Urban Areas, 21st Canadian Hydrotechnical Conf., May 14-17, Banff, Alberta, pp. 553-562. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V (2013) Statistical Modeling of Extreme Rainfall Processes in the Context of Climate Change, Proc. of the Third Climate Change Technology Conference, May 27-29, Montreal, Quebec, CCTC 2013, 12 pages. Yeo, M-H., and Nguyen, V-T-V (2013) A Stochastic Approach to Generating Daily Rainfall Series at an Ungauged Site, SMART WATER GRID INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2013, 12-14 November 2013, Incheon, Republic of Korea. Nguyen, V-T-V., and Yeo, M-H. (2011) Statistical Downscaling of Daily Rainfall Processes for Climate-Related Impact Assessment Studies, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual Conference, June 14-17, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Yeo, M-H, Jang, D-S, Kim, H-S, Seo, M-S. (2005) Numerical study of VOCs diffusion characteristics in the Shihwa-Industrial Area. Conference of the Korean Society of Environmental Engineers. Yeo, M-H, Kim, H-S, Seo, M-S, Jang, D-S. (2003) Numerical study of the design of wastewater treatment system by bio-capsule floating techniques. Conference of Korea Society of Environmental Engineers.