Ling Li

Expertise

πŸͺ΅ Bioproducts,β˜€οΈ Clean and renewable energy, 🚿 Irrigation, 🌲 Forests, 🟫 Soils, 🫐 Wild blueberries

Li’s research focuses on the wood-water relations and forestry-based biomass utilization. Her research interests include hydrothermal behavior of wood and engineered wood products, solid biomass fuels (pellets, briquettes, firewood), environmental impacts of biomass combustion. Current research includes using biochar to increase soil moisture and improve wild blueberries’ resilience to drought, and exploring the potential for biochar as a PFAS remediation tool. Visit Li’s biography to learn more.

A bubble chart demonstrating a 50% research 50% teaching appointment split.
Li balances time between teaching (50%) courses about woody biomass, thermal properties, energy and fire performance, and wood mechanics, and research (50%) on advanced technologies to improve the energy efficiency of energy-intensive wood industry and timber-based building sector, innovative carbon-neutral bioproducts, numerical analysis of hydrothermal behavior of wood and engineered wood products, and the utilization of sustainable and renewable biomass as bioenergy resources.

Appointment details

Li’s work is supported by:

  • School of Forest Resources at the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
  • Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

Experiment Station contributions

  • Current project: Tackling current issues related to vapor/gas sorption and diffusion in wood drying, mass timber panel products, and biomass energy. McIntire-Stennis project number ME042205.