Faculty
Biography
Dr. Li Xinxin received her Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 2013. She applies organic biomarkers to study biogeochemical cycling of organic carbon in different marine ecosystems from estuaries, open ocean to trenches, and their relationship with marine eutrophication, hypoxia and global climate change. She is a member of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She has 15 peer-reviewed papers published in well-known academic journals in marine science, such as Marine Chemistry, JGR-Biogeosciences, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta etc.
Educational Background
2013 Ph.D, Chemical Oceanography, Texas A&M University
2008 M.S. Marine Chemistry, Ocean University of China
2005 B.S. Chemistry, Qingdao University
Professional Experience
2023- Associate Professor, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2016-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2013-2016 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University
2010-2012 Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
2008-2010 Research Assistant, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Publications
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Chuman Yan, Qiunan Li, Yasong Wang, Xinxin Li, Mohammad Abdul Baki, Shilpi Saha, Jiaodi Zhou, Yunping Xu*. 2025. Heterogeneous distributions of black carbon in sediments from three Asian mangrove wetlands. Marine Environmental Research, 107323.
Tianyi Nie, Wengpeng Li, Bin Yang, Mead Allison, Wei Cai, Fan Zhang, Jiarui Zhou, Tianyue Yang, Xinxin Li*. 2025. Significant loss of organic carbon storage and accumulation rate in mangrove sediments due to deforestation: Insights from the Beibu Gulf, China. Catena, 256: 109107.
Xupeng Hu, Xiaohui Zhai,Yimin Jin,Terry L. Wade, Xian Zhou, Tonghui Zhuang, Jianghao Ning, Xiuqing Song, Wei Cai, Zongwei Chen, Xinxin Li*. 2024. Ecological risk assessment of dissolved heavy metals in the Yangtze River Estuary and Zhejiang coastal waters, China. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024, 205: 116570.
Xinxin Li*, Xin Zhao, Hongyue Dang*, Chuanlun Zhang, Igor Fernandez-Urruzola, Zhiqiang Liu, Frank Wenzh?fer, Ronnie N. Glud. 2023. High variability in organic carbon sources and microbial activities in the hadopelagic waters. Limnology and Oceanography, 68: 1704-1718.
Xin Zhao, Zhiyan Chen, Yunping Xu, Xiaohui Zhai, Xiuqing Song, Hualin Xu, Xiaoxia Lü*, Xinxin Li*, 2023, Linkages between organic carbon composition and microbial community structure in two contrasting subtropical mangrove sediments in southern China, Regional Studies in Marine Science, 66, 2023, 103159.
Xupeng Hu, Xiaoyong Shi*, Rongguo Su, Yimin Jin, Shijun Ren, Xinxin Li*, 2022, Spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors of dissolved heavy metals off the Yangtze River Estuary, East China Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 182, 113975.
Yanna Wang, Xiaoshuang Zhao*, Alaa Salem, Said A. Shetaia, Fan Zhang, Chengpeng Sun, Xinxin Li, Yan Liu, Qianli Sun, Jing Chen, Maotian Li, Brian Finlayson, Zhongyuan Chen, 2022, Deciphering hydroclimate fluctuations of Nile watershed from Holocene sediment of Manzala lagoon: Bio-geochemicalimplications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601, 111141.
Xin Zhao, Huaxia Luo, Shunmin He, Bin Yang, Tong Wei, Yumei Hu, Ziyan Wang, Xinxin Li*. 2022. Vertical distribution of size-fractionated bacterial communities in the water column of the Atacama Trench. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 55, 102470.
Wenpeng Li, Xinxin Li*, Xin Zhao, Chengpeng Sun, Tianyi Nie, Yumei Hu, Chunzai Wang. 2022. Impacts of climate change and human perturbations on organic carbon burialin Pearl River Estuary over the last century. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 848757.
Fan Zhang, Shehong Li, Chengpeng Sun, Wenpeng Li, Xin Zhao, Zhiyan Chen, Tianyi Nie, Yongshun Chen*, Xinxin Li*. 2022. Human impacts overwhelmed hydroclimate control of soil erosion in China 5,000 years ago. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, 5.
Xi Zhang, Yunping Xu*, Wenjie Xiao*, Meixun Zhao, Zicheng Wang, Xuchen Wang, Liping Xu Min Luo, Xinxin Li, Jiasong Fang, Yin Fang, Yasong Wang, Kazumasa Oguri, Frank Wenzhofer, Ashley A. Rowden, Siddhartha Mitra & Ronnie N. Glud. 2022. The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(25), 1568.
Chengpeng Sun, Huaiming Li, Wenpeng Li, Xinxin Li*, Xiaoxia Lu*. 2022. Characteristics of isoprenoid and branched tetraether lipids in the deep ocean: implications from surface sediments in the seamount area of the Western Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 240, 104086.
Fan Zhang, Jianfang Hu, Xinxin Li*, Yanna Wang*, Alaa Salem, Chengpeng Sun, Xin Zhao, Xiaoshuang Zhao, Feng Jiang, Yan Liu, Said A. Shetaia, Zhongyuan Chen. 2022. Reconstruction of the Holocene hydro-ecological and environmental change of the Nile Delta: Insights from organic geochemical records in MZ-1 sediment core, Marine Geology, 443, 106684.
Zhiyan Chen, Tianyi Nie, Xin Zhao, Jiwei Li, Bin Yang, Dongyang Cui, Xinxin Li*. 2021. Organic carbon remineralization rate in global marine sediments: A review. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 49, 102112.
