李凌博士

1. PERSONAL DETAILS
　　Name: Ling Li Date of birth: 13 th March, 1968
　　Sex: Male Marital status: Married
　　Home Address: 6/75 Payne Street, Taringa QLD 4068, Australia
　　Telephone: +61 7 33653911 at work +61 7 37201656 at home
　　Fax: +61 7 33654599 
　　Email: l.li@uq.edu.au
　　WWW: http://www.uq.edu.au/civeng/staff/li.html
2. QUALIFICATIONS
　　1998 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
　　1993 Master of Engineering Science, Department of Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
　　1988 Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental), Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.
3. PRIZES AND AWARDS
　　1998 STA Fellowship (funded by the Japanese government)
4. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (from date of first graduation)
　　DATES DETAILS OF APPOINTMENT
　　June 2002 onwards Senior Lecturer in Environmental Modelling, School of Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
　　January 1999 – May 2002 Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The 　　University of Edinburgh, UK. Permanent Position.
　　January 1997 - November 1998 Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Deakin University, Australia.
　　July 1998 – September 1998 Visiting Research Fellow, Port and Harbour Research Institute, Ministry of Transport, Japan.
　　July 1993 - December 1996 Research Assistant and Tutor, The University of Western Australia, Australia.
　　February 1991 - June 1992 Research Assistant, The University of Western Australia, Australia.
　　July 1988 – October 1990 Environmental Engineer, Guiyang Al&Mg Design and Research Institute, China.
5. RESEARCH BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
　　Overview
　　My research has been concerned mainly with two areas: (1) environmental modelling of hydrological and hydraulic processes at the coastline related to near-shore pollution and beach stability, and (2) the flow of fluids in porous media and the transport and reactions of dissolved chemicals within that fluid. I am particularly interested in ocean-land interactions. My work in these areas has important implications for coastal resource management and sustainable development.
　　As a young researcher, I am active in both individual and collaborative research. I have extensive research experiences in developing environmental models at different levels. My research work has been productive and of high quality as evident in the publication record (Section 6). While it is not possible, or even useful, to give a detailed description of my research contributions, I will highlight three specific areas i n the following:
　　1. Submarine groundwater discharge and coastal marine pollution ( developing new conceptual/theoretical models of environmental systems/processes ) – One of the main problems encountered in assessing and modelling coastal marine pollution is to determine the sources of pollutants, especially those derived from land. Submarine groundwater discharge (SGWD) has been identified by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme as an important but rather unknown source of contamination for the coastal marine environment. Large rates of SGWD, derived from geochemical signals of enriched natural tracers (e.g., 226 Ra; Nature , 380, 612-614, 1996) in coastal seas, have been shown not to be due to the aquifer recharge alone ( Nature , 382, 121-122, 1996). My colleagues and I [Journal Paper No. 13] developed a theoretical model of flow and mass transfer in the subterranean estuary and explained the field observations. We found that local groundwater circulation and oscillating flows due to wave set-up and tides might have caused the excessive discharge rate. We also demonstrated the importance of subterranean estuaries in determining chemical transfer from the aquifer to the ocean. Local groundwater circulation, induced by wave set-up and tidally driven oscillating flows, can reduce the residence time of chemicals in the subterranean estuary , similar to “tidal flushing” of a surface estuary. As a result, the rates of chemical fluxes from the aquifer to the ocean can increase significantly. These important theoretical results, consistent with field findings, have very important implications for assessing coastal pollution. The publication from this work has received very high rating from the peer reviewers (Prof. W. Moore from University of South Carolina, USA, an eminent scientist from this field, viewed this paper as "a substantial contribution to emerging field of submarine groundwater discharge").
　　2. The effects of beach groundwater flow on wave motion and sediment transport in the swash zone ( developing advanced process-based numerical models ) - Seepage across the seabed of these water bodies influences wave motion and sediment transport in the swash zone. However, existing theories and models of swash sediment transport and beach face evolution do not include seepage effects. As an attempt to fill this research gap, I developed a process-based numerical model that simulates interacting beach groundwater flow, wave motion, sediment transport and beach profile changes. This model is capable of replicating to certain extent the observed behaviours of beaches and may have a range of applications in coastal engineering after the model validation. For example, it may be used to assess the feasibility and efficiency of beach dewatering, a techn ique for beach erosion control.
