Li Li

IEE Faculty Member
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Summary

The Li Reactive Water group is interested in questions regarding how the structure of Critical Zone—Earth’s living skin from the tree tops to the bottom of groundwater (the zone that supports life)—regulates its functioning and response to climate change and human perturbations. We are particularly interested in the interactions of water with soils, rocks, roots, and microbes along its flow paths to rivers and streams and how such interactions regulate water quantity, chemistry, and quality.

Research group: https://lireactivewater.wixsite.com/group

Twitter: @LiReactiveWater

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Projects

Recent Publications

Leveraging Groundwater Dynamics to Improve Predictions of Summer Low-Flow Discharges

Johnson, K., Harpold, A., Carroll, R. W. H., Barnard, H., Raleigh, M. S., Segura, C., Li, L., Williams, K. H., Dong, W. & Sullivan, P. L., Aug 2023, In: Water Resources Research. 59, 8, e2023WR035126.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

High Dissolved Carbon Concentration in Arid Rocky Mountain Streams

Kerins, D. & Li, L., Mar 21 2023, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 57, 11, p. 4656-4667 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Is macroporosity controlled by complexed clay and soil organic carbon?

Koop, A. N., Hirmas, D. R., Billings, S. A., Li, L., Cueva, A., Zhang, X., Wen, H., Nemes, A., Souza, L. F. T., Ajami, H., Flores, A. N., Rudick, A. K., Guthrie, A., Klamm, L. M., Unruh, M. & Sullivan, P. L., Sep 2023, In: Geoderma. 437, 116565.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The recovery of river chemistry from acid rain in the Mississippi River basin amid intensifying anthropogenic activities and climate change

Kozar, D., Dong, X. & Li, L., Nov 1 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 897, 165311.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Agricultural nitrate export patterns shaped by crop rotation and tile drainage

Ma, Z., Guan, K., Peng, B., Sivapalan, M., Li, L., Pan, M., Zhou, W., Warner, R. & Zhang, J., Feb 1 2023, In: Water Research. 229, 119468.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Disentangling the responses of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations to overlapping drivers in a northeastern United States forested watershed

Ruckhaus, M., Seybold, E. C., Underwood, K. L., Stewart, B., Kincaid, D. W., Shanley, J. B., Li, L. & Perdrial, J. N., 2023, In: Frontiers in Water. 5, 1065300.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A deep learning-based novel approach to generate continuous daily stream nitrate concentration for nitrate data-sparse watersheds

Saha, G. K., Rahmani, F., Shen, C., Li, L. & Cibin, R., Jun 20 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 878, 162930.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences

Shen, C., Appling, A. P., Gentine, P., Bandai, T., Gupta, H., Tartakovsky, A., Baity-Jesi, M., Fenicia, F., Kifer, D., Li, L., Liu, X., Ren, W., Zheng, Y., Harman, C. J., Clark, M., Farthing, M., Feng, D., Kumar, P., Aboelyazeed, D., Rahmani, F., & 11 othersSong, Y., Beck, H. E., Bindas, T., Dwivedi, D., Fang, K., Höge, M., Rackauckas, C., Mohanty, B., Roy, T., Xu, C. & Lawson, K., Aug 2023, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 4, 8, p. 552-567 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Root distributions, precipitation, and soil structure converge to govern soil organic carbon depth distributions

Souza, L. F. T., Hirmas, D. R., Sullivan, P. L., Reuman, D. C., Kirk, M. F., Li, L., Ajami, H., Wen, H., Sarto, M. V. M., Loecke, T. D., Rudick, A. K., Rice, C. W. & Billings, S. A., Sep 2023, In: Geoderma. 437, 116569.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Machine-Learning Reveals Equifinality in Drivers of Stream DOC Concentration at Continental Scales

Underwood, K. L., Rizzo, D. M., Hanley, J. P., Sterle, G., Harpold, A., Adler, T., Li, L., Wen, H. & Perdrial, J. N., Mar 2023, In: Water Resources Research. 59, 3, e2021WR030551.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Bridging environmental geochemistry and hydrology

Deng, H., Li, L., Kim, J. J., Ling, F. T., Beckingham, L. E. & Wammer, K. H., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Hydrology. 613, 128448.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Hydrologic connectivity and source heterogeneity control concentration–discharge relationships

Knapp, J. L. A., Li, L. & Musolff, A., Sep 2022, In: Hydrological Processes. 36, 9, e14683.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Climate Controls on River Chemistry

Li, L., Stewart, B., Zhi, W., Sadayappan, K., Ramesh, S., Kerins, D., Sterle, G., Harpold, A. & Perdrial, J., Jun 2022, In: Earth's Future. 10, 6, e2021EF002603.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Nitrate concentrations predominantly driven by human, climate, and soil properties in US rivers

Sadayappan, K., Kerins, D., Shen, C. & Li, L., Nov 1 2022, In: Water Research. 226, 119295.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Guidelines for Publicly Archiving Terrestrial Model Data to Enhance Usability, Intercomparison, and Synthesis

Simmonds, M. B., Riley, W. J., Agarwal, D. A., Chen, X., Cholia, S., Crystal-Ornelas, R., Coon, E. T., Dwivedi, D., Hendrix, V. C., Huang, M., Jan, A., Kakalia, Z., Kumar, J., Koven, C. D., Li, L., Melara, M., Ramakrishnan, L., Ricciuto, D. M., Walker, A. P., Zhi, W., & 2 othersZhu, Q. & Varadharajan, C., 2022, In: Data Science Journal. 21, 1, 3.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review