Name: Li Yi
Title: Professor
Address:253 mailbox, 23 Wehui Road, College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Sci-Tech University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
Tel: 086-13335393767
Education Background:
B. S. 1996, Shihezi University, China, Major: Agricultural hydraulic engineering.
M. S. 1999, Shihezi University, China, Major: Agricultural soil & water engineering.
Ph.D. 2002, Xian University of Technology, China. Major: Hydrology and Water Resources.
Working Experiences:
2002–2005: Postdoctoral research on Natural Geology in Institute of Geography Science and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China;
2005–2012: Associate professor at the College of Water resources and Architectural Engineering of Northwest A & F University. Teaching on Stochastic Hydrology, Water quality and Water Environment, Hydropower planning and Water related disasters; researching on soil and water movement, slope land hydrology.
2008-2009: visiting scholar at Iowa State University, USA
2013–Present: Professor, advisor of Ph.D students
Research Interests:
(1) Simulation of crop growth and soil system
(2)Effects of wastewater on water repellency and mass transfer of soils;
(3)GIS- and RS-based vegetation ecological water requirement
(4)Drought analysis impacted by climate change in northwest China
Selected publications：
Books:
[1]Yi Li, Quanjiu Wang, Wenyan Wang. Coupled transfer of soil water, soil salt and soil heat under plastic mulch, Shaanxi Scien-Tech Press , Xian, Nov, 2006.
Journal papers:
[2]Yi Li, Shibin Liu, Zhihao Liao, Chansheng He. 2012. Comparison of two methods for estimation of soil water content from measured reflectance. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 92(6): 845-857
[3]Li Yi , Li Min, Si Bingcheng, He Chansheng. 2012. Relationship between volume-based and number-based fractal dimensions of soil particle size distributions. Transactions of Chinese ASCE, 28(23):82-91
[4]Liu, SB, Li Y, He CS. 2013. Spectral analysis and estimations of soil salt and organic matter contents. Soil Science, 178(3):138-146
[5]Li, Y., Li, M. and Horton, R. 2011. Single and joint multifractal analysis of soil particle size distributions. Pedosphere. 21(1): 75–83
[6]Yi Li, Robert Horton, Tusheng Ren, Chunyan Chen. 2010. Prediction of annual reference evapotranspiration using climatic data.Agricultural Water Management, 97 (2): 300–308
[7]Yi Li, Robert Horton, Tusheng Ren, 2010. Chunyan Chen. Investigating time scale effects on reference evapotranspiration from Epan data in north China. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49(5): 867–878
[8]Yi Li, Mingan Shao, Wenyan Wang, et al. 2003. Open hole effects of perforated plastic mulches on soil water evaporation. Soil Science，11：1-8
[9]Yi Li, Shao Mingan. Soil mass transfer applied with polyacrylamide on Loess slope land (Abstract). 2nd International Symposium on Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming,2006.Oct,209
[10] Yi Li, Shao Mingan. Experimental study on influence factors of rainfall and infiltration under artificial grassland coverage. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering，2007，23(3):18-23 (In Chinese)
[11] Yi Li, Shao Mingan. Experiment study on effects of rainfall intensity on infiltration and redistribution on Loess slope land. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2006，17（12）：2271-2276 (In Chinese)
[12] Yi Li, Shao Mingan, Wang Wenyan, et al. Study on distribution and movement characteristics of soil water and soil salt during evaporation from perforated plastic mulch. Journal of Planting Nutrition and Fertilizer, 2005，11(2)：187-193(In Chinese)
[13] Yi Li, Shao Mingan. Latest advance of research on the method for measuring soil thermal properties. Acta Pedologica Sinica. 2005，42(1)：134-139( In Chinese)
[14] Yi Li，Wang Wenyan,Wang Quanjiu, et al. Experimental study on soil water movement And salt transport characteristics of evaporation from film holes in perforated plastic mulch after trickle infiltration. Chinese Journal of Soil Science. 2004，35(4):435-440( In Chinese)
[15] Yi Li, Shao Mingan, Wang Wenyan, et al. Experimentalstudy on evaporation of the perforated plastic mulch with different irrigation quotas. Advances in Water Science, 2004,(3):357-363(In Chinese)
[16] Yi Li，Wang Wenyan,Wang Quanjiu, et al. Temporal and spatial variation features and forecasting of temperature in maize field. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2003，（1）：105-110(In Chinese)
Papers published by Conferences:
[1]Yi Li, Min Li, Bingcheng Si, Tusheng Ren. Volume and number-based fractal dimensions of soil particle size distribution. International Conference on Combating Land Degradation and Annual Councilor Meeting of WASWAC LANDCON1010,2010，877-884
[2]Yi Li, Mingan Shao, Robert Horton. Effect of polyacrylamide applications on soil hydraulic characteristics and sediment yield of sloping land. 2011 International Conference on Energy and Environment (ICEE 2011), January 27-28, 2011, Shenzhen, China, 218-223
Ongoing Projects:
[1]The National Natural Science Foundation of Joint funds in Xinjiang, U1203182, the impact of climate change on hydrological drought in Manas river basin, 2013/Jan-2015/Dec, the host;
[2]The basic scientific research in colleges and universities: YQ2013006, northwest arid regions of different time scale of farmland soil water and salt dynamic response to climate change, 2013/Jan - 2015/Dec, the host;
[3]Provincial Foundation of Shaanxi, China, 2012-KW-24-01, climate change effects on the hydrological drought of Weihe river basin, 2013/Jan-2014/Nov, the host;
[4]Twelfth five-year" plan project 863, SS2013AA102904, crop habitat process simulation and dynamic optimization decision-making technology, 2013/Jan-2017/Nov, the main participants.
Teaching:
Teaching classes for Bachelor students:
[1] Stochastic Hydrology
[2] English for Specialty of Hydrology and water resources
[3] Hydraulic and Hydropower planning (including curriculum design)
[4] Water quality analysis and water chemistry
[5] Water environmental quality monitoring and evaluation (including curriculum design)
[6] Water-related disasters
[7] Urban hydrology
Teaching classes for graduate students:
[1] Soil physics
[2] Theory and analysis of water environment
[3] Agricultural hydrology
No. of graduate students being advised: 10 master students and 1 Ph. D student
No. of graduated master students have been advised: 15
General introduction:
"Top ten outstanding youth" in Yangling in 2009
advanced individual of scientific research in the northwest agriculture and forestry university in 2011
Outstanding communist party member in 2011.
