Education
2019-present Ph.D. student Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisor: Dr. Ajay B. Limaye
2016-2019 M.S. in Marine Geology Department of Coastal Marine Science, Nanjing University
Advisor: Dr. Ya-Ping Wang
2012-2016 B.S. in Marine Resources Development Technology School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University
Teaching
Fall 2023:
Honors
Presentations
Media coverage
Early Career Researcher Spotlight, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, AGU, November 2023 (link).
2019-present Ph.D. student Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisor: Dr. Ajay B. Limaye
2016-2019 M.S. in Marine Geology Department of Coastal Marine Science, Nanjing University
Advisor: Dr. Ya-Ping Wang
2012-2016 B.S. in Marine Resources Development Technology School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University
Teaching
Fall 2023:
- Lab instructor and teaching assistant: Geomorphology (undergraduate and graduate course), University of Virginia
- Lab instructor: Fundamentals of Geology Laboratory (undergraduate course), University of Virginia
- Teaching assistant: Methods of Marine Field Investigation (graduate course), Nanjing University
Honors
- Ziemann Publication Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 2023
- Student Poster Award, 4th Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China, 2019
- Outstanding Graduate Students, Nanjing University, 2018
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China, 2018
Presentations
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2023, Timescale of the morphodynamic feedback between planform geometry and lateral migration of meandering rivers (Invited), American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Talk EP31A-07
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2023, Testing the role of time in the morphodynamic feedback between channel planform geometry and lateral migration of meandering rivers, 13th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM), Urbana-Champaign, IL, Talk
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2023, A new framework for testing models of meandering channel migration: impacts of streamwise location and migration timescale (Invited), State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Talk
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2022, Applying a spatial and temporal framework to test models of channel migration by meandering rivers using data from the Amazon Basin and the continental US, AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, Talk EP35A-01
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2021, Spatial framework for testing model predictions of channel migration by meandering rivers, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA,Talk EP41A-05.
- Li, Y., Limaye, A. B., 2020, Testing forecasts for meandering river migration using a rescued dataset of rivers across the continental US, AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual poster EP004-0010.
- Li, Y., Jia, J., Zhu, Q., Cheng, P., Gao, S., Wang, Y. P., 2019, Eliminating advection component on observed suspended sediment concentration in a turbid estuary, 4th Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China, Poster .
- Li, Y., Wang, Y. P., 2017, Differentiating the effect of advection and resuspension on suspended sediment concentrations in Changjiang Estuary, 6th National Sedimentological Congress, Nanjing, China, Poster.
Media coverage
Early Career Researcher Spotlight, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, AGU, November 2023 (link).