　　3. Tides/waves interactions with unconfined aquifers ( analytical modelling ) – capillary effects on high frequency water table fluctuations, beach slope effects on water table fluctuations (generation mechanisms of spring neap tidal water table fluctuations), and two-dimensional water table fluctuations.
Current Research Areas:
　　· Hydrological and hydraulic processes at the ocean-land interface
　　· Groundwater flow and contaminant transport
　　· Water quality modelling
　　· Wave dynamics in swash and surf zones
　　· Beach erosion
　　· Beach sediment transport and profile changes
　　· Centrifugal modelling of solute transport processes
　　· The effect of subsurface heterogeneity on chemical transport
　　· Computational fluid dynamics
Research Collaboration
　　· Prof. D. A. Barry (Edinburgh University, UK) on modelling of coastal groundwater flow and mass transport processes.
　　· Prof. J.-Y. Parlange (Cornell University, USA) on modelling of coastal groundwater flow and mass transport processes.
　　· Dr. Ping Dong (Dundee University, UK) on sediment in surf and swash zones.
　　· Dr. G. Masselink (Loughborough University) on swash dynamics and beach profile changes.
　　· A/Prof. F. Stagnitti (Deakin University, Australia) on dynamics of coastal aquifers.
　　· Dr. K. Katoh (Port and Harbour Research Institute, Japan) on beach dewatering.
　　· A/Prof. Liang Cheng (The University of Western Australia, Australia) on Computational Fluid Mechanics.
　　· Dr. D. Jeng (Griffith University, Australia) on seabed stability.
　　· Dr. A. Baird (Sheffield University, UK) on shallow aquifer dynamics.
6. PUBLICATIONS
　　Journal articles - Published or In Press
　　1. Li, L ., Lockington, D. A., Barry, D. A., and Parlange, J.-Y., 2002, Confined-unconfined flow in a confined aquifer, Journal of Hydrology , In press.
　　2. Foote, M., Horn, D., and Li., L . 2002, Measuring swash zone hydrodynamics and morphodynamic change - a high-resolution laboratory system using digital video, Journal of Coastal Research , in press.
　　3. Li, L ., Dong, P., and Barry, D. A., 2002, Tide-induced water table fluctuations in coastal aquifers bounded by rhythmic shorelines, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE) , 128 (10): 925-933.
　　4. Li ., L ., Jeng, D.-S., and Barry, D. A., 2002, Tidal fluctuations in a leaky confined aquifer: localised effects of an overlying phreatic aquifer, Journal of Hydrology , 265 (1-4): 283-287.
　　5. Jeng, D. S., Li, L . and Barry, D. A. 2002, Analytical solution for tidal propagation in a coupled semi-confined/phreatic coastal aquifer. Advances in Water Resources , 25 (5): 577-584.
　　6. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, C. B. Pattiaratchi, and G. Masselink, 2002, BeachWin: Modelling groundwater effects on swash sediment transport and beach profile changes, Environmental Modelling and Software , 17. 313-320.
　　7. Barry, D. A., I. G. Lisle, L. Li , H. Prommer, J.-Y. Parlange, G. C. Sander, and J. W. Griffioen, 2001, Similitude Applied to Centrifugal Scaling of Unsaturated Flow, Water Resources Research , 37(10): 2471-2479.
　　8. Masselink, G. and L. Li , 2001, The role of swash infiltration in determining the beachface gradient: a numerical study, Marine Geology , 176,139-156.
　　9. Li, L. , D. A. Barry, and D.-S. Jeng, 2001, Tidal fluctuations in a leaky confined aquifer: Dynamic effects of an overlying phreatic aquifer, Water Resources Research , 37, 1095-1098.
