Jin Yan

Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Contact: (984)245-4006, yanjin93@ad.unc.edu

Education

Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (MSEE) with the focus on Air Pollution, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 08/2015-08/2016
Bachelor of Science in Marine Technology with the focus on Optics and Remote Sensing, Ocean University of China (OUC), 08/2011-07/2015

Work Experience

Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), 08/2017-07/2019 Research Assistant in Ru-Jin Huang’s group

Projects

Graduate project, 09/2015-05/2016

“Mapping the county-level formaldehyde over North Carolina using satellite data” Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill Advisor: William Vizuete

The objective of this project is to create a county-level formaldehyde map for North Carolina using data measured by OMI on Aura satellite. The map was then compared directly with the health outcome map from NC DETECT system (i.e., emergency room visits for asthma), helping epidemiologists to study the health effects of formaldehyde over large population scale.

Undergraduate project, 05/2013-06/2014

“Characteristics and relationship of AOD and PM2.5 concentration over Qingdao” Affiliation: Department of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China Advisor: Wenzhong Chen

The objective of this project is to build seasonal prediction models for surface PM2.5 in Qingdao city, China based on AOD measured by Terra/Aqua MODIS, and various environmental variables including wind speed, temperature and relative humidity. The uncertainty of predicted PM2.5 was then evaluated by comparing with measurements from monitoring sites.

Publications

Ru-Jin Huang*, Rui Cheng, Miao Jing, Lu Yang, Yongjie Li, Qi Chen, Yang Chen, Jin Yan, Chunshui Lin, Yunfei Wu, Renjian Zhang, Imad El Haddad, Andre S. H. Prevot, Colin D. O’Dowd, Junji Cao, Source-Specific Health Risk Analysis on Particulate Trace Elements: Coal Combustion and Traffic Emission As Major Contributors in Wintertime Beijing, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52, 19, 10967-10974.

Huang, R.-J., Wang, Y., Cao, J., Lin, C., Duan, J., Chen, Q., Li, Y., Gu, Y., Yan, J., Xu, W., Fröhlich, R., Canonaco, F., Bozzetti, C., Ovadnevaite, J., Ceburnis, D., Canagaratna, M. R., Jayne, J., Worsnop, D. R., El-Haddad, I., Prévôt, A. S. H., and O’Dowd, C. D., Primary emissions versus secondary formation of fine particulate matter in the most polluted city (Shijiazhuang) in North China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 2283–2298, 2019