Yunping Xu#*, Xinxin Li#*, Min Luo#, Wenjie Xiao, Jiasong Fang, Harunur Rashid, Yongbo Peng, Wen Li, Frank Wenzh?fer, Ashley A .Rowden, Ronnie N. Glud. 2021. Distribution, source and burial of sedimentary organic carbon in Kermadec and Atacama trenches: Insights on organic carbon heterogeneity in hadal trenches. JGR-Biogeosciences, 126(5), e2020JG006189 (Eos Research Spotlight).
Jiwei Li#*, Zhiyan Chen#, Xinxin Li, Shun Chen, Hengchao Xu, Kaiwen Ta, Shamik Dasgupta, Shijie Bai, Mengran Du, Shuangquan Liu and Xiaotong Peng*. 2021. The sources of organic carbon in the deepest ocean: implication from bacterial membrane lipids in the Mariana trench zone. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 653742.
Wenpeng Li, Xinxin Li*, Xi Mei, Fan Zhang, Jingping Xu, Chunru Liu, Chuanyi Wei, Qingsong Liu. 2021 A review of current and emerging approaches for quaternary marine sediment dating. Science of the Total Environment, 780 (2021) 146522.
Peng Wang#,*, Tingting Zhang#, Songze Chen, Xinxin Li, Dengxun Lai, Simin Gao, Wei Xie, Chuanlun Zhang*. 2020. Niche specificity and potential terrestrial organic carbon utilization of benthic Bathyarchaeota in a eutrophic subtropic estuarine system. Chemical Geology, 556, 119839.
Kai P Law*, Xinxin Li, Chuanlun Zhang. 2020. Lipidomics in archaeal membrane adaptation to environmental stresses and growth conditions A review of culture-based physiological studies. Science China Earth Sciences, 63(6): 790–807.
Zhiyan Chen, Jiwei Li, Xinxin Li, Shun Chen, Shamik Dasgupta, Shijie Bai, Kaiwen Ta, Hengchao Xu, Mengran Du, Xiaotong Peng*. 2020. Characteristics and implications of isoprenoid and hydroxy tetraether lipids in hadal sediments of Mariana and Yap Trenches. Chemical Geology, 551, 119742.
Xi Mei#, Xinxin Li#,*, Zhongbo Wang*, Chuanlun Zhang, Yong Zhang. 2019. Cross shelf transport of terrigenous organic matter in surface sediments from outer shelf to Okinawa Trough in East China Sea. Journal of Marine Systems. 199, 103224.
Penghui Li*, Jianchang Tao, Jian Lin, Chen He, Quan Shi, Xinxin Li*, Chuanlun Zhang. 2019. Stratification of dissolved organic matter in the upper 2000 m water column at the Mariana Trench. Science of the Total Environment, 668, 1222–1231.
Xinxin Li*, Zhaoru Zhang, Terry L. Wade, Anthony H. Knap, Chuanlun L. Zhang*. 2017. Sources and compositional distribution of organic carbon in surface sediments from the lower Pearl River to the coastal South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 122, 2104–2117.
Michio Aoyama et al. (a total of 76 coauthors). 2016. IOCCP-JAMSTEC 2015 inter-laboratory calibration exercise of a certified reference material for nutrients in seawater. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, International Standard Book, 978-4-901833-23-3.
Schüller, S., T. Bianchi, Li, M. Allison, and C. Savage. 2015. Historical reconstruction of phytoplankton composition in estuaries of fiordland, New Zealand: the application of plant pigment biomarkers. Estuaries and Coasts, 38, 56-71.
Xinxin Li, T.S. Bianchi, M.A. Allison, P. Chapman, and GP Yang. 2013. Historical reconstruction of organic carbon decay and preservation in sediments on the East China Sea shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 118(3), 1079-1093.
S. Bianchi, M.A. Allison, J Zhao, Xinxin Li, R. S. Comeaux, R. A. Feagin, and R.W. Kulawardhana. 2013. Historical Reconstruction of mangrove expansion in the Gulf of Mexico: linking climate change with carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands. Continental Shelf Research, 119, 7-16.
Xinxin Li, T.S. Bianchi, M.A. Allison, P. Chapman, S. Mitra, Zhaoru Zhang, GP Yang and ZG Yu. 2012. Composition, abundance and age of total organic carbon in surface sediments from the inner shelf of the East China Sea. Marine Chemistry, 145-147, 37-52.
Jun Zhao, T.S. Bianchi, Xinxin Li, M.A. Allison, Yao, P. & Yu, ZG. 2012. Historical eutrophication in the Changjiang and Mississippi delta-front estuaries: Stable sedimentary chloropigments as biomarkers. Continental Shelf Research, 47, 133-144.
Richard W. Smith, T.S. Bianchi, Xinxin Li. 2012. A re-evaluation of the use of branched GDGTs as terrestrial biomarkers: Implications for the BIT and TEX86 Indices. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 80(1), 14-29.
Xinxin Li, T.S. Bianchi, ZS Yang, L.E. Osterman, M.A. Allison, S.F. DiMarco and GP Yang. 2011. Historical trends of hypoxia in Changjiang River estuary: applications of chemical biomarkers and microfossils. Journal of Marine Systems, 86(3-4), 57-68.
Guipeng Yang, Qiang Chen, Xinxin Li, Xiaoyan Cao, 2010. Study on the sorption behaviors of Tween-80 on marine sediments. Chemosphere, 79(11): 1019-1025.
Xinxin Li, Guipeng Yang, Xiaoyan Cao. 2008. Sorption behaviors of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS) on marine sediments. Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 194, 23-30.