About me

I am Zhi Li, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) located in Richland, Washington, USA. At PNNL, I am focusing on developing and applying hydro-biogeochemical numerical models to solve real-world watershed and ecosystem science problems. I received my PhD in Water Resources Engineering & Science from the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I was trained as a geophysical flow and transport modeler. My PhD thesis focused on the development of numerical models to study river meandering and cutoff dynamics, supervised by Professor Marcelo H. García. Here is my short CV.

News

• [Dec’23] Co-convened the GC51R Wildfire Impacts session and presented the poster titled “Modeling the fates of pyrogenic carbon in the wildfire-impacted Pacific Northwest watersheds” in AGU Fall Meeting 2023 in San Francisco, CA.

• [Sep’23] The preprint of a first-author paper titled “Evaluating the effects of burn severity and precipitation on post-fire watershed responses using distributed hydrologic models” has been published in ESS Open Archive. doi: 10.22541/essoar.170224575.51711472/v1

• [Sep’23] A co-authored paper titled “A hydrogeophysical framework to assess infiltration during a simulated ecosystem-scale flooding experiment” has been published in the Journal of Hydrology. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130243

• [Aug’23] A first-author paper titled “High-resolution modeling of meander neck cutoffs: laboratory and field scales” has been published in Frontiers in Earth Science. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1208782.

• [May’23] A poster titled “Watershed hydrologic and biogeochemical responses to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest” has been presented in 2023 ESS PI meeting in Bethesda, MD.