University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Yu-Feng Forrest Lin is a hydrogeologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lin is a licensed Professional Geoscientist and certified Geographic Information Systems Professional. He is also a Clinical Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Research Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and in the Illinois Informatics Institute since both institutes were established. He is presently one of the three Executive Editors for Groundwater, the journal published by NGWA. Lin's current research interests include fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS) in hydrogeology applications, geothermal analysis and monitoring, environmental impacts associated with geologic carbon sequestration, 3-D printing in geology applications, numerical modeling and parameter estimation for groundwater flow systems.