Assistant Management

Jun Yin, Ph.D.

Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

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Education:

01/04-05/08, Ph.D., Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

09/00-07/03, M.S., Hydrology & Water Resources Management, Hohai University, China.

09/96-07/00, B.S., Hydrology & Water Resources Management, Hohai University, China.

Work Experience:

06/08-current, Post-doc Research Associate, Oregon State University

• Investigate Uranium and other contaminant transport at the U.S. DOE Hanford site

• Numerical modeling on contaminant transport under unsaturated and saturated

conditions

• Project report preparation

• Bench scale reactive transport experiments (e.g., experimental design, data

measurements, database management)

• Groundwater/surface water sampling and data analysis

• File sample characterizations

01/04-05/08, Graduate Assistant, Desert Research Institute/University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Long-term water flow/solute transport simulations in Northern Mojave Desert

• Continuous soil moisture measurements in field

• Statistical modeling on soil hydraulic properties and infiltrations

• Watershed scale rainfall-runoff modeling

• Soil sampling and data analysis/management

06/03-01/04, Assistant Engineer, Shanghai Investigation and Design Institute

• Assisted in projects of urban flood control in Shanghai and southeastern China

• Assisted in the project of water resources survey in China

09/00-06/03, Graduate/Teach Assistant, Hohai University

• Watershed scale rainfall-runoff modeling

• Assisted in designing reservoir operating system

• Assisted in teaching principal hydrology and open channel hydraulics

Other Services & Employments:

Reviewer: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

10/02-05/03, Student Coordinator, Chinese-German Institute for Water Resources Management

at Hohai University

Awards & Research Grants:

UNLV Foundation outstanding dissertation award, 2009

UNLV College of Science dissertation award, 2008

UNLV-DRI hydrology/hydrogeology research fellowship, 2004-2007

The Geological Society of America research grant for graduate student, 2006

Bernada E. French Scholarship in Geology, UNLV, 2006

Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award, Desert Research Institute, 2006

Second place in Graduate & Professional Student Association annual meeting, UNLV, 2005

Excellent student leader, Hohai University, 1999

Computer & Modeling Skills:

ArcGIS; PHT3D; MODFLOW; STOMP; HYDRUS 1D/2D; PHREEQC-2; Labview; GSLIB;

HMS; STAMMT-L; have Intel FORTRAN and Visual Basic coding experience on various

surface/subsurface water flow and solute transport simulations.

Journal & Conference Publications:

Yin, J., L. Chen, M. H. Young, and Z. Yu, Simulating rainfall-runoff process in ungaged

watershed: effects of spatial variability generation approaches, Journal of Hydrology (in

revision).

Yin, J., R. Haggerty, D. L. Stoliker, D. B. Kent, J. D. Istok, J. Greskowiak, J. M. Zachara,

(2011), Transient groundwater chemistry near a river: Transient groundwater chemistry

near a river: Effects on U(VI) transport in laboratory column experiments, Water

Resources Research, 47, W04502, doi:10.1029/2010WR009369.

Chen L., J. Yin, J. Miller, and M. Young, The Role of the Clast Layer of Desert Pavement in

Rainfall Runoff Processes, ASCE Conf. Proc. doi:10.1061/41036(342)659.

Yin, J., M. H. Young, and Z. Yu, (2008), Effects of paleoclimate and time-varying canopy

structures on paleorecharge, Journal of Geophysical Research. – Atmospheres, v.113.

pp.D06103. doi:10.1029/2007JD009010.

Young, M. H., G. S. Campbell, and J. Yin, (2008), Correcting dual-probe heat-pulse readings for

ambient temperature fluctuations, Vadose Zone Journal, (7) pp.22-30.

Yin, J., L. Chen, M. H. Young, and Z. Yu, (2008), Modeling surface runoff on a semi-arid

watershed using a physically based model, World Environmental & Water Resources

Congress 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Li, Z and J. Yin (2003), Real-time flood forecasting model on 1D unsteady channel flow using

Kalman filter (Chinese), Water Power, 29 (4).

Ph.D. Dissertation:

Yin, Jun, 2008. Spatio-temporal Variation in Soil Moisture and Hydraulic Properties and

Their Impacts on Rainfall-runoff and Infiltration Processes: University of Nevada, Las

Vegas

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