Rate My Professor Zhiying Li

Li has received prestigious recognitions, including the Fischer Faculty Fellowship at the O'Neill School in 2026 to support her work on sustainable urban development and climate resilience, and the American Association of Geographers Climate Specialty Group John Russell Mather Paper of the Year Award in 2025 for her lead-authored paper 'Emergent Trends Complicate the Interpretation of the United States Drought Monitor' published in AGU Advances in 2024. Other honors include the AAG Elevate the Discipline Climate Change & Society Cohort in 2023 and the Story Exchange Our Women in Science Incentive Prize in 2022. She has secured principal investigator grants from the USGS for projects on hydrologic intensification and drought-flood alternations. Key publications feature 'Developing Impacts-Based Drought Thresholds for Ohio' (Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2023), 'Projection of Streamflow Change Using a Time-Varying Budyko Framework in the Contiguous United States' (Water Resources Research, 2022), 'Investigating Spatial Heterogeneity of the Controls of Surface Water Balance in the Contiguous United States' (Journal of Hydrology, 2021), and 'Identifying the Dominant Drivers of Hydrological Change in the Contiguous United States' (Water Resources Research, 2021). Li leads the Hydroclimatology Group, delivers invited lectures at universities, chairs conference sessions, and serves in editorial roles such as Associate Deputy Editor at Climatic Change.