Subject

Soil Science、Practice of Soil Science、Climatology、Soil Physics、Irrigation and Drainage、Lab of Soil Physics

Education

Ph.D., Department of Agronomy, Purdue University

Expertise

Soil physics; Soil and environmental management; Soil gas emissions and carbon sequestration; Ecosystem services

Research Program

Ecosystem services from cropping systems, including
- Fluxes of greenhouse gases (e.g., CH4, N2O, and CO2) and other trace gases (e.g., NH3)
- Improvement of soil health, including soil carbon sequestration, soil aggregation, and biodiversity
- Mitigation of nutrient leaching (NO3-, PO43-)

Dynamics of soil C and N and other nutrients (e.g., iron and phosphorus) among different soil aggregates and fractions.

Chemometric methods for FTIR spectroscopy-based gas and soil analyses

Current Research Topics & Future Work

My current research focuses on the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (i.e., CH4 and N2O from rice paddy soils and N2O from upland crop systems) and soil carbon sequestrations, including carbon protection mechanisms (i.e., physical protection via soil aggregation and chemical protection via Fe/Al co-precipitation and clay adsorption) from the agricultural cropping systems. Our group is also developing a soil carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocol and a carbon credit project based on nature-based solutions, such as carbon farming via regenerative agriculture. For future research, we will explore more ecosystem services (ESs), such as soil health, biodiversity, nutrient leaching, etc., from the agroecosystem and improve these ESs for not only achieving the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) but agricultural sustainability.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Lin, C.-H., Namoi, N., Hoover, A., Emerson, R., Cortez, M., Wolfrum, E., Payne, C., Egenolf, J., Harmoney, K., Kallenbach, R., & Lee, D. (D.K.). Harvest and nitrogen effects on bioenergy feedstock quality of grass-legume mixtures on Conservation Reserve Program grasslands. GCB Bioenergy, 15, 283– 302. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12980

2. Namoi, N.; Jang, C.; Robins, Z.; Lin, C.-H.; Lim, S.-H.; Voigt, T.; Lee, D. Aerial Imagery Can Detect Nitrogen Fertilizer Effects on Biomass and Stand Health of Miscanthus × giganteus. Remote Sens. 14, 1435. (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061435

3. Hamada, Y.; Zumpf, C.R.; Cacho, J.F.; Lee, D.; Lin, C.-H.; Boe, A.; Heaton, E.; Mitchell, R.; Negri, M.C. Remote Sensing-Based Estimation of Advanced Perennial Grass Biomass Yields for Bioenergy. Land, 10, 1221. (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111221

4. Schetter, A., Lin, C.-H.*, Zumpf, C. et al. Genotype-Environment-Management Interactions in Biomass Yield and Feedstock Composition of Photoperiod-Sensitive Energy Sorghum. Bioenerg. Res. (2021). (co-first author) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-021-10272-6

5. Lin, C.-H.*; Grant, R.H.; Johnston, C.T. Measuring N2O Emissions from Multiple Sources Using a Backward Lagrangian Stochastic Model. Atmosphere, 11, 1277. (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121277

6. Lin, C.-H.*; Grant, R.H.; Heber, A.J.; Johnston, C.T. Sources of error in open-path FTIR measurements of N2O and CO2 emitted from agricultural fields. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 13, 2001-2013, (2020). https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2001-2020

7. Lin, C.-H.*; Grant, R.H.; Heber, A.J.; Johnston, C.T. Application of Open Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (OP-FTIR) to Measure Greenhouse Gas Concentrations from Agricultural Fields. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 12, 3403-3415. (2019) https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3403-2019

8. Wang, S.-L.; Lin, C.-H.; Yan, Y.-Y.; Wang, M.-K. Synthesis of Li/Al LDH using aluminum and LiOH, Appl. Clay Sci. 72, 191–195 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2013.02.001

Conference Presentations (selected): Poster (15) and Oral (4) presentations at regional and national conferences

1. C-H Lin, H-Y Tsou, and Y-R Lin: Methodology for Enhancing Soil Carbon Sequestration by Improving Agricultural Land Management and Case Studies (利用調整水稻種植的水分管理模式減少甲烷排放方法學及相關案例分析). Poster Presentation at The Chinese Society of Soil and Fertilizer Sciences Annual Meetings. December 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

2. H-Y Tsou, Y-R Lin, and C-H Lin*: Methodology of Methane Emission Reduction by Adjusted Water Management Practice in Rice Cultivation and Case Studies (改進農業土地管理方法來增進土壤碳匯及相關案例分析). Poster Presentation at The Chinese Society of Soil and Fertilizer Sciences Annual Meetings. December 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

3. K-C Ko, Y-H Ke, S-L Wang, and C-H Lin*: Effects of Brittleness Rice Straw Incorporation on the Iron Availability under Different Water Management Systems. Poster Presentation at The Chinese Society of Soil and Fertilizer Sciences Annual Meetings. December 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

4. C-H Lin, R.H. Grant, C.T. Johnston, T. J. Vyn, and R. A. Omonode 2019. Measurements of N2O and NH3 Emissions from Maize Cropping Systems Using a Novel Open Path and Conventional Chamber Methods. Poster Presentation at Switchgrass V International Conference: Dedicated Energy Crops and Native Grasses for the Emerging Bioeconomy, Champaign, IL.

5. C-H Lin, R.H. Grant, C.T. Johnston, T. J. Vyn, and R. A. Omonode: Integrated Use of the Inverse Dispersion Technique and the Chamber Method to Determine N2O and NH3 Emissions from Agricultural Soils. Oral Presentation at ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings. October 2017, Tampa, FL.

6. C-H Lin, C.T. Johnston, R.H. Grant, and T. J. Vyn: Application of Scanning Open Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (OP-FTIR) to Measure Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Agricultural Soils. Oral Presentation at ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meetings. November 2016, Phoenix, AZ.