Basic Introduction:

Zhilin Guo, a Young Talents of the Ministry of Education, graduated from the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Hydrology at the University of California, Davis. In August 2019, she joined SUSTech. She has been studying on the mechanism and remediation of groundwater pollution and the sustainability of groundwater resources under global change. She has been supported by national, provincial and municipal projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars Program, and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. She is currently the Vice Chair of the UNESCO Groundwater Youth Network, a member of the Groundwater Committee of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Groundwater Hydraulics and Management Technical Committee of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). She is also the associate editor of Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Groundwater, top international journals in the field of groundwater, and serves as a peer reviewer for several top-tier international journals.

Professional Experience:

2024.12-present Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

2022.09-2024.11 Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

2019.09-2022.08 Research Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

2016.02-2019.08 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Davis, CA

2015.09-2016.01 Senior Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Education:

2012.08-2015.08 University of Arizona, Ph.D. in Environmental Science (minor in Hydrology)

2010.08-2012.05 University of Florida, M.S. in Environmental Engineering Science  

2006.09-2010.05 Shanxi University, B.S. in Resources, Environment & Urban-rural Planning Management.

Synergistic Activities:

1. Deputy Director of the National Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution in Watersheds (2023–present)

2. Associate Editor for Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal (2023-present)

3. Associate Editor for Groundwater Journal (2020-present)

4. Vice Chair of UNESCO Groundwater Youth Network (2022-present)

5. Member of IAHR Groundwater Hydraulics and Management Technical Committee (2020-present)

6. Secretary of CSES Ecological Geology and Environment Committee (2019-present)

7. Member of AGU Groundwater Technical Committee (2017-present)

8. Member of the Hydro-geochemistry Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (2024–present)

9. Primary Convener and Chair of AGU session, 2017-2021,2023

10. Primary Convener and Chair of GSA session, 2020

11. Primary Convener and Chair of EGU session, 2021

Awards and Honors:

1. 2024, Young Talents of the Ministry of Education

2. 2024, Youth Science and Technology of Ecological Environment of Guangdong Environmental Science Society (Gold Award)

3. 2020, Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award

4. 2019, Outstanding Presentation Award at the 5th Groundwater Science Youth Forum

5. 2015, NIEHS K.C. Donnelly Externship Award

6. 2015, Graduate College Fellowship

7. 2014, EPA Superfund Research Program Training Core Fellowship

Research Interests:

1. Characterization of aquifer heterogeneity, non-Fickian transport modeling 

2. Evaluation of site contamination and remediation processes 

3. Upscaling of non-Fickian transport processes

4. Regional groundwater contamination risk assessment

Selected funded projects:

1．Outstanding Young Scholar of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2024B1515020038), 2024.01-2027-12, PI.

2．Sub-project of the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2023YFC3706501), Task 2, 2024.01-2027.12, PI.

3．National Key R&D program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0402806), Groundwater over-exploitation protection key technologies and application in Huang-Huai River. Topic 2，2021.12-2025.05, PI.

4．The Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 92047202), Mechanisms and simulations of groundwater changes in the southwestern river basins. Task 3, 2021.01-2023.12, PI.

5．Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42007162), Parameterization of upscaling method on modeling contaminant transport under transient flow conditions. 2021.01- 2023.12, PI.

6．Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant Nos. 2020A1515010891), Contaminant migration and groundwater environmental management at an industrial park, 2019.10-2022.09, PI.

7．Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (Grant Nos. RKX20190718213410182), Study of sustainable development cases and development strategies in Shenzhen, 2019.10-2020.09, PI.

8．U.S Department of Energy，CERC-WET, Energy consequences of ongoing conversion of groundwater systems into closed hydrologic basins due to overdraft, 2016-2021, Participate.

9．The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (P42ES04940), Mass-Transfer and Mass Flux Dynamics of Chlorinated-Solvents in Heterogeneous System, 2010.08-2015.08, Participate. 

Teaching：

1. Water Resources Evaluation and Management, Undergraduate, Bilingual

2. Contaminant Migration Kinetics in Porous Media, Postgraduate, Bilingual

Published Works:

1. Chang, Zhenbo; Guo, Zhilin*; Chen, Kewei; Wang, Zibo; Zhan, Yang; Lu, Wenxi; Zheng, Chunmiao; A comparison of inversion methods for surrogate-based groundwater contamination source identification with varying degrees of model complexity. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60(4).

2. Chen, Kewei; Guo, Zhilin*; Yin, Maosheng; Liang, Xiuyu; Chang, Zhenbo; Yang, Shuai; Wei, Xiaoou; Zhai, Xuchen; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Using rainfall‐induced groundwater temperature response to estimate lateral flow velocity. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60(11): e2023WR036715.