　　10. Jeng, D. S., L. Li , and D. A. Barry, 2001, Wave-induced seepage into anisotropic seabed, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics , 25, 771-787.
　　11. Stagnitti, F., L. Li , G. Allinson, J.-Y. Parlange, T. Steenhuis, and L. Elango, 2001, Modelling solute transport in structured soils: Performance evaluation of ADR and TRM models, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 34(3-4), 433-440.
　　12. Parlange, J.-Y., F. Stagnitti, A. Heilig, J. Szilagyi, M. B. Parlange, T. S. Steenhuis, W. L. Hogarth, D. A. Barry, and L. Li . Sudden drawdown and drainage of a horizontal aquifer. Water Resources Research 37(8): 2097-2101. 2001
　　13. Li, L. , D. A. Barry, C. Cunningham, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange, 2000, A two-dimensional analytical solution of groundwater responses to tidal loading in an estuary and ocean, Advances in Water Resources , 23, 825-833.
　　14. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, J.-Y. Parlange, and D.-S. Jeng, 2000, Beach water table fluctuations due to spring-neap tides, Advances in Water Resources , 23, 817-824.
　　15. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, L. Li , H. Prommer, and F. Stagnitti, 2000, Analytical approximations for real values of the Lambert W -function, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 53(1-2): 95-103.
　　16. Jeng, D., D. A. Barry and L. Li , 2000, Water wave-driven seepage in marine sediments, Advances in Water Resources , 24, 1-10.
　　17. Li, L ., and D. A. Barry, 2000, Wave-induced beach groundwater flow, Advances in Water Resources , 23, 325-337.
　　18. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange, 2000, Groundwater waves in a coastal aquifer: A new governing equation including vertical effects and capillarity, Water Resources Research , 36, 411-420.
　　19. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, and L. Li , 2000, Approximation for the exponential integral (Theis well function), Journal of Hydrology , 227(1-4): 287-291.
　　20. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange, 1999, Submarine groundwater discharge and associated chemical input to a coastal sea, Water Resources Research , 35, 3253-3259.
　　21. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, J. Morris, and F. Stagnitti, 1999, CXTANNEAL: An Improved Program for Estimating Solute Transport Parameters, Environmental Modelling and Software , 14(6), 607-611.
　　22. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange, 1999, Tidal along-shore groundwater flow in a coastal aquifer, Environmental Modelling and Assessment , 4(2-3), 179-188.
　　23. Stagnitti, F., Allinson, G., Sherwood, J., Graymore, M., Allinson, M., Turoczy, N., Li, L ., and Phillips, I., 1999, Preferential leaching of nitrate, chloride and phosphate in an Australian clay soil, Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry , 70, 415-425.
　　24. Stagnitti, F., Li, L ., Allinson, G., Phillips, I., Lockington, D., Zeiliguer, A., Allinson, M., Lloyd-Smith, J., and Xie, M., 1999, A mathematical model for estimating the extent of solute- and water- flux heterogeneity in multiple sample percolation experiments. Journal of Hydrology , 215(1-4), 59-69.
　　25. Stagnitti, F., Sherwood, J., Allinson, G., Evans, L., Allinson, M., Li, L ., and Phillips, I., 1998, An investigation of localised soil heterogeneities on solute transport using a multisegement percolation system. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research , 41, 603 - 612.
　　26. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, J.-Y. Parlange, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1997, Beach water table fluctuations due to wave runup: Capillarity effects, Water Resources Research , 33(5), 935-945.
　　27. Parlange, J.-Y., D. A. Barry, M. B. Parlange, W. L. Hogarth, R. Haverkamp, P. J. Ross, L. Li , and T. S. Steenhuis, 1997, New approximate analytical technique to solve Richards equation for arbitrary surface boundary conditions, Water Resources Research , 33(4), 903-906.
　　28. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1997, Numerical modelling of tide-induced beach water table fluctuations, Coastal Engineering , 30(1-2), 105-123.
　　29. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1996, Numerical modelling of water table responses to beach dewatering, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering , 122(6), 273-280.
