Dr. Meiyun Lin
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1710 University Ave., Room 144B
Madison, WI 53726 USA
608-890-2516 tel
608-265-4113 fax
mlin26@wisc.edu

Research interest:
Chemical transport and transformation / Air quality and climate change

Meiyun Lin is a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) in the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently works on a NASA-funded project with Prof. Tracey Holloway at SAGE. She employs the coupled climate-chemistry models WRF/Chem and CAM-Chem to look at the connections between regional processes and intercontinental transport of air pollution. She is also interested in climate change associated with aerosol optical properties and radiative forcing.

Lin earned her Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, working at Oki Laboratory in the Institute of Industrial Science. She did a temporary postdoctoral work with Prof. Teruyuki Nakajima at the Center for Climate System Research (CCSR), Japan. Her Ph.D. work focuses on assessing long-range transport and fate of pollutants in the atmosphere. She employed the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality model (CMAQ) together with the MM5 meteorological model to assess the budget of ozone formation and source-receptor relationships of reactive nitrogen deposition over East Asia. She developed a new emission processing model suited for adapting available emission inventory over regions where data is not available to run the widely used SMOKE model. She also developed an interface linking the global Model of Ozone and Related Tracers (MOZART) to quantify the impact of global inflows to regional air quality over East Asia.

Lin completed her master degree in the Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. As a graduate fellow at DUT, she was involved in a few national projects of environmental impact assessment (EIA) directly reviewed by State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) of China. Her master dissertation on life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) of industrial products was awarded as Excellent Master Dissertation at DUT in 2004. She developed a specific LCIA methodology representing the environmental impact potential and political planning in China.

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