Li Li

Research Associate Professor

Mineral Physics Institute

Office: ESS 134

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Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook, NY, 2005-
Honorary research fellow at University College London, UK, 2005
Post-doc at Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France, 2004
Ph.D in Geophysics, Stony Brook University, 2003
(second major) M.S. in Computer Sciences, Stony Brook University 2003
M.S. Geophysics, University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, 1998
B.S. Geophysics, Jianghan Petroleum Institute, China, 1995


Outstanding Reviewer awarded by Earth and Planetary Science Letter, Elsevier, Dec 2017

Alvin Van Valkenburg Award, received at High Pressure Gordon Conference in Maine (2006)

Top-50 Most cited Paper 2006-2011 Award in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. Received at Vienna, EGU (2011) for the paper "Elasticity of CaSiO3 perovskite at high pressure and high temperature", authored by Li, L., D.J. Weidner, J. Brodholt, D. Alfè, G.D. Price, R. Caracas, and R. Wentzcovitch, Volume 155, Issue 3-4, Pages 249-259

Top-50 Most cited Paper 2004-2007 Award in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Received at San Francisco, AGU (2007) for the paper “Stress Measurement of deforming olivine at high pressure”, authored by L, Li, D. Weidner, P. Raterron, J. Chen, M. Vaughan, Volume 143, Issue 1-2(2004), Page 357-367.

 

Selected Publications

Weidner, D. J. and L. Li (2021). "Low frequency bulk modulus of partially molten peridotite, KLB-1." Physics of the Earth and Planet Interiors 313: 8.

Li, L., D. J. Weidner, Haiyan Chen, Richard Triplett (2020). "Bulk modulus measurement at mHz frequencies and high-pressure using synchrotron x-ray radiation." Review of Scientific Instruments 91(11): 3.

Li, L. and D. J. Weidner (2019). "Full waveform analysis for high pressure ultrasonic measurements." Review of Scientific Instruments 91(3): 3.

Weidner, D. J., L. Li, M. L. Whitaker, and R. Triplett (2018), Ultrasonic Acoustic Velocities During Partial Melting of a Mantle Peridotite KLB-1, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth123(2), 1252-1261, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014753.

Wei, D., L. Li, and D. J. Weidner (2018), Time scale of partial melting of KLB-1 peridotite: constrained from experimental observation and thermodynamic models, Journal of Earth Science29(2): 9.

Li Li, Donald J. Weidner, Matthew L. Whitaker, and R. Triplett (2018), Ultrasonic Acoustic Wave Velocities of Neighborite (NaMgF3) Across Orthorhombic to Cubic Phase Boundary at High P-T, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior283(1): 4..

Li, L., M. L. Whitaker, and D. J. Weidner (2018), Elastic wave velocity measurement using ultrasonic system with two-reflectors  Review of Scientific Instruments,89(8): 3.

Cheung, C. S. N., D. J. Weidner, L. Li, P. G. Meredith, H. Chen, M. L. Whitaker, and X. Chen (2018), Stress Distribution During Cold Compression of Rocks and Mineral Aggregates Using Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Diffraction, Journal of Visualized Experimentshttp://www.jove.com/video/57555(135), doi:DOI: 10.3791/57555.

Cheung, C. S. N., D. J. Weidner, L. Li, P. G. Meredith, H. Chen, M. L. Whitaker, and X. Chen (2017), Stress distribution during cold compression of a quartz aggregate using synchrotron X-ray diffraction: Observed yielding, damage, and grain crushing, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth122(4), 2724-2735, doi:doi:10.1002/2016JB013653.

Li, L. and D.J. Weidner, In situ analysis of texture at high P-T using sinusoidal variation of X-ray diffraction intensity Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015. in press.

Weidner, D.J. and L. Li, Kinetics of Melting in Peridotite from Volume Strain Measurements. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 2015. 246: p. 25-30.

Weidner, D.J. and L. Li, Theory & Practice - Methods for the Study of High P/T Deformation & Rheology, in Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd Edition, L. Stixrude and D.P. Geoffrey, Editors. 2015, Elseviere. p.18.

Li, L. and D.J. Weidner, Detection of melting by X-ray imaging at high pressure. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014. doi:10.1063/1.4880730(85): p. 4.

Simon A. Hunt, Donald J. Weidner, Richard J. McCormack, Matthew Whitaker,Edward Bailey, Li Li, Michael T. Vaughan, David P. Dobson, Deformation T-Cup: A new apparatus for high temperature controlled strain-rate deformation experiments tested to 18GPa. 2. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014. 85(8): p. 8

Wei, D., L. Li, and D.J. Weidner, Experimental observation on grain boundaries affected by partial melting and garnet forming phase transition in KLB1 peridotite. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 2014(228): p. 287-293.

Li, L., and D. J. Weidner, Effect of Dynamic Melting on Acoustic Velocities in a Partially Molten Peridotite, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 222, 1-7, 2013

Li Li, Donald J. Weidner, Anelasticity and Transient Creep in NaMgF3 Perovskite at High Pressure, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior,194-195, p98-106, 2012

David P. Dobson, Richard McCormack, Simon A. Hunt, Michael W. Ammann, Donald Weidner, Li Li and Liping Wang. The relative strength of perovskite and post-perovskite in the system NaCoF3, Mineralogical Magazine, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 76(4), pp. 925–932,2012

Hunt, Simon A., D. Rhodri Davies, Andrew M. Walker, Richard J. McCormack, Andrew S. Wills, David P. Dobson, Li Li, On the contrasting thermal diffusivity of perovskite and post-perovskite, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,319-320, p96-103, 2012

Hunt, Simon A., Walker, Andrew M., McCormack, Richard J., Dobson, David P. Wills, Andrew, Li Li, The effect of pressure on thermal diffusivity in pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 75(5), p 2597–2610, 2011

Li Li, Donald J. Weidner, John P. Brodholt and Dario Alfè, Prospecting for Water in the Transition Zone: dln(Vs)/dln(Vp), Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 189, p117-120, 2011

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