　　30. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, P. J. Hensley, and K. Bajracharya, 1994, Mass transfer in soils with local stratification of hydraulic conductivity, Water Resources Research , 30(11), 2891-2900.
　　31. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, and K. J. L. Stone, 1994, Centrifugal modelling of nonsorbing, nonequilibrium solute transport in locally stratified soils, Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 31(4), 471-477.
Journal comments and replies - Published or In Press
　　1. Li L , Barry DA, Stagnitti F, Parlange JY, and Jeng DS, 2002, Comment on "Beach water fluctuations due to spring-neap tides: moving boundary effects." By L. Li, D.A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, J.-Y. Parlange, and D.-S. Jeng – Reply, Advances in Water Resources 25 (5): 586-588.
　　2. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, L. Li and D.-S. Jeng, 2002, Comment on "Analytical decomposition of the nonlinear unsaturated flow equation" by Sergio E. Serrano, Water Resources Research , 38 (2): art. no. 1015 FEB .
　　3. Parlange J.-Y., D. Lockington, G. Sander, W. L. Hogarth, D. A. Barry, L. Li , M. B. Parlange, and R. S. Govindaraju. 2001. Comments on “Exact solution for horizontal redistribution by general similarity”. Soil Science Society of America Journal . 65(3): 957-958.
　　4. Parlange, J.-Y., D. A. Barry, and L. Li , 2001, Comment on "Estimation of the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity from the pressure distribution in a centrifugal field" by H. A. Basha and N. I. Mina, Water Resources Research , 37, 171.
　　5. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, W. L. Hogarth, R. S. Govindaraju, M. B. Parlange, D. Lockington, and L. Li ., 2000, Comment on “Modeling transient stream/aquifer interaction with the non-linear Boussinesq equation and its analytical solution” by Serrano, S. E., Workman, S. R., 1998. Journal of Hydrology 206, 245-255. Journal of Hydrology . 235(3-4): 289-292.
　　6. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, W. L. Hogarth, R. S. Govindaraju, M. B. Parlange, D. Lockington, and L. Li , 2000, Rejoinder to comment on “Modeling transient stream/aquifer interaction with the non-linear Boussinesq equation and its analytical solution” by Serrano, S. E., Workman, S. R., 1998. Journal of Hydrology 206, 245-255. Journal of Hydrology . 235(3-4): 297.
　　7. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, J.-Y. Parlange, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1999, Reply to Nielsen's comments on “Beach water table fluctuations due to wave runup: Capillarity effects”, Water Resources Research , 35(4), 1325-1329.
　　8. Parlange J.-Y., Hogarth W. L., Barry D. A., Steenhuis T. S., Parlange M. B., Haverkamp R., Ross P. J., Li L . 1998, Comment on "Series solution for Richards equation under concentration boundary condition and uniform initial conditions" by Guido Daniel Salvucci, Water Resources Research , 34(11), 3211.
　　9. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, J.-Y. Parlange, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1998, Reply to Zlotnik's comments on “Beach water table fluctuations due to wave runup: Capillarity effects”, Water Resources Research , 34(11), 3205-3206.
Book Chapters
　　1. Stagnitti, F., Steenhuis, T. S., Parlange, J.-Y., Allinson, G., Allinson, M., Li, L ., and Lloyd-Smith, J., 1998, Soil structure and chemical transport: Australian case studies. Environmental Sciences and Environmental Computing , Vol. 1, P. Zannetti and Y. Q. Zhang, eds., Electronic Book Series, FiatLux Publications & EnviroComp Institute, 75-113.
　　2. Luther, M. and L. Li , 1997, Exploring thermal processes in an atrium, in Proceedings of SOLAR 97 edited by Trevor Lee, Chapter 62, 1-7.
Conference Papers
　　1. Li, L ., and D. A. Barry, 2001, Groundwater effects on sediment: A modelling study of the mechanisms underlying beach dewatering for erosion control, In Proceedings of XXIX IAHR Congress Proceedings, D(2), 294-305, Sept. 16-21, Beijing.