3. Zhan, Yang; Guo, Zhilin*; Yan, Bicheng; Chen, Kewei; Chang, Zhenbo; Babovic, Vladan; Zheng, Chunmiao; Physics-informed identification of PDEs with LASSO regression, examples of groundwater-related equations. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 638, 131504.

4. Zhan, Yang; Murugesan, Balamurugan; Guo, Zhilin*; Li, Hongkai; Chen, Kewei; Babovic, Vladan*; Zheng, Chunmiao; Managed aquifer recharge in island aquifer under thermal influences on the fresh-saline water interface. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 638, 131496.

5. Zhai, Xuchen; Chen, Kewei*; Liang, Xiuyu; Wang, Guoliang; Zhao, Xin; Guo, Zhilin*; Zhou, Renjie; Ding, Chen; Liu, Cancan; Zheng, Chunmiao; Assessment of ensemble data assimilation based heat tracer method for estimating surface water-groundwater interaction at seasonal timescale under complex field conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 649, 132469.

6. Wu, Rixin; Guo, Zhilin*; Zhan, Yang; Cao, Guoliang; Chen, Kewei; Chang, Zhenbo; Li, Hongkai; He, Xin; Zheng, Chunmiao; Impacts of Land Surface Nitrogen Input on Groundwater Quality in the North China Plain. ACS ES&T Water, 2024.5.24.

7. Zhan, Yang; Guo, Zhilin*; Ruzzante, Sacha; Gleeson, Tom; Andrews, Charles B.; Babovic, Vladan; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Assessment of spatiotemporal risks for nationwide groundwater nitrate contamination. Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 947, 174508.

8. Liu, Hanle^?*; Guo, Zhilin^?; Zhu, Yinxia; Van Glubt, Sarah; Brusseau, Mark L*.; The influence of NAPL distribution on the transport of PFOS in Co-contaminated media. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 462, 132794.

9. Kuang, XingXing; Liu, Junguo*; Scanlon, Briget R.; Jiao, Jiu Jimmy; ... & Guo, Zhilin; …& Zheng, Chunmiao*; The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle. Science, 2024, 383(6686), eadf0630.

10. Xu, Peng; Li, Geng; Zheng, Yi*; Fung, Jimmy C. H. *; ... & Guo, Zhilin; et al.; Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction. Nature, 2024, 626(8000), 792–798.

11. Kang, Xueyuan; Kokkinaki, Amalia; Shi, Xiaoqing*; Lee, Jonghyun; Guo, Zhilin; Ni, Lingling; Wu, Jichun*; Modeling upscaled mass discharge from complex DNAPL source zones using a Bayesian neural network: Prediction accuracy, uncertainty quantification and source zone feature importance. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60(7), e2023WR036864.

12. Zhang, Yong; Liu, Xiaoting; Lei, Dawei; Yin Maosheng; Sun, Hongguang*; Guo, Zhilin; Zhan, Hongbin; Modeling hydrologically mediated hot moments of transient anomalous diffusion in aquifers using an impulsive fractional-derivative equation. Water Resources Research, 2024, 60(3), e2023WR036089.

13. Chen, Kewei; Guo, Zhilin; Zhan, Yang; Roden, Eric E.*; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Heterogeneity in permeability and particulate organic carbon content controls the redox condition of riverbed sediments at different timescales. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 51(11), e2023GL107761.

14. Ma, Rui; Chen, Kewei; Andrews, Charles B.; Loheide, Steven P.; Sawyer, Audrey H.; Jiang, Xue; … & Guo, Zhilin; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Methods for Quantifying Interactions Between Groundwater and Surface Water. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2024, 49.

15. Wang, Peng*; Yan, Zheng; Lin, Xiang; Yang, Bingrui; Zhang, Wen; Wu, Dongsheng; Guo, Zhilin; Pu Shengyan*; Influence of continuous phase evolution of non-aqueous phase liquid on the retention and transport of coexistence perfluorooctanoic acid in saturated porous media. Journal of Hydrology, 2024, 636, 131321.

16. Fan, Linfeng*; Ji, Fang; Kuang, Xingxing; Guo, Zhilin; Zhang, Rui; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Impacts of permafrost degradation on streamflow in the northern Himalayas. Science China Earth Sciences, 2024, 67(6), 1990-2000.

17. Guo, Zhilin; Fogg, Graham E.*; Chen, Kewei; Pauloo, Rich; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Sustainability of Regional Groundwater Quality in Response to Managed Aquifer Recharge. Water Resources Research, 2023, 59(1).

18. Guo, Zhilin; Chen, Kewei; Yi, Shuping; Zheng, Chunmiao*. Response of groundwater quality to river-aquifer interactions during managed aquifer recharge: A Reactive transport modeling analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 616, 128847.

