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Professor, Atmospheric Sciences

u0791084@utah.edu

Publications

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Sim, S., H. Lee, E. Oh, S. Kim, P. Ciais, S. Piao, J.C. Lin, D.V. Mallia, S. Lee, Y.-H. Kim, H. Park (2022). Short-term reduction of regional enhancement of atmospheric CO2 in China during the first COVID-19 pandemic period. Environmental Research Letters., 01/2022
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Lin, J.C., R. Bares, B. Fasoli, M. Garcia, E. Crosman, and S. Lyman (2021). Declining Methane Emissions and Steady, High Leakage Rates Observed over Multiple Years in a western U.S. Oil/Gas Production Basin. Scientific Reports., 11/2021
  • AIR QUALITY: Hallar, A.G., S. Brown, C. Cappa, J. Murphy, J.C. Lin, et al. (2021). Coupled Air Quality and Boundary-Layer Meteorology in Western U.S. Basins during Winter: Design and Rationale for a Comprehensive Study. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society., 10/2021
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Follstad Shah, J., R. Bares, B.B. Bowen, G. J. Bowen, D.P. Eiriksson, A.G. Hallar, J.D. Horel, S.J. (2021). The Wasatch Environmental Observatory: A mountain to urban research network in the semi-arid Western US. Hydrological Processes., 08/2021
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Kiel, M., A. Eldering, D.D. Roten, J.C. Lin, S. Feng, R. Lei, T. Lauvaux, T. Oda, C. Roehl, (2021). Urban-focused satellite CO2 observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: a first look at the Los Angeles Megacity. Remote Sensing of Environment., 06/2021
  • AIR QUALITY: Hrdina, A., J.G. Murphy, A.G. Hallar, J.C. Lin, A. Moravek, R. Bares, R.C. Petersen, A. Franchin, A. (2021). The Role of Coarse Aerosol Particles as a Sink of HNO3 in Wintertime Pollution Events in the Salt Lake Valley. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics., 05/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Wilmot, T., A.G. Hallar, J.C. Lin, and D. Mallia (2021). Expanding number of Western US urban centers face declining summertime air quality due to enhanced wildland fire activity. Environmental Research Letters., 04/2021
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Mendoza, D.L., M.P. Buchert, T.M. Benney, and J.C. Lin (2020). The Association of Media and Environmental Variables with Transit Ridership. Vehicles., 08/2020
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Yang, E.G., E.A. Kort, D. Wu, J.C. Lin, T. Oda, X. Ye, and T. Lauvaux (2020). Using space-borne observations and Lagrangian modeling to evaluate urban carbon dioxide emissions in the Middle East. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres., 03/2020
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Ye, X., T. Lauvaux, E.A. Kort, T. Oda, S. Feng, J.C. Lin, E.G. Yang, and D. Wu (2020). Constraining fossil fuel CO2 emissions from urban area using OCO‐2 observations of total column CO2. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres., 03/2020
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Wu, D., J.C. Lin, T. Oda, and E.A. Kort (2020). Space-based quantification of per capita CO2 emissions from cities. Environmental Research Letters., 02/2020
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: de Gouw, J.A., J.P. Veefking, E. Roosenbrand, B. Dix, J.C. Lin, J. Landgraf, and P.F. Levelt (2020). Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States. Scientific Reports., 01/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: Moravek A., Murphy J., Hrdina A., Lin J., Pennell C., Franchin A., Middlebrook A., Fibiger D., Womack C., McDuffie E., Martin R., Moore K., Baasandorj M. & Brown S. (2019). Wintertime spatial distribution of ammonia and its emission sources in the Great Salt Lake region. (pp. 15691-15709). Vol. 19. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics., 12/20/2019
  • AIR QUALITY: Womack C., McDuffie E., Edwards P., Bares R., de Gouw J., Docherty K., Dubé W., Fibiger D., Franchin A., Gilman J., Goldberger L., Lee B., Lin J., Long R., Middlebrook A., Millet D., Moravek A., Murphy J., Quinn P., Riedel T., Roberts J., Thornton J., Valin L., Veres P., Whitehill A., Wild R., Warneke C., Yuan B., Baasandorj M. & Brown S. (2019). An Odd Oxygen Framework for Wintertime Ammonium Nitrate Aerosol Pollution in Urban Areas: NOx and VOC Control as Mitigation Strategies. (pp. 4971-4979). Vol. 46. Geophysical Research Letters., 05/16/2019
