Faculty Profiles

Thapa Magar, N., Thapa, B. J., & Li, Y. (2024). Climate Change Misinformation in the United States: An Actor Network. Journalism and Media, 5(2), 595–613.

Li, Y., Fu, P., Chen, R., & Li, Y. (2023). Quaternary glaciations in western China: a review of the chronologies established by absolute dating. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment.

Li, Y. (2022). Century-long changing climate of Texas: the spatial-temporal variability and trends of temperature and precipitation. International Journal of Global Warming, 27(1), 102–122. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2022.122798

Lai, J., Li, Y., Chen, J., Niu, G., Lin, P., Li, Q., … Sun, Y. (2022). Massive crop expansion threatens agriculture and water sustainability in northwestern China. Environmental Research Letters, (17). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac46e8

Li, Y., Lu, X., Washington-Allen, R., & Li, Y. (2022). Micro-topographic controls on erosion and deposition of a rilled hillslope in eastern Tennessee, USA. Remote Sensing, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061315

Li, Y., Krause, S., McLendon, A., & Jo, I. (2022). Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2041571

Li, Y. (2020). Glacier changes and their linkage to climate-topographic context in the Borohoro Mountains, Tian Shan 1977–2018. Water, 12(1502). https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051502

Zhu, H., Shao, X., Zhang, H., Asad, F., Sigdel, S. R., Huang, R., … Liang, E. (2019). Trees record changes of the temperate glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau: Potential and uncertainty. Global and Planetary Change, 173, 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.12.004

Li, Y., & Fu, P. (2019). Mapping the late-Holocene glacial geomorphology and glacier surface types in the Mt. Harajoriha, central Tian Shan. International Journal of Geosciences, 10(6), 669–688. https://doi.org/10.4236/ijg.2019.106038

Chen, R., Zhou, S., Li, Y., Lai, Z., Ou, X., Lu, X., & Li, Y. (2019). Late Quaternary climate and environmental change derived from glacial deposits in the Parlung Zangbo Valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Physical Geography, 41(2), 99–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2019.1590680

Li, Y., Tieche, T., Horn, S., Li, Y., Chen, R., & Orvis, K. (2019). Mapping glacial landforms on the Chirripó Massif, Costa Rica, based on Google Earth, a digital elevation model, and field observations. Revista Geológica de América Central, (60), 109–121. https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.v2019i60.36465

Lu, X., Li, Y., Washington-Allen, R. A., & Li, Y. (2018). Structural and sedimentological connectivity on a rilled hillslope. Science of The Total Environment, (655), 1479–1494. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.137

Li, Y., Lu, X., & Li, Y. (2017). A Review on the Little Ice Age and Factors to Glacier Changes in the Tian Shan, Central Asia. In Glacier Evolution in a Changing World (pp. 37–60). InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/65820

Lu, X., Li, Y., Washington-Allen, R. A., Li, Y., Li, H., & Hu, Q. (2017). The effect of grid size on the quantification of erosion, deposition, and rill network. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 5(3), 241–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2017.06.002

Li, Y., Li, Y., Lu, X., & Harbor, J. (2016). Geomorphometric Controls on Mountain Glacier Changes Since the Little Ice Age in the Eastern Tien Shan, Central Asia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(2), 284–298. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1248552

Li, Y., Li, Y., Harbor, J., Liu, G., Yi, C., & Caffee, M. W. (2016). Cosmogenic 10-Be constraints on Little Ice Age glacial advances in the eastern Tian Shan, China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 138, 105–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.023

Li, Y., Li, Y., Chen, Y., & Lu, X. (2016). Presumed Little Ice Age glacial extent in the eastern Tian Shan, China. Journal of Maps, 12, 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2016.1158595

Li, H., Li, Y., Shen, W., Li, Y., Lin, J., Lu, X., … Jiang, J. (2015). Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999--2013. Remote Sensing, 7(12), 16672–16687. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215844

Li, Y., & LI, Y. (2014). Topographic and geometric controls on glacier changes in the central Tien Shan, China, since the Little Ice Age. Annals of Glaciology, 55(66), 177–186. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG66A031

Lifton, N., Beel, C., Hättestrand, C., Kassab, C., Rogozhina, I., Heermance, R., … Stroeven, A. P. (2014). Constraints on the late Quaternary glacial history of the Inylchek and Sary-Dzaz valleys from in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al, eastern Kyrgyz Tian Shan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 101, 77–90. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.032

Li, Y., Liu, G., Chen, Y., Li, Y., Harbor, J., Stroeven, A. P., … Cui, Z. (2014). Timing and extent of Quaternary glaciations in the Tianger Range, eastern Tian Shan, China, investigated using 10 Be surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98, 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.009

Wei, B., Li, Y., Yan, X., Fang, X., Zhu, H., & Li, J. (2008). Estimation of February–May precipitations from tree-ring in Xiaowutai Mountain region from 1895 onwards. Journal of Beijing Normal University (Natural Science), 2(44), 96–102.