19. Wang, Yanxin*; Yuan, Songhu; Shi, Jianbo; Ma, Teng; Xie, Xianjun; … & Guo, Zhilin; Dong, Yiran; Zheng, Chunmiao; Jiang, Guibin; Groundwater Quality and Health: Making the Invisible Visible. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57(13), 5125-2136.

20. Chen, Kewei*; Chen, Xingyuan; Stegen, James C.; Villa, Jorge A. Villa; Bohrer, Gil; Song, Xuehang; Chang, Kuang-Yu; Kaufman, Matthew; Liang, Xiuyu; Guo, Zhiling; Roden, Eric E.*; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Vertical hydrologic exchange flows control methane emissions from riverbed sediments. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 57 (9), 4014-4026

21. Chen, Kewei*; Yang, Shuai; Roden, Eric, E.; Chen, Xingyuan; Chang, Kuang-Yu; Guo, Zhilin; Liang, Xiuyu; Ma, Enze; Fan, Linfeng; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Influence of vertical hydrologic exchange flow, channel flow, and biogeochemical kinetics on CH4 emissions from rivers. Water Resources Research, 2023, 59(12): e2023WR035341.

22. Chen, Kewei; Yin, Maosheng; Guo, Zhilin; Liang, Xiuyu; Wei, Xiaoou; Yang, Shuai; Zhai, Xuchen; Zheng Chunmiao*; Estimating lateral groundwater inflow to rivers using heat as a tracer. Journal Of Hydrology, 2023, 617, 128965.

23. Yin, Maosheng; Ma, Rui*; Zhang, Yong; Lin, Jingjing; Guo, Zhilin; Zheng, Chunmiao; Competitive control of multiscale aquifer heterogeneity on solute transport in an alluvial aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 616, 128819.

24. Jing, Hao; He, Xin; Tian, Yong; Lancia, Michele; Cao, Guoliang; Crivellar, Alessandro; Guo, Zhilin; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Comparison and interpretation of data-driven models for simulating human-impacted groundwater dynamics in the North China Plain. Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 616, 128751.

25. Zheng, Chunmiao*; Guo, Zhilin*; Plans to protect China’s depleted groundwater. Science, 2022, 375(6583), 827-827.

26. Yin, Maosheng; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Yong*; Chen, Kewei; Guo, Zhilin; Zheng, Chunmiao*; A dual heterogeneous domain model for upscaling anomalous transport with multi-peaks in heterogeneous aquifers. Water Resources Research, 2022, 58(4), e2021WR031128.

27. Feng, Yu; Zeng, Zhenzhong*; Searchinger, Timothy D.; … & Guo, Zhilin; …&Chen, Ji*; … & Zheng Chunmiao*; Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century. Nature Sustainability, 2022,5(5), 444-551.

28. Guo, Zhilin; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Yong; Zheng, Chunmiao*; Contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers: A critical review of mechanisms and numerical methods of non-Fickian dispersion. Science China: Earth Sciences, 2021, 64(8), 1224-1241.

29. Pauloo, Richard A.*; Fogg, Graham E.; Guo, Zhilin*; Henri, Christopher V.; Mean flow direction modulates non-Fickian transport in a heterogeneous alluvial aquifer-aquitard system. Water Resources Research, 2021, 57(3), e2020WR028655.

30. Pauloo, Richard A.*; Fogg, Graham E.; Guo, Zhilin*; Harter, Thomas; Anthropogenic basin closure and groundwater salinization (ABCSAL). Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 593, 125787.

31. Guo, Zhilin*; Henri, Christopher V.; Fogg, Graham E.; Zhang, Yong; Zheng, Chunmiao; Adaptive Multirate Mass Transfer (aMMT) Model: A New Approach to Upscale Regional-Scale Transport Under Transient Flow Conditions. Water Resources Research, 2020, 56(2): e2019WR026000.

32. Guo, Zhilin*; Russo, Ann E.; DiFilippo, Erica L.; Zhang, Zhihui; Zheng, Chunmiao; Brusseau, Mark L.*; Mathematical modeling of organic liquid dissolution in heterogeneous source zones. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2020, 235, 103716.

33. Wang, Jiaqi; Ma Rui*; Guo, Zhilin; Qu, Le; Yin, Maosheng; Zheng, Chunmiao; Experiment and multicomponent model based analysis on the effect of flow rate and nitrate concentration on denitrification in low-permeability media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2020, 235, 103727.

34. Hua, Shanshan; Jing, Hao; Yao, Yingying; Guo, Zhilin; Lerner, David N.; Andrews, Charles B.; Zheng Chunmiao*; Can groundwater be protected from the pressure of China’s urban growth? Environment International, 2020, 143, 105911.

