Chris (Myeong-Ho) Yeo

> Back to Directory’s main page
> View Subject Matter Expert Directory

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

Tel: (671) 735-2695
- yeom@triton.uog.edu
sites.google.com/view/uog-weri-chrisyeo/

More Details

Close (x)

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

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.