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Henry Lin
Office: 415 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-6726
FAX: 814-863-7043
E-mail: henrylin@psu.edu
Appointment: 70% Research
30% Teaching
Courses Taught:

Soils 497C Hydropedology
Soils 597F Geospatial and Environmental Modeling

Links:

Hydropedology & OASIS Laboratories
GeoVISTA
Environmental Soil Science

Hydropedology Newsletter - October 2004

Henry Lin
Assistant Professor of Hydropedology/Soil Hydrology

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CURRENT RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Hydropedology: Fundamental studies of interactive pedologic and hydrologic processes and their properties in the unsaturated zone, aiming at embracing interdisciplinary and multiscale approaches to study the earth's critical zone.
  • OASIS: Development of Online Advanced Spatial Information Systems (OASIS), with a long-term goal of integrating geospatial technologies with environmental modeling and artificial intelligence into decision support systems.


EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Soil Science (Soil Physics & Pedology), Texas A&M University.
  • M.S., Soil Science (Soil Geography & Pedology), Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • B.A., Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Fujian Agricultural University.


PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

  • 2001 - Present: Assistant Professor of Hydropedology/Soil Hydrology. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA.
  • 1998 - 2001: Assistant Professor of Soils & GIS and Director of Advanced Computing/GIS Laboratory. College of Natural Resources, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI.
  • 1996 - 1998: Research Assistant Professor of Geoenvironmental Science & Engineering. Center for Environ. Eng. & Sci. Tech., Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA.
  • 1995 - 1996: Postdoctoral Research Associate of Soil Physics & GIS. Dept. of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
  • 1988 - 1990: Research Associate of Pedology & Soil Geography. Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Lin, H.S., J. Bouma, Y. Pachepsky, A. Western, J. Thompson, M. Th. van Genuchten, H. Vogel, and A. Lilly. 2005. Hydropedology: Synergistic intergration of pedology and hydrology. A vision paper for The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI), Washington, DC. Full manuscript.
  • Wilding, L.P., and H.S. Lin. 2005. Advancing the frontiers of soil science towards a biogeoscience. Geoderma. (In press)
  • Lin, H.S., W. Kogelmann, C. Walker, B. Georgic, and M.A. Bruns. 2005 Soil moisture patterns in a forested catchment: A hydropedological perspective. Geoderma. (In press)
  • Lilly, A., and H.S. Lin. 2004. Using soil morphological attributes and soil structure in pedotransfer functions. In Y. Pachepsky and W. Rawls (eds.) Development of Pedotransfer Functions in Soil Hydrology. Elsevier. (In Press)
  • Lin, H.S., J. Bouma, L. Wilding, J. Richardson, M. Kutilek, and D. Nielsen. 2004. Advances in hydropedology. Advances in Agronomy. (In press)
  • Lin, H.S., D. Wheeler, J. Bell, and L. Wilding. 2004. Assessment of soil spatial variability at multiple scales. Ecological Modelling. (In Press)
  • Kogelmann, W.J., H.S. Lin, R.B. Bryant, D.B. Beegle, A.M. Wolf, and G.W. Petersen. 2004. A statewide assessment of the impacts of P-index implementation in Pennsylvania. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 59:9-18.
  • Lin, H. S. 2003. Hydropedology: Bridging disciplines, scales, and data. Vadose Zone Journal. 2:1-11. Full paper.
  • Lin, H.S., and S. Rathbun. 2003. Hierarchical frameworks for multiscale bridging in hydropedology. p. 353-371. In Y. Pachepsky et al. (eds.) Scaling Methods in Soil Physics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Lin, H.S., R. C. Cook, and B. Shaw. 2001. Nitrate relationships between stream baseflow, well water, and land use in the Tomorrow-Waupaca Watershed. TheScientificWorld Journal. 1(S2):187-193.
  • Lin, H.S., and S. Wang. 2001. Artificial neural network for nonpoint source pollution assessment in the Tomorrow-Waupaca Watershed. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Diffuse/Nonpoint Pollution and Watershed Management. Milwaukee, WI.
  • DeGroote, J., A. Akbar, and H.S. Lin. 2000. An integrated ArcView-PRZM3 system for spatial modeling of pesticide and nitrate leaching. In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling.
  • Rawls, W.J., Y.A. Pachepsky, and H.S. Lin. 2000. Evaluation of methods to estimate macropore characteristics in montomorillonitic clay soils. p. 233-236. In Preferential Flow - Water Movement and Chemical Transport in the Environment. ASAE, St. Joseph, Michigan.
  • Lin, H.S., H.D. Scott, K. Steele, and H.I. Inyang. 1999. Agricultural chemicals in the alluvial aquifer of a typical county of the Arkansas Delta. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment. 58(2):151-172.
  • Lin, H.S., K.J. McInnes, L.P. Wilding, and C.T. Hallmark. 1999. Effects of soil morphology on hydraulic properties: I. Quantification of soil morphology. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63(4):948-954.
  • Lin, H.S., K.J. McInnes, L.P. Wilding, and C.T. Hallmark. 1999. Effects of soil morphology on hydraulic properties: II. Hydraulic pedotransfer functions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63(4):955-961.
  • Lin, H.S., K.J. McInnes, L.P. Wilding, and C.T. Hallmark. 1998. Macroporosity and initial moisture effects on infiltration rates in Vertisols and vertic intergrades. Soil Science. 163(1):2-8.
  • Lin, H.S., K.J. McInnes, L.P. Wilding, and C.T. Hallmark. 1997. Low tension water flow in structured soils. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 77(4):649-654.
  • Lin, H.S., K.J. McInnes, L.P. Wilding, and C.T. Hallmark. 1996. Effective porosity and flow rate with infiltration at low tensions into a well-structured subsoil. Transactions of the ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers). 39(1):131-135.
  • Lin, H.S., and K.J. McInnes. 1995. Water flow in clay soil beneath a tension infiltrometer. Soil Science. 159(6):375-382.


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