Curriculum Vitae

Yufang Jin, Ph.D.

3206 Croul Hall
Department of Earth System Science
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3100

ph: 949.824.6174
email: yufang@uci.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interest is in the physical and biogeochemical aspects of global environment change. I aim to monitor the change of Earth' surface using satellite remote sensing techniques and understand the processes that control the global change using biogeochemical models. I am also interested in the human dimensions of global change.
  • Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems
  • Earth's radiative energy budget
  • Land use and land cover change
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Geographyic information system

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography , Boston University, Boston, MA       2002
Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing
Advisor: Dr. Alan H. Strahler and Dr. Crystal B. Schaaf
Thesis: Evaluation, improvement, and applications of MODIS surface BRDF/Albedo retrieval
Master of Science in Environment Planning and Management, Peking (Beijing) University       1998
Center for Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Professor Shengji Luan
Thesis: Applications of broadband extinction algorithm in atmospheric correction of satellite remotely sensed images
Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Physics, Peking (Beijing) University       1995
Department of Geophysics
Advisor: Beiying Wu
Thesis: Twilight polarization and optical depth of stratospheric aerosols over Beijing after the Pinatubo volcanic eruption
Minor: Economic Geography

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assistant Researcher, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA
March 2005 -

Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
April 2003 - February 2005

Postdoc Research Associate , Department of Geography, Boston Univeristy, Boston, MA
August 2002 - March 2003

Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Boston Univeristy, Boston, MA
January 1999 - July 2002

Research Assitant, Department of Geophysics, Peking Univeristy, Beijing, P.R. China
September 1994 -June 1998
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Guest Lecture, “Global retrieval of surface albedo from satellite observations” at the seminar course “Advances in remote sensing of terrestrial global change: past, present and future” at the Department of Geography, University of Maryland, Fall 2004.

  • Guest Lecture, “Burned area detection using multi-temporal MODIS observations” at Professor Chris Justice’s course “Land use and land cover change” at the Department of Geography, University of Maryland,Spring 2004.

LEAD AUTHOR PRESENTATIONS

  • Interannual variability in FPAR and NPP across California’s ecosystems, oral presentation at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2005.
  • Monitoring surface albedo change using MODIS Satellite observations, presented at Divisions of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March, 2005.
  • Monitoring global vegetation using satellite remote sensing, presented at Center for Tropical Research, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, November, 2004.
  • Australian continental albedo dynamics, oral presentation at the 12th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, October 20, 2004.
  • Improved MODIS burned area mapping by combined use of multi-temporal Terra and Aqua MODIS data - early results, oral presentation at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.
  • A synergistic surface BRDF/Albedo retrieval with MODIS and MISR observations 1. Intercomparison, poster presentation at the AMS 11th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Madison, WI, October 2001.

RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  • Randerson, J. T., H. Liu, M. G. Flanner, S. D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P. G. Hess, G. Pfister, M. C. Mack, K. K. Treseder, L. R. Welp, F. S. Chapin, J. W. Harden, M. L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J. C. Neff, E. A. G. Schuur and C. S. Zender, The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming, Science, 314, 1130-1133, doi:10.1126,2006.
  • Jin, Y., D.P. Roy, Fire-induced albedo change and its radiative forcing at the surface in northern Australia, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL022822, 2005.
  • Roy, D.P., Y. Jin, P.E. Lewis, and C.O. Justice, Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data, Remote Sens. Environ., vol.97, 137-162, 2005.
  • Diner, D.J., B.H. Braswell, R. Davies, N. Gobron, J. Hu, Y. Jin, R.A. Kahn, Y. Knyazikhin, N. Loeb, J.-P. Muller, A.W. Nolin, B. Pinty, C.B. Schaaf, G. Seiz, and J. Stroeve, The value of multiangle measurements for retrieving structurally and radiatively consistent properties of clouds, aerosols, and surfaces, Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 97, 495-518, 2005.
  • Oleson, K.W., G.B. Bonan, C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, and A.H. Strahler, Assessment of global climate model land surface albedo using MODIS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(8), 1443, 10.1029/2002GL016749, 2003.
  • Jin, Y., C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, X. Li, A. H. Strahler, W. Lucht, and S. Liang, Consistency of MODIS surface BRDF/Albedo retrieval, 1. Algorithom performance, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D5), 4158, 10.1029/2002JD002803, 2003.
  • Jin, Y., C.B. Schaaf, C.E. Woodcock, F. Gao, X. Li, A.H. Strahler, W. Lucht, and S. Liang, Consistency of MODIS surface BRDF/albedo retrieval, 2. Validation, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D5), 4159, 10.1029/2002JD002804, 2003.
  • Gao, F., C.B. Schaaf, A.H. Strahler, Y. Jin, and X. Li, Detecting vegetation structure using a kernel based BRDF model. Remote Sens. Environ., 86(2), 198-205, 2003.
  • Jin, Y., F. Gao, C.B. Schaaf, X. Li, A.H. Strahler, C.J. Bruegge, and J.V. Martonchik, Improving MODIS surface BRDF/Albedo retrievals with MISR observations, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 40, No. 7, 1,593-1,604, 2002.
  • Gao, F., Y. Jin, C.B. Schaaf, X. Li, A.H. Strahler, Bi-directional NDVI and atmospherically resistant BRDF inversion for vegetation canopy, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 40, No. 6, 1,269-1,278, 2002.
  • Jin, Y., C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, X. Li, A.H. Strahler, X. Zeng, and R.E. Dickinson, How does snow impact the albedo of vegetated land surfaces as analyzed with MODIS data? Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(10), 10.1029/2001GL014132, 2002.
  • Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, Z. Yang, C. B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, A. Strahler, R.B. Myneni, H.Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D15), 4488, 10.1029/2002JD003326, 2003.
  • Schaaf, C.B., F. Gao, A.H. Strahler, W. Lucht, X. Li, T. Tsang, N.C. Strugnell, X. Zhang, Y. Jin, J.-P. Muller, P. Lewis, M. Barnsley, P. Hobson, M. Disney, G. Roberts, M. Dunderdale, C. Doll, R. d'Entremont, B. Hu, S. Liang, and J.L. Privette, First operational BRDF, albedo and nadir reflectance products from MODIS, Remote Sens. Environ., 83, 135-148, 2002.
  • Wu, B., and Y. Jin, Twilight polarization and optical depth of stratospheric aerosols over Beijing after the Pinatubo volcanic eruption, Applied Optics, vol. 36, No. 27, 7,009-7,015, 1997.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Operation Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows
  • Programming Languages: C, FORTRAN, IDL, MatLab, C Shell Script, Perl
  • Applications: ENVI, IMAGINE, SAS, S-Plus

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