Li Li (李黎)
PhD, she/her/hers
Barry and Shirley Isett Professor
Dept Civil + Environmental Engineering
Institute of Energy and the Environment
Penn State University, University Park
Phone: 814.867.0151
Email: lili at engr dot psu dot edu
Prospective students: I am recruiting students every year. Please feel free to send me an email and we will talk. An example position description is here.
From left to right: Andrew Vierbicher, Devon Kerins, Abby Knapp, Valerie Smykalov, Fiona Liu, Matt Berzonsky, Kayal Sadayappan, Li Li, Liz Andrews
Short Bio: My group's long-term research goal is to address a broad question: What are the patterns and processes that govern land and river biogeochemistry and water quality response to a rapidly changing climate (e.g., climate extremes, wildfire, droughts, and floods) and human perturbations (e.g., urbanization, agriculture) in Earth systems? We use big data, machine learning, and reactive transport models to understand processes that drive temporal trends and spatial patterns of land and river hydro-biogeochemistry from watershed to global scales. Please See my Google Scholar profile for an up-to-date publication list.
I am an eco-hydro-biogeochemist / environmental engineer, broadly defined. I obtained a PhD (Environmental Engineering & Water Resources) from Princeton University in 2005, and a MSc and BSc (Environmental Chemistry) from Nanjing University, China. Before joining Penn State in 2009, I worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
"The most important thing is to never stop questioning." - Neil deGrasse Tyson