　　2. Li, L ., P. Enot, H. Prommer, F. Stagnitti, and D. A. Barry, 2001, Effects of near-shore groundwater circulation on aerobic biodegradation in coastal unconfined aquifers, 1 st International Conference on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers Monitoring, Modelling and management, April 23-25, Essaouira, Morocco.
　　3. G. Masselink, and L. Li , 2000, A numerical investigation of factors controlling the gradient of the beachface, International Coastal Symposium , April 24-28, Rotorua, New Zealand.
　　4. Jeng, D. S., Lee, T. L., Li, L . and Barry, D. A., 2000, Water wave-driven Seepage in anisotropic sediments. The 22nd Conference on Ocean; Engineering, ROC, 418-425.
　　5. Jeng, D. S., Li, L . and Barry, D. A. and Lee, T. L., 2000, Tidal fluctuations in a leaky confined aquifer. The 24th National Conference on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, ROC, C95-100.
　　6. Li, L ., and D. A. Barry, 1999, Groundwater effects on sediment: A modelling study of the mechanisms underlying beach dewatering for erosion control, In Proceedings of the 11th annual seminar of Scottish Hydraulics Study Group , G1-G16, Glasgow, UK, March.
　　7. L. Li , D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange. 1999. The effects of local coastal groundwater flows on chemical transfer from the aquifer to coastal sea. Third International Marine Environmental Modelling Seminar , April 11-14, Lillehammer, Norway, 11 pp. (invited)
　　8. Stagnitti, F., G. H. de Rooij, L. Li , and G. Allinson, 1999, A statistic distribution for measuring solute and water flux heterogeneity in vadose zone experiments, In Workshop on Scale and Variability Issues in the Soil-Hydrological System, Wik's Castle, Sweden, August. (invited)
　　9. Stagnitti, F., G. H. de Rooij, G. Allinson, and L. Li , 1999, Quantification of heterogeneity in solute- and water-fluxes in soil, Proceedings of the Envirowater 99: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Land-use and Water management Conference , Luasanne, Switzerland, September. (invited)
　　10. Stagnitti, F., Li, L ., Allinson, G., Sherwood, J., Ueoka, M., Lockington, D., Phillips, I., and Turoczy, N., 1998, Leaching of nutrients: Preformance evaluation of the advective-dispersion-reaction equation and a two-region preferential flow, in Commission II. Soil Chemistry, Heterogeneity of physico-chemical processes in soils. In 16th World Congress of Soil Science , Montpellier, France, 20-26 August, N. Senesi and G. Bourrie, eds.
　　11. Li, L ., D, A. Barry and J. Morris, 1997, Parallel simulated annealing using CILK language: Applications in estimating transport parameters for groundwater contaminants, in Proceedings of MODSIM 97 edited by D. McDonald and M. McAleer, 2, 616-620.
　　12. Barry, D. A., and L. Li . 1994. Physical basis of nonequilibrium solute transport in soil. Fifteenth International Congress of Soil Science, Transactions, Acapulco, Mexico, 10 - 16 July. International Society of Soil Science and Mexican Society of Soil Science. 2a: 86-105. Invited keynote paper.
　　13. Barry, D. A., K. Bajracharya, and L. Li . 1994. Velocity scaling of nonequilibrium solute transport in heterogeneous soils: Numerical and experimental results. Twenty-Fifth Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists/International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium of the Institution of Engineers , Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, 21 – 25 November. Preprints of papers, 2B: 645-648.
　　14. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, P. J. Hensley, and K. Bajracharya, 1993, Nonreactive chemical transport in structured soil: The potential for centrifugal modelling, in Geotechnical Management of Waste and Contamination edited by R. Fell, T. Phillips and C. Gerard, Balkema, Rotterdam, 425-431.
Reports
　　1. Barry, D. A., and L. Li . 1999. Review of: Report 1 - Ground Water Abstraction Viability Report and Report 2 - Specifications for Well Construction and Testing (Prepared for Ove Arup and Partners). School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. 14 pp.
