Kim (Ph.D., Syracuse University, Geography) promotes the use of GIS and other technologies for geospatial data analysis and visualization across the liberal arts and sciences. Her research focuses on island biogeography, with particular interests in water level changes, isolation metrics, forest dynamics, and applications of GIS to investigate spatiotemporal distributions of insular plant species. She has research publications in Annals of the AAG, Journal of Biogeography, and Northeastern Geographer.