35. Guo, Zhilin*; Fogg, Graham E.; Henri, Christopher V.; Upscaling of regional scale transport under transient conditions: evaluation of the multirate mass transfer model. Water Resources Research, 2019, 55(7), 5301-5320.

36. Guo, Zhilin*; Brusseau, Mark L.; Fogg, Graham E.; Determining the long-term operational performance of pump and treat and the possibility of closure for a large TCE plume. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2019, 365, 796-803.

37. Guo, Zhilin*; Fogg, Graham E.; Brusseau, Mark L; LaBolle, Eric M; Lopez, Jose; Modeling groundwater contaminant transport in the presence of large heterogeneity: a case study comparing MT3D and RWhet. Hydrogeology Journal, 2019, 27(4), 1363-1371.

38. Brusseau, Mark L.*; Guo, Zhilin; The integrated contaminant elution and tracer test toolkit, ICET3, for improved characterization of mass transfer, attenuation, and mass removal. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2018, 208,17-26.

39. Guo, Zhilin; Brusseau, Mark L.*; The impact of well-field configuration and permeability heterogeneity on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2017, 333, 109-115.

40. Guo, Zhilin; Brusseau, Mark L.*; The impact of well-field configuration on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence for homogeneous versus layered systems. Hydrological Processes, 2017, 31(26), 4748- 4756.

41. Brusseau, Mark L.*; Guo, Zhilin; Assessing contaminant-removal conditions and plume persistence through analysis of data from long-term pump-and-treat operations. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2014,164, 16-24.

International and Domestic Conferences:

1. Guo, Zhilin; Zhan, Yang; Chen, Kewei; Jasechko, Scott; Nandita, B. Basu; Zheng, Chunmiao; Evaluating the impact of riverine nitrogen leakage on groundwater quality at the continental scale. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington DC, US. 2024 (Invited).

2. Guo, Zhilin; Groundwater Quality Modeling and Assessment. LSGI research seminar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024 (Invited Lecture).

3. Guo, Zhilin; Impact of Surface Nitrogen Input on Groundwater Quality in the North China Plain. 1^st National Conference on Groundwater Resources and Ecological Environment, Wuhan, China, 2024 (Invited).

4. Guo, Zhilin; Zhan, Yang; Groundwater contamination risk assessment from nitrate at a continental scale. 49^th IAH, Wuhan, 2022 (Invited).

5. Guo, Zhilin; Study on the Impact of Artificial Recharge on the Sustainability of Regional Groundwater Quality. 6^th Groundwater Youth Forum, Chengdu, China, 2020.  

6. Guo, Zhilin; Upscaling Study of Solute Transport at the Watershed Scale under Unsteady Conditions. 5th Groundwater Youth Forum, Wuhan, China, 2019.

7. Guo, Zhilin; Fogg, Graham E.; Henri, Christopher V.; Zhang, Yong; Zheng, Chunmiao; Upscaling of Regional Scale Transport Under Transient Conditions. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francsico, CA, US. 2019 (Invited).

8. Guo, Zhilin; Fogg, Graham E.; Henri, Christopher V.; Upscaling of regional scale transport under transient conditions: method development. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington DC. US. 2018.

9. Guo, Zhilin; Pauloo, Rich; Fogg, Graham E.; Groundwater Salinization Due to Hydraulic Closure in Tulare Basin over a Long Term Time Scale. Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture - An International Conference Linking Science and Policy, San Francisco, CA. US. 2016.

10. Guo, Zhilin; Fogg, Graham E.; Brusseau, Mark L.; Case study of using the stochastic method for contaminant transport in groundwater. NIEHS Environmental Health Science FEST, Durham, NC. US. 2016 (Invited).

11. Guo, Zhilin; Assessing the Long-term Groundwater Quality in Regional Scale Aquifer. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Climate Brownbag, Berkeley, US. 2019 (Invited).

12. Guo, Zhilin; Persistence of Groundwater Contaminants Plume. EPA Superfund Colloquium. Tucson, US. 2014 (Invited).

Patents and Software Copyrights:

1. Method and System for Identifying and Classifying Groundwater Pollution Risks

Inventors: Guo, Zhilin; Zhan, Yang; Li, Chunming; Zhang, Pan; Yue, Songtao; Zheng, Chunmiao; 2023

2. Variable-Density Flow and Solute Transport Model Software (VFT3D)

Software Copyright No.: 7506310, 2021
Authors: Guo, Zhilin; Tian, Yong; Zheng, Chunmiao

3. Variable-Density Surface Water-Groundwater Coupled Reactive Solute Transport Modeling Software (VisualVFT3D)

Software Copyright No.: 2021SR0864050, 2021
Authors: Tian, Yong; Wang, Xiaoli; Guo, Zhilin; Zheng, Chunmiao