　　2. Stagnitti, F., Allinson, G., Li, L ., Phillips, I., Lockington, D., Steenhuis, T., Parlange, J.-Y., Ritsema, C., & Dekker, L., 1998, Modelling & Monitoring the Transport of Contaminants In Soils. Effects of Hysteresis & Water Repellency . An Interim Report Prepared for the Department of Industry, Science & Technology, Australian Government, 42 pp. Deakin University.
Conference Presentations (Published Abstracts)
　　1. Enot, P., L. Li , H. Prommer, and D. A. Barry. 2001. Effects of oceanic oscillations on aerobic bio-degradation in coastal aquifers. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geophysical Society, 3: 18.
　　2. Li, L ., and G. Masselink, 2000, The role of swash infiltration in determining the beachface gradient: a numerical study, American Geophysical Union 2000 Fall Meeting, OS62F-03.
　　3. Li, L ., 2000. A perturbation solution for beach water table fluctuations due to spring-neap tides. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geophysical Society, 2(HSA7.01).
　　4. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange. 1999. Subterranean groundwater discharge and associated chemical input to a coastal sea. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geophysical Society, 1(2): 395.
　　5. Li, L ., Barry, D. A., Stagnitti, F., and Parlange, J.-Y., 1998, Tidal along-shore groundwater oscillations in a coastal aquifer. In American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, Boston. EOS Trans. Am Geophys. Union, 29(17), S109.
　　6. Li, L ., C. B. Pattiaratchi, and D. A. Barry, 1996, Wave/tide interaction with coastal groundwater flow: The effects on beach stability, AMOS , Hobart, Australia.
　　7. Barry, D. A. and L. Li , 1996, A parallel simulated annealing algorithm using “CILK”, EOS Trans ., Am. Geophys. Union, 77(46), F266.
　　8. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, J.-Y. Parlange and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1995, Two mechanisms of coastal groundwater responses to sea level oscillations, EOS Trans . Am Geophys. Union, 76(46), F192.
　　9. Li, L ., D. A. Barry, and C. B. Pattiaratchi, 1994, Numerical modelling of tidal fluctuations of a coastal aquifer, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Trans ., 75(44), F231.
Note of Citations – According to the Science Citation Index (SCI), my publications were cited 75 times in total in the past five years ( 47 non-self citations ).
7. RESEARCH FUNDS RECEIVED SINCE 1999
　　2003-2005 As 1 St Chief Investigator ( CI ), Water exchange and mixing at the aquifer-ocean interface. Australian Research Council. A$152000 ( L. Li and P. Nielsen).
　　2003-2005 As 2 nd CI , Wave induced transport of pollutants in coastal sediments. Australian Research Council. A$287000 (D. Jeng, L. Li and D. A. Barry).
　　2003-2004 As CI , Modelling near-shore groundwater and seawater mixing in a Hele-Shaw cell. The University of Queensland. A$23311 ( L. Li ).
　　2001-2003 As Principal Investigator (PI) , Dynamics of flow and chemical transport/transformation in a subterranean estuary. The Leverhulme Trust UK. ￡119654 ( L . Li , D. A. Barry, H. Prommer, A. Binley).
　　2001-2002 As PI , Spring-neap water table fluctuations: Beach slope versus seepage face effects. Natural Environment Research Council, UK. ￡34168 ( L. Li , A. Baird and D. Horn).
　　2000-2001 As PI , Wind tunnel experiment of biopiles. The Royal Society, UK. ￡8600 ( L. Li ).
　　2000-2001 As PI , Coastal groundwater circulation. Edinburgh University Development Grant, UK. ￡2000 ( L. Li ).
　　2000-2002 As an Associate Investigator , Modelling and Monitoring Groundwater Flow, Hydrodynamics and Geo-chemical 　　Interactions in a Coastal Aquifer Underlying Portland's Alcoa Smelter. Australian Research Council, A$63240 (F. Stagnitti, J. Sherwood, L. Li ).
　　1999 As an AI , Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Associated Chemical Input to a Coastal Sea. Australian Research Council. A$15000 (F. Stagnitti, L. Li ).
