Yang Lin

Assistant Professor, Soil Health
The Lin Lab

Program Areas

• Teaching
  • IDS 2935 Unintended Consequences in the Environment
    This UF Quest 2 course explores the complex and often unforeseen effects of human activities on environmental systems. By adopting a systems perspective, students analyze the socio-economic and environmental drivers that lead to unintended consequences, such as policy decisions that inadvertently harm conservation efforts. Topics include human-environment systems, feedback mechanisms and nonlinearity in system interactions, and applying systems thinking in environmental management.
  • SWS 4720C GIS in Soil and Water Science
    This upper-division course provides a comprehensive introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), focusing on applications within soil and water sciences. Students gain hands-on experience with ArcGIS Pro software to create, analyze, and present spatial data. Through practical exercises, they develop skills in data querying, spatial analysis, and map creation.
  • SWS6406 Soil Health and Data
    This graduate-level online course combines soil science fundamentals with data analysis, focusing on assessing soil health with modern data analytics. Students are introduced to R programming and statistical methods to analyze and visualize soil health data. Weekly discussions cover recent literature on soil health assessment and management. No background in R is required to take this course.
• Research

  Departmental Research Areas:

  • Carbon Dynamics and Ecosystem Services
  • Landscape Analysis and Modeling

  Research focus:

  We seek to advance the understanding and application of soil health principles in the management of agricultural and natural ecosystems. Our research covers a wide range of topics including soil health assessment, organic matter persistence, remediation of legacy phosphorus, and nature-based solutions to climate change. We are a team of scientists who embrace varied perspectives and push each other to advance our research.

Publications

• Selected Publications
  • Wang X, Zhang H, Sun H, Chang SX, Lin Y, and Cai Y. (2024) Converting natural forests to tea plantations reduced soil phosphorus sorption capacity in subtropical China. Land Degradation & Development 35, 659-669.
  • Champiny RE, Bacon AR, Brush ID, Colopietro DJ, McKenna AM, and Lin Y. (2024) Unraveling the persistence of deep podzolized carbon: insights from organic matter characterization. Science of the Total Environment 906, 167382.
  • Mahmood S, Nunes MR, Kane DA, and Lin Y. (2023) Soil health explains the yield-stabilizing effects of soil organic matter under drought. Soil & Environmental Health 1, 100048.
  • Nyabami P, Maltais-Landry G, and Lin Y. (2023) Nitrogen release dynamics of cover crop mixtures in a subtropical agroecosystem were rapid and species-specific. Plant and Soil 492, 399–412
• Google Scholar

  Yang Lin on Google Scholar

Curriculum Vitae

CV Yang Lin

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mailing Address:
Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences
2181 McCarty Hall, PO Box 110290
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611

Office: G163 McCarty Hall A

phone: (352) 294-3125
fax: (352) 392-3399

email: ylin2@ufl.edu