  • AIR QUALITY: Hernandez, A.J., L.A. Morales-Rincon, D. Wu, D. Mallia, J.C. Lin, and R. Jimenez, Transboundary transport of biomass burning aerosols and photochemical pollution in the Orinoco river basin, Atmospheric Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.01.051, 2019., 02/06/2019 COLOMBIA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Bares R., Mitchell L., Fasoli B., Bowling D., Catharine D., Eng B., Lin J. & Ehleringer J. (2019). The Utah urban carbon dioxide (UUCON) and Uintah Basin greenhouse gas networks: Instrumentation, data, and measurement uncertainty. (pp. 1291-1308). Vol. 11. Earth System Science Data., 01/01/2019
  • WATER | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Skiles, S.M., D.V. Mallia, A.G. Hallar, J.C. Lin, A. Lambert, R. Petersen, and S. Clark: Implications of a shrinking Great Salt Lake for dust on snow deposition in the Wasatch Mountains, UT: A source to sink case study from the April 13th, 2017 dust event, Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaefd8, 2018., 12/21/2018
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Lin, J.C., L. Mitchell, M. Buchert, E. Crosman, D. Mendoza, K. Gurney, R. Patarasuk, D. Bowling, D. Pataki, R. Bares, B. Fasoli, D. Catharine, M. Baasandorj, A. Jacques, S. Hoch, J. Horel, and J. Ehleringer, CO2 and carbon emissions from cities: linkages to air quality, socioeconomic activity and stakeholders in the Salt Lake City urban area, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0037.1, 2018., 12/12/2018
  • ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Zuromski, L., D.R. Bowling, P. Köhler, C. Frankenberg, M.L. Goulden, and J.C. Lin: Solar-induced fluorescence detects inter-annual variation in gross primary production of coniferous forests in the western United States, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077906, 2018., 06/25/2018
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER | AIR QUALITY: Fiorella, R.P., R. Bares, J.C. Lin, J.R. Ehleringer, and G.J. Bowen, Detection and variability of combustion-derived vapor in an urban basin, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, 8529-8547, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8529-2018, 2018., 06/18/2018
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Mitchell, L.E., E.T. Crosman, A. Jacques, B. Fasoli, J. Horel, D.R. Bowling, J.R. Ehleringer, L. Leclair-Marzolf, and J.C. Lin, Monitoring of trace gases and pollutants across an urban area using a light-rail public transit platform, Atmospheric Environment, 187, 9-23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.05.044, 2018., 03/20/2018
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Bares, R., J. Lin, S. Hoch, M. Baasandorj, D. Mendoza, B. Fasoli, L. Mitchell, and B. Stephens, The wintertime co-variation of CO2 and criteria pollutants in an urban valley of the Western U.S., Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi://10.1002/2017JD027917, 2018., 02/23/2018
  • WATER: Davison, J., H.-T. Hwang, E.A. Sudicky, D.V. Mallia, and J.C. Lin, Full coupling between the atmosphere, surface and subsurface for integrated hydrologic simulation, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Accepted., 12/22/2017
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Ye, X., T. Lauvaux, E. A. Kort, T. Oda, S. Feng, J.C. Lin, E. Yang, and D. Wu: Constraining fossil fuel CO2 emissions from urban area using OCO-2 observations of total column CO2, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2017-1022, 2017., 12/10/2017
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Foster, C.S., E.T. Crosman, L. Holland, D.V. Mallia, B. Fasoli, R. Bares, J. Horel, and J.C. Lin, Constraining methane emissions in Utah’s Uintah Basin with ground-based observations and a time-reversed Lagrangian transport model, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 122, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027480, 2017., 12/04/2017
  • AIR QUALITY: Mallia, D.V., A. Kochanski, D. Wu, C. Pennell, W. Oswald, and J.C. Lin, Wind-blown dust modeling using a backward Lagrangian particle dispersion model, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56, 2845-2867, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0351.1., 10/26/2017
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Duarte, H., B. Raczka, C. Koven, D. Ricciuto, J.C. Lin, D.R. Bowling, and J.R. Ehleringer, Evaluating the Community Land Model (CLM 4.5) at a coniferous forest site in northwestern United States using flux and carbon-isotope measurements, Biogeosciences, 14, 4315-4340, doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4315-2017, 2017., 09/28/2017
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Lin, J.C., D. Mallia, D. Wu, and B.B. Stephens, How can mountaintop CO2 observations be used to constrain regional carbon fluxes?, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 5561-5581, doi:10.5194/acp-17-5561-2017, 2017., 05/03/2017