8. INVITED LECTURES/SEMINARS
　　L. Li , 2001. Coupling physical and chemical processes in subterranean estuaries, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Workshop on "Subterranean coastal environments: Biogeochemical processes, fluxes and impacts", May 22-25, Delmenhorst, Germany (Invited address).
　　L. Li , D. A. Barry, F. Stagnitti, and J.-Y. Parlange. 1999. The effects of local coastal groundwater flows on chemical transfer from the aquifer to coastal sea. Third International Marine Environmental Modelling Seminar , April 11-14, Lillehammer, Norway, 11 pp. (invited paper presented)
Barry, D. A., and L. Li . 1994. Physical basis of nonequilibrium solute transport in soil. Fifteenth International Congress of Soil Science, Transactions, Acapulco, Mexico, 10 - 16 July. International Society of Soil Science and Mexican Society of Soil Science. 2a: 86-105. Invited keynote address .
9. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
　　American Geophysical Union
　　Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
　　European Geophysical Society
10. OTHER RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES
　　1997 – 1998 Served as a scientific adviser in the Scientific Panel of the Coastal Council, Victorian Government, Australia.
　　1997 – Present Regularly review papers for the following journals:
　　Water Resources Research
　　Advances in Water Resources
　　Journal of Hydrology
　　Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
　　Environmental Modelling & Software
　　I also have been invited to chair the near-shore processes session in the 2 nd International Conference on Salt Water Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers (SWICA II to be held in Mexico in 2003).
11. TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Teaching Subjects
　　Undergraduate
　　Programming for Engineers (2 nd year level)
　　Numerical Methods in Engineering (2 nd year level)
　　Coastal Engineering (3 rd year level)
　　Hydrological Engineering (4 th year level)
　　Hydraulic Engineering and Sediment Transport (4 th year level)
　　Water Quality Modelling (4 th year level)
　　Environmental Modelling (4 th year level)
　　Computational Fluid Dynamics (4 th year level)
　　Postgraduate
　　Coastal Processes
　　Coastal Resources Management
Postgraduate Supervision
　　1. Miss P. Enot, Modelling multi-species reactive chemical transport in a coastal aquifer, PhD candidate at Edinburgh University, 2000-2003.
　　2. Miss Valerie Pas, Air flow in porous media, M. Eng completed at Edinburgh University in 2000.
Postdoctoral Fellow Supervision
　　1. Dr. X.-M. Mao, Modelling reactive transport in subterranean estuaries, Edinburgh University, 2001-2004.
Undergraduate Supervision
　　I regularly supervise final year pass projects and honours theses carried out by engineer-ing students. Currently two final year students are working under my supervision on in-situ measurement of permeability of beach sands.
New course design
　　I developed quality teaching materials from scratch for two new subjects (fourth-year), namely, Pollutant Transport Mechanisms and Environmental Modelling
　　·Innovation of teaching methods
　　· Using interactive simulation models to convey concepts and theories in Pollutant Transport Mechanisms and Environmental Modelling.
　　· Using World Wide Web for teaching distant students (off-campus students) in Coastal Engineering: a Java applet was developed to show students tidal groundwater waves.
12. ACADEMIC REFEREES
　　Professor D. A. Barry, Head of School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director of Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK. Tel: +44 131 650 7204. Fax: +44 131 650 7276. Email: a.barry@ed.ac.uk .
　　Professor J.-Y. Parlange, Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 18453-5701, USA. Tel: +1 607 255 2476. 
Fax: +1 607 255 4080. Email: jp58@cornell.edu .
　　Professor Alexander H.-D. Cheng, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19716, USA. Tel: +1 302-831-6787. Fax: +1 302-831-3640. 
Email: cheng@ce.udel.edu .
WWW: http://www.ce.udel.edu/faculty/cheng/.A/　　
　　 Professor F. Stagnitti, School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria 3280, Australia. Tel: +61 3 5563 3535. Fax: +61 3 5563 3462. Email: frankst@deakin.edu.au .