Presentations

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (December 2019): “The CO2-Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Project: Results & Deliverables”, San Francisco, CA., 12/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (December 2019): “Overcoming challenges in using satellite-based CO2 data to understand carbon emissions from cities around the world”, San Francisco, CA., 12/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: University of Utah Geography Department (April 12th, 2019): “Zooming in and out of cities: emissions, air quality, and urban density”, Salt Lake City, Utah., 04/12/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute (January 24th, 2019): “Climate change, greenhouse gases, and air quality along Utah’s Wasatch Front”, Salt Lake City, Utah. , 01/24/2019
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: World Meteorological Organization Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS) & User Summit (November 14th, 2018): “Greenhouse gas emissions from Salt Lake City and beyond: research and engagement with stakeholders”, Geneva, Switzerland. , 11/14/2018 SWITZERLAND
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: University of Edinburgh Global Change Seminar (September 21st, 2018): “The Greenhouse Gas-Air Quality nexus: experiences from the western U.S.”, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. , 09/21/2018 UNITED KINGDOM
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: University of Utah Global Change & Sustainability Center Seminar (September 11th, 2018): “The Greenhouse Gas-Air Quality nexus: experiences from the western U.S.”, Salt Lake City, UT. , 09/11/2018
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Nanjing University (May 29th, 2018): “Urban carbon emissions and biospheric carbon cycling in the Western U.S.”, Nanjing, China. , 05/29/2018 CHINA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory “Carbon Club” (April 26th, 2018): “Land-atmosphere exchanges of trace gases: a Lagrangian perspective”, Pasadena, California. , 04/26/2018
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (April 20th, 2018): “The CO2-Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Project & Initial Report”, (remote presentation), 04/20/2018
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Environment and Climate Change Canada (March 28th, 2018): “Urban carbon emissions and biospheric carbon cycling in the Western U.S.”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. , 03/28/2018 CANADA
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: University of Toronto Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) Distinguished Lecturer Series (March 27th, 2018): “CO2 and carbon emissions from cities: linkages to air quality, socioeconomic activity and stakeholders in the Salt Lake City urban area”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. , 03/27/2018 CANADA
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: The CO2-Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Project & Report from Initial Workshop, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans. , 12/11/2017
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: CO2-Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Project , 11/06/2017
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Estimating urban carbon emissions in the “Smart City” age: new approaches, measurement systems, and data streams, 10th International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Interlaken, Switzerland., 08/24/2017 CANADA SWITZERLAND
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Utah State University (November 2016): “The Greenhouse Gas-Air Quality nexus: experiences from the western U.S.”, Logan, UT. , 11/21/2016
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: The Greenhouse Gas-Air Quality nexus: experiences from the western U.S., Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany., 06/2016 GERMANY
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Salt Lake City Urban Greenhouse Gas Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 04/05/2016

Internal Service

  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wilkes Climate Cluster Faculty Search Committee, 09/2023-05/2024
  • ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Working Group on Undergraduate Research, 08/2018-12/2018

External Service

  • AIR QUALITY: In Search of Blue Sky (https://ecoart.website/; collaboration with Prof. Wendy Wischer in the Art & Art History Department in the College of Fine Arts), 01/2023-02/2023
  • WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: The Great Salt Lake Strike Team, 09/2022
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Artivism for Earth: https://artivism4earth.squarespace.com/breath, 04/22/2021-03/2022
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Hawthorne Elementary School Google Street View demonstration (~200 K-6 students engaged), 05/24/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Google Street View/Environmental Defense Fund Media Event, and College of Mines & Earth Sciences Outreach, 05/14/2019

Professional Service

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS) Science Team member, World Meteorological Organization , 11/2018 SWITZERLAND
  • ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Science Team Member, NASA Carbon Monitoring System, 09/2016
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Science Leadership Group, North American Carbon Program, U.S. Global Change Research Program, 05/2016-05/2021
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: NASA OCO-2 Science Team Member, NASA, 07/2012

Media

  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Utah Education Network: Monitoring Air Quality along UTA TRAX, 06/13/2023
  • AIR QUALITY: Salt Lake Tribune: One refinery is responsible for 10% to 25% of Salt Lake’s winter inversion PM2.5 pollution, NOAA finds, 01/26/2023
  • AIR QUALITY: KRCL RadioACTive interview, 01/11/2023
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Utah Public Radio: "UnDisciplined: the methane matter", 12/30/2021
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Salt Lake Tribune: "Uinta Basin is hemorrhaging methane as leaks go undetected", 11/30/2021
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: KUER News: "Oil and gas production in the Uinta Basin has fallen, but methane leaks remained steady and high", 11/19/2021
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: KSL News: "Utah's methane problem needs to be capped, researchers say", 11/17/2021
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: NOAA Climate Program Office: "The Benefits of Measuring Greenhouse Gases using Light Rail Public Transit", 12/22/2020
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE: NASA.gov: "NASA Satellite Offers Urban Carbon Dioxide Insights", 03/06/2020
  • AIR QUALITY: KCPW "This Green Earth" Radio Interview, 05/21/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Google Street View vehicles now collecting air quality data in Salt Lake Valley, 05/14/2019
  • AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Why Salt Lake City is using Google cars to measure air pollution, 05/14/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY: Google it: U of U researchers equip Street View vehicles as mobile air monitors, 05/14/2019
  • AIR QUALITY: Current air quality efforts in Salt Lake Valley might actually make pollution worse, U researchers say, 05/12/2019
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: KUTV: "Researchers: 'urban sprawl' is bad for our air", 03/05/2018
  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: ESPN (interview with Bill Walton, former NBA basketball player and current commentator/game caller for ESPN), 02/22/2018
  • BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Salt Lake Tribune Op-ed: Human-caused climate change is real, and denying it hurts all of us, 03/18/2017

Awards

  • CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY: Fellow of Earth Leadership Program (formerly the Leopold Leadership Program), Earth Leadership Program, 01/2021